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The most emotional moment in Steven Spielberg's epic movie, Schindler's List, is in my opinion the little girl in the red coat. She is alone in a big crowd with prisoners and moves helpess alone. When I watch this scene I start thinking of all the shoes from the killed children displayed in a glass monter in Auschwitch.
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National Geographic encourage people to send in their best photos in three categories: People, Places, and Nature. In the photo contest participants have a chance to win a digital camera kit and get their images printed in National Geographic magazine.
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Swedish divers found recently a huge old shipwreck in the fjord near the Swedish capital Stocholm. The ship was from Holland, used for trading, featuring rich ornament, and from the 1600 century.
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Late in the evening on Saturday 25 April 2009, sun rays and cloudes created a magic blue dark light over Oslo, the capital in Norway. Since the most ancient times dark blue colour has been a popular colour around the world. It has its own expression and in that evening the colour made it very special.
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Taking a tour to the Nowa Huta district, Krakow 's famous communist enclave, was a strange experience for me. As I could understand, the life under the communism was really absurd. Nowa Huta was originally a gift from Stalin. This working-class quarter boasts some great "grey" communist architecture. Its also still bears testament to the power of the Soviets.
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Observing the continuously shifting colours of Ayers Rock, Uluru, in Australia, on a far distance, at sunset and sunrise, is real rewarding, but climbing Ayers Rock is controversial. Since it`s a sacred ground for the Aboriginal people, they prefer tourists not to climb Ayers Rock. Now authorities in Australia will close the site around the huge rock within 2 years.
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Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. It was handwritten for over 1600 years ago. The manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. An international collaboration has now reunited the entire manuscript in digital form and made it accessible to a global audience for the first time.
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The Holocaust is full of paradoxes. The history is so confusing and insane, and must not be forgotten. After the war the Polish government decided to restore Auschwitz I and turn it into a museum honouring the victims of Nazism. Auschwitz II and the remains of the gas chambers there are also open to the public. The Auschwitz concentration camp is part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The ashes of the victims of the SS were scattered between the barracks, and the entire area is considered as a graveyard. |
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Walking around in the largest concentration camp from the Second World is learning about life in the hard way. Auschwitz was also the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world, and as the American philosopher George Santayana wrote (see the writing on the wall in one of the barracks in the death camp): “those who does not remember history is bound to live through it again”. |
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What happened to children in Auschwitz? Walking around in the largest concentration camp in Poland from the Second World War gave me a history lesson for life. The history became so unpleasant real. Auschwitz was also the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world. Especially one thing made a strong emotional impression on me: a large collection of children`s shoes. |
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The Gothic Wawel Castle is both an architectural and historial landmark in Krakow, Cracow, in Poland. Wawel Hill is also probably the most important place in the city. The castle was built at the behest of Casimir III the Great and consists of a number of structures situated around the central courtyard. The Wawel Hill used to be the residence of Polish Kings and according to the legend, the dragon.
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Jarle Traa, Jarle Trå, was reported missing on Saturday 22nd May 2009. A search for him started and fortunately he was found over 8000 metres above ocean Monday morning 25th May. It was a dramatic rescue operation to get Jarle Traa down from the world`s tallest mountain.
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Tommy Rambøl (42), Rambol, from Norway reached the top of Mt. Everest 21nd May 2009. He is now safe back in the Base Camp on 5400 metres above the ocean. The two other Norwegians, Thomas Svane Jacobsen and Asbjørn Hjertenes, in the Himex expedition didn`t made it to the top.
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The Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi) and The Red Cross are inviting 2469 people from multicultural Norway to join them at Norway`s tallest mountain, Mt. Galdhøpiggen, Galdhogpiggen, on the 12th and 13th of June 2009. Anyone who wishes to support multicultural Norway is welcome to participate.
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Apa Sherpa (49) from Nepal reached successfully 21st May 2009 the top of the world`s tallest mountain for the 19th time, reported by media in Nepal. It`s a world record. On the top of Mount Everest he rolled out a banner with the slogan: Stop the climate change, let Himalaya live! 30 minutes later, he started the descending.
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Meeting the Mudmen
in Papua New Guinea
See the video HERE |
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