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Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and above all lucky - is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies.

June, 1877: the petite 29-year-old Annie Besant stands motionless before the 75-year-old Judge towering over her in the Palace of Westminster. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn is presiding over the scandalous 'trial of the century' where Annie Besant and her confidante Charles Bradlaugh have been charged with the unforgiveable crime of publishing and selling a guide to birth control. Charged with obscenity, she argued—controversially and outrageously, for the time—that it was a woman's right to be able to choose to have children.

Millions have died trying to shatter the enemy fortifications, and Private Callahan and his comrades are ordered to try again. But this time they have something new. Lines of heavy tanks, their engines revving, and the sky overhead filled with squadrons of fighter aircraft. Their task is to assault an impregnable fortified hilltop, manned by thousands of battle-hardened German soldiers, determined to contest every yard of ground.

Vietnam, 1966. A US Airborne platoon is pinned down in Phuc Tuy Province. A deadly ambush leaves multiple casualties, forcing a desperate withdrawal. With bullets slamming into the Hueys, one is forced down only for the soldiers salvation to be a convoy of Australian APCs. As the dust clears from the battlefield, the ruthless Viet Cong local officer, Lieutenant Vu Van Thinh hunts for intelligence on his enemies. Amidst the debris of war is one man, a mortally wounded soldier desperate for help.

For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.

Noah Cage is a cybernetic supersoldier, a war hero and a man on his fifth and final life. He's a Lifer, an enhanced warrior. Repaired, rebuilt and improved after four lifetimes of soldiering. With each death comes further modification and enhancement, although at the loss of yet another piece of his dwindling humanity. Cage is thrust into the debacle of the Third Martian War. One that sees every man in his unit killed, including his best friend Rob Romero.

US Army Private William Richards faces an experienced regiment of North Vietnamese regulars in the mountainous of the A Sau Valley. They have fortified the area for a determined stand and as the battle begins, both sides take heavy losses. But in the middle of this carnage lies an unknown and unseen horror. Something from the ancient past has risen deep inside the jungle. Powerful and deadly, it strikes without warning, leaving death and destruction in its path.

Welche Rolle spielen die Klassiker heute? Rüdiger Safranski im Gespräch mit Michael Krüger und Martin Meyer - Live aufgezeichnet im Literaturhaus München. Goethe und Schiller, Hölderlin und Nietzsche: Wie steht es um die Klassiker? Wie bewähren sie sich in einer Zeit, die einstige Gewissheiten unserer Kultur radikal in Frage stellt? Welche Rolle spielen sie noch auf dem Theater, für die private Lektüre? Fragen, die man am besten Rüdiger Safranski stellt.

Two friends hash out topics covering investing, technology, lifestyles, hobbies, and more

Six years since the A Shau Valley incident, and the Ky Lan is back. Contact has been lost with a secret military facility on the Vietnamese island of Con Son. The final transmission is just a few broken words. They are being hunted. There have been rumours of this creature for years, with the stories covered up and buried to hide the terrible truth. As the country collapses from within it falls to an elite unit made up of special forces, military specialists, and others to return to the island to rescue any remaining survivors.

Im »THE SUIT LEAGUE Podcast« sprechen wir mit spannenden Persönlichkeiten und Unternehmern über Kunst, Kultur, Genuss, Architektur, Reise, Mode und Uhren.

Zur Show“Queer as Berlin” ist der Diversity Podcast aus der Hauptstadt, der interessante Gäste und Themen präsentiert. (Sub-) Kultur, Politik, Unterhaltung, Musik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft – alles aus der Diversity Perspektive kann hier Thema sein. In Deutschland leben ca. 8-10 Millionen schwule, lesben und diverse Menschen (LGBT), davon allein 400 000 in Berlin. Dabei soll es durchaus auch um Themen gehen, die über den BerlinerTellerrand hinaus interessant sind. www.podcast-eins.deZur PersonMichael Meyer arbeitet seit fast 30 Jahren für den ARD-Hörfunk, zunächst für den SFB und...

Willkommen zum HANSA Podcast! Ab sofort sprechen wir im maritimen Talk mit interessanten Gästen über das, was sie und die Branche bewegt!

Pierre Lagun, der steppende Privatdetektiv, ist wieder mal pleite. Lediglich die einzige Pflanze in seinem Zimmer sitzt offenbar noch viel länger...

IMPULSE RUND UM GLAUBEN UND SPIRITUALITÄT Was bedeutet für mich Spiritualität? Wie und wo kommt meine Spiritualität zum Ausdruck?" Spiritualität ist ein Thema, das unser Leben herausfordert, bereichert und berührt. Um über Spiritualität nachzudenken und neue Formen auszuprobieren, braucht es Muße, Orte und den gemeinsamen Austausch. Die Verbundenheit zu Gott, zur Natur, zu den Mitmenschen und zu sich selbst zu denken und zu erfahren, ist nicht einfach und schon gar nicht alltäglich. Deshalb braucht es einen Anstoß – und warum nicht in Form eines Podcast? In den ab Januar ...

This book covers the two-year odyssey of our family owning an RV, from the decision to purchase our RV (named Winnie by my daughters) to the day we finally sold her. Spoiler alert: I am a bad driver and made so many mistakes.

Wo liegen die Grenzen menschlicher Entwicklung? Was ist das menschliche Potenzial? Das wichtigste für Christian Meyer ist, nicht nur über Erleuchtung zu reden, sondern Menschen darin zu unterstützen, Erleuchtung, das Aufwachen zu realisieren. Alle Podcasts sind Mitschnitte aus Retreats von Christian Meyer, oder Interviews mit ihm. Der Link zur Podcast Homepage: https://christianmeyerpodcast.com Christian Meyers Homepage: https://zeitundraum.org (Dort gibt es auch die Möglichkeit, zu spenden)

Was haben ”Dirty Dancing” und ”Top Gun” gemeinsam? Wie haben ”Casino Royale” und ”Die Bourne Identität” das Actionkino verändert? Was kommt dabei raus wenn der 1989er Batman vs Superman 1978 antritt? Inwiefern ist ”Toy Story” ein Remake von ”Lethal Weapon”? All das und viel mehr klären Michael Hille und Rüdiger Meyer wenn sie alle 14 Tage zwei Klassiker - oder neudeutsch: Rewatchables - zu einem Filmduell bitten. Und finden nebenbei heraus, wer die interessantesten Trivia-Facts zu ihrem Film herausfinden können