Black History Month
1 February 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time: 11 minutes
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet 106-Year-Old Virginia McLaurin during a photo line in the Blue Room of the White House prior to a reception celebrating African American History Month © Lawrence Jackson
Granville Island in Vancouver
7 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time: 6 minutes Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. Formerly an industrial manufacturing area, it was named after Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville. read more…Ottawa in Ontario
15 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time: 7 minutes
‘Changing the Guard’ in front of the Canadian Parliament Building © Yann Fauché & Alma Mulalic/cc-by-sa-2.5
L’Anse aux Meadows in Canada
19 October 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time: 6 minutes L’Anse aux Meadows (lit. Meadows Cove) is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony. read more…Le Plateau-Mont-Royal in Montreal
30 August 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time: < 1 minute
Victorian houses on Saint Louis Square © Alexcaban/cc-by-sa-3.0
Lobster Roll
21 July 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time: 6 minutes
© flickr.com – Dana Moos/cc-by-2.0
75th anniversary of NATO
15 July 2024 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Rubric: General Reading Time: 5 minutes
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; French: Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American. Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949. NATO is a collective security system: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. The organization’s motto is animus in consulendo liber (Latin for ‘mind unfettered in deliberation’). The organization’s strategic concepts include deterrence. read more…
Poutine
24 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time: 7 minutes
Vladimir Poutine restaurant in Montreal © Jwslubbock/cc-by-sa-4.0