The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Project Riese. Project Riese. Click on the location for a diagram of underground tunnels. Riese [ˈʁiːzə] (German for "giant") is the code name for the construction project of Nazi Germany in 1943–45. It consists of seven underground structures located in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle in Lower Silesia, previously Germany, now territory of Poland. None of them was finished, all are in different states of completion with only a small percentage of tunnels reinforced by concrete. The purpose of the project remains uncertain because of lack of documentation. The construction work was done by forced labourers, POWs and prisoners of concentration camps and many lost their lives mostly as a result of disease and malnutrition.
History[edit] In the presence of the increasing Allied air raids Nazi Germany relocated a large part of its strategic armaments production into safer regions including the District of Sudetenland. In December 1943 a typhus epidemic occurred amongst prisoners. Książ Castle[edit] The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance. The macabre encounter of skeletons mocking the living has haunted Case Western Reserve University art historian Elina Gertsman’s imagination since childhood walks with her grandfather through the St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn, Estonia (now the Art Museum of Estonia). That childhood fascination led to Gertsman’s newly published book, The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Brepols, 2010), a rare and long-awaited volume on the subject.
Gertsman is an assistant professor in the art history department, who started at the university in August. At Case Western Reserve University, she teaches courses on medieval art, including Gothic Art, Medieval Art, Women and Medieval Visual Culture and a seminar on Death in Medieval Art. The Dance of Death is a late medieval genre that, when incarnated as a large-scale public artwork, often combines images and text. The text accompanying the macabre images creates a dialogue between the living and Death. Sidon. Coordinates: Sidon or Saïda (Arabic: صيدا, Ṣaydā; Phoenician: History[edit] Persian style bull protome found in Sidon gives testimony of the Aecheminid rule and influence. Marble, 5th century BC In AD 1855, the sarcophagus of King Eshmun’azar II was discovered. In the years before Christianity, Sidon had many conquerors: Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and finally Romans.
Like other Phoenician city-states, Sidon suffered from a succession of conquerors. When Sidon fell under Roman domination, it continued to mint its own silver coins. Sidon with a view of the Mediterranean coast After Sidon came under Ottoman Turkish rule in the early 16th century as the Sidon Eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire, it regained a great deal of its earlier commercial importance. Sidon today[edit] Sidon was a small fishing town of 10,000 inhabitants in 1900, but studies in 2000 showed a population of 65,000 in the city and around 200,000 in the metropolitan area. The Makab (Waste Dump)[edit] Ammon. Qasr Al Abd was built by the governor of Ammon in 200 BC Ammon (Hebrew: עַמּוֹן, Modern Ammon Tiberian ʻAmmôn ; "People"; Arabic: عمّون, translit.: ʻAmmūn; Greek: Αμμονιοι), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation best known from the Old Testament, which describes Ammon as located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.[1][2][3] The chief city of the country was Rabbah or Rabbath Ammon, site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan's capital.
Milcom and Molech (who may be one and the same) are named in the Bible as the gods of Ammon.[4] In the Bible[edit] Tobiah the Ammonites united with Sanballat to oppose Nehemiah (Nehemiah 4), and their opposition to the Jews did not cease with the establishment of the latter in Judea. They also joined the Syrians in their wars with the Maccabees and were defeated by Judas.[5] Relation to Assyria[edit] In the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman eras[edit] Language[edit] Economy[edit] The Dance of Death. The artistic genre of the dance of death was most probably developed in France. The dance of death of the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris, painted in 1424, is considered the starting point of this tradition. (That work having been destroyed, we know it only through a reproduction in a book published into 1485 by the editor Guyot Marchant.)
Afterwards were created among others the frescoes of London (circa 1430), of Basel (a first one around 1440 and a second around 1480), of La Chaise-Dieu (circa 1460-70), of Lübeck(1463). During the second half of the 15th century, the dance of death enjoyed an always growing popularity. The dances od death were mostly painted (or more rarely carved) on the outside walls of cloisters, of family vaults, of ossuaries or inside some churches.
The dance of death of the Jesuits' college in Lucerne Je fis de Macabre la danse,Qui tout gent maine à sa traceE a la fosse les adresse. The dance of Death, Kermaria church Chronological list of the dances of death. Historum - History Forums. The Last Days of Socrates. The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature. The Classics Pages. You'll find well over 1000 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome. Search The Classics Pages (including "The Romans" - below) has a dedicated search engine, accessible from any page. Search now. Email The Classics Pages welcomes your emails - whether you want to comment, query or argue.
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Early life[edit] Bernal Díaz del Castillo* was born around 1492 to 1498 (the exact date is unknown) in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a poor family and received little education. NOTE* - "Díaz del Castillo" is the complete last name of the person in question, who was also known as "Bernal Díaz. " Notes[edit]