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Small Multiples of Global Heating

Germany is heating up. Mean hot days per year in the districts In response to the recent extreme heat which has been experienced in much of ...

Where the Streets Have Male Names

 Over 92% of the streets in Leipzig which are named for people are named for men. Only 6.94% of those streets are named for women. You can v...

Germany - The Beautiful Travel Country

In 1936 the German Railways Information Bureau created and released a pictorial map of Germany, designed to promote tourism in Nazi Germany....

The Privatization of East Germany

Before the reunification of Germany in 1990 there were over 8,000 state run enterprises in the GDR. The VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) were publ...

The Distribution of Surnames

The German Surname Map is a fascinating tool for visualizing the geographical distribution of surnames in Germany. Enter a surname into the ...

The Tree Watering Map

Global heating, and in particular long dry hot summers, has had an effect on Berlin's ecosystem. The fall in precipitation has been part...