October 2017
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It is often though that the Vietnam war started in the 60s, but in fact it dates back much further then that. It really started on the 19th of December 1946. In February Ho Chi Minh had already sent a telegram to U.S. President Harry S. Truman requesting support for independence. The First Indochina War (December 1946 to
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No I haven’t suddenly gone all ultra nice, as many of you know the title of this blog is actually the 1st line of the classic Rolling Stones song”Sympathy for the devil” A song which is often misunderstood for being some satanic worshiping bit of musical poetry, but it couldn’t be further away from that.
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Who doesn’t remember the iconic car from Back to the Future? Or should I perhaps say the ironic car from Back to the Future,because although it couldn’t have hoped for a better marketing tool then the movie franchise, the DeLorean DMC-12 completely failed. Despite it’s ultra-cool appearance not many people actually bought a DeLorean car. They were
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Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to a French company in 1939, on the last occasion having her name changed to Sinfra. Sinfra was confiscated by German authorities in 1942, and used by them in the Mediterranean. On 19 October 1943, Sinfra was bombed
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The human mind is the most powerful weapon and a collective consciousness can be a very dangerous thing but it fortunately mostly it is harmless and often bizarre. There are so many examples where something is misquoted and it is picked up en mass. Star Wars:the Empire Strikes Back The most famous line from
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Basically I could make this blog the shortest ever. None of the Nazis were Aryans. I could leave it with that because it’d be true. Below is the definition of Aryan. ‘Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient
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I know all these W’s in the title would nearly make you dizzy , unfortunately there are more to come. What happens if you are arrested and brought to jail and it is claimed you were there before and you know you weren’t but there is an eye witness placing you there. This happened to
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I was struggling to find an appropriate title for this blog because so much can be said about this man. I am passionate about music although I am not necessarily that keen on classical music, I do listen to the works of great composers like Mozart,Beethoven.Satie,Ravel and Strauss.However all these great composers pale in comparison
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I know this blog will be controversial however I do believe sometimes to get a message across is by showing how absurd things are. The fact is Adolf Hitler liked to dress up, I am not saying he was a drag queen but I think he may have had tendencies towards it,and behind closed doors
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These 2 letter are truly heartbreaking. The 1st one because it was written by a young boy showing appreciation for a gift, not knowing what fate waited for him after his mother had sent his letter. This one actually tore my heart to pieces. The 2nd one from a young man who knew exactly
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