February 2018
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Sometimes you hear a song on the radio and you may have actually heard this song for many years,always thinking it was an original. However it often happens that these “originals” are actually copies or covers. In this blog I will be looking at the songs in the original…
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Dord is a noun in physics and chemistry that means density. Well not really, although it was in the dictionary for 5 years as a valid word. This was the perfect example that even the brightest minds can make mistakes and also that you should not always believe everything you read.. On February 28, 1939,
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I was struggling to come up with an appropriate title ,this is the best I could come up with. In this blog I am not looking at the obvious impact of that awful day but to the impact it had on the entertainment industry and also how we looked at different aspects of climate change.
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I have always been fascinated by polls(I know it’s sad) more specifically how questions are asked in polls and how just wording the question slightly different can completely change the outcome of the poll as was the case in February 1941. On 24 February 1941 a Gallup poll was published asking Americans, “Do you think
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Dear Marta Weisz, you don’t know me and I don’t know you but yet I pledge to be your voice. You were a product of love between 2 people, but you were killed by a product of hate. I say product because when you were born you produced a feeling in your parents which can not
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It is a question I often ask myself “Would I do it, would I risk my life and the life of my Family to safe others? ” Honestly I don’t know. Risking my own life is one thing, but risking the lives of my Family is a different ballgame all together. And yet that is
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I am starting off by saying I know I will be getting angry comments, saying how disrespectful I am. How do I know this? I did post a blog once with the title Holocaust and Humour. After I published it, many people complained and even called it disgusting. When I asked if they read the blog, they
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When I grow up, I am going to be a Doctor or a Pilot or a Policeman. When I grow up, I am going to be a Baker, or a Carpenter or Fireman. When I grow up, I am going to write great stories and everyone in the whole wide world will read them. When
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Although the Dutch and the Brits are good friends now, it was not always thus. There have been several Anglo-Dutch wars. The 3rd , Anglo-Dutch war ended this day in 1674 by the signing of the Westmnster Treaty of 1647. The English were dismayed by the unexpected fact that Dutch raiders managed to capture more English
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The more I do these WWII stories the more I realize how littIe I actually know.. It was by chance I came across the name Gabrielle Weidner. Today when I tried to open a page on her it came up blank, just like my brain.I never heard of her or her brother Jean nor had
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