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Maribor [videos]

Maribor is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor. — Maribor, along with the Portuguese city of Guimarães, was selected …

Maribor's Old Town along the Drava River

Maribor in the 17th century. A copper engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer, 1678.

Svetopolk Pivko [videos]

Svetopolk Pivko was an engineer and professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, was a colonel of the Yugoslav Air Force …

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Gabriel von Hackl [videos]

Gabriel Hackl was a German historicist painter. — Life and work — He was born in Marburg an der Drau, Lower Styria, Austrian Empire. A surgeon's son, he attended the gymnasium in his home town and to the city school in Graz. To fulfil his father's wishes he …

Gabriel von Hackl, by an unknown artist, undated.

Das Wunderkind, 1874

Lizika Jančar [videos]

Elizabeta "Lizika" Jančar was a Slovene Partisan. — Life — Lizika Jančar was born in Maribor as the daughter of a railway worker that had also worked as a miner in Germany. Jančar became a member of the League of Communist Youth of …

Lizika Jančar

Plaque in Belo commemorating Lizika Jančar

Polde Bibič [videos]

Polde Bibič was a Slovenian stage and film actor, a writer, and an academic professor, best known for his role in the film Flowers in Autumn and his work in theater, Bibič was a recipient of several top awards in the field of arts in Slovenia. — Life — Bibič was …

Polde Bibič (2012)

Berta Bojetu [videos]

Berta Bojetu, also Berta Bojetu Boeta, was a Slovene writer, poet and actress. She was one of the first Slovenian authors in the second half of the 20th century to address the question of Jewish identity in her literature. — Life — Bojetu was born in Maribor in …

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Yuri Bradac [videos]

Jurij Bradač, better known by his stage name Yuri Bradac, is a Slovenian actor and model. — Career — His career began in television in the 2005 and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is known for the …

Sweet Years opening in Maribor 2008

Sabina Cvilak [videos]

Sabina Cvilak is a Slovenian operatic soprano, who has appeared internationally, mostly at opera houses in Europe and the United States. Her stage presence is noted in portrayals of tragic female characters such as Puccini's Liù and Mimi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and Wagner's …

Sabina Cvilak in 2011

Mladen Dolar [videos]

Mladen Dolar is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic.Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French language at the University of Ljubljana, under the supervision of the …

Mladen Dolar in the Freud's Dreams Museum in 2011

Neca Falk [videos]

Marjetka "Neca" Falk is a Slovenian pop singer. She was born in Maribor, a city in Slovenian Styria. She started her career at the Youth Festival in Tivoli Hall in 1969 and released her first album, Danes, in 1977. She is well known for her chansons and for her …

Neca Falk in 2014

Tadej Golob [videos]

Tadej Golob is a Slovene mountaineer and writer. — Golob was born in Maribor in 1967 and grew up in the small town of Lenart v Slovenskih goricah in northeastern Slovenia. He moved to Ljubljana to study journalism but never completed his studies. He worked as a contributor to various …

Tadej Golob reading from his book Jezero (Novo Mesto, August 2018)

Vekoslav Grmič [videos]

Vekoslav Grmič was a Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop and theologian, known for his sympathy towards socialist ideas. — Biography — He was born in the Lower Styrian village of Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He …

Vekoslav Grmič

Herta Haas [videos]

Herta Haas was a Yugoslav Partisan during World War II and the second wife of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Partisans and a future President of Yugoslavia. — Biography — Haas was born 1914 in Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the …

Herta Haas (second from left) in 1943

Drago Jančar [videos]

Drago Jančar is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most well-known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement. — Life — He was born in Maribor, an industrial center in what …

Image: Drago Jančar in Brno (2)

Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti [videos]

Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti is a Slovenian nationalist politician and author. He is the head of the Slovenian National Party. — Jelinčič was born in the eastern Slovenian city of Maribor in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic …

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Amalie Joachim [videos]

Amalie Joachim, née Schneeweiss was an Austrian-German contralto, working in opera and concert and as voice teacher. She was the wife of the violinist Joseph Joachim, and a friend of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms with whom she made international tours. — Career …

Joseph und Amalie Joachim, by Adolf Neumann, in: Die Gartenlaube, 1873

Maja Keuc [videos]

Maja Keuc, also known as Amaya, is a Slovenian singer. She represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. — Career — Keuc was born on 16 January 1992 in Maribor, Slovenia. During her childhood, she joined the "English student theatre" where she got a lot of stage …

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Kajetan Kovič [videos]

Kajetan Kovič was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist. — Life — Kovič was born in Maribor in 1931 and spent his childhood in the small town of Poljčane and Hrastje–Mota near Radenci in eastern Slovenia. He graduated from high school in Maribor …

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Bratko Kreft [videos]

Bratko Kreft was a Slovenian playwright, writer, literary and theater historian and director. — Biography — He grew up in Prlekija. He studied Slavic Studies in Vienna and Ljubljana. In Ljubljana he also studied comparative literature and …

Bratko Kreft

Svetlana Makarovič [videos]

Svetlana Makarovič is a Slovenian writer of prose, poetry, children's books, and picture books, and is also an actress, illustrator and chanteuse. She has been called "The First Lady of Slovenian poetry." She is also noted for borrowing from Slovenian folklore to tell stories of …

Svetlana Makarovič in August 2011 at Ljubljana Town Hall

Janez Menart [videos]

Janez Menart was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene, including Shakespeare's sonnets. — Biography — Menart was born in Maribor. His …

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Marko Naberšnik [videos]

Marko Naberšnik is a Slovenian director of TV and film who might still be best known for his first film, Rooster's Breakfast. He is also a screenwriter. — Career — He attended an 8-week film-making program at New York Film Academy, which he had learned of from a German film …

Marko Naberšnik (2012).

Ljudmila Novak [videos]

Ljudmila Novak is a Slovenian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament. She is the president of the New Slovenia – Christian People's Party. Since 21 December 2011, she has been the vice-president of the Slovenian National Assembly.She was born in Maribor. She …

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Tomaž Pandur [videos]

Tomaž Pandur was a Slovenian theatre director. — Career as a director — In Slovenia — As a student of Maribor Grammar School No. 1 he established his own theatre group "Tespisov voz – Novo slovensko gledališče". He graduated on AGRTF in 1988. His …

Pandur in Mexico during 2015

Tone Partljič [videos]

Tone Partljič is a Slovene writer, playwright and politician. Between 1990 and 2004 he was a member of the Slovenian National Assembly, from 1994 as a member of the LDS party. He was also president of the Slovene Writers' Association between 1983 and 1987.Partljič was born in …

Image: Tone Partljič 2011 (3)

Matjaž Perc [videos]

Matjaž Perc is Professor of Physics at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and director of the Complex Systems Center Maribor. He is member of Academia Europaea and among top 1% most cited physicists according to Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers. He is Outstanding Referee of the Physical …

Perc in July 2015, Val Gardena

Žarko Petan [videos]

Žarko Petan was a Slovenian writer, essayist, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. He is best known as a writer of aphorisms. — Petan was born into a relatively wealthy urban middle-class family in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He …

Žarko Petan

Walter Pfrimer [videos]

Walter Pfrimer was an Austrian politician and leader of the Heimwehr in Styria. He was the leader of a failed putsch in 1931. — Early years — The son of a wine merchant, Pfrimer studied law at the University of Graz …

Pfrimer (right) with Heimwehr leader Richard Steidle, about 1930

Prague [videos]

Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its …

Clockwise from top: panorama with Prague Castle, Malá Strana and Charles Bridge; Pankrác district with high-rise buildings; street view in Malá Strana; Old Town Square panorama; gatehouse tower of the Charles Bridge; National Theatre

The mythological princess Libuše prophesies the glory of Prague.

The Prague astronomical clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.

The Bohemian Crown Jewels are the fourth oldest in Europe

Nice [videos]

Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The metropolitan area …

Port Lympia of Nice

The waterfall on the Colline du Château (Castle Hill)

The Palais de Justice

Nice seen from Spot Satellite

Gold dollar [videos]

The gold dollar or gold one-dollar piece is a gold coin that was struck as a regular issue by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1849 to 1889. The coin had three types over its lifetime, all designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. The Type 1 issue has the smallest diameter of any …

James B. Longacre, self-portrait (1845)

The head of Liberty on the Type 1 dollar resembles that on Longacre's Liberty Head double eagle.

Open wreath

Closed wreath

George VI [videos]

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth. — Known publicly as …

Four kings: Edward VII (far right), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V (far left), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII (rear), and Albert, later George VI (foreground), c. 1908

The Duke and Duchess (centre, reading programmes) at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, 1927

Darlington Town Hall decorated for the coronation, 1937

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, on the USS Potomac, 9 June 1939

Bryce Canyon National Park [videos]

Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive …

Bryce Amphitheater from Sunrise Point

Erosion of sedimentary rocks has created natural arches.

Thor's Hammer

Bryce Canyon has extensive fir forests.

Amazon River [videos]

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and by some definitions it is the longest.The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon's …

Amazon River near Indiana, Peru

Pwanchir Pitu, Achuar shaman

Amazon tributaries near Manaus

Native Mundurukú Painting by Hercules Florence

Mercedes-Benz [videos]

Mercedes-Benz is a German global automobile marque and a division of Daimler AG. The brand is known for luxury vehicles, buses, coaches, and trucks. The headquarters is in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The name first appeared in 1926 under Daimler-Benz. In …

Karl Benz. Benz made the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile.

Gottlieb Daimler, founder of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.

Mercedes-Benz dealer in Munich, Germany.

Mercedes-Benz A-Class (Subcompact executive hatchbacks and sedans)

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