Daylight Saving Time (Sommerzeit) in Germany, Europe, and the USA

by | Mar 16, 2022

It All Began with Railway Time Each year, as many countries around the globe enter or leave Summer Time (Britain), Daylight Saving Time (North America), or Sommerzeit (Germany), people ask why? And why can’t the US and the EU agree on the same Summer Time...

German Geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen and The Silk Road

by | Feb 3, 2021

The Silk Road and German Geographers The Silk Road or Silk Route (Silk Routes, plural, being more accurate) was a network of overland trade routes extending between the Oriental and the Occidental regions of the Northern Hemisphere from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th...

Richard Wagner, Bayreuth and Italy

by | Jul 20, 2020

“The Ring of the Nibelung” Introduction Richard Wagner (1813-1883) revolutionized classical music with his Tristan und Isolde (1859) and The Ring (1874). His tremendous influence on opera came from his “musical dramas,” including the...