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Whatever about other countries, the ICE in Germany and surrounding countries has more lines than in the above map (which further embarrasses the US network)...
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Irrelevant fact: my work has meant I often need to travel from Freiburg to Berlin. Before I joined the company, colleagues would always have got the train up to Frankfurt and then flown on to Berlin. I encourage them to go with the stress-free means of travel while having internet access when you're on the ICE. Time-wise there was no significant difference between the two modes so I'm not sure why they originally went with rail & flying.
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I always enjoy taking the train anywhere I go. Here in the Netherlands it’s especially great. Admittedly most of this map isn’t high speed, but the map is so dense it looks like a subway. Except it doesn’t cover a city, it covers the entire country.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.
Noam Chomsky
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18 Untranslatable Words From European Languages
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- verschlimmbessern (German) verb: to make something worse when trying to improve it
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Wreck of IJN Musashi. Not sure of the orientation of these.
It used to look like this.
During the D Day landings German tanks were fired upon by HMS Nelson, a Rodney class battleship.
The USS Texas was an older battleship whose guns couldn't elevate far enough to get the range to target a different bunch of German tanks. So they flooded some of the spare buoyancy spaces to give a 2 degree list. Cheats.
Anyway here's one one of Musashi's turrets vs. a big scary German Tiger tank.
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