* Finland has an embassy in Berlin, a consulate general in Hamburg, two honorary consulates general in Düsseldorf and Munich and other honorary consulates in Bremen, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Hanover, Kiel, Lübeck, Rostock, Stuttgart, and Wilhelmshaven.

" The bombing of Guernica has been called an act of terrorism, and other examples of state terrorism may include the World War II bombings of London, Dresden and Hiroshima.

Since the German reunification in 1990, Dresden has regained importance as one of the cultural, educational, political and economic centres of Germany.

German Federal Minister of Defence Thomas de Maizière has his place of residence and political basis in Dresden.

Dresden has experienced dramatic changes since the reunification of Germany in the early 1990s.

With a pleasant location and a mild climate on the Elbe, as well as Baroque-style architecture and numerous world-renowned museums and art collections, Dresden has been called " Elbflorenz " ( Florence of the Elbe ).

The incorporation of neighbouring rural communities over the past 60 years has made Dresden the fourth largest urban district by area in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne.

Dresden has a cold-moderate to continental climate, with hotter summers and colder winters than the German average.

Dresden has been divided into ten districts called " Ortsamtsbereich " and nine former boroughs (" Ortschaften ") which have been incorporated.

The Dresden collection was finally returned to East Germany, despite strong opposition from the museum officials, notably Irina Antonova, who has been running the museum since February 1961.

Stowe's novel lent its name to Henson's home — Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, near Dresden, Ontario — which since the 1940s has been a museum.

On two of the Dresden Codex's very first pages, god D is shown within the maw of a caiman representing the earth ; a case has been made for identifying the caiman as the deity's transformation ( Thompson, Taube ).

As Taube has demonstrated, she corresponds to goddess O of the Dresden Codex, an aged woman with jaguar ears.

Dresden has the following historic structures of note:

He was buried in the Dresden Frauenkirche but his tomb has been destroyed.

The toy piano has been used extensively by alternative rock and post-rock bands such as Agitpop, Evanescence, Radiohead, Little Bang Theory, Warren Zevon, Tori Amos, Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Old Canes, and The Dresden Dolls.

In World War II he was a POW in Dresden, which has a lasting effect on his post-war life.

Since re-opening, the Church of Our Lady has been a hugely popular tourist destination in Dresden.

In 1849 Courbet painted Stone-Breakers ( destroyed in the British Bombing of Dresden in 1945 ), which Proudhon admired as an icon of peasant life ; it has been called " the first of his great works ".

* Episode 7 of The Dresden Files has Harry tracking down three college students who are using a Hand of Glory to bypass high tech security systems.

Among his many pupils in Dresden was Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, the keyboardist whose name is erroneously enshrined in the popular nickname given to J. S. Bach's 1742 publication, “ Aria with Diverse Variations ”— that is, “ The Goldberg Variations .” The scholar Peter Williams has discredited the story linking the work to Goldberg, stating that J. S. Bach wrote the work for the Russian Ambassador Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, who would ask his employee, Goldberg, to play variations for him to ward off insomnia.

Depiction of a judicial combat in the Dresden codex of the Sachsenspiegel ( early to mid 14th century ), illustrating the provision that the two combatants must " share the sun ", i. e. align themselves perpendicular to the Sun so that neither has an advantage.

Nearly every larger city in Germany is a consolidated city – county, like Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich or Dresden ; Austria, where the capital of Vienna is both a city and state ; France, where the capital city of Paris has been coterminous with the département of Paris since 1968 ; and South Korea, where Seoul is a special city, while six other cities ( Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, and Ulsan ) are metropolitan cities.

Although the original structure in Berlin has been demolished, its sister building the Kulturpalast in the city of Dresden is still intact and currently used as a symphony orchestra hall.

A terminus of the first German long distance railway to Dresden ( the capital of Saxony ) in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with Leipzig Central Station the largest terminal station by area in Europe.

The river rolls through Dresden and finally, beyond Meißen, enters on its long journey across the North German Plain passing along the former border of East Germany, touching Torgau, Wittenberg, Dessau, Magdeburg, Wittenberge, and Hamburg on the way, and taking on the waters of the Mulde and Saale from the west, and those of the Schwarze Elster, Havel and Elde from the east.

The Hermitage Judith for example, was long regarded as a Raphael, and the Dresden Venus a Titian.

After a long visit to Spener, at that time a court preacher in Dresden, Francke returned to Leipzig in the spring of 1689, and began to give Bible lectures of an exegetical and practical kind, at the same time resuming the Collegium Philobiblicum of earlier days.

Frederick set out from Dresden on August 31 with 25, 000 men and managed a very long and arduous march reminiscent of the Frederick William I, the Great Elector.

A special knife, the Grand Dresden Stollen Knife, a silver-plated knife, 1. 60 meters long weighing 12 kg, which is a copy of the lost baroque original knife from 1730, is used to festively cut the oversize Stollen at the Dresden Christmas fair.

The six-module trams ( three units of two carbody sections ) are 53. 99 meters long, a world record for passenger trams ( only exceeded by the 59. 4 m CarGoTram of Dresden ).

Today, it is exhibited in two parts, each of them approximately long, at the museum of the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany.

Dresden, a university city, has for a long time had a culture of locally organized street parties and other cultural artistic events.

* Café Pamplona is mentioned in The Dresden Dolls ' song " Truce ", composed by Amanda Palmer :" You can have Africa, Asia, Australia, as long as you keep your hands off Café Pamplona.

On 19 May 1976 she broke the world record in long jump with 6. 99 metres in Dresden.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

In 2005, Dresden was host to the largest Neo-Nazi demonstration in the post-war history of Germany.

After the success of the Dresden book, Irving continued writing, including some works of revisionist history.

; Bertram Copeland Rumfoord: A Harvard history professor, retired Air Force brigadier general and millionaire, who shares a hospital room with Billy and is interested in the Dresden bombing.

On February 14, 1945, a raid on Dresden produced one of the most devastating fires in history.

The War of the Sixth Coalition included the battles of Lützen, Bautzen, Dresden and the epic Battle of Leipzig ( also known as the Battle of Nations ), which was the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, and, indeed, the largest in Western history before the First World War.

Born in Chemnitz as a son of an officer, he grew up in Dresden and studied law, history, and philosophy.

The sunken submarine was raised in 1887 and can now be visited at the museum of military history at Dresden, Germany ( Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr )

The name Technische Universität Dresden has only been used since 1961 ; the history of the university, however, goes back nearly 200 years to 1828.

In 1820 he was appointed the director of the Dresden natural history museum and a professor at the Surgical-Medical Academy in Dresden, where he remained till 1862.

This historical tradition ended only in 1918 with the fall of the monarchy, and started again in 1994, but the idea comes from Dresden ’ s history.

* Dresden Stollen history, in English from the Germany Embassy in Canada

In it she has written a history of the album The Dresden Dolls and of the duo, as well as a partial autobiography.

For some years he taught at Dresden, and won a high reputation by his lectures on the history of philosophy in Germany.