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Frankfurt
- Frankfurt is one of the financial centers for Euope.
There are many tall bank buildings.
- Frankfurt Opera House.
- Aonther view of the Opera House.
- During the evening hours.
People go to opera during the evening hours.
- It was a pleasure to talk about music during the intermission with young music lovers.
- Old Opera House. This building was totally destroyed
during the World War II (1939-45). It was rebuilt after the war.
- I was there. I forgot when.
- Wikipedia page for this land mark.
- Frankfurt was the power-base for Karl de Grosse, known to us a
Charlemagne.
I had a photo with his statue. I was with
my wife.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was another distinguished person from Frankfurt.
- This is a statue of Goethe.
- This is the sreet leading to the Goethe Haus.
- This is Goethe's house. This house is now a museum.
- With Goethe's bust in the house. I was happy to have my
photo taken there.
- Goethe enjoyed affluent life with expensice furniture like this.
- Goethe had to read many books before writing his stories.
- I did not know Goethe was an art lover. He collected many paintings.
- In spite of the modern civilization, Frankfurt was developed as a farming center, and the city is proud of this tradition.
Nearby interesting places.
I went to Princeton in 1958 after my undergraduate education at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, in order to talk with
Albert Einstein. It was three years after Einstein died there in 1955.
Then, how did I talk to Einstein? Do you know how Moses talked to God?
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2023 by Y. S. Kim, unless otherwise specified.
I did this mathematical exercise
during my war-time high school years.
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The Korean war lasted for three years from 1950 to 1953.