February 2018

  • Medical Heroes

    The one group that often gets overseen in WWII stories are the medics. There are some books and movies about them, but if you put in the bigger scheme of WWII things it is a small percentage. Yet they are the ones who would run into the battlefield, sometimes unarmed, to pick up the wounded.

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  • The smile of an Angel

    The smile of Henri Fragman , how Angelic. Those eyes tell so many stories. The story of a 5 year old who got his hands dirty playing in the mud, even though his mother told him to stay clean because she was about to serve dinner. The story of the boy who loved to play hide

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: On February 14, 1884, Theodore Roosevelt received a terrible news, his wife and mother died within hours of one another in the Roosevelt house in New York City. His mother, age 50, succumbed to typhus, and his wife Alice died at the age of 22 giving birth to her…

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  • Entertaining the Troops.

    After months of fighting fierce battles this must have been the most adorable way ever how the US troops were entertained. Dutch children entertain U.S. soldiers. U.S. soldiers taken for a morning walk through the grounds of moated Hoensbroek Castle in Holland some of the 145 young Dutch children living there under the care of

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  • The Bombing of Dresden

    The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place during the Second World War in the European Theatre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs

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  • Primum non nocere is the Latin phrase for “First do no harm” It is part of the Hippocratic Oath including the promise “to abstain from doing harm” . The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to

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  • If there is one book and movie that should be in the curriculum of every secondary school it is Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo. The most famous heroin addict was still a child when she entered into the drug world. Her descent to heroin addiction and prostitution on the streets of West Berlin

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  • I am 3

    My name is Julia Bricht, I am 3. When I am four I will go to school and learn all sorts of things and play with my friends. When I am 6 I will go the big school and will get to know more people and learn even more things. When I am 12 I

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  • Recasting Movies-What if?

    I have never made a movie but I am a movie buff. It is hard to cast movies, not every actor is suited to every movie. I do have a theory of ‘ Stand-by’ actors which is purely and solely based on my own imagination, what I mean with ‘stand-by’ actors is , when a

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  • We have all heard of Coors beer and some of us probably drink it every once in a while. I do. But not so many of us know the story and the drama behind the name.Adolph Coors stowed away to America at the age of 21 with a dream of brewing great beers. He realized

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