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Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution.I...

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Die Menschen hatten sich in die arktische Dunkelheit vorgewagt und ein gelbes Metall gefunden, und seitdem Schiffs- und Eisenbahngesellschaften begannen, auch diese öden Gegenden zu erschließen, zog es Tausende von Männern in das Nordland. Und diese Männer brauchten Hunde, Hunde mit kräftigen Knochen und dichtem Haar, die auch bei der bittersten Kälte den größten Anstrengungen gewachsen waren."Mit dem Spielfilm "Ruf der Wildnis" mit Harrison F...

Der Kontakt mit den Engeln galt früher als segensreiche Kraftquelle in vielen Lebenslagen. Durch die Hektik der heutigen Zeit ist diese Kraftquelle weitestgehend versiegt.Doch auch heute noch sind die Engel jederzeit um uns und warten nur darauf, uns helfen zu können. Wir müssen sie um Hilfe bitten, denn wir leben in geistiger Freiheit und haben die Wahl, uns helfen zu lassen oder nicht.Die Autorin beschreibt, wie wir mit den Engeln in Kontakt...

Die Goethe-Universität ernannte 1959 den Frankfurter NS-Schul- und Kulturdezernenten Rudolf Keller sowie den NS-Stadtkämmerer Friedrich Lehmann zu Ehrenbürgern und Ehrensenatoren. Dabei erklärte sie beide zu NS-Gegnern. In welche Untaten waren sie jedoch involviert und worüber waren sie informiert? Es wird vielfältig und en détail dargelegt, wie beide an NS-Verbrechen und Vergehen beteiligt waren, ihre Rolle im "Dritten Reich" wird nachgezeich...

Der Kontakt mit den Engeln galt früher als segensreiche Kraftquelle in vielen Lebenslagen. Durch die Hektik der heutigen Zeit ist diese Kraftquelle weitestgehend versiegt.Doch auch heute noch sind die Engel jederzeit um uns und warten nur darauf, uns helfen zu können. Wir müssen sie um Hilfe bitten, denn wir leben in geistiger Freiheit und haben die Wahl, uns helfen zu lassen oder nicht.Die Autorin beschreibt, wie wir mit den Engeln in Kontakt...

Dieses Werk besteht aus Reiseberichten und Geschichten, die in Venedig spielen. Es ist zugleich ein Sachbuch mit viel Insider-Wissen über Venedig. In den folgenden Texten und Bildern zeigt sich Venedig aus einem kaum bekannten Blickwinkel und in geheimnisvoller Maskerade. Was sagen die Texte? Venedig schmilzt dahin. Die Stadt entfaltet ihren Zauber vor allem dann, wenn sie menschenleer ist. Die Zeit für Venedig ist um, doch bleibt die Schönhei...

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 - April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.He is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China.The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907, where he was a member of...

Lawyer William Walker Atkinson was an important early exponent of New Thought metaphysics and the occult, and, under the name of Swami Ramacharaka, he was a pioneer advocate of Hinduism and yoga. Atkinson was born December 5, 1862, in Baltimore, Maryland, and began his legal career after he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1894. His promising future, however, began to dissolve as he found himself unable to cope with the pressures of the...

Lawyer William Walker Atkinson was an important early exponent of New Thought metaphysics and the occult, and, under the name of Swami Ramacharaka, he was a pioneer advocate of Hinduism and yoga. Atkinson was born December 5, 1862, in Baltimore, Maryland, and began his legal career after he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1894. His promising future, however, began to dissolve as he found himself unable to cope with the pressures of the...

Dangers are looming for Western civilizations due to the creeping invasion of Muslims, who are gradually diluting the West with their own beliefs as they end up taking over and dominating them. This danger is described very eloquently and frighteningly by French writer Michel Houellebecq in his best-selling novel Submission.This process also triggers a fundamental change in Western societies, so the old cultures of Europe, which are known, sou...

Etymologically-related words, most surprisingly so (strange bedfellows), are used to construct amusing and/or amazing pairs, phrases and whole sentences, mostly accompanied by silly or satirical comments, tall tales with recurring characters, poems, fake news and fake ads for Dr. Duck's Dealy Deli. An appendix gives many other pairs of surprisingly related synonyms, antonyms, etc., balanced by the converse - pairs one might expect to be relate...

From Venice, the city where you can dream and succumb to the magic of love - for no one loves like Venetians do - to Malaga and its passionate flamenco music.To the enchanting beauty of Cortina, where skiers go to ski, relax and find love, and the pastoral landscape of Emilia Romagna where the mastery of culinary art flourishes.In this modern short story, a doctor sacrifices his career for the love of his family. A stunningly beautiful young g...