Eduard Bloch, the Jewish doctor whom Hitler helped to leave …
网页2020年4月3日 · 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 …
Devshirme, the recruitment of Christian children by the Ottoman …
网页2020年8月18日 · 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 ...
Luz Long, the German athlete who befriended Jesse Owens and …
网页2020年5月13日 · 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 ...
The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour …
网页2019年10月15日 · 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 …
Albinoni’s Adagio was composed by the Italian musicologist Remo ...
网页2019年2月24日 · Surely this is surprising because, after all, the famous Adagio in G minor is not only one of the best-known pieces of classical music but also one of the most popular among music lovers with a closely linked name of title and author: “Albinoni’s Adagio”. It is ironic, therefore, that in reality the work is not by that baroque composer but by a biographer of him who lived two centuries ...
The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls …
网页2019年9月6日 · 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
Electrum, the natural gold and silver alloy used to mint the first ...
网页2020年5月20日 · 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 ...
Lapis Niger, the shrine where the first known Latin inscription was ...
网页2020年5月25日 · In 1898 the Venetian archaeologist Giacomo Boni was appointed director of the excavations of the Roman Forum at the Italian capital, a position he held until his death in 1925. Among the discoveries he made during that period are an Iron Age necropolis, the Regia (first a barracks and then the s
Belzoni, the pioneer of Egyptology who unearthed the temples of …
网页2022年6月19日 · Thus, in 1800 he tried to start over in the Netherlands, practicing the trade he had learned from his father. It did not last long; after all, Napoleon had turned that territory into the Batavian Republic and the danger of being recognized and arrested was always present even if he avoided it by going unnoticed thanks to his northern appearance and his red hair, so three years later he moved ...
Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish castaway who became a Mayan …
网页2020年5月29日 · 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 shipwrecked man who, after years ...
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