Oliver Lau

The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America througho...

02 de jul. de 2023

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he...

15 de fev. de 2020

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of kn...

03 de jan. de 2021

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid ...

15 de nov. de 2019

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium ...

03 de set. de 2019

Thomas Mann worked for almost 50 years on his novel „Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull“. In no other work has the writer incorporated so ma...

07 de nov. de 2024

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and...

19 de dez. de 2020

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen was a highly significant German king and Holy Roman emperor. Raised in Sicily, he was a sponsor of science, a reformer...

16 de nov. de 2019