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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.

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...

In 1995, at the age of 23, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China's changes as he was.

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.

Vietnam, October 1966. ANZAC and US forces have secured Route 15 running through the heart of Phuc Tuy Province. Now at full strength the ANZAC 5th Battalion take the fight to the enemy in a grand, aggressive sweep. Their mission to locate and destroy Viet Cong bases and infrastructure within the Nui Thi Vai Mountains. They’ve been in this area before, but never in sufficient numbers to bring the enemy to bear.

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.

Vietnam, 1966. US and Australian forces are slowly taking back control of Phuc Tuy Province. Skirmishes and battles are fought every day but when a Viet Cong unit decimated an ARVN convoy is decimated near Bình Ba they are taught a valuable lesson. The enemy have supporters even this close to Saigon and they need to be rooted out.

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! President Ronald Reagan's famous exhortation when visiting Berlin in 1987 has long been widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The United States won, so this version of history goes, because Ronald Reagan stood firm against the USSR; American resoluteness brought the evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, who was there at the time as a Newsweek bureau chief, begs to differ.

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.

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