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well due to the what is the good. things to talk about. that's not. so you still. feel. the. music they have out of this world that we'll find out more about that at the top of the show. hello and welcome to another exciting edition of your i'm max i'm your host meghan lee here's a look at what else we have coming up on the program. reporter max
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mero gives it his all about finding game. in the world order for means club meets up in the least in shine. but 1st we start off with an adventure from outer space now 50 years after the american astronaut neil armstrong became the 1st man to walk on the moon history has once again been made in terms of space adventures and this time by an italian astronaut look up play deejay for a night from the international space station where he's currently based now his vibes were beamed down to a party boat just off the island of and we were there to experience it firsthand. italian astronaut luca parmitano tries his hand it d.j.
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400 kilometers away from earth and people groove to his beats on the deck of a cruise ship anchored off the spanish island of the bees or. the tablets served as part of the tunnels mixing board. the. first time ever d.j. from outer space. was impressed that i mean is up there somewhere i think you could tell that he's an astronaut not a d.j. but he didn't see a gravity perfectly but how it felt. it's no wonder that nuclear doesn't sound like a pro he only had his 1st lessons shortly before takeoff from shook at the european astronaut center and along the european space agency hopes that this kind of action will get young people more interested in space travel. this is pretty crazy so the question for you is do you choose the museum that are deceiving the.
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works for frankfurt based label big city beats which helps to organize the 5 day mediterranean cruise. the world's best deejays entertain the passengers day and night. with. the live link to the international space station is the highlight. station this is houston are you ready for the event. i am ready for the event so i would love for the world to wear one common language and everybody who talks because i believe that communication is one way to solve problems and a language that everybody knows and everybody understands and nobody fights about their idea about. and then the luca parmitano takes the ship's passengers on the galactic journey. in the end his coach detailer
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shook his happy. people he did a great job he got some tracks from me and played just the right ones. then he did a somersault and started clapping upside down weightless. and everyone thought along i didn't think it would work but he really set the tone i take off my hat to it. so what lasting effect will his 1st d.j. act in space have. enjoyed sharing their experience. with the people if you're good to space intimidated by such strong emotions for life. that we feel everybody should feel this once in their life because when you see us from space it's beautiful it is super beautiful and you want everybody to leave this when you get inspired by space you get and power to
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do everything even better than before including music including d.j. so we should take these eggs. no matter whether professional deejays will be jetting off to space in the future or astronaut spin records on earth this event was clearly out of this world. certainly was all right coming back down to earth now since millennia man has always felt a need to test his physical strength hence the olympics or on a much smaller scale the highland games in scotland this is an event that is truly a throwback to another era where men hurl tree trunks carry heavy stones or they throw heavy weights all in a competitive show of strength and in durance your max host max america decided to test his mettle by taking part in a highlands games event and here's
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a closer look at how he measured up against the rest. when trees are flung through the boulders carried around weights flying through the sky and drain holes in buckets it's summertime in scotland. well it's the perfect weather for a scottish tradition i'm an ass at the highland games and i'll be facing off against some of the toughest men in the country and of course that requires a certain dress code. traditional scottish kills is borne by all performers and competitors every summer around 80 communities across scotland host highland games the village of west of edinburgh has been holding games since 871 as running cycling and plenty of heavy lifting. it's
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a tradition deeply entrenched in scottish culture jolly merry is the president of the scottish highland games association. i'd like to loathe a little bit more about the history of the highland games. as they would be more. than. i believe it would be from the kleins. chief with the. strongest man crush there's one of those is. the ruin of it. aside from selecting warriors clan chiefs also sort out dancers and musicians nowadays it's all about. the strongest compete in 6 so-called heavy events for instance wait for heights where the aim is to throw a $25.00 kilo weight over the scottish brogue using a cannon ball attached to
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a wood you shopped and indicate a toss at trimmed trees flipped over on its axis ideally landing in a straight line not an easy task. i'm keen to have a go but 1st one of the judges will give me a crash course and i have a right. so what is the technique that. you are cross. like and over and over. very well just to get a city it. was good. there you go so i was out for a 1st. no i was very good. you didn't fall into your ball and. gave a toss is quite a bit trickier this one is the lightest weighing 25 kilos and is used only for practice getting into position and keeping the balance is hard enough then it's time to run. my 1st attempt at leaves quite
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a lot to be desired. it's not a walk in the park my rivals are professional athletes and weight lifters. so how do you train for the game for. a local sports field what go down and basically through which the boat is much of the way if you go to a burzum. no telegraph pole. such a shame i lost my telegraph pole with nothing but my crash course to prepare me it's time to have a go. without proper boots the went grass doesn't give me much grip. my throat fails to impress. the day's best measured in that 129 feet good thing no one bet on me winning so it wasn't as if i think it was. my next challenge is to toss the caber
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that has to be flipped over and glam straight like a clock is going from 6 o'clock to 12. my rivals offer me a sticky trees that concoction for extra grip. so my fingers are all sticky now ready for the cable toss the injury risk is a little bit too high so i can only go on a practice cable because i am not well championship quality. eyes are on me now and it's my last chance to make a good impression. perfect i can't believe it's only 12 o'clock albeit with the smallest paper available still who can say they'd like to treat suing award ceremony the judge just dropped me a month price for my efforts it wasn't enough for a proper prize and i've really learned that you need to be
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a real athlete to compete at the highland games but i had fun there anyway and i'll definitely have another go in the future. perhaps i'll make a have it's over working out in a kilt. or. our i way to go max and you can see more of max's highland games adventure on r d w your own max you tube channel well believe it or not written that queen victoria was a huge fan of the highland games and their popularity soared in the 1900 century thinks in part to her now if she were alive today she would be celebrating her 200th birthday this year and the southern german city of coburg where her husband albert was born is commemorating the occasion in royal fashion. queen victoria the most powerful woman of the 19th century and her husband prince albert out for
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a stroll in bavaria. the city of coburg hired these lookalikes to mark the couple's 200th birthdays. this is what it might have looked like when they visited the city because prince albert was born and raised in cobol. victoria and albert still have descendants in the city their great great great grandson is prince hubertus of socks a code book and go to an exhibition at collin beck castle the family's principal residence shows that albert's marriage to his cousin victoria didn't happen by chance. he had his whole sex in the house is that so cold war could go to was actually rather an important in the 18th century but then came the idea for this marriage strategy through clever matches they married into all of europe's royal houses so at its zenith in the 19th century they were basically kings or queens of much of europe and had great political influence and forth. whether it's the
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swedish royal family. the belgian monarchs the descendants of the czars of vogue area or naturally the british royal family they all have roots in the cold war and are related to victoria and albert that earned queen victoria the nickname the grandmother of europe she and albert had 9 children together. mackenzie had to say you could also call them the 1st royal dream couple because albert and victoria really were in love while both of them or especially prince albert saw the political advantage of being married to the queen of britain they also married for love and that wasn't standard practice back then and he did a lot of. tragically albert died when he was just 42 victoria mourning him for the rest of her life. she had many statues built in his honor the 1st one was in cold war and still stands on its market square.
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rosenow palace once the summer residence of the dukes of socks and co borgen gota lies a few kilometers out of town. it was here that albert was born in 1819. he was the 2nd son of ernest the 3rd and his wife louise. albert was also baptized here in the marble hall. visitors to the palace can see a cradle dating from this period and marvel at the gardens. and her memoirs of queen victoria wrote of rosenow palace if i were not who i am this would be my real home. when victoria and albert visited family in co book they lived in arab or palace in the heart of town. at the time it was the main residence of the dukes of cold war. ready this staircase leads up to the hall of giants. here lavish parties were once held for the royal couple and their guests. today
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it's used for concerts. queen victoria occupied this bedroom at ehrenborg palace she even had a british style water closet installed here. it was one of germany's 1st modern toilets. and that wasn't the only exchange of ideas between britain and co workers an exhibition at the town's doll museum shows victorian albert's role as cultural ambassadors. i thought martin by now prince albert make christmas trees famous impression through the pictures of his children and his family which he had printed in the newspaper as. he also brought his typical german values with him to hand hard work discipline thrift values which. basic aim to symbolize the victorian age i didn't have enough but. after all of that history it's time for
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a break and pay to file is cake shop a sweet treat awaits the specialty of the supplier to the court a gingerbread cookie. is a traditional baked good coburg has a really long tradition of making gingerbread and it was something that was enjoyed here and it's the name comes from the touring in dialect and means little kiss. in this anniversary year victoria and albert can be seen everywhere. a current project called walk university albert in miniature made by a 3 d. printer. lookalikes and the day at the market square. maybe not quite as victoria and albert would have done but tasty all the same. as i've said before berlin is something of a planet in and of itself many international visitors to the city decide to stay
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here and start businesses and we are featuring some of these entrepreneurs in our series planet berlin now in our latest installment we meet cecilia went. from chile she's opened the shop south embassy in order to spread some of her south american culture around the german capital. jewelry from colombia. wine and food from chile and argentina. or shoes from brazil maybe you can get all of this and more at berlin's south embassy. it's a ceiling if you went there you bought a bottle is the perfect south american ambassador. that america is in latin america is full of stories and cultures arts and crafts you never stop discovering new worlds new things. each time i discover something new i find out something
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more about my roots. cecilia opened her store in berlin's mehta district in 2010 and now has a collection of about 2000 items all of which carry a piece of south american cultural history cecilia is very interested in regional identities this collection of clothes is from mexico. each mattern carries information about our ancestors. back then people could not use computers and things like that information was preserved on textiles often ticks even seen what is the at the vatican this is it doesn't add much so when you look at these works you go back 2000 years in time. and you have a living history. cecilia was born in monte dale your ally. but she grew up in she lays capital santiago. that's where she studied
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industrial design and later began organizing fashion trade shows. she fell in love and moved to germany some 19 years ago 1st living in munich and then moving to berlin in 2008. the german capital has become her 2nd home. as i can tell him of it often but i always heard about berlin as a child because my father was fascinated with german history. and never felt like an alien place to me and i was very curious when i arrived i have mediately felt a connection it's so multicultural here there's so much openness it's become home for me is. her favorite place in berlin is class. a legendary dancing hall in berlin center that survived both world wars much of the building has barely changed in over 100 years. the hall of mirrors
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seems caught in a time warp prince william and kate have visited it and hollywood director quentin tarantino and actor george clooney filmed here. this was one of my 1st impressions of berlin i was fascinated by the fact that you can literally feel berlin's history here it's so authentic it's what i wanted to experience when i was reading back in south america i found this place magical. but . south embassy also has a gallery for latin american art. these bowls were inspired by the fabulous growth from the outside but full of life on the inside. the shop is designed to be a platform for cultural exchange. but if you had even though i love germany's
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winter culture i also miss south america's sun the relaxed spirit the warmth it was always a challenge for me to transmit south america's sunny warmth to germany zone to give me in. and now i can say that i bring many people together here through this net it's ok to. it mentions a. salad embassy a piece of sunny latin america in the heart of berlin. and if you are interested in learning the stories of other entrepreneurs in our series then just head to our website and finally we were out of the show on a colon area with an exclusive group of food lovers known as the shanda. the world's oldest gourmet club it was originally only open to men but now women make up a large portion of the membership while we want to find out more about what these
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colon ery connoisseurs do when they get together so we attended a regional meeting in the prince of policy list and stein. the continued election they're hard to sell is an international gastronomical society. new members are sworn in at a ceremony with rituals which date back to the middle ages. the good and the counsellor lichtenstein provides the perfect backdrop. to this endeavor to sell was founded in $1248.00 as the guilt of this rest is in france which makes it the oldest goal make worldwide it was banned after the french revolution seemed to be too decadent and really found it in the 1950. this is there some of the style job but this is a modernized version as well as some fresh blood is needed. by
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we're invited to take part by the older generation and some are. you don't have to be a professional chef or some a day to become a member amateur go may's can also join what's important is the love of good food and drink as well as relaxing in a noble setting. members also test restaurants and offer their expertise to young girl names. on the streets in your career we offer support to young chefs all over the world and young summer years learning about wine culture we organize competitions for young chefs and someone yes. they're very popular we want to promote the younger generation is. the highlight of this annual meeting enlisting stime is the gala dinner. the 5 course menu includes duck pike perch and filet of beef. 7 cost
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has been a sham member for over 4 years he sees it as a recognition of his work. he knows that he's cooking for demanding guests today. devotion. most are from the hotel and restaurant industry like me. will. do this they know how the food on their plates is supposed to taste you know . you need 2 recommendations if you want to become a member of the show and. the annual membership fee is $260.00 euros events such as these cost extra. the company and conversation are good but some topics are to do so you could really we don't talk about politics and religion sometimes we talk about business or about opinions but i don't want to say much more about that. the club has some 25000 members dotted around the world in over 80 countries. and there
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are new clubs emerging constantly. it's not only about good food and drink but also about customs and politeness since i share in this money i think it's nice that we meet so many people from different countries and we can meet new people and discover new dishes practically all over the world and then i mention can land and when the irish guys in finland. this tender hearted celebration go main dining and building bridges across the world. and with that it is time to say goodbye don't forget to check out our website or our facebook page to take part in our weekly drop as always for me in the rest of the crew here at euro max thanks for tuning in to see again soon.
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