Worthy Videos A robot that flies like a bird Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal … Read More
In 1961, East Germany erected a wall — initially barbed wire, eventually concrete — in the middle of Berlin to prevent its citizens from fleeing the communist country to West Germany during the height of the Cold War. It has been reported that 136 people died while trying to escape, but the total number is … Read More
In this picture taken April 2, 2005, faithfuls in prayer for Pope John Paul II at the St. Johannes-Basilica in Berlin. Nearly twice as many Germans left the Roman Catholic Church in 2010 over the year before, amid a spate of cases of priests allegedly sexually abusing minors. Official numbers released Thursday July 28, 2011 … Read More
Germans quit church during 2010 sex scandal By JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press (Photo: wopular.com) BERLIN—The number of people leaving the Roman Catholic Church in Germany jumped by nearly 50 percent in 2010 as an abuse scandal widened, new data showed Friday.Some 181,000 people quit their memberships last year, up from 124,000 in 2009, official numbers released … Read More
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