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<p>A collapsing abandoned theatre, somewhere in Italy</p><p><a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#Abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#Italy</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#Theatre</a> <a href="/tags/artnouveau/" rel="tag">#ArtNouveau</a> <a href="/tags/theater/" rel="tag">#Theater</a> <a href="/tags/lostplaces/" rel="tag">#LostPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/collapse/" rel="tag">#Collapse</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/architecture/" rel="tag">#Architecture</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Opernabend<br>18. August 2026, 20:00 Uhr</p><p>Wagner, Richard<br>Götterdämmerung</p><p>Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen<br>Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson<br>Waltraute: Christa Ludwig<br>Gunther: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau<br>Gutrune: Claire Watson<br>Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger<br>Hagen: Gottlob Frick<br>1. Norn: Helen Watts<br>2. Norn: Grace Hoffman<br>3. Norn: Anita Välkki<br>...<br>Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker<br>Leitung: Sir Georg Solti<br>1964</p><p><a href="https://radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/18113/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/18113/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radioklassik.at/programm/sendu</span><span class="invisible">ngsformat/18113/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>&quot;The hope that the internet would obey rules existed at one end of a spectrum; at the other end was the more widely held enthusiasm for the idea that the internet would be a place without rules.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/news/2026/</span><span class="invisible">aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117117933291682291" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117117933291682291"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1171</span><span class="invisible">17933291682291</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/computers/" rel="tag">#computers</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: when asked, in 1970, by australian journalist, richard carleton, why the PFLP didn&#x27;t engage in negotiations with the israeli state, ghassan kanafani (esteemed author &amp; a leading figure of palestine&#x27;s marxist resistance) explained that to do so would be &#x27;a kind of conversation between the sword &amp; the neck&#x27;. ghassan *should have* celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, but he was assassinated by mossad in 1972.<br><a href="/tags/ghassankanafani/" rel="tag">#ghassanKanafani</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#palestine</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#gaza</a> <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Prokofiev Symphony No.7</p><p>William Weller <br>the London Symphony Orchestra<br>1975</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2XMTn69TI" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2XMTn69TI"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2XMT</span><span class="invisible">n69TI</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Sergei Rachmaninoff<br>Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40</p><p>Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist<br>Eugene Ormandy, conductor<br>The Philadelphia Orchestra</p><p>Recorded on December 20, 1941</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfO3bprGY4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfO3bprGY4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfO3b</span><span class="invisible">prGY4</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 </p><p>Celibidache &amp; <br>the Berlin Philharmonic<br>1992</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGOaTuAesY&amp;list=RDdSGOaTuAesY&amp;start_radio=1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGOaTuAesY&amp;list=RDdSGOaTuAesY&amp;start_radio=1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGOaT</span><span class="invisible">uAesY&amp;list=RDdSGOaTuAesY&amp;start_radio=1</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Beethoven - Violin Concerto, Op. 61</p><p>Arthur Grumiaux, violin <br>the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra <br>Sir Colin Davis</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fu3f07puM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fu3f07puM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fu3f</span><span class="invisible">07puM</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> ?</p>

Map reconstructing London in the 13th century AD

<p>4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour - YouTube <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo&amp;list=PL-aKLEHpdXVaNJ0T8D7xA-t9wn8BJFWpM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo&amp;list=PL-aKLEHpdXVaNJ0T8D7xA-t9wn8BJFWpM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5</span><span class="invisible">w6RHo&amp;list=PL-aKLEHpdXVaNJ0T8D7xA-t9wn8BJFWpM</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/prehistory/" rel="tag">#Prehistory</a> <a href="/tags/earth/" rel="tag">#Earth</a></p>

<p>Found an amazing web site with impressive catalog of poetry and literature in Farsi. </p><p>I used to have a very large library when I was in Sweden, and took them with me to US when my company moved me there, but I had to gave them away when I went back to take care of my parents, I only kept a few books of Khayyam and Hafez with me.</p><p>Finding this site is like a dream come true. It has search function too and sorting the poets based on the timeline, from 11th century to 21st. </p><p><a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#Poetry</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#Library</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#Culture</a> <a href="/tags/farsi/" rel="tag">#Farsi</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> </p><p><a href="https://ganjoor.net/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ganjoor.net/</a></p>

<p>🛀 Bathhouse Number 8, Tskaltubo, Georgia</p><p>Part of an extensive Soviet health resort, facility fell into ruin after the USSR&#x27;s collapse in 1991.</p><p>The space is an empty ruin, but there are several beautiful details. The dividing walls feature fascinating stylised deer murals. Also shrubs and a small sapling grow in the centre, nature reclaiming concrete.</p><p><a href="https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.obsidianurbexphotography.c</span><span class="invisible">om/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#Travel</a> <a href="/tags/soviet/" rel="tag">#Soviet</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve been uploading <a href="/tags/hacking/" rel="tag">#hacking</a> magazines from <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a>, some of which have been removed for reasons I don&#x27;t understand, to Internet Archive. This is a decent scan of an issue of Hacker Defence (or Hacker Defence Line?) from I think the early to mid 00s.<br><a href="/tags/hacker/" rel="tag">#hacker</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a><br><a href="https://archive.org/details/hacker_defence_unknown" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/hacker_defence_unknown"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/hacker_def</span><span class="invisible">ence_unknown</span></a></p>

<p>Vin Mariani was an extremely popular wine created in the 1860s. Pope Leo XIII purportedly carried a hipflask of Vin Mariani with him, and Thomas Edison credited it with helping him work through the night. It had 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine. </p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/drinking/" rel="tag">#drinking</a> <a href="/tags/advertisements/" rel="tag">#advertisements</a> <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">#wine</a></p>

<p>Going to Venice this summer?</p><p>Interested in history?</p><p>Book a tour with me, and I&#x27;ll talk you ears off.</p><p><a href="/tags/venice/" rel="tag">#Venice</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/historynerd/" rel="tag">#historyNerd</a></p><p><a href="https://historywalksvenice.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>historywalksvenice.com/</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Opernabend<br>20. August 2026, 20:00 Uhr </p><p>Boito, Arrigo<br>Mefistofele</p><p>Mefistofele: Nicolai Ghiaurov<br>Faust: Luciano Pavarotti<br>Margherita: Mirella Freni<br>Marta: Nucci Condò<br>Wagner: Piero de Palma<br>Elena: Montserrat Caballé<br>Pantalis: Della Jones<br>Nerèo: Robin Leggate</p><p>London Opera Chorus, Trinity BoysChoir, National Philharmonic Orchestra<br>Leitung: Oliviero de Fabritiis<br>Jahr 1982</p><p><a href="https://radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/17990/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/17990/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radioklassik.at/programm/sendu</span><span class="invisible">ngsformat/17990/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>RIP</p><p>&quot;Die größte Sopranistin ihrer Generation: Zum Tod von Ileana Cotrubaș&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-groesste-sopranistin-ihrer-generation-zum-tod-von-ileana-cotruba-100.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-groesste-sopranistin-ihrer-generation-zum-tod-von-ileana-cotruba-100.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/d</span><span class="invisible">ie-groesste-sopranistin-ihrer-generation-zum-tod-von-ileana-cotruba-100.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/obituary/" rel="tag">#obituary</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>Lovely Peeps! Your cool <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> for the day! 🚀</p><p>(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words &amp; I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)</p><p>If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊</p><p>&quot;Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.</p><p>But nobody’s talking about the <a href="/tags/deaf/" rel="tag">#Deaf</a> men who made it possible.</p><p>In the late 1950s, <a href="/tags/nasa/" rel="tag">#NASA</a> had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.</p><p>So they came to <a href="/tags/gallaudet/" rel="tag">#Gallaudet</a>.</p><p>Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.</p><p>NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.</p><p>Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.</p><p>No <a href="/tags/gallaudet_eleven/" rel="tag">#Gallaudet_Eleven</a> — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.</p><p>Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth &amp; came home safely.</p><p>They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.</p><p>Now you know!&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/artemis2/" rel="tag">#Artemis2</a> <a href="/tags/asl/" rel="tag">#ASL</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/til/" rel="tag">#TIL</a> <a href="/tags/nyle_di_marco/" rel="tag">#Nyle_di_Marco</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Mátyás Seiber - Fantasia Concertante</p><p>André Gertler, violin <br>Symphony Orchestra of the Capital City of Prague<br>Václav Smetáček <br>rec. 1976</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbUbJ4NASPM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbUbJ4NASPM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbUbJ4</span><span class="invisible">NASPM</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Johann Sebastian Bach<br>Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564<br>Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565</p><p>Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)<br>Toccata from the Symphonie Concertante Op. 81</p><p>Virgil Fox, organ<br>Date: 28-31 August 1977</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBj1xA4XkkU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBj1xA4XkkU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBj1xA</span><span class="invisible">4XkkU</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/barock/" rel="tag">#barock</a> <a href="/tags/organ/" rel="tag">#organ</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Ludwig van Beethoven<br>Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67</p><p>Sir Henry Wood, conducting<br>Queen&#x27;s Hall Orchestra</p><p>Recorded in May 3, 1935</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNAUzvdE8g" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNAUzvdE8g"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNAUz</span><span class="invisible">vdE8g</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/concert/" rel="tag">#concert</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>The book I’m reading does not imply this about Mongols at all.</p><p>There is a reason the Great Wall of China was built.</p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>(LONG POST) Fell down a fascinating rabbit hole today about a few little boys and a little girl in ancient China about 2100 years ago.</p><p>Emperor Wu went mad with paranoia in his old age, accusing everyone of using witchcraft against him. This led to him needlessly launching attacks on his own eldest son, who never intended to betray him, and the prince&#x27;s own sons. This whole branch of the royal household was wiped out in the attack. Except... there was a baby. A brand new baby boy, only a few weeks old, the Emperor&#x27;s great-grandchild. The baby&#x27;s name was Bingyi. </p><p>Someone brought baby Bingyi to a prison rather than kill him as ordered. The prison warden personally took good care of him; when word got out and he was ordered to finish the job, he refused to kill the baby, knowing it would presumably cost him his life. However, the Emperor came to his senses and stopped the witch hunt. The order to kill baby Bingyi and this random prison warden along with him never came. Bingyi safely disappeared into the household of distant relatives, to live an ordinary middle-class life. </p><p>Emperor Wu died of old age, and his dying wish was for the crown to skip over all the sons he distrusted and go straight to the only one not yet old enough to have earned his distrust, the surprise offspring of a May-December fling. Emperor Zhao was still a small child. He was immediately married-on-paper to another small child, Lady Shangguan. </p><p>A few years later, Lady Shangguan&#x27;s family was accused of planning a coup by Zhao&#x27;s regent and executed, but she was spared on account of being too young to have possibly been in on it.</p><p>Zhao was, apparently, a completely reasonable and level-headed young man. He showed wisdom in dealing with court rumors and did not do the ridiculous things young people with power often do. When he found out that Bingyi was alive, he visited with the other boy, treated him with kindness and made sure his needs were met. </p><p>Unfortunately, Zhao dropped dead when he was 20. (No indications of foul play, he was just unlucky). He had no children; his marriage to Lady Shangguan may not have even ever been consummated. The Empress Dowager was 15 years old.</p><p>A nephew of Zhao was brought in to be the new emperor; he was slightly older than Lady Shangguan, at 17. And he... partied. Immediately. Extremely. Incessantly. He was hinted to stop. He was told to stop. He was told more boldly and explicitly to stop. He did not stop. </p><p>An entire 27 days after this loser nephew took the throne, Lady Shangguan put on her best dress, entered the court, sat down on the throne, and called for the nephew. He came in. She unrolled a list of over 1000 complaints that had accrued since he arrived at the palace. She fired him. A 15-year-old girl with no actual hard power fired the Emperor of China in front of all his ministers. And he turned around, left, and went home. </p><p>(And in a very Ancient Chinese approach, he was allowed to live but most of his attendants were executed for allowing him to grow into such a brat. Only a handful who were known to have boldly rebuked him were spared.)</p><p>Lady Shangguan was now in direct defacto control of the empire. However, she understood that trying to hold on to that for the rest of her life would be destabilizing, since her claims were paper-thin as the childless widow of a child-emperor, whose family was already executed for treason. She sent for Bingyi. </p><p>Bingyi ruled under the name Emperor Xuan, and is considered to have been one of the wisest emperors, being possessed of common sense and moral sympathy for the poor after a heathy, normal upbringing. Lady Shangguan quietly stepped back after thus saving the empire from disastrous misrule, never remarried, and was pretty much the only person on either side of her family to never get executed, exiled or driven to unalive. </p><p>Lady Shangguan: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Empress_Dowager_Shangguan" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Empress_Dowager_Shangguan"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Em</span><span class="invisible">press_Dowager_Shangguan</span></a></p><p>Emperor Zhao: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Zhao_of_Han" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Zhao_of_Han"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_</span><span class="invisible">Zhao_of_Han</span></a></p><p>Bingyi / Emperor Xuan: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xuan_of_Han" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xuan_of_Han"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_</span><span class="invisible">Xuan_of_Han</span></a></p><p>Loser Nephew: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_He_of_Changyi" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_He_of_Changyi"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_H</span><span class="invisible">e_of_Changyi</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/longpost/" rel="tag">#longpost</a></p>

<p>Finally took the time (my internet connection was down...) to watch Johan Grimonprez&#x27; documentary &quot;Soundtrack to a Coup d&#x27;Etat&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/</a></p><p>If you&#x27;re interested in <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/un/" rel="tag">#UN</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> it&#x27;s really worth your time.</p><p>If you want to better understand what happened when <a href="/tags/congo/" rel="tag">#Congo</a> &quot;tried&quot; <a href="/tags/independence/" rel="tag">#Independence</a> from <a href="/tags/belgium/" rel="tag">#Belgium</a> in 1960, how USA conspired to kill <a href="/tags/patricelumumba/" rel="tag">#PatriceLumumba</a> and why there was a war in <a href="/tags/katanga/" rel="tag">#Katanga</a>, then there&#x27;s a lot in this documentary, while listening to good music.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <br>Opernabend<br>22. August 2026, 20:00 Uhr</p><p>Puccini, Giacomo<br>Manon Lescaut</p><p>Manon Lescaut: Maria Guleghina<br>Lescaut: Lucio Gallo<br>Il Cavaliere Renato Des Grieux: José Cura<br>Geronte di Ravoir: Luigi Roni<br>Edmondo: Marco Berti<br>der Wirt: Orazio Mori<br>ein Musiker: Gloria Banditelli<br>der Tanzlehrer: Mario Bolognesi<br>...<br>Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala<br>Leitung: Riccardo Muti</p><p>Jahr 1998</p><p><a href="https://radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/18123/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/18123/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radioklassik.at/programm/sendu</span><span class="invisible">ngsformat/18123/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#classic</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>