Tag: history
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…
Andras Toro, the Hungarian kayaker who dreamed of America
Eight years after the great Hungarian defection at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, athlete Andras Toro defected at the 1964 Tokyo Games. A canoe specialist, he sought asylum in the United…
The two revolutions of the Paris metro, from 1900 to today
The dream of a metro for Paris dates back to the very beginning of the Third Republic. Three decades later, line 1 was inaugurated for the 1900 World’s Fair. Twelve…
Last Sunday was the hottest day in the world’s measurement history | News in brief
The temperatures of the previous 13 months have been significantly higher than before. Last Sunday was the warmest day ever recorded by humans globally, the European environmental information service Copernicus…
East German luge specialist Ute Gähler
Ute Gähler is one of the only Olympic deserters to have disappeared during the Winter Olympics! It was in Innsbrück in 1964 that this East German luge specialist disappeared, before…