June 2018

  • Rembrandt’s tragedies

    There is this funny riddle, it goes like “What’s Rembrandt’s first name?” Rembrandt of course is his first name, his last name is van Rijn. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn born  15 July 1606 Unlike the riddle, his life wasn’t funny. He suffered many tragedies in his life. He got married on June 22 1634 to

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  • Evil recorded.

    Secret recordings made by British intelligence during World War II War have laid bare  the horrific atrocities carried out by everyday German soldiers.Not members of the SS, ‘regular’Wehrmacht soldiers. Following is the transcript of one of those recordings, The only name related to the recording is Reimbold, his position I don’t know but that is

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  • Law Abiding Citizens

    It is not always a good thing to be a law-abiding citizen. Don’t worry; I am not encouraging anarchy, but it is a fact that many things that we now know were evil and vile were once laws. Like slavery once was legal and written into law. Combine that with a nation whose culture it

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  • (updated February 15, 2024) Now that the  we are only a few months away from the UEFA Euro 2024 and , it is a good opportunity to look at one of the sport’s legends. Ernest Erbstein, aka Ernest Egri-Erbstein was a Jewish-Hungarian football player and  He was involved in  football as a player and coach

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  • The killing of Athletes

    It is often said that the death of a million is a statistic but the death of one is a tragedy, and unfortunately this is true. People just become desensitized when they see the pictures of a great number of corpses. It is just human nature, a defense mechanism because the brain just can’t fathom the

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  • After the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7 1941, there was a fear that Japan had plans to invade the US. This never happened, although there had been a few attacks on American soil by Japan, these did very little damage. The only military base ever to be attacked by Japan was Forts Stevens on the

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  • Ever since I was a kid I loved watching Laurel & Hardy movies and I believe I have them all in my collection. The humour in their films has remained fresh till today and they never dated. But it is only since recently I started to appreciate that some of their movies had very advanced

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  • So many people say that World War 2 should be left in the past, it’s been more then 7 decades now and we should move on. And to an extend they are right. However what these people forget is that the effects of WWII are still current in ways that they didn’t even consider, many

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  • My heart is broken

    Dear Simone Frajermauer you were 3 when you were murdered in Auschwitz. It was August 3 1944. It was 24 years before I was born. I never met you but yet you broke my heart. Now on this day July 11,2021  your eyes stared into mine and they have a question for me? They ask me”Have

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  • On June 18, 1940, Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill both gave speeches that instilled hope in the darkest hour. Some of their speeches of defiance still ring true today. The Appeal of 18 June—Charles de Gaulle (Translated) The appeal is often seen as the origin of the French Resistance to the German occupation during

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