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Dall’archivio conservato dal comune Vigonza, un viaggio tra le opere dell'architetto che ha disegnato il secolo scorso.

Hitlers mægtige hær over for nogle få tusind jenser. Endeløse tyske panserkolonner mod danske cyklistkompagnier, udrustet med geværer model 1889 - støttet af en regering, der allerede puslede med overgivelsens ordlyd. Hvad skulle det nytte at gøre modstand? Men da Værnemagten tidligt om morgenen den 9. april 1940 rullede ind over grænsen fra syd, kæmpede de danske tropper med åben pande. 13 soldater betalte med livet i den ulige kamp for Danmarks neutralitet.

Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing. This is an urgent essay about a nation’s moment of truth.

Nine Days in July is a new podcast documentary series that explores each of the nine days of the Apollo 11 Mission, day by day, in nine 60-minute-long episodes. While telling the story of the mission to the moon as it occurs, we also spin back, and spin out, into stories about Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins, NASA, the Space Race, and the history of the world-at-large during those 9 Days in July.

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast from Louisiana...

Geschichte einfach zu erzählen, aber nicht vereinfachend, das war stets das Motto des Wirtschafts- und Sozialhistorikers Ernst Bruckmüller. Als Krönung seines Gelehrtenlebens hat der nunmehr emeritierte Universitätsprofessor eine umfangreiche "Österreichische Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart" veröffentlicht. Für Ö1 erzählt Ernst Bruckmüller diese Geschichte noch stärker verdichtet in 29 Kapiteln.

“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to...