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As Hitler was attempting to conquer the western world, his armies were methodically pillaging the finest art in Europe, from Michelangelos to Vermeers, all stolen for the Führer. The Monuments Men had a mandate from President Roosevelt to find these artworks, but no vehicles, typewriters, or authority. In a race against time to save the world’s greatest cultural treasures from destruction at the hands of Nazi fanatics, each man constructed his own treasure map....

In the past the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape and the stars in the sky, too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world.

It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his prisoners, as well as the booty he'd captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally there was so much on display that the show lasted two or three days. A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also its darker side.

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Monuments To Me celebrates every aspect of black women in a world that tries to ignore or destroy them. This protected place features black women and ONLY black women diving into the conversations that matter. Akilah and Tyi lead an endless range of discussions that will move you from laughter to tears and inspire you toward the best version of self, but trust, they stay unapologetically centered on black women. This ain't your everyday podcast because it ain't every day that a podcast normalizes praising, celebrating, and building monuments to black women.

Exploring places, spaces, people and purpose. Old and new, modern and forgotten. "Monument Podcast is enticingly creative"

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century - but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them.

Le diocèse de Châlons recèle des trésors en matière de lieux saints, notamment des églises. Il n’y en a pas moins de 500 dispersées sur le territoire et certaines ouvrent leurs portes aux touristes.

Et si nos monuments avaient visage humain ? Dans ce podcast du Centre des monuments nationaux, châteaux, abbayes, maisons d’illustres, villas, sites archéologiques et préhistoriques prennent le temps de se confier par l’entremise de ceux qui en sont les plus proches confidents : les agents du CMN. Personnalité, secrets, gloire passée ou projets futurs, entendez le cœur caché derrière la pierre. Alors, en attendant de venir en avoir plein les yeux, visitez, depuis où vous le voulez, les monuments à l’oreille ?!Les monuments sur le divan est un podcast produit par le Centre ...

Co-hosted by Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams and Kelli Lemon, After the Monuments captures the zeitgeist of a nation struggling to move from symbolic to substantive change on racial issues. The podcast will analyze current events about race through a historical context, examining the ideas of leading black thinkers over time, and encouraging broader and deeper insights into racial tensions, divisions and reconciliation. Williams and Lemon, both with the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, engage with a wide range of guests to bring context, relevance and resonance to ...

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Ils ont été incendiés, bombardés, détruits… après des années de travaux. Ces monuments renaissent avec à chaque fois beaucoup de questions : comment reconstruire, comment faire renaître le passé, comment offrir une 2ème vie à un monument ? Une série de reportages avec nos correspondants et nos envoyés spéciaux. Cette série d'été a été diffusée sur RFI, du 19 au 30 août 2019 inclus.

Confederate monuments are coming down. What goes up in their place? Who really deserves a monument? Inspired by one Baltimore high school, this podcast investigates the history of Confederate monuments and symbols—and their uncertain future. But mostly, it explores monumental moments through the stories of five unsung African Americans whose courage and cunning dramatically shaped American history. If you wish you could remember more of what you learned in American history, but hate being bored, this podcast is for you. Walk in the shoes of people who lived and breathed the Fugitive Slave ...

Welcome to The Monumental Project: How Historic Sites and Monuments of Yesterday Affect Us Today. As the official companion podcast of the Monuments Toolkit program, we will be diving deep into the pieces of American history found across the nation, and how the stories they carry impact the modern day American citizen. The goal of this podcast and the program at large, is to address the question “how do we address monuments of oppression?” What are our options for dealing with painful pieces of our past? How can we learn, heal, and move forward? By the end of this season we’ll have a ...

The story of an enslaved African American. Booker T. Washington was an author, an educator, an orator and political leader, and one of history's most influential African Americans. One if his more remembered quotes is: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” He titled his autobiography Up from Slavery.

Nobody spent more time in the thick of early American political debates than Thomas Jefferson, one of the most famous and revered Americans. Jefferson was instrumental in all of the aforementioned debates, authoring the Declaration of Independence, laying out the ideological groundwork of the notion of states' rights, leading one of the first political parties, and overseeing the expansion of the United States during his presidency.

Audio Journeys are explores this one-of-a-kind monolith known to Native Americans as Bear Mountain. We walk around the base while a park ranger interprets what this unique formation is and the ecology that surrounds it.

One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the most important trading posts in the West. Hubbell was meeting ground for two cultures: the Navajo and early settlers who came to the area.