MacKat in Ireland

In 1965 East Berlin decided to build a huge TV Tower to show the world their strength.  It’s not usually mentioned that they had to bring in Capitalist Swedes to design the tower.  In any case, four years later the East Germans had one of the largest free-standing structures in the world.  Unfortunately for the […]

Just south of the Brandenburg Gate lies Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, or more simply, their Holocaust Memorial.  It consists of 2,711 concrete blocks taking up an entire city block.  Some are all the way into the ground, some are 12 feet high.  The architect picked the number 2711 at random because […]