Greetings from The Thirsty Historian at Oktoberfest 2018!
Philly Brew Reviews 120 - Paulaner Hefe-Weizen
Back to my comfort zone, the Hefeweizen! Paulaner is out of Munich, Germany; let's see what this one's all about!
Gegen überbordende Bürokratie – niederbayerische Gastronomen protestieren in München
Arbeitszeiterfassung, Allergenverordnung, Brandschutz und und und. Die Liste der bürokratischen Regeln für das Gastgewerbe wird immer länger. Am Montag haben deshalb über 3500 Gastronomen und Hoteliers aus ganz Bayern an einer Großdemo in München teilgenommen – auch viele Niederbayern waren dabei. Das Motto: Rettet die bayerische Wirtshauskultur. Auf der Theresienwiese stand auch ein Treffen mit Ministerpräsident Markus Söder an.
Theresienwiese Stuntshow Roselly
Pure Performance Adrenalin pur. Action und Artistik
Römerstrasse - The Roman Road (English subtitles)
In the summer of 2014, Peter Germundsson and Paul Molin went on a journey through Europe. Most of the journey went through the old Roman provinces of Gallia Belgica, Germania Inferior, Raetia and Noricum. Once the Roman Culture flourished here and the Roman heritage put its hallmark on the area for centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Many of the cities and camps founded by the Romans still exist, and bear modern names. The traces of Rome are still visible. Out of the ruins of the Roman Empire would eventually modern Germany emerge, a nation which throughout its comparatively short existence more than once has been torn apart by devastating wars. Carpet bombers have reduced centuries-old cities to rubble and millions of people have lost their lives at an early age. Now it's been a long time since any war devastated Europe but the tide of history can still be felt. About this and much else is the film you're about to see: Römerstrasse. A film about the history of Europe and the search for it in a highly altered world.
Our trip starts in Sweden and goes down to the European continent to the Hermannsdenkmal, a monument erected to commemorate the battle of the Teutoburg forest in the year 9 A.D. Then we travel along the river Rhine, which marked the border between the Roman Empire and the unconquered Germania. Via Alps, Weissbier and Leberknödel we finally end up in a victorious Berlin in the summer of 2014.
At the same time it is a trip through the modern German-speaking Europe with its people, culture, traffic and lack of parking lots.
Swedish Audio
English subtitles. Translation written by Peter Germundsson.
CASCADEUR - Die Jagd nach dem Bernsteinzimmer
Abenteuer-Action Film (Deutschland 1998) mit Hardy Martins, Regula Grauwiller und Heiner Lauterbach
Emil Cioran - A Century of Writers (English Subtitles [CC], French Documentary)
This is from a television program that aired between 1995 and 2001 in France.
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Gerhard Casper: Forswearing Allegiance
Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus, Stanford University, and former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School. This lecture, the 2008 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture in Legal History, was recorded May 1, 2008.
Battle of Novi (1799) | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Novi (1799)
00:01:56 1 Background
00:10:37 2 Forces
00:19:01 3 Battle
00:26:14 4 Results
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- Socrates
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The Battle of Novi (15 August 1799) saw a combined army of Habsburg Austrians and Imperial Russians under Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov attack a Republican French army under General Barthélemy Catherine Joubert. After a prolonged and bloody struggle, the Austro-Russians broke through the French defenses and drove their enemies into a disorderly retreat. Joubert was killed while French division commanders Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon and Emmanuel Grouchy were captured. Novi Ligure is in the province of Piedmont in Italy a distance of 58 kilometres (36 mi) north of Genoa. The battle occurred during the War of the Second Coalition which was part of the French Revolutionary Wars.
In 1799, Russian and Austrian forces swept across the Po River valley, recapturing lands taken by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796. The French troops in Italy were badly defeated at the major battles of Magnano, Cassano and the Trebbia. Subsequently, French and Cisalpine Italian troops retreated into Genoa and the Ligurian Republic. A new French government placed Joubert in command of the reformed Army of Italy and ordered him to take the offensive. Accordingly, the French army moved north across the mountain crests and assembled on high ground at Novi Ligure on 14 August. To Joubert's dismay, it was clear that large Coalition forces were nearby. The next morning Paul Kray's Austrian corps assaulted the French left flank and the battle was on. After a delay, Suvorov committed a Russian corps to attack the center and Michael von Melas' Austrian corps to attack the French right flank. Kray's troops suffered heavy losses but by evening the French army was badly beaten and the French hold on the Italian Riviera was gravely weakened. However, the Coalition planners proceeded to throw away their advantage by sending Suvorov's Russians to Switzerland, a change of strategy that ended badly.
Beatrix von Storch (AfD) – Der Antisemitismus in SPIEGEL, SZ und SPD
Die etablierten Parteien zeigen nach Halle mit dem Finger auf die AfD, aber drei Finger zeigen auf sie zurück. Die ersten Deutschen, die in Nachkriegsdeutschland wehrlose Juden mit der Waffe bedrohten, waren Linksextremisten. Das linksliberale Milieu, die Süddeutsche, SPIEGEL und SPD, befeuern den Antisemitismus und verharmlosen den Islamismus.
Live By Night
Taking fatherly advice is not in Joe Coughlin’s nature. Instead, the WWI vet is a self proclaimed anti-establishment outlaw, despite being the son of the Boston Police Deputy Superintendent. Joe’s not all bad, though; in fact, he’s not really bad enough for the life he’s chosen. Unlike the gangsters he refuses to work for, he has a sense of justice and an open heart, and both work against him, leaving him vulnerable time and again—in business and in love. Driven by a need to right the wrongs committed against him and those close to him, Joe heads down a risky path that goes against his upbringing and his own moral code. Leaving the cold Boston winter behind, he and his reckless crew turn up the heat in Tampa. And while revenge may taste sweeter than the molasses that infuses every drop of illegal rum he runs, Joe will learn that it comes at a price.
Smithsonian Food History Weekend 2017: After Hours
On October 28, 2017 the National Museum of American History hosted a conversation with four brewers who bring unique stories of movement and migration – through personal experience or inspiration – to their beer. How have these histories influenced the beers they brew? How do the brewers define the role of beer in American society, past, present, and future? How can their journeys expand our understanding of American history?
This event is part of the Museum’s Brewing History Initiative.
GALLERY WEEKEND
(c) Henri Boit
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D 2015, 91min / 25p (94min / 24p)
Mit Christoph Fortmann (HR), Lena Stamm, Kai Holzapfel, Sonja Kerskes uvm.
Kamera: Karsten Schleitzer
Musik: Bill Youngman
Buch und Regie: Henri Boit
Produktion: Henri Boit
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The Wonderworker Woman 05/12. People under hypnosis. (English Subtitles)
Do you know about St Matrona of Moscow?
Here is the 5th episode of The Wonderworker Woman film about Saint Matrona with English subtitles.
In this episode, we see the period of the life of Saint Matrona of Moscow when she started to live in Moscow. Matrona’s problems with the Bolshevik government began almost immediately after arriving in Moscow capital.
The life was hard: prosecution of Christians, murders of Orthodox priests, starvation... She did not take money from people but continued to accept everyone who came to see her.
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Greek War of Independence | Wikipedia audio article
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Greek War of Independence
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SUMMARY
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The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution (Greek: Ελληνική Επανάσταση, Elliniki Epanastasi, or also referred to by Greeks in the 19th century as the Αγώνας, Agonas, Struggle; Ottoman: يونان عصياني Yunan İsyanı, Greek Uprising), was a successful war of independence waged by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1830. The Greeks were later assisted by the Russian Empire, Great Britain, and the Kingdom of France, while the Ottomans were aided by their North African vassals, the eyalets of Egypt, Algeria, and Tripolitania, and the Beylik of Tunis.
Even several decades before the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, most of Greece had come under Ottoman rule. During this time, there were several revolt attempts by Greeks to gain independence from Ottoman control. In 1814, a secret organization called the Filiki Eteria was founded with the aim of liberating Greece. The Filiki Eteria planned to launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities, and in Constantinople and its surrounding areas. By late 1821, the insurrection had been planned for 25 March (Julian Calendar) 1821, on the Feast of the Annunciation for the Orthodox Christians. However, as the plans of Filiki Eteria had been discovered by the Ottoman authorities, the revolutionary action started earlier. The first of these revolts began on 6 March/22 February 1821 in the Danubian Principalities, but it was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged the Greeks in the Peloponnese into action and on 17 March 1821, the Maniots declared war on the Ottomans. This declaration was the start of a spring of revolutionary actions from other controlled states against the Ottoman Empire.
On 25 March the revolution was officially declared and by the end of the month, the Peloponnese was in open revolt against the Turks. By October 1821, the Greeks under Theodoros Kolokotronis had captured Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by revolts in Crete, Macedonia, and Central Greece, which would soon be suppressed. Meanwhile, the makeshift Greek navy was achieving success against the Ottoman navy in the Aegean Sea and prevented Ottoman reinforcements from arriving by sea.
Tensions soon developed among different Greek factions, leading to two consecutive civil wars. In the meantime, the Ottoman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his son Ibrahim Pasha to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial gain. Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Missolonghi fell in April 1826 after a year-long siege by the Turks. Although Ibrahim was defeated in Mani, he had succeeded in suppressing most of the revolt in the Peloponnese, and Athens had been retaken.
Following years of negotiation, three Great Powers—Russia, Britain and France—decided to intervene in the conflict and each nation sent a navy to Greece. Following news that combined Ottoman–Egyptian fleets were going to attack the Greek island of Hydra, the allied fleet intercepted the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet at Navarino. The battle began after a tense week-long standoff, ending in the destruction of the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet. By 1828 the Egyptian army withdrew under pressure of a French expeditionary force to which the Ottoman garrisons in the Peloponnese then surrendered, while the Greeks proceeded to the Ottoman-controlled part of central Greece. After eight years of war, Greece was finally recognized as an independent, sovereign state under the London Protocol of February 1830. Later, in 1832, the London Conference and the Treaty of Constantinople defined the final borders of the new state and established Prince Otto of Bavaria as the ...