Duesseldorf, with the largest Japanese community, was our base to go to Muelheim and to Dortmund by regional express trains. The trains were crowded as in Japan. Here, some local peculiarities:
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Monthly Archive for October, 2009
Japan strongly welcomed the Nobel Prize for Obama:
‘‘It’s not easy for the president of the United States, the biggest holder of nuclear (weapons), to call for the creation of a nuclear-free world,’’ said Hatoyama, who met with Obama in New York on the sidelines of U.N. meetings late last month. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano also congratulated Obama for winning the prize and lauded the president’s leadership and efforts for a nuclear-free world.
The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with its disastrous consequences have demonstrated the real impact of nuclear weapons. Nobel had invented dynamite. Nobel hated the war (though he made a lot of money from it ), but felt a particularly strong and terrible weapon of destruction to mankind would be deterred by the war and wanted to dedicate his work this goal. For the Nobel Prize, he wrote: “… the most or best work for fraternity between peoples and for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and proliferation has worked for peace congresses.”
Obama’s vision of a nuclear-free world deserves strong support and not faint-hearted comments.
Under our very noses, between Wehrheim and Bad Homburg the Saalburg is located, a reconstructed Limes-fort. Today, a Unesco World Heritage Site, it shows the highly developed Roman (military) culture from about 1800 years ago. In 2000 years, people will probably pay tribute to the remnants of the Berlin Wall as a World Heritage Site, an abstruse idea from today’s perspective.
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There are 99 wells were in and around the Roman fort. Either the Romans were very thirsty, the wells unproductive or the romans splashed violently in the bathrooms. No, says the expert: it is likely that in the camp and around lived about 2000 people (compared to the roman Trier 80,000).
