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	<title><![CDATA[Linking Stories]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Geschichten die das Urlaubsland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mit der Welt verbinden]]></description>
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	<copyright><![CDATA[2006 Tourismusverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V., Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit]]></copyright>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Malchin Mechanic Invents Petrol-Driven Car]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[An extraordinary technician from Malchin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was encouraged to outstanding achievements by his fear of horses. He invented one of the first petrol-driven automobiles. <br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Romanow Residence near Rostock ]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among its high firs, the heath near Rostock mysteriously hides a charming jewel. Apparelled with many turretss and gables, the pretty mansion made of brick reminds of an ancient Russian fairytale. Indeed, the hunting lodge of Gelbensande, to the west of the Hanseatic town, was a second home to Russian aristocracy. <br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politics - Chalk Line Separates Sassnitz from Russia]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the 1917 February Revolution in Russia multinational Bolsheviks head homewards after living in exile in neutral Switzerland. The harbour of Sassnitz on&nbsp; the island of R&uuml;gen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania becomes a gateway to their homeland.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Warnemünders Posed for Munch]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bathing men. In front of the bright blue Warnem&uuml;nde sky athletic bodies are basking in the sunshine. Two Warnem&uuml;nde lifeguards are said to have posed for his painting.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - US City Named after Mecklenburg Princess]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just like the Statue of Liberty a Mecklenburg princess lifts her arm into the sky - right in front of the terminal building at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Only Mecklenburg Car in Olso Museum]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connoisseurs dug out a real treasure in a Norwegian barn in 1963: a rusty<BR>beauty 51 years of age. The old wreck found not just turned out to be a very old, but also the only preserved car ever built in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Film Diva at Hiddensee’s ‘Karusel’]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[White on blue, with just one S and one L - that’s how the name ‘Karusel’ appears in Asta Nielsen’s native language on the house wall above the door. The Danish silent film star relaxed in bohemian society at the semicircular house on the “oasis in the Baltic Sea” (Nielsen) in the 1920s. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - State Funeral for Argentina Explorer]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many are the achievements of a Stralsund man, who has made an international name for himself as a zoologist, geographer, geologist, botanist, ornithologist, palaeontologist and meteorologist. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Victuals for Lord Nelson]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Whit Sunday 1801, countless citizens of Warnem&uuml;nde and Rostock throng the quayside of the Baltic Sea resort. No less a personage than the English Admiral Nelson was honouring them with his presence at the mouth of the river Warnow.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Mecklenburg’s Name for Maderia’s Souvenir ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strictly speaking, every tourist of Maderia and of Trinidad and Tobago who buys a bird-of-paradise flower buys not only a souvenir from these vacation islands, but also a memento from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.<br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Euro visionary in 1909]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[His name is virtually forgotten, his exact place of birth a mystery, but his vision lives: as early as 1909 in London, the emigrant from Mecklenburg, industrial chemist and Esperanto activist Herbert F. H&ouml;veler (1859-1918), implemented the trendsetting idea of a neutral currency. Without decades of political fuss and without all-embracing Brussels red tape.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Three Flags From the Danish King]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ludorf Manor House is considered one of the oldest and loveliest in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It was built in the style of the Danish Clinker Renaissance by order of Adam Levin von Knuth, on his part closely connected with Denmark.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Vorpommern Man Battles His Way Through]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[He fights his way right to the top - in every class! The World Professional Boxing champion is born in the 150-soul hamlet of Klein Luckow in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Between Baltic Sea and Adriatic ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boats seesawing on a thunderous sea. Fishermen waiting fearful on the shore. A giant St. Christopher saves a child from the implacable waves. Gabriele Mucchi,&nbsp;the Milan centenarian painter, eternalised his impressions of&nbsp; “People in the Storm” on the wall of the small fishermen’s church in Vitt at the northernmost point of the Isle of R&uuml;gen.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Oldest racecourse attracts VIPs]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A shrill bell. The stalls spring open. The thoroughbreds dash off. The ground of the oldest racecourse on the European mainland still vibrates several times a year today under the hoofs of the racehorses. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Rügen man digs right across Sweden]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wily R&uuml;gen man saved Sweden a pile of cash. The Kattegat region has the creativity and ambition of Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen to thank for its famous canal. The scion of a noble R&uuml;gen family had the G&ouml;ta Canal dug through the country at the start of the 19th century, thus saving the ships an expensive toll]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Pomeranian tradition in South America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Albert Ramlow is in Vorpommern on a special mission. From his name, he could be from Greifswald, and indeed, the man from Brazil is tracing his roots in the Hanseatic town. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Danes stargazing in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality management in water tourism makes waves as far as the neighbouring country: from 4th to 6th September 2006, Danish marina operators and the Danish tourist board checked out water tourism facilities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Artworks from Güstrow in the Far East]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, thousands of Japanese people admired 180 works of the Mecklenburger-by-choice Ernst Barlach. Museums in Kyoto, Tokyo and Kofu showed the comprehensive retrospective “Ernst Barlach.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - From the Müritz all over the seas]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The famous luxury liner QUEEN MARY II, which sails around the world under the British flag, wouldn’t make any headway at all without its huge propellers. Four of them propel the floating palace. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Japanese Ambassador in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satoko’s fingers fly over the keyboard. Characters appear on the screen of her laptop which for most Germans just appear graceful. Satoko understands them all. She is translating the articles on the website of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern tourist board into Japanese.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Mecklenburg man discovers high culture]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Greeks claim quite rightly that a Mecklenburger gave them back 1,000 years of their history. The father of archaeology, Heinrich Schliemann (1822 - 1890), dug in Mycenae and thereby provided access not only for the Greek people to the first advanced culture in mainland Europe. <br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Rostock Rector in Canadian gown]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Alma Mater Rostochiensis welcomed a very special “freshman” for the winter semester 2006/2007. A born-and-bred Canadian contested his first semester at the oldest university in North Germany (founded in 1419). ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - From Moldova to Canada via Rostock]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sanitz society “Stunde der Musik - Freundeskreis Friedrich von Flotow“ has sponsored a violinist from Moldova on a master’s course in Canada. Corina Golomoz studies at the Rostock Academy of Music and Theatre.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Greifswald man surveys giant waterfall]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The water rushing down the third-largest cataract in the Amazonian region of Peru covers an amazing 771 metres. This natural spectacle was long hidden from the world. It was only in March 2006 that the Greifswalder Stefan Ziemendorff led a camera team to his fantastic discovery. <br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Peter I apprenticed with Mecklenburgers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If even the Russian Tsar gets tips in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Land is clearly by no means as old-fashioned as Bismarck claimed at the time. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Indian Sherlock Holmes from Mecklenburg]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The way for a gifted Mecklenburg man in the mid 19th century led to India. The single-minded Robert Hampe Vincent rendered outstanding services to police security in Mumbai. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - London Rembrandt collector holds exhibition in Barth ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rembrandt in Barth. London art connoisseur Neil Kaplan is exhibiting his large private collection at the Vineta-Museum in the bodden town of Barth. The exhibition features 45 “Masterpieces of the Art of Etching”.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Rostock beach-chair conquers the world]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 125-year old Rostock invention is now a feature on beaches in California and in living rooms in Florida. Wilhelm Bartelmann invented Germany’s number-one item of maritime furniture.<br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Cradle of department store in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The famous KaDeWe is the largest department store in continental Europe - and few people realise that it has its origins in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The success story of this German department store began in two historic hanseatic towns here. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Royal landscape designer in Löbnitz ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish Queen, Louisa Ulrika (1720-1782) initiated the redesigning of the Baroque estate and park complex of the town of L&ouml;bnitz, south of the Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Brilliant physicist but doctor of medicine ]]></title>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Mozart’s Music for Mecklenburg Monarchs]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed for Mecklenburg aristocrats while still a child. Although Vienna and Salzburg are the places most closely associated with the legendary composer, his path also crossed that of the nobility of Mecklenburg.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Silver for Schwerin Glass Artist ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, a glass manufacturer from Schwerin achieved remarkable success in the arts and crafts category. He won a silver medal beating rivals from Bavaria and Saxony.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Astronomer with a golden nose]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rostock University produced a scientist who had a good nose in the field of astronomy, but in the literal sense it was a false one. For the Dane Tycho Brahe was one of the world’s first wearers of an artificial nose.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Fallen hero of the skies]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A huge wooden bat glides through the air. The multitude throngs on the ground while holding their breath for the romantic visionary daring his neck: aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) is testing one of his flying contraptions.<BR>From 1891 to 1896, Lilienthal was the first person to try out gliding flight successfully and repeatedly with a total of 21 homemade aircraft.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Concrete with pizzazz]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Water Lily, Scallop or Maple Leaf - charming names for buildings of concrete. The Binz architect Ulrich M&uuml;ther adopted the forms of North German nature and developed special techniques to subjugate the cement mixture. The construction method that M&uuml;ther helped to develop attracted attention abroad as well and brought the former GDR valuable currency.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Intercultural masterpiece in Güstrow]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultural imports in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are by no means merely a question of French or Italian designer labels. A magnificent building in the federal state reflects the influences from Italy, France and even the Netherlands by its architecture.<BR>At first glance, G&uuml;strow Castle appears rather dreamy. It is enthroned before the castle pond, along whose banks the willow branches project in melancholy fashion into the water. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Stallion in Napoleon’s Service]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stallion Herodot persists in a thousand year old oak tree. Hidden here, he is supposed to avoid capture by Napoleon’s forces. But then... The coveted stallion was the head of an entire herd of mares of the stud horse Ivenack in Mecklenburg, whose impeccable reputation had resounded in far away Paris.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - New Home of the Dragon Boat]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will won the international dragon boat world cup in Sydney.&nbsp; Regardless which team from which nation dashed to first place along the home stretch, a dragon boat from the Baltic Sea coast was be out in front. The dragon boats from all the various countries which lined up on the start line in the world cup in September 2007 were initially launched in L&uuml;besse near Schwerin. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Treasure hunt underwater]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In regards to Mecklenburg, it is always 50 years behind recent developments… Bismarck certainly did not know about Peter Kreeft when he made this comment. For he came from Pomerania and is alleged to have developed an enclosed diving suit some 30 years before the Deane brothers, who are today are considered the inventors (1828).]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Hanseatic soccer school in Chicago]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hansa Soccer Academy” - an unusual name for a Chicago football school. It was so named by the ex-professional Thomas Gansauge. The footballer still feels the ties with his home club FC Hansa Rostock, that he played for between 1996 and 1999, and so took the name abroad with him.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Life sciences from the coast]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world’s first artificial liver was developed by innovative researchers from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is now being used to help countless patients in more than 30 countries. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Trans-Siberian departs at Sassnitz harbour]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Germany's largest island R&uuml;gen can proudly announce to be location of the most efficient train ferry harbour at the Baltic Sea and thus the gate to Scandinavia and the Baltic. The harbour is also known as „westernmost cargo station of the Trans-Siberian railway.“ ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Looking for a homeland]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“...Where I in truth belong is the densely wooded Mecklenburg lake district from Plau to Templin“, was how the writer Uwe Johnson summed himself up. However, he came to be on a lifelong search for a home, of a spiritual rather than a geographical nature. Born in Pomeranian Cammin, he grew up in Mecklenburg, and the land and the people won his heart. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - The whole alphabet on seven keys]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oskar Picht, a teacher from Pasewalk, invented a somewhat different kind of typewriter. The special thing about it was that it had only seven large keys. Nevertheless, the whole alphabet and all the numbers could be written on it. Picht invented the machine to make learning easier for his visually impaired pupils. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Sun King´s Traces in Schwerin]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[C'est fantastique! Splendid festivals in a scenery just like at court of Louis XIV - Mecklenburg's dukes also celebrated them in Schwerin. Architects created a fairytale castle upon the pattern of the renaissance château of Chambord, right in the heart of France, at the ducal residence of Schwerin.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Mecklenburger found ancient clay tablets in Palestine]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ernst Sellin (1867-1904) is not only a figurehead for universities in Mecklenburg, but was also awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews University in Scotland. His life’s work shaped the scientific tradition of biblical science and the history of religion, and he is regarded as the pioneer of Biblical Archaeology. For decades, his works were seen as standard texts. <BR>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Captivated by the Dark Continent]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goods, money, social recognition - Paul Pogge left all his prosperity in Mecklenburg behind to dedicate himself to exploring Africa. Driven at first by a sheer desire to hunt, the adventurer turned into a plant collector, cartographer, and cultural missionary. <BR>In 1864, the expolorer started out the first time for South Africa, in order to take part in a big game hunt. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Record-breaking oak trees in Vorpommern ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The oldest specimen is estimated to have stood firm for 1,200 to 1,300 years. The six ancient giants rise up 35 metres into the sky in the middle of an expansive deer reserve in Ivenack near Demmin.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - The two sides of aerospace]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1923, the physicist Hermann Oberth published an investigation into the technology of space travel under the title Die Rakete zu den Planetentr&auml;umen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space), thereby provoking a wave of massive interest in rocket technology. Among those who swam on this wave was the director Fritz Lang, who brought out his film Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) in 1929. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - The Brockhaus plot]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who invented it? In the case of the car, the whole world knows the answer: Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, of course! But that view of history ignores an important contributor to the development of today’s number one form of transport. For the history of its invention was ‘Aryanised’ by the Nazis. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - The Grande Dame of Esperanto]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a late fruition: at the age of 61, Marie Hankel goes back to school. Together with the grammar school teacher Gotthilf Sellin, the woman from Schwerin learns Esperanto - and discovers a fascinating new world beyond her cheerless widow’s life since the early death of her husband 28 years before. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Stralsund chemist discovered oxygen]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The discoverer of Oxygen, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, is very often registered as Swedish chemist in Encyclopaedia. Few are familiar with the fact that the ambitious experimenter, who conducted&nbsp; 20000 tests, originated from Stralsund in Western Pomerania. After the war, the Peace of Westphalia (1648) handed the town of Stralsund to Sweden.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Görnower saves palm trees]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I actually find it very beautiful”, says Benedikt von Laar as he examines the shiny rusty-red beetle in the transparent cylinder on his living room table. The insect with the remarkable projecting snout slowly changes position. Despite the warmth from the crackling stove in the manor house of Klein G&ouml;rnow, a few more degrees would be needed in order for “rhynchophorus ferrugineus” to feel really comfortable. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - The Count from Wismar]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Frege would surely have felt honoured. After all, the road named after him in Wismar leads directly onto the road called Philosophenweg. Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th/early 20th century and as a pioneer of mathematical logic. But outside the German and international circle of experts, few people are aware of his contribution to informatics, among other things. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Chess Bible by Mecklenburg master]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rudolf von Bilguer is well known to chess players. He is the author of the standard work on the theory of the game. Bilguer was a member of the ‘Plejaden’ (Pleiades), a Berlin-based group of German chess masters in the 19th century. He was regarded as one of the most gifted of the masters. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Swedish royal visitors in Greifswald]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For over 150 years, the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald was under the control of the Swedish crown. The main building was officially opened in 1750 by the Swedish king, Friedrich IV, himself.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Dutchman engraved Pomeranian chronicle on copper plates]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lubin’s Map is the first comprehensive map of Pomerania. Philipp II, Duke of Pommern-Stettin in the 17th century commissioned what was for those days extraordinary map material. Philipp II aimed to compile a chronicle of Pomerania, decked out with illustrations and a map.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Searching for Traces in Australia]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The city of Melbourne honors a child of the city of Rostock to this day.He played a decisive roll in the development of the “Garden State” Victoria.<br>
The twenty-two year-old pharmacist, and studied botanist, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von M&uuml;ller was driven into the warmer Australian climate because of his health condition.<br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Ohio sings ode to Baltic Sea island]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Wenn die Granitz wieder gr&uuml;n wird...” the choir of the German Club in Columbus/Ohio belts out its ode to the Isle of R&uuml;gen in the choicest German. It is not just the language which is special, though. The song had already sunk into oblivion on R&uuml;gen itself. It had not been heard on the Baltic Sea island since the 40s. “Whereas we had often sung it at school”, remembers Herbert Jahn from Trent. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Counterpart to Chicago´s Reuter statue]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Chicago, the Mecklenburg writer Fritz Reuter is honored even more than in Rostock, his place of work? The Shanty-Chor e.V. “De Klaashahns” could not accept that. “De Klaashahns” are Rostock’s musical calling card. Since 1964, the northerners in sailors’ togs have been persuading listeners at home and abroad with their songs of the culture of the Baltic Sea coast. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - The revolutionary coupling]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.” This biblical saying is also applicable to the railway pioneer from Wismar, Karl Scharfenberg (1874-1938). The coupling he invented over 100 years ago is just as important now as it was then. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Pioneer of electricity and mentor of the Tsar ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scientist was one of the inaugurators of electricity as we know it today. <BR>Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus discovered pyroelectricity in the mineral tourmaline. He found out that electric polarisation took place in the crystal in reaction to changes in temperature and concluded that electricity and magnetism must originate from the same source, namely the creation of a force field. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Western-Pomeranian Know-How on the Mekong]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laboratories, weekend houses, restaurants - all on the water, on the pontoon boat of a ship builder from Pomerania. Norbert Freude originates from Anklam and lives directly on the Mekong today. The 54 year-old crafts his floating constructions out of fiberglass in his small shipyard in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. <BR>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Rügen’s chalk cliffs in Switzerland]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[They can be admired in St. Petersburg or Paris, in Winterthur or Vienna, the silhouettes of the Hanseatic towns, the redbrick churches and the Baltic coast - the most important painter of German romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), brought Vorpommern’s landscapes to the world. One of the Greifswald man’s best-known works, the famous “Chalk Cliffs on R&uuml;gen” is on display in Winterthur in Switzerland.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Mecklenburg scientist plumbs the depths]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Titanic disaster that shook the world in 1912 awakened the ambitions of the Mecklenburg scientist Alexander Behm. Today his invention is part of the standard equipment on ships: the echo-sounder. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Master of the pipes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pipes of the imposing organ in the Tallinn Cathedral regularly blast forth concerts through this house of God. Although located in Estonia, this work of art, upon which every Saturday an organist muses, originates from the hand of a virtuoso Mecklenburger from Sch&ouml;nbeck, near Friedland in Mecklenburg. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Baltic waves in the Dolomites]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “Baltic Sea waves” in the poem by Martha M&uuml;ller-Gr&auml;hlert, a Low German regional poet, spilled over into the whole of Europe. She wrote it under the name “Mine Heimat” (My Homeland) as an ode to the Baltic Sea coast, which was set to music in Switzerland. Over the years and in many variations, the piece has come to be heard as the country song of many other regions in the world.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Executioner at Spyker Castle]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is over 300 years since Carl Gustav Wrangel died in mysterious circumstances at Schloss Spyker on the island of R&uuml;gen. Even today, there are still legends and stories surrounding the Governor General of Swedish Pomerania. One legend has it that he was beheaded one night in 1676. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - On the trail of the Tsars]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Russian Tsar gave his approval for his then 14-year-old daughter Helene Paulovna's (1784-1803) engagement to the 22-year-old duke Friedrich Ludwig in 1799. Later in that same year all of St. Petersburg celebrated, both the engagement and the departure of the Tsar's daughter. With a convoy of approximately 30 coaches, the Tsar's daughter journeyed with her husband to Ludwigslust, where she then moved into the residence of Schwerin's dukes.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Expedition to the Lake Plateau]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbus, Cook, and Darwin; Goethe, Arndt and Humboldt - all of them traveled around the world, in order to expand their horizons. It was not just the exotic lands which were of interest to scholars and inquisitive minds. English scholars managed to make it to Mecklenburg in the 18th and 19th centuries, which was home to Charlotte, their queen.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Coffee Tradition from Central America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that you can find Nicaraguan coffee on breakfast tables throughout Wismar is no longer anything out of the ordinary. This particular coffee, though, has quite a unique history. Javier Román, who runs the coffee shop "Cafeshop Especial" in the Hanseatic City, was born in Nicaragua and has a long tradition of coffee cultivation in his family. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - African wild animals for European courts]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wild animals to touch, guaranteed safe - taxidermist Carl Knuth offered his clients this unique experience around 1900. They included Prince Heinrich of the Netherlands and various German ducal houses. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Estonians learn from Mecklenburg professor]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 19th century many pharmacists and doctors in Russia and the Baltic States studied under the Rostock pharmacist Georg Dragendorff. This scientist was particularly respected in Estonia and Russia, and honours were bestowed on him even in Britain. In London, Georg Dragendorff (1836 -1898) was decorated with the golden Hanbury Medal and at the University of Munich he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Medicine.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Röntgen´s teacher and trailblazer in computer technology]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 19th century, a physicist from Schwerin made a discovery, whose full scope has only begun to be realized today, in the age of computer technology. The so-called "Kundt-Effect", named after August Kundt, is a magneto-optic phenomenon. Kundt confirmed the rotation of the level of polarisation of light upon its passage through magnetic substances. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Pursuing Migratory Birds by Bike]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mecklenburg man Otto Steinfatt pursued migratory birds with his bike to the Bosporus, to Sicily and Spain, in order to find out, where they fly to and how they breed. His thirst for knowledge led him all the way to North Africa. Steinfatt pitched his tent in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Greece, and also on the Canary Islands, Malta, in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Scandinavia and also in the Baltic countries.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Gateways to the World]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One state president after another strides along the red carpet towards the airport terminal building. However, the airport in question is not that of Berlin or New York but the regional airport of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock-Laage. In June 2007, the heads of state of the world’s most powerful economies were welcomed by Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff before travelling on to the G8 Summit at Heiligendamm. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Sternberg man revolutionised German shipping]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sternberger Albrecht Tischbein revolutionised German shipbuilding with ideas from Holland and England. He built Germany’s first iron ships in Rostock, thereby leading the country into the age of modern shipbuilding. The shipbuilding pioneer learned from his forerunners in Holland and England, whose shipbuilding had changed fundamentally with industrialisation.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - English style seaside resort]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA["Heic te laetitia invitat post balnea sanum"- You are invited to enjoy yourself here after a healing bath. By this charming invitation the white town by the sea has attracted innumerable guests from home and abroad for more than 200 years. The unquestioned peak of its history marked the the G8 Summit in 2007. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Rostock Family in Europe and overseas]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the year 1692, a young man by the name of Hinrich Krahnst&ouml;ver came from Hamburg to Rostock. For seven generations, the family lived in the Hanseatic city on the Warnow, playing a decisive role in Rostock’s industry. A gravestone in the St Marien church remembers Hinrich and his grandson, master furrier Johann Andreas Krahnst&ouml;ver. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politics - Vietnamese Ambassador in Bad Doberan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vessels all over the world are fitted out with ventilation, refrigeration and air-conditioning systems by a company from Bad Doberan. Why do foreign shipyards buy technology from a little town on the Baltic coast? ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politics - Germany’s voice in the concert of nations]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[He was Germany’s man at the heart of the world’s action: Mecklenburger Gunter Pleuger. His career began with a dream job. In 1970, one year after he commenced his duties at the Foreign Office, the man from Wismar was sent to New York. He was a member of the German observation mission at UNO, until both German states were admitted as members of the United Nations in 1973.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - With a Wheelbarrow across Kamchatka]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[By bicycle around the world. Ronald Prokein and Markus M&ouml;ller from Rostock have cycled round the whole globe. They have trekked across Asia, paddled through rapids in Sibiria in simple kayaks, and toured the Russian taiga in a truck. These Rostock adventurers have survived freezing temperatures, violent thunderstorms and torrential rains of biblical proportions. On foot and with a wheelbarrow as a rather unusual item of baggage, they have even dared to travel 1,000 kilometres across the Russian volcanic peninsula of Kamchatka. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Silvercondor flew to the end of the world]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[He felt as a Mecklenburger and named Schwerin his home town: the&nbsp; aviation pioneer pioneer, seafarer, writer, filmmaker and explorer Gunther Pl&uuml;schow (1886 - 1931), who was the first person to fly over the fantastic scenery of Tierra del Fuego in the legendary Silvercondor, a biplane from Rostock. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Mecklenburg Princess as English Queen]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that one will find a record on a famous as well as popular princess from the principality of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in every British encyclopaedia. Being consort of King George III she reigned the British Empire from 1761 until 1801, even though reticently. <br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Tragic End off Tokyo]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 18th October 1990, the town of Wolgast celebrates three ships of the Frauenlob class, putting in to the harbour for the first time in almost 135 years. The keel of the first “Frauenlob” (“praise of women”) was laid in the shipyard, from which her good reputation sped away over the seas, in 1851.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Honoured on The Moon]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[He may not have strolled on the moon like Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, but Friedrich von Hahn (1742-1805) also made such a giant leap for mankind that he has even been eternalised on the earth’s satellite.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - First White Man of Easter Island from Rostock]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gigantic stone images with huge noses and much too small bodies doubtless sent shivers up the spines of the first Europeans to land on Easter Island. At second glance, however, the colossal faces actually look quite friendly and aroused the curiosity of Rostock’s Carl Friedrich Behrens.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - “Lightbringer” Opens Window to Japan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese tea mistress Mineko floats around the room in a traditional kimono serving fragrant, steaming green tea in delicate china. You might think you were in Japan. In fact, however, this ceremony is enjoyed in the heart of Mecklenburg’s “Switzerland”. <br>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - State-of-the-art at 60]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cutting-edge container giants with the names “Stadt Wismar” and “Stadt Rostock” shuttle between the USA and the Mediterranean and India. Built in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the bow in Rostock/Warnem&uuml;nde, the stern in Wismar, they were launched in July and October 2006 and set sail for the oceans. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Rostock Woman Wields Sceptre over Russia]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman of Rostock rules the Tsarist Empire. Not a Russian fairytale, but the true story of Anna Leopoldovna (1718-1746). In the 18th century, the daughter of the Hanseatic city becomes Grand Duchess and Regent of the Russian Empire.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Ribnitz Provides Material for Comic Series]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[1906. Sunday after Sunday, the Chicago Tribune writes about a small town in Vorpommern. Comic hero Willie Winkie scurries around between little houses that wink at him with their window eyes and smile at him with their door mouths.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Malicious Christmas Package from Sweden]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Huuch Julklapp!!” comes the unexpected cry out of the background, then there’s a thud and the door bangs shut. Looking for the cause of the noise with a scared face, one comes upon a packet with a note attached with one’s own address on it, the form and packaging of which appear strange.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[History - Orange Prince from Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Queen Beatrix’ grandpa played in the garden of Schwerin Castle. The grandfather of the Dutch Regent grew up in the inimitable palace on Lake Schwerin. About one hundred years ago, on 7th February 1901, he married as Duke Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin the twenty-year-old Wilhelmina of Orange Nassau and followed his wife to the Netherlands.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Rostockers Build Library in Kenya]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little Zawadi sits on a wooden bench, glued to the board. Forty little arms shoot into the air like lightning when the teacher asks for an answer. Zawadi, like each of her 39 primary school classmates, wants it to be her turn. Thanks to the “Friends of the Sabaki School”, the girl from the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya can go to third grade instead of working in the fields. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Rostock Initiates International Regatta]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[With so many sailing events, the layperson can rapidly lose their bearings: Baltic or Hanse Sail, sailing festivals, Marine and Sea Festival. But one thing they all have in common: the Baltic Sea.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science - Rügen Demigod Operates Around The World]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Scalpel please!” Some assistants of Christian Theodor Billroth may well have had butterflies in their stomachs on this command at the latest. In the times of the innovative surgeon, some of his techniques by no means formed part of the daily operation routine.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economy - Hairy Immigrant from China]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern welcomes visitors from all over the world - and not just human ones. On top of all the innumerable visiting students, immigrants, tourists and foreign workers, a shaggy crustacean from the Far East also made its home in our federal state.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Green Tea in The Red Pavilion]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything happens fifty years later in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Chancellor Bismarck is once said to have stated. And indeed the Chinoiserie of the 18th century arrived late at the Baltic Sea.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Invitation to South Africa]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[African drums shake the otherwise so peaceful Baltic Sea coast. Namibian beer is all Caspar Venter needs. The man from South Africa makes his homeland appetising to the people of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern with African evenings.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Martha - Music from Mecklenburg]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The music of the Mecklenburg composer Friedrich von Flotow has gone around the world, even if his name is well known only to the musical cognoscenti. One of his most famous pieces, “The last rose of summer” from the opera "Martha", is today virtually a folksong and belongs to the repertoire of popular virtuosos such as André Rieu. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Maestro Paints in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Franco Costa, Italian and sea painter, maintains a very special relationship with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The artist discovered his love of the Baltic Sea coast a few years ago and since then has practically been a resident here.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Art and Culture - Stormy Petrel on The Sun Island]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Ku'damm in front, Baltic Sea behind” quipped Kurt Tucholsky about the “bathtub of the Berliners”. What he meant is the sun island Usedom, which in the age of the Kaiser attracted not just the locals. Among the most famous spa guests seeking healing in the mild sea climate was Maxim Gorky.]]></description>
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