Dan Mellins-Cohen

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Rhapsody: A Dream Story

Rhapsody: A Dream Story

Stanley Kubrick, the great director, died only days after submitting the first cut of his film "Eyes Wide Shut" to Warner Brothers. The basis of his film is the novella Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, also known as Dream Story written in 1925 by the Austrian...

Stefan Zweig dedicated this largely biographical work to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Zweig acknowledges Freud's scientific contributions and highlights some weaknesses of his fellow countryman. Freud's actual achievement is less to...

The Battle for the South Pole

The Battle for the South Pole

Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and polar explorer. He led the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) and the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), two voyages of exploration during the so-called Golden Age of Antarctic exploration. He is among...

The Conquest of Byzantium

The Conquest of Byzantium

The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by a besieging army of around 80,000 men led by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II ended the Byzantine Empire. The city's defense was in the hands of Emperor Constantine XI, who had 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers at his...

The Discovery of Eldorado

The Discovery of Eldorado

1834: Johann August Sutter, a cloth merchant residing in Burgdorf in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, fraudulently went bankrupt and was subsequently wanted by the warrant. To escape the authorities, Suter emigrated to the United States and became...

The Sealed Train

The Sealed Train

Lenin's journey in a sealed train took place in April 1917 during the First World War. The journey took Vladimir Ilyich Lenin together with other emigrants from Swiss exile through the German Reich via Scandinavia to Petrograd, today's Saint...

The World Minute at Waterloo

The World Minute at Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. It took place around 15 km south of Brussels near the village of Waterloo, then part of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands and now in Belgium. The defeat of the French...