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Charlemagne in space
To boldly go where no emperor has gone before. Charlemagne is everywhere to be seen in the city.
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Clothes maketh the man (and woman)
“Smart casual” means your tie gets the day off, and “black tie” means dinner jacket plus cummerbund and black bow-tie.
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Top-fit and on top of the world
Take Hans Schlegel: it was as an RWTH Aachen University student that the German astronaut took his first giant leaps for mankind slam-dunking basketballs in the Aachen suburb of Vaalserquartier.
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Using contacts for a better world
Sometimes life-plans are turned upside down from one day to the next. I originally came to Aachen to study, with a view to taking over my father’s consulting engineering practice ...
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Tongue-twisting translingualism – let’s talk “Öcher Platt”
In theory, there are three ways to work your way into the hearts of Aacheners: language, business – or appealing to their emotions. To all practical purposes, though, you can ...
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An engineer in the "Jazzkeller"
After leaving school in 1972 I started off studying mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, trying to do the same as my elder brother. Engineers are the epitome of straight-thinking, ...
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Black cat
In the dark, all cats look grey. The ones here used to be jet-black. Hundreds of them used to cross the sparsely-guarded farmland border from Belgium on their way to ...
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Bacillus carnivalis
“Jeck” (pronounced “yeck”) is a wonderful adjective beyond translation. If someone in Aachen is “jeck”, it doesn’t imply they’ve taken leave of their senses or aren’t quite all there – ...
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A natural place to be
The historic city of Aachen is naturally special. With natural history. And natural science. And naturally: a drive to go green. Way back in 1992, Aachen was part of the ...
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