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For 4 July 2025, Independence Day (In the USA), based on Philippians 4:6-9 (Photo: Painting of Barlolomé de las Casas,  Béria L. Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Why would the Creator of the universe wear dusty sandals and walk among the people He made? This thought-provoking piece explores how Jesus’ incarnation redefines our understanding of humility, authority, and the nature of true leadership. Far from distant, the divine stepped into history — with skin, sandals, and scars.

V tomto podcaste budeme hovoriť o štúdii, ktorá sa pozerala na to, čo sa stane, keď zopár ľuďom vypnú internet na mobile a o teleskope Vera Rubin. Zdroje Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being Vera Rubin Observatory A Swarm of New Asteroids Skyviewer app Image by Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the early 1960s, R.J. Reynolds, one of the largest and most profitable tobacco companies in the U.S. at the time, wanted to diversify its business. Its marketing strategies had been highly successful in selling its top brands, like Camel, Winston and Salem cigarettes, and executives thought, Why not apply the same strategies to, say, the food industry?So in 1963, R.J. Reynolds acquired Hawaiian Punch. It marked the beginning of the tobacco industry's entry into the food sector. In the following decades, R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris expanded aggressively into the food industry, acquiring major brands, like Del Monte, Nabisco, General Foods, Kraft and 7UP, where they produced hyperpalatable, chemically-engineered foods now known as ultra-processed foods, or UPFs. These products were marketed especially to children and other vulnerable groups. In Berkeley Talks episode 229, Laura Schmidt, a professor of health policy in the School of Medicine at UC San Francisco, discusses how ultra-processed foods — like cookies, sodas, instant noodles, fish sticks and cereals — are a direct legacy of the tobacco industry, and are responsible for a dramatic rise in obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases across the country. “About 60% of the calories in Americans' diets are from ultra-processed foods,” says Schmidt, who spoke at a UC Berkeley event in May. “In the mid-'80s, when we see ultra-processed foods starting to scale up in the American food supply, we also see obesity starting to really rise. That is the moment when some of the largest food companies are owned by tobacco companies.”This talk took place on May 5, 2025, and was co-sponsored by the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) and Berkeley Public Health. It was moderated by Isabel Madzorera, an assistant professor in food, nutrition and population health at Berkeley Public Health and co-faculty director at the Berkeley Food Institute.Watch a video of the event on the Berkeley Food Institute's YouTube page.Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu/podcasts).Music by HoliznaCC0.Photo by Cory Doctorow via Wikimedia Commons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest in our series on belief, we’re looking at China’s official belief system—Marxism. In recent years, netizens have argued China has entered the ‘garbage time’ of history, a phrase borrowed from the dying minutes of a basketball game, which now references a crisis of trust in the Communist Party and its official ideology. To ask whether Marxism still exists in China, and how Marx influences the Chinese state, we’re joined by two guests: Alison Sile Chen Zhao, a University of California political analyst and the author of Her Battles, and Professor Xu Chenggang, a senior research fellow at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, and the author of Institutional Genes: Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism. Episode art: Portrait of Karl Marx. c/- Wikimedia Commons. Transcripts available at https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"The transitioning nature of the field recording made for some melodic transitioning in the background. The trumpet call ends abruptly but returns again and again." Krakow trumpet call reimagined by Moray Newlands. IMAGE: Oliszydlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Probably Poland's most iconic sound, the hejnał mariacki (literally "Saint Mary's dawn") is a trumpet call that sounds every hour on the hour from the highest tower of St Mary's Church in Kraków's rynek glówny (main square).  The bugler plays the same call four times, once in each of the cardinal directions. This tradition dates back to medieval times, when the call was used to signal the opening and closing of the city gates at dawn and dusk. It was also played to alarm citizens of fires or enemy invasion.  The theme's abrupt end commemorates the Mongol-Tatar siege of 1241, when the trumpeter warning the city of the imminent threat was shot in the throat by an arrow mid-way through the call.  Or so the legend goes... I made this recording a couple of months after moving to Kraków as part of a project through which I attempted to reconnect with my Polish-Jewish heritage and, in a more general sense, to explore the experience of migration through sound. Recorded by Alex Roth. IMAGE: Oliszydlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter University) about his book The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization (Princeton University Press). He argues that decolonization was not just the transfer of power from colonizers to the colonized, but a global, often violent process that forged new alliances, reshaped international connections, and left behind enduring colonial legacies. In this episode we ask: How to rethink decolonization? If empires were so powerful, military, politically, economically, why and how did they collapse? And how is colonial violence different than violence in non-imperial spaces? Photo: Civilian are pushing a military jeep. 1 August 1962. Wikimedia Commons.

"This piece reimagines a field recording of everyday people calling out, treating their voices not just as source material, but as the foundation. Approached with deep intention, it aimed to honour the original rhythms and harmonies of the callers without overpowering them.  "The composition moves between ambient stillness and percussive energy, layering textures like tracked flute and analogue synth around the calls to reflect a natural, evolving dialogue. At its core, the work is about preservation through transformation, responding to what already resonates with care, space, and trust." Instrumental credits: André Solomon - Flute Hellcat Sneer - Moog Sub37, BOSS RC-505 Loop Station, and Nord Drum3p Percussion Synthesizer Arranged, mixed, and mastered by Hellcat Sneer | Hellcat Sneer and André Solomon Alor Setar bus station reimagined by Hellcat Sneer and André Solomon. IMAGE: Marufish from Alor Setar, Malaysia, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Under medeltiden och 1500-talet tillhörde Skåne, Blekinge och Halland Danmark. Den danska kungamakten kontrollerade även Bohuslän, Gotland, Jämtland och Härjedalen – landskap som i dag är självklara delar av Sverige. De avgörande territoriella förändringarna skedde under krigen på 1640- och 1650-talen, då Danmark förlorade sin roll som skandinavisk stormakt till förmån för Sverige.Den svenska maktutvidgningen skedde i flera etapper och medförde stort lidande, särskilt för den skånska civilbefolkningen, som ofta hamnade i kläm när kungarna stred mot varandra. Mitt under trettioåriga kriget omdirigerade Axel Oxenstierna och den svenska riksledningen arméerna från Centraleuropa till Danmark. Detta ledde till den för Danmark förödande freden i Brömsebro.År 1657, när den svenska armén var upptagen i ett utdraget krig i Polen, försökte den danske kungen Fredrik III ta revansch. Detta fick ännu värre konsekvenser. Karl X Gustav lämnade Polen och genomförde det berömda tåget över de isbelagda danska bälten. Utan möjlighet att försvara sig tvingades kung Fredrik acceptera de stränga villkoren i freden i Roskilde, vilket innebar att Skånelandskapen och Bohuslän övergick till Sverige.I detta avsnitt av podden Harrisons dramatiska historia samtalar Dick Harrison, professor i historia vid Lunds universitet, och fackboksförfattaren Katarina Harrison Lindbergh om hur den svenska stormakten på 1600-talet införlivade Skånelandskapen i riket.Bildtext: Karl X Gustaf efter slaget vid Iversnaes. Oljemålning av Johann Philip Lemke, efter förlaga av Erik Dahlbergh. Målningen visar Karl X Gustaf till häst på en höjd efter slaget vid Iversnaes. I bakgrunden ses strider mellan svenska och danska trupper på en frusen sjö, medan Erik Dahlbergh kommer till undsättning från höger. Verket är ett dramatiskt skildrat propagandaporträtt av svensk militär triumf under 1600-talets stormaktstid.Nationalmuseum, identifikationsnummer NMDrh 149.Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.Klippare: Emanuel LehtonenProducent: Urban Lindstedt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Buy the book and audiobook "Learn Norwegian with Norse Mythology" : https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdT7dCM1wLeVGdQQ?locale=en&__embed_source=buy_btn_1QhRZFLUx0JXaC0N4FoHRjI1⁠⁠⁠More information about the book:⁠⁠⁠Shop – Lær norsk nå⁠⁠-------------------------------------------------------------------Email: Laernorsknaa@gmail.comTranscript: https://laernorsknaa.com/easy-stories-in-norwegian-keiserens-nye-klaer/Support me here -->Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/laernorsknaa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donasjon (Paypal): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Doner (paypal.com)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bildet: Illustration of "The Emperor's New Clothes." Vilhelm Pedersen (1820 - 1859) - Wikimedia Commons

"I initially wanted to pick a sound from nature to work with, but the Reitaisai Festival grabbed my attention as soon as I came across it. I didn't want to manipulate the recording too much so I kept the clip I worked with intact and didn't chop it up to keep to a certain tempo. I wanted to preserve the energy of the recording and for it to feel as if I was joining in spirit, swooping in to play with my friends and then floating away again.  "We sometimes slightly fall away from each other rhythmically and then come together, as you would do if playing and chanting through the streets. I used keyboard, synth, hammered dulcimer and tongue drum to play along from afar.  "At the end I imagine going into a house, running up the stairs and opening a window onto the streets below, getting a last burst of the crowd chanting “Reitaisai” before retreating back through whichever portal I came through." Reitaisei festival, Tokyo reimagined by Jess Bryant. IMAGE: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Reitaisai is an important festival held by Shinto shrines in Japan. People from the town where the shrine is located gather and carry a mikoshi (portable shrine) as they parade through the streets. This is a recording capturing the mikoshi approaching and then moving away. Recorded in November 2024 by Miyu Hosoi. IMAGE: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

In part two of Reign of Terror: Vampire serial killers, Tessa talks about three different cases: Richard Chase (Vampire of Sacramento), Joachim Knychała (Vampire of Botom) and Wayne Boden (the vampire rapist) CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Slaget vid Villmanstrand den 23 augusti 1741, under Finska kriget 1741–1743, är bland de största katastroferna i svensk militärhistoria. Uppfyllda av övermod och med orealistiska mål inledde hattpartiet i riksdagen, de så kallade Hattarna, ett illa förberett anfallskrig mot Ryssland.Konsekvenserna blev ödesdigra: landavträdelser och starkt ryskt inflytande över Sveriges inrikespolitik. Det mänskliga priset betalades av tusentals svenska soldater, som dog utan att resultat uppnåddes.I detta avsnitt av Militärhistoriepodden berättar Martin Hårdstedt och Peter Bennesved om ett av Sveriges mest glömda krig. Hattarnas ryska krig inleddes sommaren 1741. Trots franska subventioner och ett avtal med Osmanska riket var förberedelserna bristfälliga. Redan vid Villmanstrand led svenska trupper katastrofala förluster: av Wrangels 4 000 man stupade eller sårades hälften. Flottan drabbades av sjukdomar och i augusti 1742 kapitulerade armén i Helsingfors.Som resultat av förlusten avträddes Sveriges sydöstra delar av Finland till Ryssland, vilket lämnade viktiga gränsfästningar på ryskt territorium. Ryssarna påverkade svensk tronföljd och förde in en rysk styrka på 12 000 man strax utanför Stockholm för att "skydda" landet mot Danmark. Dalkarlarna reste sig och tågade till huvudstaden i den så kallade "daldansen", där den svenska militären gick in på Norrmalmstorg. Sverige befann sig därefter i ett politiskt och militärt svaghetstillstånd, som inte skådats på flera århundraden.Bild: Karta över slaget vid Villmanstrand, 23 augusti 1741 (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons).Lyssna också på Stora ofreden – ryska ockupationen av Finland 1713-21.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Trinity is one of the most important doctrines in our understanding of God. The purpose of the doctrine is to enable us to better understand the relation between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The nature of God revealed to us reminds us that salvation is dependent upon all three persons being truly God, but being only one God. If God is only a singular person, salvation falls apart biblically. Salvation in Jesus Christ reveals to us that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons, but one being.Image: Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Image cropped to make into a square.

Photo of Tim Walz courtesy of Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0  via Wikimedia Commons

Charlie asked 'How to navigate?' and cast Hexagram 27, Nourishment - or Jaws - changing at line 1 to 23, Stripping Away: changing to What followed was a strongly resonant conversation between his inner imagery and the imagery of the Yi - and also the ancient Chinese motif of being in the jaws of the tiger. The featured image above this post shows a detail from the handle of the Houmuwu vessel, where you can just see the human face between the tigers' open mouths. (The original photo is by Mlogic, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.) Here's another example, from the 11th century BC:

Kristina Gyllenstierna (1494–1559) ledde år 1520 försvaret av Stockholms slott mot Kristian II:s danska trupper. Gravid och nybliven änka efter riksföreståndare Sten Sture den yngre, tog hon kommandot med både mod och moralisk styrka.Genom högättade kvinnors perspektiv framträder en annan bild av maktstriderna i Kalmarunionens slutskede och Vasaättens uppkomst, än i traditionell historieskrivning. Dessa kvinnor kunde utöva inflytande, men riskerade också att drabbas hårt när deras män förlorade makten.I podden Historia Nu samtalar Urban Lindstedt med idéhistorikern Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen, författare till Kvinnorna runt Vasatronen, om Kristinas liv och andra adelskvinnors roll i maktspelet.Kvinnornas roller i det tidigmoderna Sverige var mer komplexa än enbart dekorativa. De var mödrar, änkor, rådgivare, godsägare – och i flera fall politiska aktörer med avgörande betydelse. I en värld där politisk makt ofta ärvdes eller bevarades genom släktband, blev kvinnor som Kristina Gyllenstierna, Märta, och Margareta Leijonhufvud nyckelfigurer i bevarandet av dynastisk kontinuitet och motståndskraft.Genom brev, förhandlingar, strategiska äktenskap och minnesarbete vidmakthöll dessa kvinnor släktens ära och makt – ofta i tystnad, men med en kraft och målmedvetenhet som i efterhand framstår som historiskt avgörande.Kristina föddes ca 1494 i en av Sveriges mäktigaste släkter. Genom sitt äktenskap med Sten Sture dy knöts hon till det parti som ville frigöra Sverige från dansk överhöghet. När maken stupade 1520 tog Kristina över ledarskapet och organiserade motståndet. Hon skrev upprop, försökte nå utländskt stöd och agerade som regent i Stures namn.Trots en förhandlad amnesti lät Kristian II avrätta hennes släktingar i Stockholms blodbad. Efteråt fängslades Kristina och flera kvinnliga släktingar i Blåtårn i Köpenhamn, där de satt isolerade i över tre år. I sin andaktsbok bad hon om skydd från sina fiender – hon var mer än en fånge, hon var en symbol för motståndet.När Gustav Eriksson Vasa, hennes systerson, tog makten blev han snabbt hennes rival. Kristina kämpade för sina barns rättigheter, men marginaliserades. Relationen till Gustav Vasa präglades av misstänksamhet. Gustav Vasa arbetade målmedvetet för att koncentrera makten kring sin egen familj. Ätten Sture förlorade sin plats i rikets ledning. Deras relation var från detta ögonblick kylig, präglad av misstänksamhet och maktspel.Hennes sonhustru, Märta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud, en annan centralgestalt i 1500-talets adliga kvinnohistoria. Märta gifte sig med Svante Sture, Kristinas son, och blev mor till flera söner som gjorde karriär i statens tjänst.Bild: Kristina Gyllenstierna och maken, riksföreståndaren Sten Sture den yngre, avbildade i ett samtida porträtt från Gripsholms slott. Målningen är utförd av en okänd konstnär och ingår i Nationalmuseums samlingar. Public Domain.Musik: Walther, Johann Gottfried. Ach, Gott, erhör mein Seufzen und Wehklage [Ljudinspelning]. Tillgänglig via Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Erkännande-Dela Lika 4.0 Internationell (CC BY-SA 4.0).Lyssna också till Nytt ljus över antalet döda i Stockholms blodbad.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Was James Bond based on a real person? Meet the spies, heroes, and eccentrics who helped inspire Ian Fleming's iconic 007-then find out why none of them quite fit the tux.________________________________________Full Description:What if James Bond wasn't just fiction? In this episode of An Ounce, we dive into the real lives of the men believed to have inspired 007-from the Serbian double agent who gambled with Nazis, to the Canadian mastermind who ran a spy ring out of Manhattan.Meet Duško Popov, Patrick Dalzel-Job, William Stephenson, Sidney Reilly… and yes, even Ian Fleming himself. Each brought something to the Bond mythos-but not one of them is Bond. Discover how this famous spy was stitched together like a bespoke Frankenstein in a tux, with just the right mix of danger, elegance, and legend.________________________________________

Den 6 juni firar Sverige nationaldag, men hur många vet egentligen varför vi firar just denna dag? Faktum är att nationaldagen är ett modernt påfund som endast har existerat i några decennier. Varför har vi överhuvudtaget infört denna helgdag? Påminner den om historiska händelser som är värda att hyllas, eller handlar det om något annat?En ofta återkommande förklaring är att Gustav Vasa valdes till kung i Strängnäs den 6 juni 1523. En annan förklaring är att dagen uppmärksammar tillkomsten av vår nya regeringsform år 1809, då det gustavianska enväldet avskaffades och Sverige fick ett styrelseskick som grundade sig på idén om maktdelning mellan kung och riksdag. Det var förvisso ännu inte en demokrati, men det markerade början på utvecklingen mot vårt nuvarande samhällsskick.Sanningen är dock att nationaldagsfirandet har sina rötter i Artur Hazelius flaggfester på Skansen på 1890-talet, vilka så småningom ledde till firandet av Svenska flaggans dag. Hazelius hade knappast lyckats med detta om han inte kunnat luta sig mot en nyväckt svensk nationalism – samma strömning som resulterade i nationalsången, svenska flaggor på flaggstänger och den etablerade Sverigebilden med röda stugor, husmanskost, folkdräkter och föreställningar om gemensamma värderingar.I detta avsnitt av podden Harrisons dramatiska historia samtalar Dick Harrison, professor i historia vid Lunds universitet, och fackboksförfattaren Katarina Harrison Lindbergh om den svenska nationaldagen och den nationalistiska rörelse som banade väg för nationaldagsfenomenet.Bild: Nationaldagsfirande på Skansen i Stockholm den 6 juni 2016.Foto: Bengt Nyman – Eget arbete. Wikipedia. Licens: CC BY-SA 4.0.Musik: La Marseillaise Rouget de Lisle Musique de la Garde Républicaine. Band of the Garde Républicaine, directed by François-Julien Brun. Recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Tillgänglig via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.Du gamla, du fria. Kören Harmonica med ett CC-licensierat körarrangemang skapat av Anders Ewaldz. Tillgänglig via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.Svenska: Kören Harmonica framför Sveriges nationalsång med ett CC-licensierat körarrangemang skapat av Anders Ewaldz. Texten är skriven av Richard Dybeck 1844 och melodin är hämtad från en gammal folkmelodi.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) var en nyckelperson i Tredje riket. Hans ideologiska övertygelse, flit och administrativa skicklighet gjorde honom central i genomförandet av nazismens rasistiska terror. Genom SS byggde han upp en struktur som förenade paramilitär makt med ideologisk och kvasi-religiös symbolik.Himmler var djupt intresserad av ockultism, pseudohistoria och esoteriska idéer. Han såg SS som en andlig elit, kallad att återuppväcka en uråldrig germansk kraft som enligt honom gått förlorad genom kristendomen. I uppdraget ingick en jakt på den heliga graalen och Tors hammare.I detta avsnitt av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med Ulf Zander, professor i historia vid Lunds universitet, om Himmlers ockulta föreställningar. Detta avsnitt är ett betalt samarbete med History Channel, som den 5 juni klockan 20:00 har premiär för dokumentärserien Hitler's Treasure Hunters. I sex delar skildras hur SS-enheten Das Ahnenerbe sökte efter religiösa reliker och mytiska skatter, såsom den heliga Graalen och Tors hammare – föremål vars övernaturliga kraft skulle bidra till en tysk seger i kriget.Himmler drogs tidigt till nationalistiska och antisemitiska rörelser. Han anslöt sig till nazistpartiet 1923 och gick med i SS 1925. Redan 1929 blev han dess ledare, Reichsführer-SS. År 1936 blev han chef för hela det tyska polisväsendet och byggde en effektiv terrorapparat.Himmler betraktade kristendomen som en främmande och försvagande religion, påtvingad germanerna utifrån. Han var särskilt kritisk till kristendomens betoning på förlåtelse, självuppoffring och jämlikhet – idéer han ansåg skadliga för en krigförande, aristokratisk elit. I stället förespråkade han en återgång till en förkristen, germansk religiositet byggd på ära, blod och jord.Ceremonier inom SS präglades av nyhedniska inslag. Vid bröllop kunde till exempel en svärdsceremoni ersätta kristna löften, och vid begravningar hyllades den avlidnes koppling till förfäder snarare än till Gud. Denna symboliska brytning med kristendomen var inte fullständig, men markerade ett försök att ersätta kyrkans institutioner med SS:s egen kultstruktur.Slottet Wewelsburg blev ett andligt centrum för SS. Himmler ville göra det till högkvarter för en framtida SS-orden. Slottet omgestaltades i rituell stil, och i tornets runda sal lades ett golv med symbolen Svarta solen – kopplad till nazistisk mysticism. Ett kryptliknande rum ska ha använts för att bevara aska från SS-ledare, som en del av Himmlers kultliknande vision.Bild: SS-ledaren Heinrich Himmler (i mitten) anländer tillsammans med Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan (till vänster) och SS-Obergruppenführer August Heißmeyer till Quedlinburgs domkyrka för en nattlig ceremoni till minne av kung Heinrich I:s dödsdag, den 1 juli 1938. Händelsen ägde rum som en del av den nazistiska kulten kring den tidiga tyska historien och dess symboler. 2 juli 1938. Källa: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H08445. Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst – Zentralbild (Bild 183). Musik: Wagner, Richard. Siegfried's Funeral March and Finale. Framförd av United States Marine Corps Band, inspelad 8–11 december 1981 i Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Transkription av Howard Bowlin (begravningsmarsch) och John Bourgeois (final). Tillgänglig via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[RE-UPLOAD - Audio quality improved] Joe and Lee kick off a series of episodes that will focus on Catholic Social Teaching, this time looking closely at Pope Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum! Register for the conference today at https://www.chesterton.org/44th-annual-chesterton-conference/ Video of Pope Leo XIII is in the public domain, taken from Wikimedia Commons. FOLLOW US Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsociety Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanChestertonSociety X: https://twitter.com/chestertonsoc SUPPORT Consider making a donation: https://www.chesterton.org/give/ Visit our Shop at https://www.chesterton.org/shop/

The Capital Region protested outside Albany Airport on May 31st, engaging in a National Day of Action against Avelo Airlines which operates flights out of Albany International Airport and is contracted with the Trump Administration to deport and help disappear the people that ICE has been kidnapping and sending to foreign gulags. Protesters brought hand made signs and energy to tell Avelo Airlines that they will not tolerate their profiteering from Trump's unconstitutional acts. Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Andrea Cunliffe was there and brings you this report speaking with Indivisible's Bryan Pas Hernandes, Marianna Achlaoug, and Andreas Kriefall of Indivisible Albany, and Alexander Flood Director of Communications for New York Senator Patricia Fahy. NY Senator Patricia Fahy supports for the proposed SafeAirAct, learn more at StopAvelo.org Indivisable.org This image is from Wikimedia Commons, made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

For 3 June 2025, Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, based on Acts 20:17-27 (Featured image: Philipp Jakob, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests."   Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric Person   We couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris a good, hard listen?  This Monday (5/12) from 6p to 9p NYC time, host Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person to the WKCR studios for a powerful Deep Focus.  If only they had rare, unreleased recordings of Eddie Harris from the WKCR archives.  Hmmm... We'll have to work on that!    Tune in this Monday (4/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.     Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted.  It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  We won't even ask for your contact info.   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.     Photo credit: Eddie Harris 1972 Atlantic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.   #WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #EddieHarris #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman  

Das Hof-Atelier Elvira in München war mehr als ein Fotostudio: Gegründet 1887 von Sophia Goudstikker und Anita Augspurg, entwickelte es sich schon kurz nach seiner Gründung zu einem Forum für gesellschaftliche Diskussion und Innovation: Hier begegneten sich Kulturschaffende, Aktivist*innen und Visionär*innen, um über Kunst, Literatur, Frauenrechte und vieles mehr zu debattieren und natürlich, um zu feiern. In dieser Folge geht es um die Netzwerke, die in diesem außergewöhnlichen Raum entstanden, und um seine Gründerin und Hauptfigur Sophia Goudstikker – eine Frau, die (wie ich finde, zu Unrecht) in der Erzählung immer ein bisschen neben ihrer prominenteren ersten Lebensgefährtin Anita Augspurg verblasste.Die Fotos zur Folge findet ihr auf der Folgenwebsite .Literatur und Quellen:Ingvild Richardsen: Leidenschaftliche Herzen, feurige Seelen. Wie Frauen die Welt veränderten. Frankfurt 2019.Ingvild Richardsen (Hg.): Die modernen Frauen des Atelier Elvira in München und Augsburg 1887 – 1908, München 2022.Rudolf Herz/Brigitte Bruns (Hg.): Hof-Atelier Elvira 1887 – 1928. Ästheten, Emanzen, Aristokraten, München 1985.Gertrud Bäumer: Lebensweg durch eine Zeitenwende, Tübingen 1933.Ernst von Wolzogen: Das dritte Geschlecht, Berlin 1899.Fanny zu Reventlow: Viragines oder Hetären? in: Zürcher Diskußjonen 22 (1899).Atelier Elvira: Website-Projekt von Ingvild Richardsen über die Protagonistinnen des Hof-Ateliers Elvira und des Vereins für Fraueninteressen: https://atelierelvira.de/Verein für Fraueninteressen: https://fraueninteressen.de/Bildquellen:Foto Sophia Goudstikker: Landesarchiv Berlin, LAB B Rep. 235-FS Nr. 187Foto Ika Freudenberg: Hof-Atelier Elvira, aus G. Bäumer: Gestalt und Wandel. Frauenbildnisse, Berlin 1950, zu S. 432.Fotoatelier Elvira: Philipp Kester, Hofatelier Elvira ; Außenfassade des Gebäudes, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, Archiv Kester, FM-87/61.491.7, CC BY-SA 4.0Gruppenfoto: Hof-Atelier Elvira, via Wikimedia Commons

Achou que a Primeira Guerra Mundial foi o primeiro conflito global? Achou errado, freund! A Guerra dos Sete Anos (1756-1763) é considerada, por diversos autores, como a primeira guerra global, pois envolveu potências europeias com vastas áreas coloniais. Motivada por disputas de território e, sobretudo, interesses econômicos, a amplitude e descontinuidade geográfica do conflito determinou a existência de uma multiplicidade de espaços operacionais com características próprias. Calce suas botas, atenda ao pedido de Sua Alteza e embarque no conflito que remodelou o mundo, no final do séc XVIII. Patronato do SciCast: 1. Patreon SciCast 2. Apoia.se/Scicast 3. Nos ajude via Pix também, chave: contato@scicast.com.br ou acesse o QRcode: Sua pequena contribuição ajuda o Portal Deviante a continuar divulgando Ciência! Contatos: contato@scicast.com.br https://twitter.com/scicastpodcast https://www.facebook.com/scicastpodcast https://instagram.com/scicastpodcast Fale conosco! E não esqueça de deixar o seu comentário na postagem desse episódio! Expediente: Produção Geral: Tarik Fernandes e André Trapani Equipe de Gravação: Fernando Malta, Anderson Couto, Maria Oliveira, Matheus Silveira, Willian Spengler Citação ABNT: Scicast #646: Guerra dos 7 Anos, a Guerra Mundial Zero - Origens. Locução: Fernando Malta, Anderson Couto, Maria Oliveira, Matheus Silveira, Willian Spengler. [S.l.] Portal Deviante, 31/05/2025. Podcast. Disponível em: https://www.deviante.com.br/podcasts/scicast-646 Imagem de capa: Por Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794 -- Cartographer ;Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 -- CartographerRobert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786 -- Cartographer - a file already in Wikimedia Commons (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?imageID=434522), Domínio público, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34878452 Referências e Indicações Scicast#475 - A Grande Guerra do Norte: Rússia x Suécia Sugestões de literatura: AUDOIN-ROZEAU, Stéphane. As grandes batalhas da História. São Paulo: Larrouse, 2009. CUMMINS, Joseph. As maiores guerras da História. Rio de Janeiro: Ediouro, 2012. CROMPTON, Samuel W. 100 guerras que mudaram a história do mundo. Rio de Janeiro: Ediouro, 2005. FLINT, Keith. Honours of War: Wargames Rules for the Seven Years’ War. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2015. (Osprey Wargames) FERRARI, Ana C. Guerra: impérios coloniais e lutas modernas. São Paulo: Duetto Editorial, 2011. GILBERT, Adrian. Enciclopédia das Guerras: conflitos mundiais através dos tempos. São Paulo: M.Books, 2005. MARSTON, Daniel. The Seven Years’War. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001. (Essential Histories v. 006) OVERY, Richard. A história da guerra em 100 batalhas. São Paulo: Publifolha, 2015. Sugestões de filmes: Barry Lyndon (1975) General Hadik (2023) O Grande Rei (1942) Sugestões de vídeos: Para gostar de História e Geografia - Guerra dos Sete Anos Geo-História - A Guerra dos Sete Anos: A Primeira Guerra Mundial? O mosquete britânico Brown Bess Sugestões de links: https://www.academia.edu/31339348/A_Guerra_dos_Sete_Anos_um_conflito_de_dimens%C3%B5es_globais Sugestões de games: Assassin’s Creed Rogue See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests."   Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric Person   We couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris a good, hard listen?  This Monday (5/12) from 6p to 9p NYC time, host Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person to the WKCR studios for a powerful Deep Focus.  If only they had rare, unreleased recordings of Eddie Harris from the WKCR archives.  Hmmm... We'll have to work on that!    Tune in this Monday (4/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.     Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted.  It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  We won't even ask for your contact info.   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.     Photo credit: Eddie Harris 1972 Atlantic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.   #WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #EddieHarris #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman

Possibly the most common non-human resident in the average home is the long-bodied cellar spider. These innocuous beasties provide non-toxic, round-the-clock pest control for just the price of a small place to live. And although there are those who'd be less than thrilled by these little guests, they keep actual pest populations in check. This episode discusses how you can document the guests in your home and share them for posterity and science.The episode art is modified from a photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Ryan Hodnett.

Best known as the wife and partner of Timothy Leary, Rosemary Woodruff was in fact a central figure in the psychedelic movement in her own right—a political radical, underground fugitive, and neglected architect of the counterculture. In this episode, Phil and JF speak with journalist and author Susannah Cahalan about Woodruff Leary's life and legacy. Cahalan's new book, The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, brings its subject into focus as a complex and courageous individual whose story has been overshadowed for too long. The conversation follows the threads of the biography while branching into the weirdness of biographical writing, the ongoing relevance of the 1960s counterculture, the troubling figure of Timothy Leary, and the enduring promise—and peril—of psychedelics. Susannah Cahalan is the New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire, a memoir about her experience with autoimmune encephalitis. Her second book, The Great Pretender, which investigated a seminal study in the history of mental health care and diagnosis, was shortlisted for the the Royal Society's 2020 Science Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Photo from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at UCLA, via Wikimedia Commons. REFERENCES Susannah Cahalan, The Acid Queen Weird Studies, Episode 189 with Jacob Foster Marion Woodman, Canadian feminist author Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle, Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s & '70s Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture Eric Davis, TechGnosis Lutz Dammbeck, The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet Robert Greenfield, Timothy Leary: A Biography Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay Blanche Hoschedé Monet, French painter Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

در این اپیزود، سفری به زندگی پرماجرا و پرفرازونشیب ارنست همینگوی، یکی از بزرگ‌ترین نویسندگان قرن بیستم، داریم! از روزهای پرشور جوانی و ماجراهای جنگیش گرفته تا خلق شاهکارهایی مثل «پیرمرد و دریا» و «وداع با اسلحه». با ما همراه بشید تا داستان زندگی این نویسنده‌ی اسطوره‌ای، عشق‌هاش، شکست‌هاش و سبک منحصربه‌فردش رو کشف کنیم. امیدواریم این اپیزود پر از حس و هیجان رو دوست داشته باشید و بتونید لحظه‌هایی از زندگی همینگوی رو با ما زندگی کنید! نظراتتون رو برامون بنویسید و اگه دوست داشتید، این اپیزود رو با بقیه به اشتراک بذارید.

در این اپیزود، سفری به زندگی پرماجرا و پرفرازونشیب ارنست همینگوی، یکی از بزرگ‌ترین نویسندگان قرن بیستم، داریم! از روزهای پرشور جوانی و ماجراهای جنگیش گرفته تا خلق شاهکارهایی مثل «پیرمرد و دریا» و «وداع با اسلحه». با ما همراه بشید تا داستان زندگی این نویسنده‌ی اسطوره‌ای، عشق‌هاش، شکست‌هاش و سبک منحصربه‌فردش رو کشف کنیم. امیدواریم این اپیزود پر از حس و هیجان رو دوست داشته باشید و بتونید لحظه‌هایی از زندگی همینگوی رو با ما زندگی کنید! نظراتتون رو برامون بنویسید و اگه دوست داشتید، این اپیزود رو با بقیه به اشتراک بذارید.

در این اپیزود، سفری به زندگی پرماجرا و پرفرازونشیب ارنست همینگوی، یکی از بزرگ‌ترین نویسندگان قرن بیستم، داریم! از روزهای پرشور جوانی و ماجراهای جنگیش گرفته تا خلق شاهکارهایی مثل «پیرمرد و دریا» و «وداع با اسلحه». با ما همراه بشید تا داستان زندگی این نویسنده‌ی اسطوره‌ای، عشق‌هاش، شکست‌هاش و سبک منحصربه‌فردش رو کشف کنیم. امیدواریم این اپیزود پر از حس و هیجان رو دوست داشته باشید و بتونید لحظه‌هایی از زندگی همینگوی رو با ما زندگی کنید! نظراتتون رو برامون بنویسید و اگه دوست داشتید، این اپیزود رو با بقیه به اشتراک بذارید.

Romanen som vi känner den föds i slutet på 1700-talet och slår på några årtionden ut verseposet och poesin. Ny tryckteknik, fotogenlampan och moderna kommunikationer gjorde romanen tillgänglig för en större publik. Särskilt kvinnorna drogs till romanerna, som också varandes för konsekvenserna av allt för omfattande romanläsning.Romanen krävde inte samma klassisk bildning som eposet och svarade på borgarklassens behov av identifikation och individualitet.  Romanen passade in den nya offentligheten av tidningar, magasin och förläggare där många kända verk skrevs och publicerades som följetonger.I detta avsnitt av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med Ingrid Elam professor emerita i litterärgestalning vid Göteborgs universitet och aktuell med boken Romanens segertåg.Världens första kända roman, Berättelsen om Genji, skrevs av den japanska hovdamen Murasaki Shikibu strax efter år 1000. Men den moderna romanens segertåg började i slutet på 1700-talet som ett barn av upplysningen. Romanen var inledningsvis en föraktad genre, men den tog snabbt över från episka hjältedikter och teater som lånade stil och format från antiken.Där eposet var ett färdigt format med stilmallar som förfinats under 2000 år var romankonsten öppen och sökande. När vi började läsa romaner gick läsandet från kollektiv högläsning till en ensam sysselsättning för individen. I takt med att samhället och vetenskapen utvecklas förändras romanen i fråga om perspektiv och berättande.Eftersom romanen säljs till läsarna på en växande marknad blir läsarna allt viktigare för författarna som tidigare försörjts av mecenater och sinekurer. Och en stor del av läsarna och författarna var tidigt kvinnor.Bild: Läsande kvinna av Anna Nordgren 1882, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.Musik: Schubert: Moment Musical Op. 94, No. 3, D780 av Audio Waves - Eliche Remblon, Storyblocks AudioLyssna också på När sprätthökar och rangsjuka fruntimmer hotade samhällets överlevnad Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests."   Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric Person   We couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris a good, hard listen?  This Monday (5/12) from 6p to 9p NYC time, host Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person to the WKCR studios for a powerful Deep Focus.  If only they had rare, unreleased recordings of Eddie Harris from the WKCR archives.  Hmmm... We'll have to work on that!    Tune in this Monday (4/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.     Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted.  It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  We won't even ask for your contact info.   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.     Photo credit: Eddie Harris 1972 Atlantic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.   #WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #EddieHarris #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman

"The port of Brindisi, end of the Appian Way at five in the afternoon, along the steps at the foot of the Roman columns. "Two stretches of still and silent sea, the engine of the boat that connects the shores of the port, the bar and its cheerful customers, birds singing in spring, a sudden plane that takes flight from the nearby airport. "A counterpoint with an insistent rhythm that melts and drops a semitone at the moment of takeoff and detachment before nostalgia. An instant in a place of transit for centuries, voices and travellers who went." Brindisi port reimagined by Giuseppe Schirone. IMAGE: Freccia53, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The port of Brindisi, end of the Appian Way at five in the afternoon, along the steps at the foot of the Roman columns. Two stretches of still and silent sea, the engine of the boat that connects the shores of the port, the bar and its cheerful customers, birds singing in spring, a sudden plane that takes flight from the nearby airport. Recorded by Giuseppe Schirone.  IMAGE: Freccia53, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

As 20-year-old Olga Janáčková lay dying from typhoid fever, her father wrote down everything she said. Later, he transformed those words—and gasps—into music. The grieving father, Czech composer Leoš Janáček, called the ultra-short musical pieces "speech melodies." In this episode, language writer Michael Erard invites cellist Petronella Torin to play Olga's speech melodies. NYU's Michael Beckerman describes the controversy surrounding them. This is among countless ways that loved ones have memorialized the final words of the dying. Michael Erard tells the stories of many of them in his new book, Bye Bye I Love You. Music in this episode by Magnus Ludvigsson, Medité, Dream Cave, Nylonia, Alexandra Woodward, Cobby Costa, August Wilhelmsson, David Celeste, Martin Landstrom, Gavin Luke, Rand Also, Airae, Alan Ellis, Jules Gaia, Trabant 33, and Leoš Janáček. More about cellist Petronella Torin here. The photo (via Wikimedia Commons) shows Olga Janáčková, daughter of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, not long before her death from typhoid fever. Read a transcript of this episode here. Subscribe to our newsletter here.

In this episode, JF and Phil paddle into the marshlands of Algernon Blackwood's 1907 masterpiece The Willows, a tale Lovecraft once called the finest weird story of all time. They explore how a narrative in which almost nothing happens can conjure a cosmic dread more potent than a legion of monsters, and how Blackwood's genius lies in revealing the spiritual horror latent in landscape itself. Topics include zones, the limits of human reason, and the terror of brushing up against an otherworld that lies just beyond the riverbank—near at hand, yet somehow separated from us by an unbridgeable gulf. Photo by Derek Dye, via Wikimedia Commons. REFERENCES Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows”   Weird Studies, Episode 55 on “The Wendigo”   SCTV Algernon Blackwood, “The Psychology of Places” in The Lure of the Unknown Weird Studies, Episodes 14 and 15 on Stalker Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols Sue Clifford and Angela King, England in Particular Michael Dames, Pagans Progress J. G. Ballard, English fiction author Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As 20-year-old Olga Janáčková lay dying from typhoid fever, her father wrote down everything she said. Later, he transformed those words—and gasps—into music. The grieving father, Czech composer Leoš Janáček, called the ultra-short musical pieces "speech melodies." In this episode, language writer Michael Erard invites cellist Petronella Torin to play Olga's speech melodies. NYU's Michael Beckerman describes the controversy surrounding them. This is among countless ways that loved ones have memorialized the final words of the dying. Michael Erard tells the stories of many of them in his new book, Bye Bye I Love You. Music in this episode by Magnus Ludvigsson, Medité, Dream Cave, Nylonia, Alexandra Woodward, Cobby Costa, August Wilhelmsson, David Celeste, Martin Landstrom, Gavin Luke, Rand Also, Airae, Alan Ellis, Jules Gaia, Trabant 33, and Leoš Janáček. More about cellist Petronella Torin here. The photo (via Wikimedia Commons) shows Olga Janáčková, daughter of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, not long before her death from typhoid fever. Read a transcript of this episode here. Subscribe to our newsletter here.

Nazitysklands anfall på Norge och Danmark den 9 april 1940 var resultatet av en kedja av strategiska beslut av både de allierade och Nazityskland. Tyskarna behövde hamnar i Norge för kriget på Atlanten och för att säkra de svenska malmtransporterna via Narvik, samtidigt som de Allierade ville förhindra samma export.Där Danmark kapitulerade nästan utan strid skulle norrmännen kämpa i två månader. Men det svaga norska försvaret, flera misstag kring mobiliseringen i kombination med en förvirrad hjälp från britterna och fransmännen beseglade norrmännens öde. Den tyska ockupationen i Norge skulle bli hård, medan danskarna som behöll sin regering fick det lättare fram till 1943.Detta är tredje delen av sju om andra världskriget. Programledaren Urban Lindstedt samtalar med Martin Hårdstedt, professor i historia vid Umeå universitet.Redan när kriget bröt ut den 1 september 1939 förklarade Norge och Danmark sig neutrala. Norges försvar var huvudsakligen inriktade på övervakningsuppgifter, eftersom landets geografiska läge ansågs vara en garanti mot storskaliga invasionsförsök. Och man förlitade sig på att brittiska Royal Navy skulle sätta stopp för en invasion.De allierade ville stoppa den svenska malmexporten till Tyskland via Narvik i Norge och de planerade att besätta de svenska malmfälten med ursäkten att kunna skicka hjälp till Finland. Tyskarna var snarare ute efter hamnar i Norge för kriget på Atlanten än att säkra malmimporten från Sverige.Den 9 april 1940 inledde Hitler Operation Weserübung, som innebar en fullskalig invasion av Danmark och Norge. Norska styrkor svarade med modigt motstånd, men trots deras ansträngningar lyckades de tyska styrkorna ta kontroll över huvudstäderna i både Danmark och Norge inom loppet av en dag. Den tyska kryssaren Blücher sänktes av den norska kustförsvar vid Oscarsborg i inloppet till Oslo, vilket fördröjde fångandet av huvudstaden och tillät kungafamiljen, regeringen och Stortinget att fly norrut med extratåg.I början av 1940 fick de norska myndigheterna flera varningar om att något var på gång. Mötet mellan Hitler och Vidkun Quisling, ledaren för det norska nazistpartiet Nasjonal Samling, i december 1939 stärkte Hitlers övertygelse om att Norge saknade viljan och förmågan att motsätta sig brittiska överträdelser av neutraliteten.Vid samma tidpunkt beslutade de allierade att genomföra en plan utarbetad av Winston Churchill för att minera norska vatten inom tre-milsgränsen. Den 8 april 1940 inleddes minläggningen (i Vestfjorden nära Narvik), och den 9 april kom det tyska angreppet.Ett nattligt ultimatum till den norska regeringen om att samarbeta med de tyska styrkorna avvisades. Under loppet av 9 april lyckades tyskarna erövra de viktigaste hamnstäderna, inklusive Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim och Narvik. Dock försenade sänkningen av den tyska kryssaren Blücher av den norska kustförsvar vid Oscarsborg i inloppet till Oslo erövringen av huvudstaden och tillät kungafamiljen, regeringen och Stortinget att avgå med extratåg till norr.Bild: Tyska Wehrmacht i Norge den 9 april 1940. Tyska trupper i bitter strid mot norska trupper i en by, 40 km väster om Lillehammer. 4556-40 PK.: Borchert Federal Archives, Bild 183-H26353 / Borchert, Erich (Eric) / CC-BY-SA 3.Musik: "Ja, vi elsker dette landet av Rikard NordraakLyricist och Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonUnited States Navy Band, See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsLyssna också på Vidkun Quisling – förrädaren som blev ett begrepp. Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Ever wondered why Van Gogh sliced off his ear? Prepare to uncover bizarre theories, humorous insights, and poignant reflections on mental health, and the mystery of what happened to that ear. Join us on a captivating journey that's equal parts tragic, funny, and profoundly human.

 History's Craziest Failed Predictions: Why the Experts Got It Hilariously WrongThink you can predict the future? Think again! In this episode of An Ounce, we dive into history's biggest and funniest prediction fails. Discover why experts confidently declared airplanes impossible, dismissed the telephone, called personal computers pointless, and even predicted rock ‘n' roll's quick demise.History has never been so amusingly wrong!

Read Online“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once.”  John 13:31–32Jesus speaks this line about Himself being glorified immediately after Judas leaves the supper to go forth to betray Him. Jesus had just finished washing the feet of His disciples, and soon He would finish the Last Supper, go to the Garden of Gethsemane, be arrested, beaten and crucified. And this was to all take place through the betrayal of one of the Twelve. Yet rather than speak of these pending events in a fearful or anxious way, Jesus points to the glory He will receive through them.Everything in life has the potential to become an instrument of the glory of God. Even our sin can end in God's glory when we repent and receive God's forgiveness. It will not be our sin that glorifies God but His mercy poured forth from the Cross upon us that gives Him glory.The same is true with the events of Holy Week. When looked at from a purely human perspective, what Jesus endured was tragic and horrific. One of His closest companions betrayed Him. The religious leaders of the time betrayed Him. The civil authorities betrayed Him. And all of the disciples except John fled in fear as Jesus was betrayed. But Jesus did not look at any of this through human eyes alone. He saw it all from the eternal perspective and clearly taught that all of these seemingly tragic events would end in His glory.When we commit ourselves to the following of Christ, we can be assured that we will also share in His Cross. We will experience the sins of others, encounter mistreatment, and have to endure various sufferings. The question for us all as we have these encounters in life is whether we will endure them in anger and despair or with the hopeful confidence of our Lord. Again, everything in life has the potential to become an instrument of the glory of God. Nothing in life has the power to steal away that glory when we keep our eyes upon the will of God and His power to use all for His glory. Reflect, today, upon your call in life to see everything from the divine perspective. If you are upset, angry, despairing or confused at times, know that God wants to bring clarity and grace to every situation. He wants to show you how you can share in His divine mission of transforming every evil into God's glory. Seek out the ways that your life must give glory to God in everything, especially those things that seem incapable of being used for good. The more an experience in life seems incapable of being used for God's glory, the more that experience is capable of giving true glory to God. My glorious Lord, You brought forth good from all things. Even the grave evil of Your betrayal was transformed into a manifestation of Your glory. I offer to You, dear Lord, all that I endure in life and pray that You will be glorified in all things, and that my life will continually become a manifestation of the glory due Your holy name. Jesus, I trust in You.  Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2025 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.Image: Philippe de Champaigne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Read OnlineTax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them Jesus addressed this parable. Luke 15:1–3This is good news! Our Lord “welcomes sinners and eats with them.” For that reason, there is room at His table for you!Sometimes it's hard to admit that we are sinners. Of course we know in our minds that we are. But our pride can easily lead us to justify our sin, downplay it and conclude that we are not that bad after all. If you find yourself thinking this way, be careful. Doing so will make you like the Pharisees and scribes in the passage above. Clearly they did not see themselves as sinners, which is why they condemned Jesus for welcoming sinners and eating with them. The passage above comes from the beginning of Chapter 15 of Luke's Gospel and serves as an introduction to three subsequent parables. First, our Lord tells the Parable of the Lost Sheep, then the Parable of the Lost Coin, and then the Parable found in the rest of today's Gospel passage, the Parable of the Lost Son. In the first parable, the shepherd who finds his lost sheep rejoices. In the second parable, the woman who finds her lost coin rejoices. And in the parable we read today, the father who finds his lost son rejoices and throws a party to celebrate.Return, again, to the passage above that introduces these three parables: “Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus.” Once they drew near, Jesus spoke to them about the joy of finding that which was lost. Perhaps as Jesus initially spoke about the finding of the lost sheep and lost coin, this would have resonated with these tax collectors and sinners to a certain degree. But then our Lord tells them the long and detailed story about this boy who disrespects his father, takes his inheritance, squanders it on illicit living, and ends up with nothing. The story expresses the confusion of this boy, his desperation, his guilt and his shame. We learn of his interior thinking, reasoning, fears and anxiety.As you ponder this parable, try to understand the effect that it would have had upon the tax collectors and sinners who all drew near to our Lord. They were spiritually hungry, just as the prodigal son was. They had a past full of regret, just as this boy. They were unsatisfied in life and were looking for a way out, just as this son of the loving father was. For these reasons, those tax collectors and sinners who drew near Jesus would have been mesmerized by all that Jesus taught them and filled with hope that they, too, could share in the joy that was so generously bestowed upon this wayward son. Reflect, today, upon the touching image of these tax collectors and sinners drawing near to Jesus. Though they may have had a certain fear and caution, they would have also had hope. Try to understand what they must have thought and felt as they heard this story of the father's abundant mercy. Think about how they would have related as they discovered that there was hope for them, too. If you struggle with being like the scribes and Pharisees, reject that temptation. Instead, see yourself as one of those sinners who drew near to our Lord and you will be the cause of joy in the Heart of the Father in Heaven. Most loving and compassionate Lord, tax collectors and sinners were drawn to You. They found in You someone Who could free them from the burdens they carried within. Please help me to see myself as one of those humble souls in need of You and Your mercy. I reject my pride that leads me to self-justification and pray for humility so that I can come to You and gladden the Heart of the Father in Heaven. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2025 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.James Tissot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons