Tag: history
In the footsteps of the African soldiers of the Provence landings
80 years ago, more than 250,000 fighters landed in Provence, in the south-east of France, two and a half months after D-Day in Normandy, to liberate the country occupied by…
Liverpool in wild goal attacks – Mohamed Salah, who put together a 2+2 performance, made Premier League history | Sports in a nutshell
Liverpool and Mohamed Salah were at the top of the game on Sunday in the English Premier League. Liverpool increased their lead at the top of the English Premier League…
Quitting basketball was a tough place – now Tomas Koski is already talking about Olympic gold: “I want my name in history” | Sports in a nutshell
Tomas Koski broke the men’s 200-meter freestyle short track Finnish record in the preliminary heats of the World Championships in Budapest a little over a week ago, when he reached…
Which flag for post-Assad Syria?
The fall of the Syrian regime on December 8 is, among other things, symbolized by the end of the portraits and statues of the Assad family which dotted cities and…
Lindsey Vonn made history – Finland’s Elian Lehto shared special comments about her alpine fitness | Sports in a nutshell
Elian Lehto went to the Val Gardena steeplechase race with a podium finish in mind. Lindsey Vonn made history. Joel Sippola, Nina Old house Speed calculator Elian Lehto was a…
Thousands greet the darkest day of the year at Stonehenge with the rock formation | News in brief
The winter solstice brought hordes of tourists to the Stonehenge monument in Britain. 12:53•Updated 12:56 The shortest day of the year was welcomed at Stonehenge with drumming. The longest night…
Pottery finds in Kil write about Värmland’s history
It was during excavations at Dikartorp outside Kil in the summer of 2022 that the revolutionary findings were made. – We found pottery that we suspected was Stone Age pottery,…
death of Rik Van Looy, one of the greatest classics riders in history
Rik Van Looy, who died on Wednesday December 18 at the age of 90, was nicknamed the Emperor of Herentals and adored by Belgian cycling in the early 1960s, before…
what the cave paintings of Chauvet Cave taught us about empathy
In December 1994, three speleologists discovered a cave in Ardèche which would shatter all our knowledge and beliefs regarding prehistoric art. The thirtieth anniversary of the discovery of the Chauvet…
The exhibition “Migrations, a human odyssey” at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris
There is no life without travel. What do we call migration? Why is the movement of people over long distances called migration? Voluntarily or not, why do human groups or…