|
Amazing Places
Here we present the most exciting destinations on earth. The world is bigger than you think! Humans` explorations of earth leads to the most amazing adventures. Neither words, photograps nor films do the world`s places justice - they must been seen, heard and touched.
The Beat Goes On festival in Liverpool is inspired by city`s significant contribution to popular music. The festival is open at World Museum Liverpool from 12 July 2008 to 1 November 2009. The Beat Goes On showcases Merseysides vibrant music scenes that have played a major part in the citys life over the past 60 years. Especially one group will never be forgotten: The Beatles!
|
|
The search for the Biblical Mount Sinai goes on. According to the Hebrew Bible received Moses the Ten Commandments from God on a top of a mountain called Mount Sinai, but where was this mountain? Many believed that Mount Sinai, Jebel Musa, on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is this mountain. On the top of this mountain travellers can today enjoy the sunset and admire the wonderful view. But there are also other suggestions where the Biblical Mount Sinai is located.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
In March 1941 the German war administration forced all Krakow Jews to resettle in the newly created ghetto north of the Kazimierz area. The holocaust had come to Krakow. Kazimierz is hardly influenced of its sad past, but is now a nice and vibrant district.
|
|
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.
|
|
One of the most shocking movies I ever have seen is Schindler`s list. In Krakow I visited the recently open Shindler`s museum in the factory which Schindler used to employ refugees during the Second World War. In this way he saved more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during WWII.
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
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. |
|
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”. |
|
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. |
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Meeting the Mudmen
in Papua New Guinea
See the video HERE |
|
