WeimarRepublic

It seems like 2008 was the year when America started to rethink its stand on prostitution. Traditionally, the world's oldest profession has been a definite no-no in the U.S., constrained to shady streets, dark alleys, and the occasional legal brothel in Nevada. In 2008, however, it seemed to wander...

In Germany between the two world wars, inflation rose to such a point in the early '20s that a loaf of bread cost a million or more marks. Cities and townships printed their own money in a desperate attempt to work around this hyper-inflation. They were known as notgeld, or emergency money.With...