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Bonn

Bonn
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About Bonn

Bonn, officially the Federal City of Bonn, is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region.

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He did his ninth symphony, and then he started his 10th, but he never completed it — he died before he completed it. Luckily, AI has completed it, and the piece had its world premiere in Bonn, Germany.

from No Such Thing As President Iceberg, 2024-10-03 at 00:09:54 · read transcript

Other times Bonn came up

  1. It's just this sounds escape of noise and it's it's horrific but hugely influential springsteen was influenced by this yeah like a lot of people were influenced by suicide that you would not expect aren't bruce springsteen songs like a lot more depressing than people make out like born in the USA is about someone being really disheartened about America after the war yeah yeah a lot of his songs are they're about rough living and suffering and are very downbeat in their meaning But if the music doesn't sound... Isn't it true that a lot of politicians use Bonn in the USA as like their big sort of...

    595: No Such Thing As The Treaty Of Velociraptors, 2025-08-07 · listen

  2. Oh, yeah. A lot of his songs are about rough living and suffering and are very downbeat in their meaning. If the music doesn't sound. Isn't it true that a lot of politicians use Bonn in the USA as like their big sort of America. A nationalistic flag waving kind of thing. It's exactly the opposite of that, which is true. Isn't it, pretty much any artist that gets co-opted by a politician will go, you've not really paid attention to the lyrics.

    No Such Thing As The Treaty Of Velociraptors, 2025-08-07 · listen

  3. Yeah. Maybe we could just watch something tonight actually. Maybe. Let's watch another episode, actually. Actually, think about it now. Yeah. I discovered that there's a condom make in China called Jizbon, which is called Jizbon because it's after James Bond. No, the name's Bonn. Jizbon, yeah. 2006, a German entrepreneur launched a spray on condom. Yes. Did you come across that? Yes. But it was stopped.

    No Such Thing As A Quiet Whitsuntide, 2023-07-27 · listen

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