Still from ‘Near Vermeer’.Deposit of image films In the fascinating documentary Close to Vermeer Award-winning documentary filmmaker Suzanne Raes follows curators Gregor Weber and Pieter Roelofs as they bring to life the greatest Vermeer exhibition of all time. The Rijksmuseum exhibit shows 28 of 37 (or 27 of 36, depending on how many paintings we actually attribute to Vermeer) surviving …
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The weakest wind chill ever recorded in the United States
The weakest wind chill measured so far with the current calculation method (which was introduced in 2001) in the United States was also on Mount Washington. In 2004, a wind chill temperature of -74.8 degrees Celsius was measured there. Lowest wind chill in the Netherlands For comparison: in the Netherlands, the weakest wind chill of this millennium was measured in …
Read More »The 5 Best Truly Free VPN Services
VPN services are popular and almost unthinkable in our current digital lives. Privacy and security are more important than ever to us. Still, we don’t always want to pay for such a VPN service. But luckily, there are plenty of alternatives that you don’t always have to pay for: a free VPN. We have selected the 5 best free VPN …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger warns against anti-Semitism and hatred
In the video, Arnold talks about his recent visit to the German extermination camp of Auschwitz. “How can we prevent this from happening again? ” he is asking himself. The actor addresses the group of people sensitive to the theories of hate speech or who may have already fallen out of it. “I don’t want to preach in my own …
Read More »In another timeline, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ once won an Oscar
How a hyperactive epic about a woman struggling with her taxes became the frontrunner at the 95th Academy Awards, scheduled for Sunday.
Read More »Embarrassing moment for actress Nadia Farès because of an old music video
7 March 2023 – 4:00 pm – Culture © The 54-year-old French-Moroccan actress Nadia Farès was embarrassed during a television program by a video clip dating from the end of the 1990s, which she had completely forgotten. She was invited to a French television program on Sunday to talk about the series ‘Les Ombres rouges’, which will be broadcast from …
Read More »US sends long-range missiles to Ukraine
New long-range weapons, ground-launched small diameter bombs (GLSDB), can hit targets up to 150 kilometers away. This is almost twice as far as previously sent Himars missiles. The new arms package is worth 2.2 billion dollars (more than 2 billion euros). It also contains precision-guided missiles and two Hawk-type anti-aircraft systems. Zelensky’s wish Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky again called for …
Read More »Documentary on the American city “Morocco” screened in the United States
6 March 2023 – 11:00 am – Culture © The Pulitzer Center in Washington this week screened the short documentary “Morocco, Morocco”, about the Moroccan origins of a small town in the state of Indiana. “Morocco, Morocco” tells the story of a horseman with red leather boots from 1851. The man was from Morocco. He approached two men who were …
Read More »Cinema Fanfare with talking women
Thursday, March 9, 2023 8:15 PM It seems almost a custom that women and even girls are drugged and then abused within the closed religious community of the Mennonites. In one case, this abuse even led to a pregnancy. It actually took place in Bolivia between 2005 and 2009, and Canadian writer Miriam Toews published the book of the same …
Read More »This is the true story of La legge di Lidia Poet (The Law According to Lidia Poet) – Netflix UK
The Netflix series La legge di Lidia Poet tells a true story. Lidia Poet was not a poetess, as her name suggests, but the first female lawyer in Italy! The series is also known by the English title The Law According to Lidia Poet and it is the true story. Lidia Poet’s leg In this historical drama series from Netflix, …
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