Der Münchner Germanist Theo Vennemann glaubt, den Ursprung der germanischen Schrift gefunden zu haben – sie kam mit den Phöniziern in den Norden. Von Wolfgang Krischke
DIE ZEIT, 22.02.2007 Nr. 09
ALL of the reading material in the vast Library of Congress may be housed in a few small filing cabinets! To anyone who has seen the thousands of massive volumes in this great building, such a statement seems fantastic. But it remains a fact. Through recent developments in microphotography and the perfection of a new type of micro-grain film, the contents of two 10×15 inch pages can be reduced 400 times to occupy but three-fourths of a square inch of film.
Nur ein Prozent aller Schriften der Griechen, Römer und Ägypter soll die Zeiten überdauert haben. Bis heute suchen Forscher nach den Überresten der Bibliothek von Alexandria - und in Papyrusfragmenten nach Gedanken aus einer vergangenen Welt.
Das Internet hat viele Väter. Deswegen hat das Internet nicht erst seit heute viele Geburtstage zu feiern, weil viele "Kinder" eben das ergeben, was das heutige Internet ausmacht. Heute ist so ein Geburtstag: Vor 40 Jahren wurde die erste Nachricht zwischen zwei entfernten Host-Computern ausgetauscht.
On September 20, 450 AD, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains also referred to as the Battle of Chalons took place. A coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila faced each other in a decisive battle that should decide the fate of Europe and the whole Western civilization...
Today 199 years ago, the first (modern) optical telegraph line following the mechanical telegraphy system of the French inventor Claude Chappe was established between Metz and Mainz was established. No, this wasn't the first of its kind, but it was the first to connect the former already in France established telegraphy system with a (now) German city.