MacKat in Ireland

Many of you may not need a history lesson, but I wasn’t well-versed in my Berlin Wall history before last weekend.  Here’s what happened: After Germany fell in 1945, the country (and the city of Berlin) was split into the American, French, British, and Soviet sectors like so.  They established a joint council to govern […]

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 […]