Topic: MUSIK - on June 20, 2010 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Insiders' guide to European music festivals
The Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens picks his top European music festivals, from loud and crowded to quiet and quirky
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 20, 2010 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Vatican declares the Blues Brothers a 'Catholic classic'
On the 30th anniversary of the cult film's release, the official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has declared it a "Catholic classic".
It points out that Jake and Elwood Blues battled police, a psychotic ex-girlfriend, country and western fans and neo-Nazis in order to raise enough money to prevent the closure of the church-run orphanage in which they grew up.
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Topic: War and Peace - on June 20, 2010 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Der Alchemist der Nazis
Er machte Sand zu Gold und Wasser zu Benzin - jedenfalls behauptete er das. In den Dreißigern narrte der Erfinder Heinz Kurschildgen mit abstrusen Versprechen Millionäre, Geschäftsleute und Politiker - bis hin zu Heinrich Himmler. Und log sich damit fast um Kopf und Kragen.
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Topic: Space - on June 20, 2010 at 10:19:00 AM CEST
Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Star Being Born
Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope of gas and dust, according to a new study that appears in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
The study’s authors—who include astronomers from Yale University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany—found the object using the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Known as L1448-IRS2E, it’s located in the Perseus star-forming region, about 800 light years away within our Milky Way galaxy.
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