Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city in Germany. The city has a lot to offer; From the top of the Main Tower there is a wonderful view of the city and in the Frankfurt Zoo you can meet around 450 different species of animals.
Friday, June 13, 1952, a DC-3 takes off from Bromma airport. On board are eight people on a top secret operation. The plane never returns and remains gone for over 50 years.
Behind the locked steel door in a backyard at Torshov in Oslo you will find the emergency communication center. From this premises the telephone communication would be secured in event of war or enemy sabotage.
Today
29 January 2020 Today is this year's day number 28. We are in week 05, and have 338 days left of 2020.
At this day in history:
1119
Pope Gelasius II died.
1499
Katharina von Bora, German nun and wife of Martin Luther (d. 1552) was born.
1595
Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare, is likely to be performed for the first time.
1676
Feodor III becomes Czar of Russia.
1717
Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797) was born.
1749
King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808) was born.
1820
King George III of Great Britain (b. 1738) died.
1843
William McKinley, America's 25th President (d. 1901) was born.
1856
Queen Victoria av Storbritannia introduces Victoria Cross.
1860
Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist (d. 1904), was born.
1861
Kansas gets US 34. State.
1862
Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) was born.
1866
Romain Rolland, French writer, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 (d. 1944) was born.
1874
John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960) was born.
1876
Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972) was born.
1880
WC Fields, American comedian and actor (d. 1946) was born.
1885
Leadbelly, American musician (d. 1949) was born.
1886
Karl Benz takes out a patent on the first working car powered by gasoline.
1905
Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970) was born.
In this flashback you can see some of the pictures I took during the Olympics 20 years ago. Although I have a lack of interest in sports, it was an experience to be in Lillehammer during the Olympics and experience the atmosphere in town.
We had wrongly calculated the number of holiday days, and the last days of the holiday there was a lot of driving. From Prague, the journey went to Norway, via Göttingen, Celle and Helsingborg.
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