Enlish Russia, WW2 Like Reconstruction: “A few days ago an anniversary for the blockade of St. Petersburg city during the World War 2. For more than two years the city was in the tight circle of German troops. The front line was already in the suburbs and the downtown was bombed constantly. People suffered from [...]
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Anniversary Blockade of St. Petersburg
January 29th, 2008
Tags: russia · st. petersburg · ussr · war · wo2
Omaha Beach in CGI
January 14th, 2008
Timewatch’ Omaha Beach in CGI. (YouTube – via) Timewatch: “One of the most fun parts of filming is for the computer graphics (CGI) sequences. Timewatch has its own team dedicated to CGI (Neil Wilson, Steve Flynn and Colin Thornton) who have come out to Normandy with a car laden with Rangers’ uniforms and fake plastic [...]
A red dot in the Free Parking space.
November 21st, 2007
The Informed Reader, World War II Weapon: Monopoly With Real Money: “In 1941, the British Secret Service asked the game’s British licensee John Waddington Ltd. to add secret extras to some sets, which had become standard elements of the aid packages that the Red Cross delivered to allied prisoners of war. Along with the usual [...]
Anne-Sofie von Otter – Terezin / Theresienstadt
November 20th, 2007
Afbeelding uit de Groag-collection. (Beit Theresienstadt) Norman Lebrecht, Tales of the recording angel: “She has just released an album of songs from the Terezin concentration camp, both the formal Lieder that were put on to fool Red Cross visitors, and the consoling lullabies that a nurse, Ilse Weber, wrote for the children she sang to [...]
Tags: anne-sofie von otter · kurt gerstein · music · theresienstadt · wo2
Valkyrie – trailer
November 10th, 2007
Claus von Stauffenberg à la scientology Hollywood. Arme Carice van Houten. Valkyrie – Trailer. (Trailer in HD. – Wikipedia)
Tags: carice van houten · cinema · history · tom cruise · video · von Stauffenberg · wo2
Why They Called It the Manhattan Project
October 30th, 2007
The Pupin Physics Laboratories at Columbia. New York Times: Why They Called It the Manhattan Project: “In “The Manhattan Project” (Black Dog & Leventhal), published last month, Dr. Norris writes about the Manhattan Project’s Manhattan locations. He says the borough had at least 10 sites, all but one still standing. They include warehouses that held [...]
Tags: atomic bomb · history · manhattan · manhattan project · new york city · robert s. norris · wo2
The city as destructive system: wildfires, Dresden and the case against urban sprawl
October 30th, 2007
City of Sound: The city as destructive system: wildfires, Dresden and the case against urban sprawl “We’re now seeing deaths, upheaval of communities, destruction of property and vast economic losses. And this is to do with the form of the city”
Tags: dresden · fire · history · planning · urban · wildfires · wo2
The killer countess: The dark past of Baron Heinrich Thyssen’s daughter
October 26th, 2007
‘Davos, Palace Hotel, im Krieg: Gräfin Margit von Batthyány, ihr Ehemann Ivan und Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’ (FAZ) “When I was researching my book about his family, Baron “Heini” Thyssen-Bornemisza, self-styled “Swiss” industrialist and legendary art collector, always insisted that Margit, his vivacious older sister, was in fact shy and retiring, while his family’s castle at [...]
Tags: de horror · heinrich thyssen · margit thyssen · rechnitz · wo2