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Synthetic Plastic - both a blessing and a curse

Leo Baekeland introduced the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic on February 5, 1909 . This idea revolutionised the consumer world by inexpensive and simple products on the one hand, and endangers human and animal health by million tons of plastic trash in our oceans on the other.

Photo: Aziz + Cucher, Plasmorphica 2, 1996.

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Are you staring at me?

Today’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities was originally proclaimed to increase awareness of the situation of differently abled persons in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life. So, less staring and more talking please.

Photo: Alla Esipovich, Aleksey Ingelevich and his Daughter Tanya, 2003.

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ˈExclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justiceˈ

Quote by Desmond Tutu, who became the first black man to lead South African Anglican Church on September 7, 1986. With his commitment to integrity, he is still widely considered as the country’s moral conscience.

Photo: Leonard Freed, Harlem, New York, 1963.

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What a disturbing day Besides the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945, January 27 marks another less known historical event. The almost 900-day destructive siege of Leningrad was lifted one year before and left millions of casualties behind. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei, Blind Man 1945.

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Have a break, have a sausage

Trapped in sumptuous festooning and a bumptious multi-course dinner? Why not taking it back to basics, even meatless. The Teutloff Museum wishes you a festive holiday season and a fruitful and respectful Happy New Year!

Photo: Martin Parr, untitled, 1998.

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…to be seen these days in the area of Bonn

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The toxic ghost More than 40 years after the Vietnam war, the once sprayed chemical ‘Agent Orange’ is still exacting its price on each new generation. The so called smart weapon remains in the soil and continues to destroy the lives of those who have no other choice than to live on contaminated land. Today’s Agent Orange Day reminds of a downplayed long-term weapon of mass destruction. Photo: Nick Ut/AP, Vietnam, June 8, 1972.