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June 28, 2022 · People
Hermann Göring, also known as “Der Dicke” because of his stocky build, was a notorious Nazi leader. During the First World War, he was a celebrated fighter pilot. When the Nazis came to power, Göring became Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. In 1939, Adolf Hitler appointed him as his successor and deputy. During the Second World […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He became known worldwide with his work The Gulag Archipelago, in which he wrote, among other things, about the labor camps in the Soviet Union. When the secret service in his country finds out in 1945 that he has spoken negatively about […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
The communist Soviet Union was founded in 1922 and was ruled by the Communist party as a one-party state. Although the Soviet Union was officially a union of fifteen subnational Soviet socialist republics, the government and economy were highly centralized. Until its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union didn’t treat its civilians very well. It […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
The Roanoke Colony was an attempt by the Englishman Walter Raleigh to establish a colony on the coast of North America. The colony was founded on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. In 1584, Raleigh received permission from Queen Elizabeth I of England to undertake such a project, granting him property rights over […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
Pandemic, probably the most written word of the past year. This word has taken over our lives, but how has history dealt with pandemics? What was the most deadly disease that ever existed? Let’s tell you some more about it. There are a couple of quite lethal diseases like smallpox and SARS¹, the bird flu […]
June 28, 2022 · Art
When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933 with Hitler as their leader, the NSDAP (Nazi Party) immediately abolished all types of art that didn’t properly fit into their image art. They called it: “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art), and this term made a lot of artists being defined it as “Not good for the […]
June 28, 2022 · Ancient World
Women’s right has been an important issue for a couple of decades, and it still is, but what if I tell you there was an ancient civilization where women had more rights than in some modern countries? The Ancient Egyptians were quite tolerant regarding women, many of their gods were female, and the divine femininity […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Jacob Nacken, born Jakob Hudson Nacken, was a German circus performer who performed throughout Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century. He began his professional career as a performer in a traveling circus as a child, and he made his debut as an abnormally tall person during the 1939 New York World’s […]
June 28, 2022 · People
There is a lot of misunderstanding about the color of Cleopatra’s skin. For many years it was thought that she was a white woman since that’s how she was portrayed in movies and books. Now, there are a lot of people who think that Cleopatra was a black woman. Some theories state that because she […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Did you know that Hitler was obsessed with the occult? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a book about this in 1985, called: The Occult Roots of Nazism. In this book, Clarke analyzed the occultism in Hitler’s ideology. The most important conclusion that he formed was that many of the stories about occultism in Nazism or a certain […]
