Ergebnis für "Camelot" in Sozialwissenschaften

The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was he really, where did he come from, and how much of what we read about him in stories that date back to the Dark Ages is true? So far, historians have failed to show that King Arthur really existed at all, and for a good reason—they have been looking in the wrong place. In this book, Alistair Moffat shatters all existing assumptions about Britain's most enigmatic hero.

American author Howard Pyle (who also wrote The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood) weaves the tales of chivalrous knights, the magic sword of Excalibur, the magician Merlin the Wise, and the legendary Arthur, later to become King of Britain. Pyle describes bouts of jousting and knightly jealousies played out in grand style.

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In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted 49 Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Held at the height of the Cold War, the dinner symbolizes a time when intellectuals were esteemed, divergent viewpoints could be respectfully discussed at the highest level, and the great minds of an age might all dine together in the rarefied glamour of "the people's house."  

Esta edição traz uma antologia de hinos compilados de diversos livros funerários egípcios, o Livro do Mortos de sacerdotes, oficiais, cantores, dançarinas e outros que viveram e morreram há milênios, em uma sociedade extremamente religiosa. Além dos hinos originais, este livro contém uma introdução ao Livro dos Mortos escrita pelo prestigiado arqueólogo e egiptólogo inglês E. A. Wallis Budge.

Neste livro, Claudio Blanc faz uma seleção única de sagas e mitos nórdicos, os quais vão levar o leitor para a viagem fascinante ao mundo de divindades como Odin, Thor, Loki e outros personagens incríveis da mitologia escandinava.

Ted Sorensen, JFK’s closest adviser, speech writer and friend, in his own words and final interview, brings us directly into the Oval Office as a member of Kennedy’s inner circle. This film reveals how essential Sorensen was to the administration, as Kennedy said: “My intellectual blood bank”. Not only with the epic speech “Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country,” but as special counsel to the President.