Bis dass der Tanz euch scheidet: In den zwanziger Jahren wurde in den USA der Tanz-Marathon populär. Aus absurden Spaßwettbewerben entwickelte sich eine umsatzstarke Industrie, die in der Weltwirtschaftskrise Hungrige, Verzweifelte und unseriöse Veranstalter anlockte - aus Romantik wurde Folter.

The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.

The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'. In other words: the Fourth Reich.

Der völlig untergegangene Film Fatherland mit Rutger Hauer beschreibt eine alternative Geschichtsschreibung in einem Deutschland der 60er Jahre, wenn die Nazis den Krieg gewonnen hätten.
Der Artikel von Adam Lebor greift diesen Gedanken auf andere Art wieder auf.

Why farmpunk?

A farmpunk could be described as a neo-agrarian who approaches [agri]culture, community development and/or design with a hacker ethos. "Cyber-agrarian" could supplant neo-agrarian, indicating a back-to-the-land perspective that stands apart from past movements because it is heavily informed by conceptual integration in a post-industrial information society (thus "forward to the land" perhaps?) The art and science of modern ecological design will be best achieved through the combined arts of cybermancy and geomancy. These hermeneutic disciplines are not categorical or reductionist, but open-ended. Natural ecologies must be seen as the original cybernetic systems.

1895 über Katherine Tingley die Theosophische Gesellschaft und erbaute in Kalifornien das Zentrum der Gruppe: Lomaland.

Recently released photographs from Eva Braun's personal picture albums reveal new dimensions of the woman who was Adolf Hitler's longtime girlfriend and, in their last, frantic hours together, his wife. Braun became the central woman in Hitler's life after the 1931 suicide of Geli Raubal, the future Führer's 23-year-old niece (and rumored lover). By all accounts, Eva was an unpretentious companion for the Nazi leader, but also a woman at once frivolous and vain --

Die Wagen der New Yorker Ubahn wurde im Meer versenkt, um als künstliches Riff den Fischen Zuflucht zu bieten.