http://www.laiblwolf.com/blog/index.php Share Laibl's thoughts on life's challenges and current events in the world at large Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:44:34 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 michael@merwitz.org michael@merwitz.org en Copenhagen: The cobble-stoned streets, ornate spires, and proliferation of dragonesque statues all combine to provide Copenhagen with its fairy-tale character. But contrasting with its cheery bike-filled streetscape are the Danes themselves - an earthy people with ponderous natures punctuated by seriousness andintellectualism. For a speaker, an audience of dour people constitutes ... http://www.laiblwolf.com/blog/index.php?p=9 It's been 56 years since I left Poland as an infant in the hands of my parents. It's an eerie feeling walking the streets of Warsaw - the capital of the country of my birth. But this is also the country where Jewish blood screams loudest from its cover of ... http://www.laiblwolf.com/blog/index.php?p=7 On Iffley Rd., in front of the Oxford University Sports Ground is a large sign announcing that here, on May 6th 1954, Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile - the first man ever to do so. But this was quickly followed by others, like the Australian, Herb Elliot. ... http://www.laiblwolf.com/blog/index.php?p=5 It’s an eerie feeling arriving to Munich – Hitler’s home, the town from where he began planning and executing the modern day ‘churban’. . On the outskirts is Dachau, described in the local tourist pamphlets as “one of the prettiest mediaeval towns amongst the picturesque villages that lie on the ... http://www.laiblwolf.com/blog/index.php?p=10