The Royal Palace, home of the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, the constitutional monarch of the principality. The palace is situated on a high promontory in the old town of Monaco-Ville.
The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German Hundertwasserhaus) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This landmark of Vienna is located in the 3. district, Kegelgasse 34-38 / Löwengasse 41-43, at 48° 12′ 26″ N, 16° 23′ 39″ E.
The house was built between 1983 and 1986 by architect Univ.-Prof. Joseph...
Ora Bolhas Champanharia (updated!)- Sparkling wine bar, more than 50 options of champagnes, espumantes, cavas e proseccos. Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brasil - Brazil
Newstead House, Brisbane, Queensland. Built in 1846 for pioneer pastoralist Patrick Leslie. Today it is furnished in the style of the Victorian period and open to the public.
Konrad Zuse (June 22, 1910 in Berlin – December 18, 1995) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional tape-stored-program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941. The Z3 is sometimes claimed to be "first computer" as such, though this depends on complex and subtle definitional issues, as the machine was not truly general...
Ernst Werner von Siemens (December 13, 1816 – December 6, 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. Werner Siemens was born in Lenthe, near Hanover, Germany; the fourth child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer. He left school without finishing his education, but joined the army to undertake training in engineering. After starting a company (see below), one brother represented him in England ...
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (born. circa 1398 – presumed to have died February 3, 1468 Mainz) was a German metal-worker and inventor who achieved fame for his contributions to the technology of printing during the 1440s, including a type metal alloy and oil-based inks, a mould for casting type accurately, and a new kind of printing press based on presses used in wine-making. Tr...
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (March 27, 1845 in Lennep, today a part of Remscheid, Germany) – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Wuerzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are now known as x-rays or Roentgen Rays. The machine which Röntgen built to emit these rays, was the x-ray machine. Roentgen's name is usually given a...
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894), was the German physicist for whom the hertz, the SI unit of frequency, is named. In 1888, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation by building apparatus to produce radio waves.
Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany, to a Jewish family that had converted to Christianity. His father was an a...
Karl Ferdinand Braun (June 6, 1850 - April 20, 1918) was a German physicist, born in Fulda. Braun was educated at the University of Marburg and received a Ph.D from the University of Berlin in 1872. In 1874 he discovered the point-contact rectifier effect. He became director of the Physical Institute and professor of physics at Strasbourg in 1895. In 1897 he built the first cathode-ray tube osc...
Gottlieb Daimler (March 17, 1834 – March 6, 1900) was a key figure in the development of the gasoline engine and the invention and development of the automobile.
Born in Schorndorf, he served an apprenticeship as a gunsmith and spent a period abroad studying mechanical engineering before attending technical college in Stuttgart. Daimler developed in Bad Cannstatt - a city distric...
Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German automobile engineer. He is generally regarded as one of the inventors (with contemporary Gottlieb Daimler) of the petrol-powered automobile.
Born the son of an engine driver in Mühlburg (now part of Karlsruhe) in the Baden, Benz went to school at the Karlsruhe grammar school and Karlsruhe Polytechnic. He founded his fir...
Inventor of the four-stroke principle or Otto-Engine, which was named after him. His engine with compressed charge, conceived in 1861 and built in 1876, marked the aera of pioneering and formed the foundation for the Internal Combustion Engine.
Born on 14th June 1832 in Holzhausen, Germany, Otto had a business training and became a travelling salesman in Cologne in 1853. He soon took an ...
Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, East Prussia (now Wyrzysk, Poland).
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr¹ von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. Originally a German scientist leading Nazi Germany's rocket program before and during the Second World War, he entered the United ...
Albert Einstein, an ingenious physicist, born 03-14-1879 in Ulm (Germany), he died 04-18-1955 in Princeton (USA).
more: www.einstein-website.de , www.princetonhistory.org
This is the site of several murders in London in the 1940's and 1950's by John Reginald Christie. The circustances around the murders was made into a film starring Sir Richard Attenborough. Users may find this interesting as the road was renamed several time and eventually demolished and rebuilt in the 1970's
This large mansion in North Atlanta was built by Larry Dean, founder of Stockholder Systems Inc., a banking software company. With a pricetag of $40 million, King of Pop Michael Jackson looked into purchasing it as a second Neverland.
One of the most interesting Renaissance monuments in Prague is Hvězda Summer house. In 1534, Ferdinand I obtained a part of a forest - a property that had formely belonged to a monastery - and estabilished a deer park there.
The summerhouse was built according to design of his son - Ferdinand of Tirol - by the royal builders Hans Tirol and Bonifac Wolmut in the years 1555 - 1556. T...
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