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Stephen G Brown
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On 5 June in Paris I will be presenting my research on the involvement of the young Paul Ricoeur in the international ecumenical movement at a Study Day organised by the FondsRicoeur and IRSE Geneva at the IPT
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Arturo Castellanos, ein salvadorianischer Diplomat rettete als Konsul seines Landes in Genf rund 40.000 Juden, indem er ihnen die angebliche Staatsbürgerschaft EI Salvadors attestierte.Unter dem Schutz des Roten Kreuzes entgingen sie dem Holocaust
23. Dezember 1893 - 18. Juni 1977

23. Dezember 1893 - 18. Juni 1977

December 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Arturo Castellanos, ein salvadorianischer Diplomat rettete als Konsul seines Landes in Genf rund 40.000 Juden, indem er ihnen die angebliche Staatsbürgerschaft EI Salvadors attestierte.Unter dem Schutz des Roten Kreuzes entgingen sie dem Holocaust
23. Dezember 1893 - 18. Juni 1977

23. Dezember 1893 - 18. Juni 1977

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In der Kathedrale #Notre-Dame de #Paris wurden 50 kath. Priester und Laien aus #Frankreich, die in deutsche #Konzentrationslager deportiert worden waren, offiziell seliggesprochen. Zu ihnen zählten auch #RenéPonsin und #RenéRouzé: Beide starben 1945 im KZ #MittelbauDora.
t1p.de/dyqv2 #Thüringen
t1p.de/dyqv2 #Thüringen
Besondere Vorbilder im Glauben posthum geehrt
50 in der NS-Zeit auch in Thüringen inhaftierte französische Märtyrer seliggesprochen
t1p.de
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In der Kathedrale #Notre-Dame de #Paris wurden 50 kath. Priester und Laien aus #Frankreich, die in deutsche #Konzentrationslager deportiert worden waren, offiziell seliggesprochen. Zu ihnen zählten auch #RenéPonsin und #RenéRouzé: Beide starben 1945 im KZ #MittelbauDora.
t1p.de/dyqv2 #Thüringen
t1p.de/dyqv2 #Thüringen
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The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
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Merry gentlefolk, it is time.
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
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Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
>
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Merry gentlefolk, it is time.
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
>
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
>
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Gemäss Tucholsky auf jeden Fall!
„Im Bett soll man nur leichte und unterhaltende Lektüre zu sich nehmen sowie spannende und beruhigende, ferner ganz schwere, wissenschaftliche und frivole sowie mittelschwere und jede sonstige, andere Arten aber nicht."
😉
„Im Bett soll man nur leichte und unterhaltende Lektüre zu sich nehmen sowie spannende und beruhigende, ferner ganz schwere, wissenschaftliche und frivole sowie mittelschwere und jede sonstige, andere Arten aber nicht."
😉
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Gemäss Tucholsky auf jeden Fall!
„Im Bett soll man nur leichte und unterhaltende Lektüre zu sich nehmen sowie spannende und beruhigende, ferner ganz schwere, wissenschaftliche und frivole sowie mittelschwere und jede sonstige, andere Arten aber nicht."
😉
„Im Bett soll man nur leichte und unterhaltende Lektüre zu sich nehmen sowie spannende und beruhigende, ferner ganz schwere, wissenschaftliche und frivole sowie mittelschwere und jede sonstige, andere Arten aber nicht."
😉
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Beautiful lights this morning in our garden ☀️
Wishing you all a happy day 😊
Wishing you all a happy day 😊
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Beautiful lights this morning in our garden ☀️
Wishing you all a happy day 😊
Wishing you all a happy day 😊
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Among other things, they put you in a wheelchair basically regardless of what your mobility issue is. But more importantly: something odd and troubling is happening, so much 'disabled people are faking it!' stuff in the air.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Among other things, they put you in a wheelchair basically regardless of what your mobility issue is. But more importantly: something odd and troubling is happening, so much 'disabled people are faking it!' stuff in the air.
@ecumenika.bsky.social this was the weekend to do old and new trains journeys
Austro-Hungarian vibes today as the new daily Vienna-Trieste Railjet arrived in Trieste, part of the new services made possible by the Koralmbahn.
www.ilpiccolo.it/nordest/tren...
www.ilpiccolo.it/nordest/tren...
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@ecumenika.bsky.social this was the weekend to do old and new trains journeys
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⚡ Pope Leo XIV said the Vatican has already prepared a plan for his visit to Ukraine, per ANSA.
He did not name a date, noting that “one must be realistic” about such matters, but added that he hopes all efforts will be made to achieve a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine.
He did not name a date, noting that “one must be realistic” about such matters, but added that he hopes all efforts will be made to achieve a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine.
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
⚡ Pope Leo XIV said the Vatican has already prepared a plan for his visit to Ukraine, per ANSA.
He did not name a date, noting that “one must be realistic” about such matters, but added that he hopes all efforts will be made to achieve a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine.
He did not name a date, noting that “one must be realistic” about such matters, but added that he hopes all efforts will be made to achieve a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine.
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@historyned.bsky.social Thanks so much for putting me onto this book in your bibliography (so far have only read the review and not the book itself though) www.jstor.org/stable/45474...
www.jstor.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
@historyned.bsky.social Thanks so much for putting me onto this book in your bibliography (so far have only read the review and not the book itself though) www.jstor.org/stable/45474...
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Today is International Human Rights Day! A few years ago, I wrote a short piece on how this holiday was observed in East Germany - first through the state appropriation of the idea and then its contestation from below by dissident groups leading to 1989 zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/unive...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in East Germany | zeitgeschichte-online.de
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in East Germany . Socialist Appropriation and Dissident Contestation, 1948-1989 , Ned Richardson-Little, Fr., 07.12.2018 - 01:00
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December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today is International Human Rights Day! A few years ago, I wrote a short piece on how this holiday was observed in East Germany - first through the state appropriation of the idea and then its contestation from below by dissident groups leading to 1989 zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/unive...
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Heute vor 54 Jahren erhielt Willy Brandt den Friedensnobelpreis für seinen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Frieden und zur Entspannung zwischen Ost und West.


December 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Heute vor 54 Jahren erhielt Willy Brandt den Friedensnobelpreis für seinen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Frieden und zur Entspannung zwischen Ost und West.


Advent reading includes the translated biography of Jacques and Raissa Maritain - have just reached the point where he breaks with Henri Bergson @emilyherring.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Advent reading includes the translated biography of Jacques and Raissa Maritain - have just reached the point where he breaks with Henri Bergson @emilyherring.bsky.social
@historyned.bsky.social Just arrived. Really looking forward to reading but even before then thank you for the great bibliography at the end - lots of articles to get my teeth into
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@historyned.bsky.social Just arrived. Really looking forward to reading but even before then thank you for the great bibliography at the end - lots of articles to get my teeth into
Ursprünglich wollte sie ja Botanik studieren: #RosaLuxemburg. Die Liebe zur Natur gab ihr immer Kraft, auch in den Jahren ihrer Haft. Ab 1913–1918 legte sie ein umfängliches Herbarium an und füllte 16 Hefte. Viel zu Entdecken für alle Naturfreund:innen: dietzberlin.de//herb...
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Look who's arrived for St Nicholas Day
December 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Look who's arrived for St Nicholas Day
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This fabulous image by Jörg Knöfel shows an East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei ignoring each other. The punk—Sven Marquardt—would go on to have his face tattooed and become the city’s most famous bouncer at Berghain. He’s also a great photographer.
www.derknoefel.de
marquardtfotografie.com
www.derknoefel.de
marquardtfotografie.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This fabulous image by Jörg Knöfel shows an East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei ignoring each other. The punk—Sven Marquardt—would go on to have his face tattooed and become the city’s most famous bouncer at Berghain. He’s also a great photographer.
www.derknoefel.de
marquardtfotografie.com
www.derknoefel.de
marquardtfotografie.com
Klimakrise bitte
Lektor at home verlost zum Nikolaustag diese drei Bücher. Wer möchte welchen Band haben? Teilnahme per Like oder Repost bis zum 8. Januar, 8 Uhr.
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Klimakrise bitte
As an early teenager, Tom Stoppard's TV play Professional Foul made a huge impression on me, not only because of the link to Czech dissidents, but because of the appearance of catastrophe theory- " /2 . www.jstor.org/stable/12080...
Catastrophe Theory in Tom Stoppard's "Professional Foul" on JSTOR
Evelyn Cobley, Tom Stoppard, Catastrophe Theory in Tom Stoppard's "Professional Foul", Contemporary Literature, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 53-65
www.jstor.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
As an early teenager, Tom Stoppard's TV play Professional Foul made a huge impression on me, not only because of the link to Czech dissidents, but because of the appearance of catastrophe theory- " /2 . www.jstor.org/stable/12080...
One year to go
It's the 174th anniversary of the 18 Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (the event, not the pamphlet).
But of course it's not relevant to our times: it's impossible nowadays to imagine the President of a large republic subverting the constitution to get around its prohibition on a further term in office.
But of course it's not relevant to our times: it's impossible nowadays to imagine the President of a large republic subverting the constitution to get around its prohibition on a further term in office.
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One year to go
„Es ist mein drittes Weihnachten im Kittchen, aber nehmen Sie es ja nicht tragisch. Ich bin so ruhig und heiter wie immer.“ Rosa Luxemburg, wie sie aus der Haft die Welt betrachtet. Über Mut, Zerrissenheit, Verzweiflung – als haptisch fein gemachte Edition mit Lesebändchen: http://dietzberlin.d...
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Eine Berliner Erfindung, ohne die kaum eine deutsche Stadt auskommt: Das S-Bahn-Logo. Weißes S auf grünem Hintergrund. Anfang Dezember 1930 wurde es eingeführt, um ein starkes Markenzeichen in Abgrenzung zur U-Bahn zu schaffen.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Eine Berliner Erfindung, ohne die kaum eine deutsche Stadt auskommt: Das S-Bahn-Logo. Weißes S auf grünem Hintergrund. Anfang Dezember 1930 wurde es eingeführt, um ein starkes Markenzeichen in Abgrenzung zur U-Bahn zu schaffen.
We are really getting into the area of biblical exegesis here
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We are really getting into the area of biblical exegesis here