The world learned quite a bit from the bombing, make sure you're
unassailable before you start grabbing off other peoples land, or
provoke a larger power, Russia has nukes, so no one want's to stop
Russia when it nibbles off chunks of it's smaller neighbors, North Korea
has Nukes so when they commit acts of war against South Korea, the world
let's it slide. See they learned something, just not what you would have
hoped they would learn.
On 2/13/2015 4:46 PM, Paul wrote:
And yet the world learns nothing from history...the powerful and power
hungry continue to flex their muscles as long as they have young men
and women to send out to do their dying for them.
You see a mix old stone and new in many buildings in Munich as
well...and it is a strange feeling.
-p
On 2/13/2015 11:32 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
I just read on BBC the article about the bombing of Dresden exactly 70
years ago:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31448992
Remembering those events is important to deter repeat of such events.
(Unfortunately, as the recent history shows, it is impossible to avoid
those due to the loss of collective memory with the new generations.)
Last May, I visited Dresden. One of the strange feelings in the old town
comes from seeing old-looking building with mixed dark and bright
stones.
The reason for that is that many (most?) buildings in the old town have
been restored from ruins, using the old, surviving stones. The newer
stones have not been subjected to the weather for as long, so they are
lighter in color.
Actually, the building that appears on the photo taken with the fisheye
lens, which was debated in another thready, is Dresden Cathedral
that was also badly destroyed in that bombing.
http://42graphy.org/misc/Dresden_IR00794.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Cathedral
For those who prefer a photo from a rectilinear lens, here it is:
http://42graphy.org/misc/Dresden_IR01023.jpg
And slightly corrected for the perspective (to "straighten" out the
tower):
http://42graphy.org/misc/Dresden_IR01023-2.jpg
And here is day-time photo (with unfortunate vignetting in the corners
due to the shade accidentally unlocking and rotating):
http://42graphy.org/misc/Dresden_IR00790.jpg
For those who enjoy visiting place with Google Earth or Google Maps,
the coordinates of the cathedral are 51.053535,13.737464
Cheers,
Igor
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