Although we trail such medieval wonderlands as Spain, Bavaria, and Wales in castles per square mile, Texas is studded with crenellated, turreted strongholds, ranging from the kitschy to the magnificent. October 23, 2015By John Nova LomaxComments Login / Register OR No Account? Register here. Although we trail such medieval wonderlands as Spain, Bavaria, and Wales in castles per square mile, Texas is studded with an apparently growing number of these crenellated, turreted strongholds, Read more [...]

Tom Donoghue / DonoghuePhotography.com Siegfried Roy feed a tiger cub during a Make-a-Wish Foundation event on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at the Mirage. By John Katsilometes (contact) Published Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 | 1:24 p.m. Updated 3 hours, 29 minutes ago Siegfried Roy + Emma Goldsberry Launch slideshow » The Kats Report Bureau on Thursday wheeled into the Villas at the Mirage, where Siegfried Roy welcomed the latest members of “our family,” as Siegfried often refers Read more [...]

Police in Germany stopped a plan by neo-Nazis to attack a refugee centre in Bavaria, local authorities revealed on this week. Officers arrested eleven men and two women during raids on Wednesday in the town of Bamberg near Nuremburg. The group, which had been under observation by police for many months, held a cache of ammunition, firearms and makeshift explosives, as well as Nazi memorabilia, including banned Swastika flags and Third Reich helmets. Read more [...]

Flags branded with swastikas, Nazi magazines and memorabilia from the Third Reich were found at the homes of the suspected plotters in Bavaria. 

Detectives observed the group of 11 men and two women for more than a year before swooping in on Wednesday morning, seizing illegal firecrackers, a firearm, ammunition and other weapons. 

Germany could be facing a resurgence of right-wing terrorism after police arrested 13 people who had allegedly planned to attack refugee centres with guns, knives, baseball bats and explosives. Authorities have warned against the steep rise of attacks against asylum facilities or advocates, as the total refugees applying this year could exceed one million in Germany. The Federal Criminal Police Office said almost 580 such attacks had been recorded so far in 2015, compared with 198 in all of 2014, Read more [...]

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BERLIN — Police in Bavaria picked up 13 people and seized a cache of weapons, including detonators, in a series of raids that officials sat disrupted a suspected plot by right-wing extremists to attack refugees pouring into this nation, authorities said Thursday.

For its third year, Macon Octoberfest is expanding to three days, running Friday-Sunday in Tattnall Square Park.Friday's fun begins at 4 p.m. and includes music from country singer Craig Campbell on the main stage and the Atlanta German Polka Band in the bier garden. As an official Mercer University Homecoming event, Octoberfest also will be the site of a pep rally, and festivities are free for Mercer students, faculty and alumni, who should register in advance through the alumni association, said Read more [...]

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Obersalzberg near the Austrian border and Pullach in southern Munich are connected by their history. In 1935, Adolf Hitler commissioned his confidant Martin Bormann to convert a chalet near Berchtesgaden into his headquarters. He was also instructed to build a housing complex called Sonnenwinkel in Pullach for the headquarters of Reich Minister Rudolf Hess. The Organisers say the exhibition demonstrates the contrast in the architecture of the two places, and reveals the crimes planned behind the Read more [...]