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Art or junk? Ancient terracotta figures in sacred and profane places (Waltrud Wamser-Krasznai)

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Perge in Pamphylia and the city goddess Artemis Pergaia (Waltrud Wamser-Krasznai)

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Who is Apollo shooting at - a coin from Thessaly with reference to Asclepius? (Roman Huber)

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Sustainable fireworks (Heiner Wenk)

When I read the headline in our local newspaper on December 29, I shook my head: "How sustainable can fireworks be?" This question seemed completely absurd to me. Fireworks burn, bang, stink, produce fine dust for a short time and then disappear. That can't have anything to do with sustainability. But "sustainability" is just a buzzword, like "taking off". All those young entrepreneurs who want to take off don't even know what they're saying. A plane takes off after a failed landing approach, that's a high-risk maneuver....

Dionysus in the mirror of literature (Waltrud Wamser-Krasznai)

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Hand (Waltrud Wamser-Krasznai)

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Hermes, a divine filou and Mercury, the Rothschild among the gods (Waltrud Wamser-Krasznai)

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The anatomist Ludwig Stieda - a Baltic polymath[1]1837 (Dorpat) - 1918 (Giessen) (by Waltrud Wamser-Krasznai)

Ludwig Stieda came from a German family with roots in Thuringia. Of the 13 children of his great-grandfather, a pastor near Arnstadt, three sons emigrated to Riga as lawyers. Tsarina Katharina, a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, had turned her attention to the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire.

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