Articles by tag:
historical
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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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The devil’s thumb in Aachen cathedral
The devil, as we know, is in the detail. And in Aachen cathedral (Aachener Dom). Millions of hands have touched him down the centuries: the devil’s thumb in one of ...
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Aachen hits all the right notes
“One minute a storm is raging – nay, a hurricane, veritably whipping through the pit – and crashing waves that suck the breath from your lungs. The string section plays ...
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Art for art’s sake
They’re six feet tall with brown eyes, velvety eyelashes, fat lips and matted coats. Inside, they’re made up wax, fibreglass, jute and animal skin: say hello to the two camels ...
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When in Aachen, do as the Romans did!
Your desk is snowed under, your diary’s awash, your car’s overdue a service and there’s a mouse starving to death in your fridge. Time to duck out and chill, surely!
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A hall for all
A hall for all! No matter whether you’re an Aachener (locally: an "Öcher") or a guest from afar having set up home or gone into business here in and around ...
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All just show?
Look it up in Shakespeare! The English playwright, it’s true, may not rank among the authors of standard works of science and engineering or be examination material for would-be doctors ...
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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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