Tag: history
Amy Gutmann: New US Ambassador with German History
portrait Status: 06/30/2021 6:00 p.m. She is to become the US ambassador in Berlin: Amy Gutmann. The political scientist with German roots has known US President Biden for years. The…
“We are writing a page of history” … The Swiss on their cloud after having released the world champions
Switzerland holds the greatest achievement in its history. For a team that has failed every round of 16 in recent years, taking out the reigning world champions after falling 3-1…
History of Feminism – Churchill and His Bath Sponge – Culture
After the parliament in Manitoba, Canada, rejected women’s suffrage in 1914, the Canadian suffragette Nellie McClung played parliament in the theater: a women’s government receives a men’s delegation who asks…
Family history – lucky – culture
It’s such a thing with the term “lucky child”. In a 2014 film of the same name, a baby is put in a garbage can by its mother. The title…
What the history of 3G says about digitization – economy
It’s just a coincidence: a new federal government will be in office at the end of this year, and the last mobile operator will also take its 3G network out…
EM: “The cruelest game in Austrian football history” – sport
It was the minutes of defeat that showed that something had happened in Austrian football in the past few weeks. David Alaba was visibly exhausted and disappointed after the 1:…
New books on the history of slavery culture
Reading this narrow and, due to its sobriety, relentlessly illuminating overview book by Andreas Eckert on the history of slavery leaves bitterness and desolation in the end. Slavery has not…
Hohenzollern dispute: who destroyed the Weimar Republic – culture
Who were the driving forces behind the destruction of democracy in the early 1930s? The Nazis, of course. The communists, even if their destructive role turned out to be quite…
Do you think you know the history of France-Portugal? Come and test yourself on this ultimate quiz
A week after a quiz on the history of France-Germany which left 98% of our readers at least once, the sports writing of your favorite newspaper is back with a…
“I’m gay” … Carl Nassib comes out and makes NFL history
These three words, he hadn’t known how to say them for over 15 years. It is finally simply, in a video filmed from his sunny garden that he announced it:…