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The breadth and scale of multimedia archives provides a tremendous potential for historical research that hasn't been fully tapped up to know. In this paper we want to discuss the approach taken by the History of Europe application, a demonstrator for the integration of human and machine computation that combines the power of face recognition technology with two distinctively different crowd-sourcing approaches to compute co-occurrences of persons in historical image sets.

The arrival on the market of “hyperconnected” glasses is raising many questions on the increasing mediation of social relationships through digital tools. “Google Glasses” are designed to be permanently connected to the Internet, and can be worn all day long to add digital information to our “natural” field of vision and to record our various actions.

Maxime Derian nous invite à mener une réflexion à propos d’un film qui, à son sens, a tout d’un futur classique. De même que Blade Runner qui fut un succès à retardement, pour Cloud Atlas, il pourrait en aller de même. Cette réalisation cinématographique pose une question inédite : celle du futur du futur.

This study attempts to clarify how Heroes' Memorial Day was adapted against the background of the National Socialist concept, what means the Wehrmacht used, how the celebrations were held, what symbols and what rituals were used. Particular attention is paid to the celebrations among the troops in peace and in war.

This article argues – in contradiction to the thesis developed by Rens Bod – that

Despite obvious connections between the industrial sector and that of technical-vocational schooling and training (cf. Blankertz, 1969) the historical importance of industry-related entrepreneurship for education in the whole of Europe remains underappreciated. In social-cultural and educational historiography alike States and/or Churches, rather than the industry and associated networks, tend to be connected to attempts at societal reform (see, e.g. de Swaan, 1988).

This paper analyses the initiating role of industry in educational selection by means of psychometric techniques used, for example, in psycho-physiological laboratories such as the one

Über amerikanische Luxemburger in Aurora, Illinois, die seit 1850 außer den Familiennamen auch eine innere Verbindung mit der Heimat der Grossväter bewahrt haben, die sie nach Luxemburg ruft.

In der russischen Stadt mit dem deutschen Namen Orenburg im Ural-Gebiet leben seit über 250 Jahren Deutsche. Wie sie bis heute ihre Identität, Sprache und Kultur bewahrt haben, wird im Artikel von der aus dieser Gegend stammenden Autorin erörtert.

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