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Alles over Historia De grootste historische raadsels
De Bijbel staat vol namen van allang vergeten mensen en verhalen over bloedige veldslagen, rampen en helden die zichzelf opofferen. Maar is dat allemaal pure fantasie, of liggen er werkelijke gebeurtenissen aan ten grondslag? Hoe zit het met koning Arthur? Was hij de eerste koning van Engeland of een mythische figuur die de oorlogvoerende rijkjes van het eiland onder één vorst verenigde? Moderne onderzoekers neigen naar het laatste, maar de mythe over Arthur is nog springlevend. En waarom bouwden...
Nederlands | 2 uur 19 minuten (102 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alles over Historia Geen weg terug
Op 4 juni 1942 stijgt een squadron Dauntless-duikbommenwerpers op van het Amerikaanse vliegdekschip USS Enterprise. Kort daarvoor hadden Japanse vliegtuigen de Amerikaanse basis op Midway bestookt, een eiland in de Stille Oceaan. Japan wilde de basis verwoesten en heer en meester over de Stille Oceaan worden. Maar de Amerikanen kennen de Japanse codes, en de U.S. Navy ligt de Japanners op te wachten. De twee zeemachten kunnen elkaar gedurende de slag niet zien, maar sturen hun vliegtuigen in golven...
Nederlands | 3 uur 16 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Charmian Clift Mermaid Singing
In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece. Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended. A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. "Mermaid...
Engels | 8 uur 16 minuten (361 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Aaltje van Zweden Om wie je bent
Aaltje van Zweden schreef met Om wie je bent een indringend boek over haar eigen geschiedenis en over die van haar zoon Benjamin, die autisme heeft. In november 2016 ontving Van Zweden de prestigieuze Hélène de Montigny-prijs voor haar grote inzet voor autisten. Als achttienjarige student ontmoet Aaltje een jongen in een Amsterdamse discotheek. Hij nodigt haar samen met haar vriendin uit voor een avondje in het Concertgebouw. Tot haar verbazing ziet ze Jaap van Zweden als jongste concertmeester...
Nederlands | 6 uur 12 minuten (357 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2017
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Anna Bridgwater Sister on Borrowed Time
In November 2005 a young woman, Margaret, dies of leukemia. In this moving and personal book Margaret’s sister, the journalist and writer Anna Bridgwater, tells about the years leading up to her death – about life as a young woman in Copenhagen, about family, love, heartache and calamities, and about the diagnosis that changed everything. Sister on Borrowed Time is a story about hope and about loving someone with cancer. It is a story about searching for a bone marrow donor in the attempt to cure...
Engels | 4 uur 44 minuten (222 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Wanda Beemsterboer Call You Right Back, Mum
"She did not call back. Nor will she, ever again. How I started loathing those two little words, never again." In a heartbeat everything can change. This is the gripping, true story of how a young woman was murdered and a family lost a daughter. Like most young girls her age Nadine lives a life filled with family, friends and thoughts about the future. At seventeen she meets Gerold and they fall in love. But a darkness gradually falls upon their relationship and after almost three years Nadine...
Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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R. J. Belle After
Meet eight combat-injured men who sustained life-altering injuries. Hear eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstance. Hear how these incredible men manage to reshape their lives after combat. It also sets these stories within the context of current veteran healthcare, and injury, suicide, and disability statistics, and looks briefly at the impacts on the caregivers who support these men. R. J. Belle...
Engels | 3 uur 41 minuten (160 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide
At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...
Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Pubs and Inns
Discover some of the most haunted pubs and inns around England. Steven Plant will take around the UK, stopping at local establishments that are famous for their unusual guests. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover another side of British pub life, and be taken to the following locations: The Bate Hall (Macclesfield, Cheshire), The Nutshell (Bury St Edmunds), The Miners Arms (Eyams, Peak District), The Viaduct Tavern (London). Steven Plant is a British author of non-fiction....
Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (72 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Places
Discover some of the most haunted places around England. Whether you believe in the paranormal, or are just looking for a good scare on a dark night, Steven Plant’s travel through England will take you to some of the most famous, and frightening, places in the UK. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover haunted cinemas and encounter ghostly figures in grand estates. This book’s will take to the following locations: Blackpool, Pluckley Village, the Hellfire Caves, Morley Rectory,...
Engels | 2 uur 17 minuten (99 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare's Romeo & Julia
Toneelstuk over de tragische liefde tussen twee jonge mensen
Nederlands | 2 uur 30 minuten | Home Theater, Den Haag | 2008
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William Shakespeare Hamlet
prins van Denemarken
Tragedie van de Engelse schrijver (1564-1616) over een Deense prins die de moord op zijn vader wil wreken
Nederlands | 3 uur | Home Theater, Den Haag | 2008
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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | 10 uur 12 minuten (445 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Walter Parks Jesus
The Missing Years
The Bible tells us of Jesus' birth and of His being in the temple in Jerusalem when He was a boy of 12. But then there is no further mention of Him until about 20 years later when He starts His ministry. Where was He? Why did the Bible not say? After an intensive search and study of The Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient documents, I found where God gave instructions, through His Prophets, for the preparation of a place in the wilderness for His Son Jesus. The instructions were followed. A place...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (183 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Brahma Khumaris Knowing God
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University presents "Knowing God", a calming, guided-meditation that will help you relax, unwind and find peace and maybe even enlightenment. Listen to the tracks and follow the guide to free yourself from the stresses of modern, daily-life. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an international organisation working at all levels of society for positive change. Established in 1937 it now carries out a wide range of educational programmes for the development...
Engels | 56 minuten (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...
Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Beat Poet Experience The Beat Poet Experience
"The Beat Poet Experience" is formed around the poetry and dynamism of performance artist David O'Kelly, paying more than a passing nod to the Beat Poets of the 60’s. It embraces warmly all that we love and hate about ourselves with a wry twist of phrase and some of the hottest jazz licks his side of New Orleans... Reflecting the major works of Beat works such as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch" (1959) and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" (1957), the Beat Poet Experience...
Engels | 1 uur 12 minuten (55 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective
"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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I. Sluiter De klassiekste klassiekers
een hoorcollege over grote teksten en mythen uit de Griekse Oudheid
Aan de basis van de canon van de Europese cultuur liggen de grote teksten en mythen uit de Griekse Oudheid: de klassiekste klassiekers. Ineke Sluiter behandelt in haar colleges de beroemde teksten waarin thema's als wrok, roem, list, schuld en zelfkennis voor het eerst in de wereldliteratuur opduiken. Zij kijkt daarbij speciaal naar het wereldbeeld en de waardesystemen die uit deze teksten spreken. Ineke Sluiter behandelt de volgende teksten. - Homerus' Ilias. Het oudste Griekse epos over de wrok...
Nederlands | 4 uur | Home Academy, Den Haag | 2008
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