Traveling in the Liberal Arts Tradition: Berlin, Leipzig, Warsaw, and St' Petersburg

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Traveling in the Liberal Arts Tradition Berlin,
Leipzig, Warsaw, and St. Petersburg May 11 31,
2004
Informational Meeting December 10, 2003
Scientific/Historical Traveling Traveling
with the Atom The Alumni College Website
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The Hotel Bogota just off the Kurfurstendamm
(Kudamm) strasse
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Dr Ensberg and Dr. Rodgers, May 2003
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The Quadriga atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
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The Home of Fritz and Clara Haber at the former
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
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The Building Boom in Berlin
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The Youth Hostel in Leipzig
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The Old City Hall in Leipzig
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The Wilhelm Ostwald Energy House in the little
village of Grossbothen
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Dr. Rodgers in the Clemens Winkler
Laboratory/Museum
The Memorial to Clemens Winkler in Freibeg, the
Silver City of Saxony
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Dr. and Mrs. Moskwa near the old towne in Warsaw
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The Frederic Chopin Monument in Lazienski Park
near the Moskwas apartment in Warsaw
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The Monument to the Jewish Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw
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The Castle on the Water, Lizienski Park in
Warsaw. The home of the last king of Poland,
Stanislaw August Poniatowski
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The Wilanow Castle in Warsaw
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A Statue of Marie Sklodowska-Curie at the Cancer
Centre and Institute of Oncology founded by Marie
and her sister Bronya
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Dr. Rodgers and Dr. Moskwa in Frombork where
Copernicus lived until his death in 1543.
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The Youth Hostel in St. Petersburg
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At the Youth Hostel in St. Petersburg
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The Kunstkammer Museum in St. Petersburg home
of the Lomonosov Museum and near the Mendeleev
Apartment
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The Church of the Spilt Blood looms at the end of
a St. Petersburg canal
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The Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
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Dmitrii Mendeleevs Study in St. Petersburg
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Eleonora Dubovitzkaya shows Dr. Moskwa
Mendeleevs textbook on economic theory
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Dr. Moskwa near the entrance to the Moskwa
Hotel in St. Petersburg
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Dr. Moskwa negotiating with an artist and his
agent on the Neva River (with the Hermitage
State Museum in the background at left)
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Where the last King of Poland spent his last days
in exile in St. Petersburg.
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A statue of Dmitrii Mendeleev near the Institute
of Metrology, which he founded
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Peterhof, the summer palace of the Tsars
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The Tsarskoe Sielo, residence of Catherine the
Great near St. Petersburg
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• Some Scientific Topics
• Fritz Haber and the Fixation of Nitrogen
• Clara Immerwahr the Chemical Warfare Dilemma
• Karl Bosch and Haber-Bosch Process
• Otto Hahn Discovers Fission
• Lise Meitners Role in Discovering Fission
• Werner Heisenberg and the German Atomic Bomb
• Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Institute
• Clemens Winkler discovers Germanium
• Wilhelm Ostwald and catalysts
• Marie Skladovska Curies childhood
• Marie and Pierre Curie discover Polonium and
  Radium
• Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Periodic Table
• Mikhail Lomonosov the father of Russian Science
  and Poetry

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• Some Economic Topics
• Financing Musical and Artistic Events private
  vs state sources
• Relative Exchange Rate and Purchasing Power of
  Currencies
• The Corruption Index Determination and
  Practical Implications
• The Competitiveness Index Determination and
  Practical Implications
• The Globalization Index Determination and
  Practical Implications
• Consumer Goods -- Similarities and Differences in
  Availability
• Comparative Studies of Movies, Books, TV
  Programming, Sports, Popular Music
• Relative Life Expectancies
• The Impact of the European Union on Germany,
  Poland, or Russia
• The Big Mac Index implications for a countrys
  economy!
• The Building the Church of the Spilt Blood in 1905

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• More Economic Topics
• Level of Income and Standards of Life (by
  country)
• The Major Political Forces in Germany, Poland, or
  Russia comparisons with the United States
• The United States Steel Tariffs and its Impact on
  the Polish Steel Industry (Krakow)
• Underground or Shadow Economy in a given country
• Income distribution and poverty

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• Some Language and Culture Topics
• A History of the Kurfurstendamm (Kudamm) strasse
• A History of the Hotel Bogota
• The Berlin Wall and its Implications for a
  Divided City
• The History of the Brandenburg Gate
• The Book Burnings at the Babelplatz
• Famous Exchanges at Check Point Charlie during
  the Cold War
• The Reichstag as a Symbol of German History
• The Wrapping of Reichstag by Christo (1995)
• The Reichstags Restoration and Its Political
  Meaning
• The Potsdam Platz Its History and Redesign Today

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• More Language and Cultural Topics
• German Unification and the Advantages/Problems
  Today
• The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig and Their
  Role in the Unification Process
• Comparison of Reviews of the Same Movies in
  Different Countries
• The Role of Rasputin in the Collapse of Russia
• The Warsaw Uprising (1944)
• The Jewish Ghetto and Holocaust in Poland

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• Some Music Topics
• Frederic Chopin -- Warsaw and Berlin Concert
• Felix Mendelssohn Leipzig
• Johann Sebestian Bach Leipzig
• Gaetano Donizettis Lucia di Lammermoor
• Ludwig van Beethoven (Berlin Philharmonie)
• Johannes Brahms (Berlin Philharmonie)
• Arnold Schoenberg (Berlin Konzerthaus)
• Gyorgy Ligeti (Berlin Konzerthaus)
• Alexander Borodin chemist by day musician by
  night
• Modest Mussorgsky

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• Some Art and Cultural Topics
• The Neue Nationalgalerie designed by Mies van der
  Rohe
• The Pergamon Museum
• Peter the Great and the Arts
• Mikhail Lomonosov the Artist
• Vincent van Gogh
• Pablo Picasso
• Claude Monet
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Henri Matisse

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Traveling in the Liberal Arts Tradition Berlin,
Leipzig, Warsaw, and St. Petersburg May 11 31,
2004
Informational Meeting December 10, 2003
Scientific/Historical Traveling Traveling
with the Atom The Alumni College Website