by HF | Apr 4, 2013
The Three Waves of Hollywood Immigration Wave One (The Pioneers): 1910-1931 From the earliest days of American motion picture production a more-or-less constant stream of Austrian, German, and German Swiss emigrés has crossed the Atlantic to influence the...
by HF | Apr 4, 2013
The first “Bond girl” was Swiss “I was supposed to be coming out of the water, like Ursula Andress in DR. NO… How do you relive a moment that is probably one of the most remembered and loved in any Bond film? That kind of scared me.” — Halle Berry, speaking...
by HF | Apr 3, 2013
Photo Gallery: Das Reichstagsgebäude The Reichstagsgebäude (“imperial diet building”) in Berlin has a long history that reflects German history. Since it first housed the German Diet (parliament) in 1894, it has undergone a fire (1933), World War II damage...
by HF | Mar 28, 2013
The first programmable, digital computer The German civil engineer and business owner Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (1910-1995) is considered the inventor of the first digital and programmable computers – a feat he first accomplished in 1938, long before anyone else,...
by HF | Mar 25, 2013
Jesse Owens and the 1936 “Nazi Olympics” “Hitler didn’t snub me. It was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.” — Jesse Owens, in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics (Jeremy Schaap, Mariner Books, 2018) James...
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