October 2019
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the Birthday of Doris Miller. Doris “Dorie” Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a Ship’s cook Third Class that the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: August Sangret (28 August 1913 – 29 April 1943) was a French-Canadian soldier of North American Indian ethnic origin, convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1942 murder of 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe in Surrey, England. This murder case is also known as the Wigwam Murder. The murder of…
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Who hasn’t seen Police Academy or any of the sequels? I reckon mots people have. But one of the actors in the movie had such an interesting life that his story would warrant a movie and would probably become a box office success. George Gaynes who played the clueless Commandant Lassard was born George Jongejans
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: When you think of Popes you wouldn’t think that a small country like the Netherlands ever would produce a Pope. But yet it did. Born as Adriaan Florensz Boeyens in Utrecht on March 2 1459. He would become thr head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The middle ages are often referred to as the dark ages but I really think the Dark Ages were from 1933 to 1945. However with every darkness there is also light. This blog is dealing with those few bits of light that shone during those dark ages. The picture above…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Crucifix Hill.The Battle of Crucifix Hill was a World War II battle that took place on 8 October 1944, on Crucifix Hill (Haarberg, Hill 239), next to the village of Haaren in Germany and was a part of the U.S. 1st…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The title of this blog is an address. It will mean very little to most people. It is not the address of someone famous or some well known shop or even museum. It is basically a very insignificant address in the greater scheme of things. But in a microcosm…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: In order to understand the true horrors of WWII it is important to read the accounts of survivors, or listen to the stories of those who fought on the battlefields and saw the horrors first hand. Although they survived they would have been scarred forever either physically or mentally…
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I have already done a piece on the Milgram experiments, and this will be more of a follow up. The Milgram experiment,was designed to observe the extent to which individuals would perform acts that violated their personal conscience when under orders from an authority figure. Basically they wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient
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