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Miranda Devine is an Australian-American columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted The Miranda Devine Show on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015. [ 1 ] She has written columns for Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald , and for News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph , Sunday ...
Wolfsburg is one of the few German cities built during the first half of the 20th century as a planned city. From its founding on 1 July 1938 as a home for workers producing the KdF-Wagen until 25 May 1945, the city was called Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. In 1972, the population first exceeded 100,000.
The Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant is the worldwide headquarters of the Volkswagen Group. [1] Situated in Wolfsburg, Germany, it is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world, with an area of just under 6.5 million m 2 (70 million sq ft) and a building area of 1.6 million m 2 (17 million sq ft). [2] In 2015 the plant produced 815,000 cars.
[1] [3] The Kicker sports magazine called the Volkswagen Arena a "temple with a glass facade". [20] [21] Other media connected the opening of the stadium with VfL Wolfsburg's ambition to play in the Champions League. [22] The number of spectators at home games significantly increased in the second half of the 2002-03 season. [23]
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the Kunststiftung Volkswagen. It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, which was only founded in 1938: modernity, urbanity, internationality and quality. The Kunstmuseum is ...
The city of Wolfsburg and Volkswagen each have a 50-percent share in the public-private partnership. [16] Wolfsburg AG has been coordinating the project development of the Allerpark since the end of the 1990s. A start was made with the completion of the Volkswagen Arena, the home stadium of the VfL Wolfsburg football club, in 2002. [17]
An Intercity service runs from Berlin via Wolfsburg to Amsterdam or to Munster. Wolfsburg station is connected by a Regional-Express service with Gifhorn and Hanover and by another line to Brunswick and Hildesheim. In addition, Regionalbahn services run to Oebisfelde and Stendal. The first scheduled ICE stopped in Wolfsburg on 26 September 1998.
The legislation of Albania provides no official classification on the criteria of how to define a city or urban area. [1] Furthermore, according to the methodology for cities conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), five areas, including Tirana, Durrës, Elbasan, Shkodër and Vlorë, can be classified as ...