03 Tuesday Feb 2015
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Alexander Nevskij, Battle of Lake Peipus, Republik of Novgorod, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Prokofe'ev, Teutonic Knights
Apparently, up there between Estonia and Russia, ice in early April can be pretty thick – so much so that on April 5, 1242 the Republic of Novgorod and the Teutonic Knights could fight a battle on the frozen lake Peipus.
But not quite thick enough… Continue reading
30 Saturday Aug 2014
Posted in Stories
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Alfred Hitchcock, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, Georges Méliès, Open Culture, Sergei Eisenstein, Silent film
I was recently introduced to OpenCulture, a website that boasts “the best free cultural and educational media on the web”.
Well, they certainly list heaps of excellent and very interesting content: ebooks, audiobooks, courses, MOOCs, language lessons, movies, teaching resources… but what really got me is their selection of 101 silent films.
If, like me, you are not wild about Charlie Chaplin, the numer is somewhat smaller – but all the same, the wonders you’ll find on that page! From Fritz Lang to Méliès, from very early Hitchcock to the Lumière Brothers, from Murnau to Eisenstein, to Renoir…
Quite mouth-watering. Oh, to just have time enough and world…
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