Learn about Hortense and Marie Mancini, who wrote memoirs of their travels
An introduction to Hortense and Marie Mancini, two sisters who wrote memoirs recounting their European adventures in the late 17th century.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The time when “terror [was] the order of the day.”
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Romannerud/Dreamstime.com; © Claudiodivizia/Dreamstime.comLearn about the economic and political crises facing Germany's Weimar Republic after World War I.
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Public DomainLearn about Adolf Hitler's public speaking style by listening to him delivering the closing address at the 1934 Nürnberg Rally. Footage of this speech served as the climax of Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph des Willens (1935; Triumph of the Will). This excerpt is translated as “The movement [National Socialism] is a living expression of our people and, therefore, a symbol of eternity. Long live the National Socialist movement! Long live Germany!”
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Vladislav Kochelaevskiy/Dreamstime.com; © Photoblueice/Dreamstime.comView researchers at the anthropological institute in Göttingen studying DNA taken from Bronze Age skeletons found in the Lichtenstein Cave, Harz mountains, northern Germany.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of the Élysée Palace, Paris.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, 1940.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzLearn about the marine life in the submerged caves under the Mediterranean Sea at Calanques National Park, France.
