Since the Middle Ages, pastel has been widely used in regions where textiles are prosperous. Charlemagne encourages in Normandy this blue culture which does not pass in the sun or in the cold. The Norman void is of remarkable quality, passing to the XVIe century to be the best in France. Faced with an increase … Read more
As of May 25, 2020, 4:58 p.m. – North tour – On May 26, 1938, the Nazis laid the foundation stone for the Volkswagenwerk near the town of Fallersleben. But first the factory produces armaments. After the war, the “city of the KdF car” becomes Wolfsburg. – When you hear Wolfsburg, you think of Volkswagen: … Read more
As of May 25, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. – North tour – On May 26, 1938, the Nazis laid the foundation stone for the Volkswagenwerk near the town of Fallersleben. But first the factory produces armaments. After the war, the “city of the KdF car” becomes Wolfsburg. – When you hear Wolfsburg, you think of … Read more
Broom binders and brush makers have had to work hard in previous centuries and anyone who is a little handy can work within the family. In the Achterhoek it is the only means of subsistence for some, so production has to be done. Around 1885 Aalten has eight brush-making families. Customers in that period include … Read more
Dhe Moscow Zoo mourns the loss of its alligator Saturn, which broke out of the Berlin Zoo in World War II and was subsequently brought to Russia. The Russian zoo said on Saturday that the animal had turned 84 and died of old age. “This is an extremely remarkable age.” In the wild, life expectancy … Read more
Some lessons can be learned from the experience of the Spanish flu for the current corona crisis. Perhaps the most important of these: political tactics must not determine action. – In many places, the clinics could no longer catch the patients, gyms became hospital rooms, and bed after bed stretched for many meters. The coffins … Read more
As of May 11, 2020, 2:53 p.m. – North tour – On May 26, 1938, the Nazis laid the foundation stone for the Volkswagenwerk near the town of Fallersleben. But first the factory produces armaments. After the war, the “city of the KdF car” becomes Wolfsburg. – When you hear Wolfsburg, you think of Volkswagen: … Read more
Lack of toilets, that was the basis of Mother’s Day. In 1858 Anna Reeves Jarvis organized a Mothers Working Day to protest the lack of toilets in the Apalachian villages where she lived. That lack of clean toilets led to diseases and who had to pay for the care? The mothers. The initiative was taken, … Read more
Discuss: Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer – President of the German Unesco Commission, Bonn, Florence Fischer – Art historian at Heidelberg University, Dr. Susanne Urban – managing director of the association SchUM-Städte Speyer, Worms, Mainz e.V. In the Middle Ages, Mainz, Worms and Speyer experienced a unique blossoming of Jewish life. They are the SchUM cities, … Read more
May 9, 2020 01:00 (Act. May 9, 2020 01:00) – – – Celebrations are smaller due to the corona crisis – also in Moscow © APA (AFP) – – – Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. The head of state also … Read more