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De Opstand (1568-1648) is in Nederland ook wel bekend onder de naam Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Die tijd zien we als het begin van Nederland. Dat het geen echte oorlog was, hoor je in dit één uur durende luistercollege. Maar waarom werd er dan gevochten? Door wie en waar ging het eigenlijk over?

When the Colosseum was built in the late first century AD, the Romans, a people known for their architectural acumen, managed to amaze themselves. Martial, a Roman poet writing during the inauguration of the Colosseum, clearly believed the Colosseum was so grand a monument that it was even greater than the other Wonders of the Ancient World, which had been written about and visited endlessly by the Romans and Greeks in antiquity.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known across the world simply by the name Raphael, stands as one of the main pillars of the High Renaissance, an iconic example of the balance between spirituality and humanistic inquiry that characterized the time period. Although he lived just 37 years, his career produced an amazingly rich output, and he completed more works than many artists do over careers spanning twice the length.

In 1939 startten de Amerikanen in het geheim het Manhattan Project dat zou leiden tot de ontwikkeling van de atoombom en het gebruik ervan op Hiroshima en Nagasaki. Maarten van Rossem behandelt de geschiedenis van het ontstaan van het meest destructieve en gevreesde wapen. Een boeiend en multidisciplinair college over de atoombom en de nucleaire wapenwedloop die daar op volgde.

Anchors aweigh! Howling winds and crashing surf! Splintered masts and shattered hulls! Mutinous seadogs and steel-eyed captains! There's nothing like high adventure on the high seas! Hear hair-raising, heart-stirring deep-sea dramas produced and directed by William N. Robson, Norman Macdonnell, Antony Ellis, Morton Fine, and David Friedkin.

Grounded in carefully selected Scripture, Believe Audio Bible in the NIV is a unique spiritual growth experience that takes you on a journey to think, act, and be more like Jesus. General Editor and pastor Randy Frazee walks you through the ten key beliefs of the Christian faith, the ten key...

In a single drop of contaminated blood, there writhe millions of needle-shaped cells. When introduced to a host, they spread - healing wounds, replenishing fluids, patching bone. The host becomes unstoppable; even complete destruction of its brain isn't necessarily the end. All their cells are gradually replaced, enhanced. Eden Green is the third human to see the needles in action, after her best friend Veronica accepts them without thinking.

Van Barnes, whose performance as the "Houston T-Girl" left a huge impression on viewers, shares what it was like to be an actor, set dresser, and transgender consultant on set. In this emotional and charismatic interview, she shares how her involvement in the TransFIRMATIVE action program changed the way Hollywood approaches and represents the transgender movement on set and on-screen - from writers and actors, to art directors and consultants.

The life of Pocahontas fulfills a specific role in American culture and history. Her short life holds a bittersweet tragedy that is part of the mythology of Native America, especially the first encounters between English settlers and the local native tribes. The meaning of her name, "little plaything" or "little wanton", suggests that she was destined to be bandied about by the powers in her life.

The life of Pocahontas fulfills a specific role in American culture and history. Her short life holds a bittersweet tragedy that is part of the mythology of Native America, especially the first encounters between English settlers and the local native tribes. The meaning of her name, "little plaything" or "little wanton", suggests that she was destined to be bandied about by the powers in her life.

He's stepping out and living large - and hoping someone else will grab the check! That's Jack Benny, living the high life with a galaxy of guest stars in this hilarious collection of 20 digitally restored and remastered episodes.

Hierdie publikasie van Marita van der Vyver is ʼn wydstromende rivier van ʼn roman, ʼn boek wat die leser onderdompel en omrol en maal in sy kolke van stemme en geskiedenis en oeroue hunkerings. Die verhaal word vertel vanuit die perspektief van drie opeenvolgende generasies – drie vroue wat reageer op mekaar en hul tyd. Hulle lewe in spanning, tussen weggaan en moet bly, en tussen vergeet en móét onthou, omdat onthou die enigste skakel is wat hulle nog met die oerbron van hul bestaan verbind.

Veil had been a step out of place all his life. Until one day he found a phone that took him on a path far beyond the world he knew. But to get all the answers he had to save the princess he fell in love with - only to lose her once he made her a queen.

When people think of musicals, two of the first names that immediately spring to mind are Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, two giants of one of Hollywood's most distinctive genres. Without question, both men played an instrumental role in popularizing and sustaining the musical from the 1930s through the 1950s, the final decades of Hollywood's Golden Age. Although they did collaborate on two occasions, in many ways Gene Kelly's rise to popularity in the 1940s amounted to a changing of the guard.

In the 1960s and 1970s, no actor personified cool, calm and collected like Steve McQueen, whose suave anti-hero protagonists made men jealous and women swoon. As actor Donald Logue puts it in The Tao of Steve, "Steve is the prototypical cool American male. He's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living. He never, ever tries to impress the women, but he always gets the girl."

In Taxifornia, author James V. Lacy, a frequent guest on Fox Business News Channel's Varney & Company, offers a sobering view of the one-sided politics of California and exposes liberal Democratic and public employee union control of state government, which has turned the once-rich state into the poorest in the nation.

Schabrackenblues: Betrachtungen einer Berufsschullehrerin zum Thema Älterwerden - Hitzewallungen inklusive. Menopausal und latent depressiv: Die 55jährige Berufsschullehrerin Silke Maier wähnt sich im September ihres Lebens. Doch während sie den Schabrackenblues singt und über erste Alterserscheinungen sinniert, scheinen alle ihre Freundinnen gerade in Frühlingsgefühlen zu schwelgen. Oder es zumindest zu wollen.

From a High Tower is newest adventure in Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series, featuring a retelling of Rapunzel's not-so-happily-ever-after ending.

The Christian Church has no shortage of revered figures and saints, but it is difficult to find one that had a more decisive impact on the course of the Church's history than Augustine of Hippo. Augustine was a bishop of Hippo Regius in Africa, but his works, sermons and writings helped hold the Church together even as the Western Roman Empire was in its death throes, to the extent that every major branch of Christianity recognizes him today.

Henry couldn't get over the fact that he had purchased Jenny's home! It was all there in her diary, which he had just discovered the day before. How they had met in 1956 and instantly fell in love and the wonderful summer that followed, only to end when Jenny's family moved away. Although separated for 32 years, their love was sustained by an angelic power that had never waned.