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Often called the "father of science fiction", Verne wrote books about technological innovations years before they became reality. His writings are still popular today and he’s considered the second most translated author in the world. He died on this day in 1905.
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One of the highlights of our upcoming exhibiton "#Gladiators - Heroes of the Colosseum": panels of a mosaic found in Augst/Switzerland.
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I give it a year.
American coffee chain Starbucks is set to open a three-storey outlet in Rome’s historic centre in April as it continues its expansion across Italy. dlvr.it/SlPcMC
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Supposedly, this map shows the beer consumption per person in each German state.
Somehow the numbers still seem low.
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Rome — 335 people were slaughtered by the Nazi-Fascists at the Ardeatine Caves (#FosseArdeatine) #Otd 1944.
The victims were antifascists, soldiers, Jews & other prisoners. The Nazis never called on the authors of the partisan attack the day before to hand themselves in.
#24marzo
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Elizabeth I of England slipped away in the night #onthisday in 1603. Her ring was taken from her finger and sent to James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England. After 118 years, the Tudor age was over.
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Thousands of years older than the Nebra Sky Disk, but in the same landxcape. Now thought to be a place of ritual surrounding death. Awe-inspiring and humbling.
The circular enclosure of Goseck provides one of the earliest archaeological evidences for systematic celestial observation 7000 years ago. It was discovered in 1991 and reconstructed in 2005. Our #DailyDrone visits the amazing archeological monument in Saxony-Anhalt.
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After years of killing his way across Europe and the Holy Land, a year held to ransom by the Germans and little time spent ruling England, Richard I of England was hit by a crossbow bolt near Châlus in western France #onthisday in 1199. The wound killed him a few weeks later.
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Find you a woman who goes to the Exchange at the giant army base to get you weapons-grade cold and flu drugs.
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As it should. Some stories change lives. This one did. Hats off to @jesawyer and his team - and @LINGUA_IGNOTA_ for that startling ending song.
The winner for Best Narrative at #GDCA23:
Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment | Xbox Game Studios)
#GDC23
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Wait until this dude learns what was happening in Europe in 1623, and the ensuing decades.
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23 March 1912. Rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, was born in Wyrzysk (then in Germany). He was a key figure in the development of the V-2 Rocket for Hitler in WW2, and the Saturn-V rocket for the USA during the NASA space programme that led to the moon landing in July 1969.
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An early medieval #wooden dough bowl - things used in everyday life in the past are so much more interesting than any treasure!
Ein frühmittelalterlicher Alltagsgegenstand aus unserem Bestand: Das unscheinbare hölzerne Gefäß fand sich im Grab einer Frau. Es diente vermutlich zum Mischen und Kneten von #Teig und stand symbolisch für die Lebenswelt der Bestatteten, der zu Lebzeiten die Versorgung....1/2
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Man charged with two counts of attempted murder after two people were set on fire outside mosques in London and Birmingham bbc.in/3FI9Y3C
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23 March 1933. The German Reichstag passed the Enabling Act (“Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich”). It gave the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or the President, and effectively ended democracy in Germany.
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Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who risked her life during World War II to save Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
She smuggled around 2,500 children out and found them safe homes outside the ghetto.
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In the wake of the Reichstag fire, the Enabling Act was passed #onthisday in 1933, concentrating almost all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler.
It wrote about how it paved the way for horror, for @TheLocalGermany a few years ago. thelocal.de/20190322/how-the…
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