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The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the 20th century. 1949 tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. The tragedy of Irish civil war gives way in the 1920s to a repressive Catholic state led by Eamon De Valera. Married women cannot hold jobs, divorce is illegal, and the IRA has become a band of outlaws still devoted to and fighting for a Republic that never lived.

تدوين صوتي قصصي وثائقي من وزارة الثقافة، يبتكر أسلوباً جديداً للوثائقيات الصوتية العربية من خلال سرد القصص واستضافة الخبراء والفنانين ليُسهم في إثراء المحتوى الثقافي. ويهدف بودكاست 1949 إلى رفع الوعي بالإرث الثقافي للمملكة وما تزخر به من تنوع وثراء في فنونها وتراثها إلى جانب إلهام المستمعين بقصص تعرّف بالثقافة السعودية. الجدير ...

Le lettere sono un altro spazio in cui trovare Cesare Pavese. Insieme alle traduzioni, alle poesie, ai romanzi e ai racconti, l'epistolario di Cesare Pavese rappresenta un ulteriore specchio in cui scoprire riflessa l'immagine dell'uomo, di quella costruzione di sé che ha caratterizzato tutto il percorso intellettuale dello scrittore. Uomo e scrittore. Ancora una volta, ci poniamo di fronte a questo suo ulteriore corpus letterario vestendo i panni del lettore: è lo scrittore stesso a chiedercelo costruendo il suo epistolario come se fosse un romanzo.

8. Mai 1945: Nach dem verheerenden Krieg kapituliert das nationalsozialistische Deutschland vor den Siegermächten USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich und der Sowjetunion. Wie auf der Konferenz von Jalta entschieden, wird das Staatsgebiet unter den alliierten Mächten aufgeteilt. Die folgenden Jahre sind geprägt von Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau, Displaced Persons und Vertriebenen, Demilitarisierung und Entnazifizierung, Lebensmittelknappheit und Währungsreformen.

Il commissario Maugeri, sfidando depistaggi e contraffazione di prove, indaga su due omicidi avvenuti all’interno di un CRAL (Circolo Ricreativo Aziendale Lavoratori). Quello che scoprirà, legato a filo doppio a vecchie storie di guerra, avrà dell’incredibile... Milano, 1949. Una nuova indagine per il commissario Maugeri, che, stavolta, ha a che fare con l’assassinio di un barista all’interno di un circolo ricreativo. Perplesso dalla ricostruzione ufficiale dei fatti, il detective troverà in un secondo omicidio il pretesto giusto per andare più a fondo nell’inchiesta.

Iniziato il 6 ottobre 1935 durante i giorni del confino politico, "Il mestiere di vivere" accompagna Cesare Pavese fino al 18 agosto 1950, nove giorni prima della sua morte, e diventa a poco a poco il luogo cui affidare i pensieri sul proprio mondo di scrittore e di uomo e, soprattutto, le confessioni ultime su quei drammi intimi che laceravano la sua esistenza.

Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives and loves of the people who wrote them. When the author is a brilliant writer who lived an...

Warum die BRD nicht ohne die DDR zu verstehen ist – und umgekehrt. Ursula Weidenfeld legt eine Geschichte des doppelten Deutschland vor, wie sie so noch nicht geschrieben wurde. Bisher gibt es, zumindest in der westdeutschen Erinnerung, die Bundesrepublik (oder ganz einfach: »Deutschland«) und daneben die DDR, üblicherweise als der »zweite deutsche Staat« bezeichnet. Deren Geschichte wird immer von hinten erzählt, vom Ende her – das ist die übliche Strafe für gescheiterte Staaten.

Howard Fast's firsthand account of the infamous 1949 Peekskill riots, including historical documents, photos, and newspaper reports. In 1949, author Howard Fast found himself in the middle of a violent and terrifying anticommunist riot in Peekskill, New York. Fast was the master of ceremonies at a civil rights benefit concert featuring Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and others. But local newspapers stoked anticommunist anger, and the event was besieged by a mob armed with rocks, clubs, fence posts, and knives.

Il libro racconta con particolari inediti e di archivio la storia della nazionale italiana di calcio attraverso i principali eventi storici che hanno interessato la storia del nostro Paese, dall'Unità d'Italia fino alla prima metà del XX secolo offrendo, contestualmente, una lettura parallela della nascita e dello sviluppo del calcio come fenomeno sociale e sportivo. Il contenuto è la somma di oltre venti anni di ricerche effettuato dall'autore Mauro Grimaldi, che è uno dei massimi dirigenti sportivi del calcio italiano.

The adventures of Tyltyl and The Fairy Berylune. Of all the girls he knows, who does he love the most? Read on to find out. - Summary by Michele EatonCast List:Gaffer Tyl: Alan MapstoneNeighbour: Alan MapstoneThe Miser: Algy PugJalline: Annie MarsAimette: Belinda LovedayRoselle: Matea BracicChild: Jenn BrodaBelline/Child: Joanna Michal HoytThe Great Ancestor/Daddy Tyl: Wayne CookeMummy Tyl: SoniaRosarelle: Kelly S TaylorMytyl: Lauren-Emma BlakeLight: LydiaNarrator: MichaelMaggsMilette: MinnieSmallest Child: Mira WilliamsAnother Child 1: Jim LockeThe Shape/Destiny: Andrew GaunceBeryllune the ...

Charles Hanson Towne was a well known editor, author and poet. He was a popular New York celebrity who was considered by many as being the quintessential New Yorker. Besides being the editor at such magazines as Smart Set, Delineator, McClure’s, Designer, and Harper’s Bazaar, Towne also taught poetry at Columbia University. His most notable student was author J.D. Salinger. At the age of 63, Town joined the company of the Broadway hit, Life with Father, and at 68 wrote his autobiography, So Far, So Good. - Summary by Nemo

Invitation sonore à découvrir une période méconnue de la carrière de Louis de Funès, ce coffret unique de trois CD réalisé par Jean-Baptiste Mersiol traverse les débuts méconnus du génie de la comédie, entre 1949 et 1962, révélant un chanteur et un artiste capable de bien plus que ne le laissera paraître sa célébrité. Entre l’émission et parti politique humoristique.

Der Wiener Physiker Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) leistete bahnbrechende Arbeiten zur Wellenmechanik und Quantentheorie, für die er unter anderem mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnet wurde. Untrennbar mit seinem Namen verbunden sind die von ihm entdeckte "Schrödinger-Gleichung" sowie sein berühmtes Gedankenexperiment "Schrödinger's Katze".

Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a ...

The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visited by Fairy Berilyuna. Fairy's granddaughter is sick and can only be saved by the Blue Bird. Thanks to the Fairy's magic gift children have the opportunity to see the soul of things. Inanimate objects Clocks, Fire, Water, Bread, Sugar, Milk transformed into beings with their own character. Together, they set off on a dangerous journey for the fabulous Blue Bird. The play is inspired with the deep idea of the author "be brave enough to see the hidden." - ...

When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels...