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A Five-Year Track Record: How Have Thelen’s Funds Really Performed?
On 1 September 2021, Frank Thelen launched his first retail investment fund, 10xDNA – Disruptive Technologies. Demand was strong: within a few months, the fund raised around €100 million. Thelen’s stated goal was ambitious – to triple investors’ money within four to five years. Then came 2022. Rising interest rates, a tech sell-off – high-beta…
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Open Letter: Berliner Jews for a Social and Safe City
We are publishing here the open letter from Berlin’s Jewish community calling for a social and safe city, in which they express their support for the ‘Die Linke’ party joining the government.
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Should Everyone Get a Superintelligence? Zuckerberg Says Yes
On August 10, 2026, Mark Zuckerberg published a long essay arguing that very powerful AI shouldn’t be locked away by a handful of companies. It should be handed out to everyone — free, if possible. The same day, Meta released an AI model small enough to run on a regular laptop and let anyone download…
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Richard Nixons Resignation Speech
On the evening of August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon addressed the American people from the Oval Office in a live television and radio broadcast. After more than two years of revelations surrounding the Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up, Nixon’s political support had collapsed. The House Judiciary Committee had approved three articles of impeachment…
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July 20, 1969: One Small Step — Humanity Walks on the Moon
At 4:17 p.m. Eastern time on July 20, 1969, the lunar module Eagle, its fuel for the descent stage nearly spent, touched down on the Sea of Tranquility with about 25 seconds of margin remaining. Six hours later, at 10:56 p.m., Neil Armstrong backed down the ladder in his bulky white suit, pressed a boot…
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July 19, 1848: Seneca Falls Convenes — the Women’s Rights Movement Writes Its Declaration
On the morning of July 19, 1848 — a Wednesday, hot even for upstate New York — some three hundred men and women gathered in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, a small town in the Finger Lakes, for a two-day convention “to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.” It…
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July 18, 1976: Nadia Comaneci Scores the First Perfect 10 in Olympic History
On July 18, 1976, at the Montreal Summer Olympics, a 14-year-old Romanian gymnast with a bowl haircut and wide, unblinking eyes mounted the uneven bars for the compulsory portion of the women’s team competition. Nadia Comaneci swung through her routine — the clear hip circles, the transition to the high bar, the double somersault dismount…
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July 17, 1955: Disneyland Opens — the Happiest Place on Earth Invents the Theme Park
On July 17, 1955, in Anaheim, California, Walt Disney opened the gates of Disneyland — an 160-acre park built at a cost of 17 million dollars, financed largely by Disney’s own television show, on land that had been orange groves three years before. The opening was, by every operational measure, a disaster: temperatures hit 38…
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July 16, 1969: Apollo 11 Lifts Off — Humans Leave for Another World
At 9:32 a.m. Eastern time on July 16, 1969, the most powerful machine ever built — the 110-meter Saturn V rocket, its five F-1 engines generating 34.5 million newtons of thrust — rose from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Kennedy and carried three men toward the Moon. Aboard Apollo 11 were Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz”…
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July 15, 1975: Apollo Meets Soyuz — the Handshake in Space That Ended the Space Race
On the afternoon of July 15, 1975, two rockets launched within hours of each other from opposite sides of the planet: a Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan carrying Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, and a Saturn IB from Cape Canaveral carrying Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton. Two days later, on…