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Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn.Alamy Poor old Bonn, the Cinderella city of Germany, only in reverse. For a short and glorious time, she was belle of the ball, but ...
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Prostitutes working the streets of the old West German capital now have to buy tickets from converted roadside vending machines that once dispensed tickets to the city's drivers. A night's ticket will ...
He’s the towering musical genius who didn’t let his deafness prevent him from becoming one of the world’s greatest composers. Ludwig van Beethoven may have been born 250 years ago, but his story of ...