The Eurostats office has an interesting dataset containing the crude marriage rate data for the last decades across the EU. It's quite remarkable how even if Portugal has one of the lowest rates in the EU, it used to be one of the highest in the 70's.

The US presidential election is far from over, since there are still some days ahead until November, but it's comforting to see evidence in the polls that Trump's divisive campaign is not 'winning' at all.

I have walked by the Chapel of Reconciliation in Bernauer St. many times, but yesterday I noticed for the first time the sculpture you see above. It's called Reconciliation and it was created originally by Josefina de Vasconcellos, an English artist of Brazilian ancestry and placed at the University of Bradford. According to Wikipedia, there are copies of this original work in the ruins of the Coventry Cathedral, the Hiroshima Peace Park, and this one here in the Berlin Wall Memorial.

Time really flies by! One year ago I took this picture in Berlin.

After a couple of days of competition in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the medals table started looking similar to London 2012. This is the current table

And this is how the table looked at the end of the London competition.

Clearly, the US and China are dominating this sports event.

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