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“I remember always having to use number 2 pencils to rewind cassette tapes”, says Ada L. Lee from San Francisco. “It was very time-consuming. sometimes I would…

There are Jazz pianists and there is Michel Camilo. This guy is one of a kind. He definitely is the Don of Latin Jazz on the piano, since his playing is simply…

Germany, a country known for its strong economy and its advanced technology, still has internet connection speeds which can almost be described as hopelessly low. Mobile data connections Germans and expatriates living in Germany have to put up with are simply embarrassing. What fixed broadband connections are concerned, countries like Lithuania or…

Home owners and tenants in Germany can protect themselves against burglaries with help from the federal government. Germany's Minister of the Interior, Horst…

When The Brand New Heavies made landfall during the so-called Acid Jazz Revolution, the sounds they delivered were too funky and colorful to believe. They were…

In the former Jewish Ghetto of Rome, countless kosher “milky” and “meaty” restaurants attract customers. Less than half of them are Jewish, the bigger half is made up of mostly foreign tourists. One of the tiny shops in the Ghetto, located around the impressive synagogue, close to the bank of the Tiber, is the oldest Jewish bakery in town. For…

Bridges are not supposed to collapse just because of a fierce thunderstorm. Actually, they are not supposed to collapse at all. Yet part of the Morandi Bridge…

A year after the first recording, the greatest Change album of all time was released. The first track, "Paradise", sucked big-time, but "Hold Tight" was a great…

Six years ago today, on July 18th, 2012, the summer season at Bulgaria's Black Sea coast was approaching its peak. At Burgas Airport, located some 380 kilometers east of the capital Sofia, many planes touched down. All of them carried tourists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and other countries. The countless tourists expected to find…