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Alps

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:34:59 -0700

The Alps (German: Alpen; Italian: Alpi; Lombard: Alp; French: Alpes; Occitan: Aups/Alps; Romansh: Alps; Slovene: Alpe) is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west.
The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc, at 4,810.45 metres (15,782 ft), on the Italian–French border. All the main peaks of the Alps can be found in the list of mountains of the Alps and list of Alpine peaks by prominence.
The English name Alps was taken via French from Latin Alpes, which may be ultimately cognate with Latin albus ("white"). The German Albe, Alpe or Alp (f., Old High German alpâ, plural alpûn), the Occitan Alp/Aup and the French Alpage or Alpe in the singular mean "alpine pasture", and only in the plural may also refer to the mountain range as a whole.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps

Breakfast time

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:15:08 -0700

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The Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:10:07 -0700

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The Oberbaum Bridge (German: Oberbaumbrücke) is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered one of the city landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.
The lower deck of the bridge carries a roadway, which connects Oberbaum Straße to the south of the river with Warschauer Straße to the north. The upper deck of the bridge carries Berlin U-Bahn line U1, between Schlesisches Tor and Warschauer Straße stations.
The bridge appears prominently in the 1998 film Run Lola Run.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberbaumbrücke

Lights

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:17:21 -0700

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Gray morning

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:16:28 -0700

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Just coffee

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:53:25 -0700

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Café espresso or simply espresso (expresso is the French word for this coffee, the habit of some Americans to call it this may stem from this fact) is a concentrated beverage brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee.
Compared to other coffee brewing methods, espresso often has a thicker consistency, a higher concentration of suspended solids, and crema (foam). As a result of the pressurized brewing process, all of the flavours and chemicals in a typical cup of coffee are very concentrated. For this reason, espresso is the base for other drinks, such as lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, mochas, and americanos.
Today widely known throughout the world, espresso was invented in Italy as far back as 1884. The machine which produced it was patented by Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy (Patent no. 33/256 dated 16th May 1884). The invention was then covered by International Patent after being registered in Paris on the 23rd of October 1885. 17 years later, in 1901, the machine was improved by Luigi Bezzera of Milan, Italy, who patented his improvements. In 1938, Cresemonesi introduced a piston based espresso machine, which eliminated the burnt taste associated with the steam pressure units.
While espresso has more caffeine per unit volume than most beverages, compared on the basis of usual serving sizes, a 30 mL (1 US fluid ounce) shot of espresso has about half the caffeine of a standard 180 mL (6 US fluid ounces) cup of drip brewed coffee, which varies from 80 to 130 mg, and hence a 60 mL (2 US fl oz) double shot of espresso has about the same caffeine as a 180 ml (6 US fl oz) cup of drip brewed coffee. In coffee brewing terms, espresso and brewed coffee should have the same extraction (about 20% of the coffee grounds are extracted into the coffee liquid), but espresso has a higher brew strength (concentration, in terms of suspended coffee solids per unit volume), due to its lower water content.

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Alps from above

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:26:59 -0700

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Running

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:18:14 -0700

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A Statue

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:26:04 -0700

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A statue in Berlin

In the Streets of Berlin

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:17:11 -0700

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The Fernsehturm (German for "television tower") is a television tower in the city centre of Berlin, Germany. Close to Alexanderplatz and part of the World Federation of Great Towers (WFGT), the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) administration who intended it as a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today, as it is easily visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin

Brandenburger Tor

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:16:50 -0700

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The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin and Germany. It is located west of the city center at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which Berlin was once entered. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation). Today, it is regarded as one of Europe's most famous landmarks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburger_Tor

Windows

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:16:42 -0700

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Berliner Dom

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:17:04 -0700

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Berlin Cathedral (German: Berliner Dom) is the colloquial name for the Evangelical Oberpfarr- und Domkirche (English analogously: Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, literally Supreme Parish and Cathedral Church) in Berlin, Germany. It is the parish church of the Evangelical congregation Gemeinde der Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin, a member of the umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. Its present building is located on Museum Island in the Mitte borough.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Dom

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:16:16 -0700

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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres (4.7 acres) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (8 in to 15 ft 9 in). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
Building began on April 1, 2003 and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public on May 12 of the same year. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million.
The memorial is controversial, and was described by Ignatz Bubis, the then leader of the German Jewish community, as unnecessary.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Eu...

The walk

nobody@flickr.com (thomaspyttel.com) — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:31:19 -0700

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A girl going with her dog for a walk on a lovely summer day.