The Crazy Bavarian and Kauai’s Russian Fort

by | Oct 17, 2022 | History and culture

Germans, Baltic Germans, and Native Hawaiians So how many German connections for a so-called Russian Fort on the Hawaiian island of Kauai could there be? More than you might expect. We’ll start with a Bavarian/Franconian physician and adventurer named Georg...

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...

Marian Anderson in Salzburg

by | Feb 28, 2022

Marian Anderson in Europe • With Timeline Marian Anderson was a noted African American operatic singer who broke various racial barriers during her four-decades-long international career. Anderson, by her own account, did not like personal confrontation. When faced...