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  • 3
    Dec
    2012
    1:35pm, EST

    Michael Dalder / Reuters

    Bavarian women challenging a male tradition

    Members of the 'Werdenfelser Alphornblaeserinnen,' an all-female Bavarian Alphorn band, prepare their instruments for a concert near Muensing at Lake Starnberg in Germany on Nov. 30. Despite being a male-dominated tradition, the band regularly tours the surrounding southern Bavarian towns playing this traditional Alpine instrument.

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    Who cares? Apparently, no one. HAHAHA

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  • 6
    Nov
    2012
    8:00pm, EST

    Germans observe Saint Leonard of Limoges Feast Day

    Victoria Bonn-meuser / EPA

    Women in traditional Bavarian costumes sit on a decorated horse carriage as they take part in the annual Leonhardi ride at the Calvary in Bad Toelz, Germany, Nov. 6, 2012. Festively-decorated vehicles, drawn by horses, traditionally parade in Bavarian villages to honor Saint Leonhard of Limoges, who lived in the 6th century and is the patron of animals in agricultural use.

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    Horsemen steer carriages over a rain-sodden meadow during the traditional Leonhardi pilgrimage in Bad Toelz, Germany, Nov. 6. The annual pilgrimage honors St. Leonhard, patron saint of the highland farmers for horses and livestock.

    Victoria Bonn-meuser / AFP - Getty Images

    Women in traditional Bavarian costumes sit on a decorated horse carriage as they take part in the annual Leonhardi ride at the Calvary in Bad Toelz, Germany, Nov. 6.

    Victoria Bonn-meuser / EPA

    Women in traditional attire participate in the Leonhardi horse procession on a decorated cart in Bad Toelz, Germany, Nov.6.

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  • 3
    Oct
    2012
    10:10am, EDT

    Don't rock the boat: Bavarian cattle cross glassy lake for fall pasture

    Michael Dalder / Reuters

    Bavarian farmers transport their cows on a boat over the picturesque Lake Koenigssee early Oct. 3. Before the winter season approaches, the farmers have to drive their cattle down from their Alpine meadows to a narrow valley that can only be reached by boat.

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    A Bavarian herdsmen leads his beasts on a path to a boat that carry them across Lake Koenigssee near Berchtesgaden, southern Germany, Oct. 3. The trip by boat is the only way to bring the cattle from their remote summer mountain-pastures back to their homestead.

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    Bavarian herdsmen drive their cattle onto a boat that carries them across Lake Koenigssee near Berchtesgaden, southern Germany, Oct. 3.

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    Bavarian mountain farmers pass the chapel of St. Bartholomae on the lake Koenigssee while returning their cattle from summer pastures near Berchtesgaden, southern Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. The trip by boat is the only way to bring the cattle from their remote summer mountain-pastures back to their homestead.

    Michael Dalder / Reuters

    Bavarian farmers transport their cows on a boat over the picturesque Lake Koenigssee early morning on Oct. 3.

    PhotoBlog: Bavarian herders drive their cattle down from Alpine summer pastures

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  • 11
    Sep
    2012
    6:28am, EDT

    Bavarian herders drive their cattle down from Alpine summer pastures

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    A young Bavarian herdswoman drives her beasts through the landscape during the return of the cattle from the summer pastures in the mountains near Bad Hindelang, southern Germany, on Sept. 11, 2012. At the end of the summer season, farmers move their herds down from the Alps to the winter pastures in the valley.

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    Herdsmen rest during the return of the cattle from the summer pastures.

    Matthias Schrader / AP

    A young herdswoman watches over the cattle.

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  • 21
    Jul
    2011
    11:34am, EDT

    Shrine no more: Bones of Hitler aide exhumed

    David Ebener / EPA

    This combination image shows a photo dated Oct. 30, 2010, above, and a picture taken Thursday, July 21, below, after former Nazi Rudolf Hess's tombstone was razed and his grave filled in Wunsiedel, Germany.



    AP file

    Deputy to Adolf Hitler, Rudolph Hess, gives a salute during the celebrations in Munich on Jan 11, 1933, of the 14th anniversary of the formation of the Nazi Party.

    Reuters reports:

    WUNSIEDEL, Germany — The remains of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess have been exhumed from a grave in Bavaria after it became a pilgrimage for thousands of right-wing extremists.

    A church official in the southern town of Wunsiedel said Thursday the tomb had been razed and its headstone removed after consulting with Hess's family over how to handle the grave site.

    "The bones were removed and brought to the crematorium, and the ashes are to be scattered at sea," Peter Seisser said. Continue reading.

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  • 30
    Dec
    2010
    2:34pm, EST

    Michaela Rehle / Reuters

    Michael Schwab performs a jump in front of the Alps in the southern Bavarian resort of Schoenau am Koenigssee, Dec. 30.

    Wheels in the sky: Scenic jump in Bavaria

    By Elena Grothe

    This bicycle in the sky reminded me of the movie E.T.

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