April 2019
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is one of my most personal blogs, having that said there still will be people saying it is ‘fake news’. As the title says the 6th of December 1944 will mean little to most but it means a lot to me. It is the day that one of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Over the decades there have been so many iconic movies and TV shows which spawned many big actors and actresses.But it didn’t always happen over night, sometimes these stars started off in big shows or movies with minor obscure rolls, or even in music videos. Below are just a…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: What do the movies. Star Wars-The Empire Strikes Back,Toy Story 3,Juno,Where Eagles Dare and Distant Drums(and a few hundred more) have in common? It’s not the cast or screenplay or even the studio but there are 2 seconds in all these movies which are identical. Those 2 seconds are called…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On the 10th of September 1897, a London cabbie with the name George Smith slammed his taxi into a building and becomes the first person to be arrested for drunk driving. He did plea guilty and was fined 25 shillings. Police officers did suspect that Smith was drunk because of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Don’t worry I am not going to go into details what a computer bug is and what to do how to resolve it. Nor will I explain what the implications of a computer bug are. That would be a long and tedious blog. In fact this blog will be…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There are so many images of death and destruction during WWII, Images of dying children or children that already have been killed. Images of families torn apart not knowing if they will ever see each other again, But the amazing thing though, amidst all of these portrayals of the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On this day in 1977 David Soul scored a massive NO 1 hit with “Don’t give up on us baby”, take away the “on us baby” and you would have the perfect title for his life. Mostly known as the iconic Hutch from the buddy cop TV show “Starsky…
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I started reading ‘The Librarian of Auschwitz’ I got the book as a birthday present a few days ago. It is based on the story of Dita Kraus, it is partially fictional and historical. However this blog will not be a book review nor will it be about Dita herself. The blog will be about
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is often assumed that it was mainly the poorer passengers that died on the Titanic, but this assumption is only true to an extend. In fact the richest man on board, an it can be argued the richest man on the planet, also perished in the cold Atlantic…
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