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I planted three "Tiny Bee" Asiatic lily cultivars last year, and they didn't do very well. I didn't expect them to surviv...

A poignant article detailing the holdings of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne appears in the online edition of today's Los...

My friend and colleague Ray Lafever was visiting friends in Cologne, Germany a few weeks ago, and on 1 April he traveled to the site of the ...

I honestly don't know how I missed it, but on 27 March the Guardian Weekly published Bettina Schmidt-Czaia's first-person account ...

Today, one month to the day after the collapse of the building housing the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne, city officials began ...

This isn't surprising: earlier today, state prosecutors in Cologne raided the offices of the building and engineering firms that were b...

I somehow missed this Der Spiegel article , which was published last week and which highlights the monumental challenges that confront the ...

I somehow missed an interesting commentary that appeared last week in the English-language section of Die Welt 's Web site. The popula...

A few hours ago, recovery personnel found a second body in the rubble in Cologne. Although the authorities are waiting for the autopsy res...

Those of us whose German is weak owe a debt of gratitude to Frank Schloeffel at Salon Jewish Studies , who is translating into English Klaus...

The news from Cologne is, in many respects, profoundly disheartening. Earlier today, recovery personnel found the body of one of the young ...

The building housing the Historic Archive of the City of Cologne ( Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln ) is now a pile of rubble. Fortunately...