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di Imma Perna | Perché i Depeche Mode hanno deciso di chiamarsi proprio così? Qualcuno sa l’esatto significato di Kasabian o di Spandau Ballet? O magari a qualcun altro potrebbe venir voglia di scoprire perché ai Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin scoppiò improvvisamente l’amore proprio per l’ex presidente Russo. Imma Perna, con il podcast “C’è sempre un motivo”, racconta in un modo un po’ scanzonato, le origini dei nomi più bizzarri di band e cantanti che tutti conosciamo (o quasi).

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A.C.E Podcast Nation is Podcast Network & YouTube channel Home to Andy Campbell Football Show LIVE every Monday & Championship Show Live Friday, our well received series Mental Health In Sport, Cricket series State Of Play w/West Indies Star Kieran Powell & Top Guests. Weekly MMA/Boxing series The Danny Batten Fight Show & more inc. Wrestling series Keepin It Real with POST wrestling journalist Andrew Thompson, docu-series My Story & our unique series Super Kev Unscripted Live with Ex Scottish International Defender Kevin McNaughton. All our shows & series feature Top Guests, Expert Analysts ...

Metro C nel cuore di Roma – Sotto la città, la storia che cambiaRoma non si costruisce solo in superficie: ogni metro scavato sotto le strade racconta secoli di storia, intrecciando archeologia, urbanistica e vita quotidiana. In questa miniserie raccontiamo la Metro C, una linea lunga una generazione, che ha attraversato cantieri, ritrovamenti archeologici e attese decennali per arrivare finalmente nel cuore della città.Con l’apertura delle stazioni Porta Metronia e Colosseo, la Metro C non è più solo una linea di attraversamento: è un nuovo modo di vivere Roma, un filo che unisce ...

Il lager nazista è l'emblema più tragico del secolo appena finito; l'esperienza che più costringe noi contemporanei, e soprattutto noi europei, a riflettere sugli aspetti bui della condizione umana, sul male e le sue radici. In questa conversazione - terminata pochi mesi prima della morte di Levi - Ferdinando Camon e l'autore di Se questo è un uomo affrontano l'argomento in tutta la sua vastità, ciascuno alla luce delle proprie convinzioni e della propria formazione.

In the early morning of 20th April 1949, HMS Amethyst was fulfilling orders to travel to Nanking to stand guard for the British Embassy during the height of the Chinese Civil War when she was fired upon by guns from the riverbank. Shells pounded into the ship, killing the commanding officer and destroyed the bridge before the ship grounded on the bank. How did the Amethyst escape the battering of Chinese Communist guns?

St Nazaire, 1.22 a.m. 28th March 1942. HMS Cambeltown, supported by seventeen wooden motor launches, approached the German-held port intending to smash into the lock gates of the largest dock in the world; the Normandie Dock-Operation Chariot was in full swing. Against vicious Nazi gunfire, the commandos stormed the docks, and within half an hour, succeeded in their chief demolition objectives, but in the heat of battle, the Royal Navy had lost nearly all of its small vessels intended to carry them back to England.

Only a boy when World War II broke out, E. C. R. Baker was gripped by the stories he heard of heroism in the skies as the Allies defeated the mighty Luftwaffe. But in the years after the war, he was struck by how few of the RAF's legendary fighter aces could be named by the general public.

In terms of enemy aircraft shot down or destroyed, Squadron Leader Thomas "Pat" Pattle was the greatest fighter pilot of the Second World War.

Immerse yourself in the vivid first-person narrative of Jethro Ripley. Journey with him through lifes toil and danger, from his exploits in the Atlantic coast trade to an unforgettable whaling voyage around Cape Horn. This riveting account of seafaring life in the 1800s was published in 1873.

In planes and foxholes, in deserts and jungles, on ships and beaches, Ambrose shines a light on the people involved - the leaders, the fighters, the victims. With chapters on the atrocities of the Holocaust and revelations about the secret war of espionage, Ambrose's analysis also offers insight into the events that precipitated the Cold War.

The name "Geronimo" came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the home of the legendary Apache leader's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, himself a medicine man on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico.

Joseph Stalin, chief murderer and dictator of the USSR, devised the most devastating system of poison labs and bioweapons the world had yet seen. In The Dancer and the Devil, John O’Neill teams up with Sarah Wynne to expose the toxic reign of terror continuing today. As engaging as a novel and packed with historical research, this book reveals how the spirit of Stalin lives on in the hideous human experiments being conducted in the concentration camps of North Korea, in Putin’s blatant assassination plots, and in the bioweapon plans of the People’s Republic of China.

Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others.

"Counter Ambush: The Science Of Training For The Unexpected Defensive Shooting" is the most comprehensive book available to help people to train to survive a deadly surprise attack. Very few deadly encounters are ever seen coming. In fact, most attacks are actually more like an ambush, a complete surprise attack delivered with no warning.

Nel volgere di pochi anni, alla fine del VI secolo a.C., e attraverso vicende spesso cruente, le istituzioni e la vita politica romane vengono radicalmente trasformate. Protagonista di questa rivoluzione è Servio Tullio, nominato re fuori dalle procedure costituzionali fissate alla morte di Romolo, in seguito all'assassinio del predecessore Tarquinio Prisco e grazie alla complicità di sua moglie Tanaquil. Durante il regno Servio Tullio cambia profondamente la natura del potere, sminuendo il ruolo dell'aristocrazia e accrescendo la sua autorità in rapporto diretto con il popolo.

They met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of the Civil War and cast competing styles for the reunited nation. Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. Exploring their personalities, their character, and their ethical, moral, political, and military worlds, William C. Davis finds surprising similarities between the two men.

LA GRANDE GUERRA E GORIZIA è un podcast realizzato dall’A.C.CulturArti di Udine per il progetto “Borgo Castello – Culture di confine”, finanziato dall’Unione Europea-NextGenerationEU. Sfoglieremo insieme le pagine di questa storia, che ha toccato le vite di milioni di persone, nella speranza che nella coscienza collettiva prenda forma il pensiero che la guerra, ogni guerra, debba sempre essere considerata un errore. Autore e narratore: Edoardo De Angelis Grazie a: Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, ERPAC FVG, Museo della Grande Guerra e Comune di Gorizia, Ministero della Cultura, Master...

Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon.

Military working dogs have played a vital role in the United States armed forces throughout history. In this celebration of their contributions to our nation, Lisa Rogak profiles these heroic dogs, capturing the devotion and respect these amazing canines, their devoted handlers, and fellow soldiers share for each other. A heartwarming collection for dog lovers everywhere, Dogs Who Serve is a must-listen tribute to America's military working dogs.