Tag: history
Van Rossem talks about the day the Dom collapsed, exactly 350 years ago today
Many people know it and if you stand on the Domplein you can still see it clearly: there is only half a church there. A large part of the original…
The Olympic cauldron in the Tuileries Gardens, a true Olympic phenomenon
Since it was revealed to the world on Friday July 26 during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games, the cauldron installed in the Tuileries Gardens has been ”…
Deadpool & Wolverine achieves what no other film in the history of cinema has ever achieved
The hype surrounding Deadpool & Wolverine has paid off immediately at the box office. Since its launch last week, the Marvel blockbuster about the bickering superhero duo has set intoxicating…
Swimming: Mashael Alayed wrote history – praised by Emma Igelström: “One of the country’s biggest icons”
Hear Igelström in the player above. Mashael Alayed has written herself into the Saudi Arabian history books – as the first woman to swim in an Olympics. Olympics in Paris…
Germaine Tillion at the Pantheon – The march of the world
La Marche du monde offers you a sound portrait of Germaine Tillion. A woman in the Pantheon of the French Republic. Ethnologist and resistance fighter, Germaine Tillion has always been…
Katie Ledecky will wait to write history again
The first highlight of the Paris Olympic Games in swimming took place at the Arena La Défense this Saturday, July 27. In the great battle between Ariarne Titmus, Katie Ledecky…
Aya Nakamura, doping, secret history… – L’Express
“We are all very impatient,” quivered Tony Estanguet on France Inter airwaves This Friday, July 26, on the morning of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It…
Afghan boxer Jawid Aman Mukhamad, missing from the ring
He was one of only two Afghan athletes at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, USA. Boxer Jawid Aman Mukhamad didn’t even make it to the qualifying rounds for his category.…
On Monday, the highest average temperature in history was measured again – the previous record was broken in a day | Foreign countries
According to climate scientists, the most significant factors influencing global warming are fossil fuels and agriculture. Monday was the warmest day ever recorded by man globally. At that time, the…
the great history of the CEA – L’Express
Headquarters, factories, stores, these places constitute the starting points of some of the greatest French industrial and commercial sagas. In this summer seriesL’Express opens the doors to emblematic sites that…