Luz Long, the German athlete who befriended Jesse Owens and …
WEBMay 13, 2020 · The next day the final was held – immortalised by Leni Riefenstahl’s camera in her Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations), the first part of her famous Olympia film – and although Long managed to jump 7.87, Owens smashed that mark with 8.06, breaking the Olympic record and climbing to the top of the podium; the bronze went to Japan’s Naoto Tajima (who would later win in the triple jump ...
Albinoni's Adagio was composed by the Italian musicologist Remo ...
WEBFeb 24, 2019 · It is therefore particularly striking that in 1945, at the end of the war, it was the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto who composed the now famous Adagio in G minor, better known as “Albinoni’s Adagio”, on the basis of the fragment of a trio sonata that he found among the ruins of the library. Or so he said.
The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls …
WEBSep 6, 2019 · Without reaching the Greek profusion, Croatia has 79 large islands, more than 500 smaller islets and another 642 tiny rocks covering an area of about 3,300 square kilometers. One such small island is Baljenac (or Bavljenac), located off the Dalmatian coast in the south of the country and forming
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WEBLa Brújula Verde - Inicio. Cómo los holandeses se comieron a su primer ministro en 1672. Como indica su nombre, el Haags Historisch Museum (Museo Histórico de La Haya) está dedicado a la historia de esa ciudad de los Países Bajos.
The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour …
WEBOct 15, 2019 · The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour for 9 centuries. Durandal (or Durandarte) was the famous sword of Roland, the Frankish knight who died at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass on 15 August 788 by attack of the Basques. The accounts of that battle and the subsequent fate of the …
Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish castaway who became a Mayan …
WEBMay 29, 2020 · Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish castaway who became a Mayan and fought against the conquistadors. When we talk about miscegenation in reference to the ethnic and cultural fusion that the conquest of America by the Spanish meant, there is a character that embodies it almost emblematically. He is Gonzalo Guerrero, a …
Devshirme, the recruitment of Christian children by the Ottoman …
WEBAug 18, 2020 · The first, called Kapıkulu Süvari (Cavalry of the Servants of the Sublime Gate), was an elite troop structured into six divisions and made up of the sipahi (a word derived from the Persian sepâhi), equivalent to the European knights.In other words, they were noble holders of a swindle (fiefdom) which, in a conceptual medieval survival, had been granted to them by the sultan in exchange for ...
Eduard Bloch, the Jewish doctor whom Hitler helped to leave …
WEBApr 3, 2020 · Its author, as can be deduced, was one of the Führer’s doctors, but what is really curious is that he was Jewish and the Führer himself helped him to leave Germany. Eduard Bloch was born on 30 January 1872 in the Bohemian town of Frauenberg, now called Hluboká nad Vltavou and belonging to the Czech Republic but then to …
Electrum, the natural gold and silver alloy used to mint the first ...
WEBMay 20, 2020 · Electrum, we said, is composed of gold and silver; it has a proportion of four parts of the first and one of the second, but there are also traces of other metals such as platinum or, above all, copper. This is because it is not an artificial alloy but a natural one, although it can also be manufactured, in which case the composition ...
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