February 2018
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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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Project A119 was the designated name by the US Air Force to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The project was called “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” aka ” Project A119 and was developed by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s. The aim was to intimidate the Soviet Union, who at
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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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Usually I don’t do political or non historical blogs but because I am being attacked on a personal level I feel compelled to write a blog. I reallize that New and Neo mean the same thing but I could not find a better way to describe this. The new neo fascists are not the one
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We all know Jabba the Hut the big blob in Star Wars, he basically was a Mafia Godfather. However originally Jabba the Hut wasn’t an alien but a man from Belfast, well at least actor from Belfast. Declan Mulholland was born on December 6, 1932 in Belfast, Northern Ireland as Thomas Declan Mulholland. He is
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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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” Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, Our Nation turns its lonely eyes to you” lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs Robinson. When I first heard the song as a kid I had no idea who this Joe DiMaggio was. Now I know of course,he was a great baseball player but by all accounts he
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“Collar the lot,” is what Churchill said about the citizens of enemy nations living in the UK, it didn’t matter if they were friend or foe,. During the Second World War (1939 – 1945) a number of internment camps for civilians from enemy countries were established on the Isle of Man. These were based at
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“I was a Combat Engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering.” — Mel Brooks By far one of the funniest people on earth,Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926. I won’t go into his life as Comedian,Director.Actor,Producer and Singer because I’d be here
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