Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for "condemnation to beasts") was a form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals, usually lions or other big cats. This form of execution, which first appeared during the Roman Republic around the 2nd century BC, had been part of a wider class of blood sports called Bestiarii.. The act of …

The factories of Aussig—as it was then known—were an early center of the National Socialism ("Nazi") movement. The German Workers' Party in Austria (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in Österreich) was founded on 15 November 1903 and later gave rise to the Sudeten German Party and Austrian National Socialism.Their books continued to be printed in Ústí nad Labem even after …

Rhondda / ˈ r ɒ n ð ə /, or the Rhondda Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhondda [kʊm ˈr̥ɔnða]), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr large) and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach small) – so that the singular "Rhondda Valley" and …

Vycpaný kivi jižní s mládětem a vejcem. Kiviové (Apterygiformes) jsou řád menších nelétavých ptáků z podtřídy běžců, kteří se endemitně vyskytují pouze na Novém Zélandu.Řád zahrnuje pouze jedinou čeleď kiviovití (Apteryidae) s jediným rodem kivi (Apteryx).Rozlišuje se pět druhů kiviů, které jsou rozšířeny po Jižním i Severním ostrově, Stewartově ostrově a některých …

Maria Antonietta (Marie Antoinette) è un film del 1938 diretto da W. S. Van Dyke II e, non accreditato, da Julien Duvivier.La prima del film si tenne a Los Angeles l'8 luglio 1938. Il film, originariamente commissionato a Sidney Franklin, doveva avere Charles Laughton nel ruolo di Luigi XVI. Si tratta dell'ultima produzione di Irving Thalberg, che morì durante la …