March 2021
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Originally posted on Today's History Lesson: Today, East Airfield is just a field. Every year, a crop of sugar cane is grown there. When the time is right (like it is at some point every year), the sugar cane is harvested and turned into whatever sweet things it becomes. And it’s then, when the…
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Just to get you all ready for St Patrick’s day, I have compiled some of what I think is the best Irish music.
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Leon Jessel,(January 22, 1871 – January 4, 1942) was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Although if it had been up to his parents Samuel and Mary Jessel, he would have become a textile sales man.His Father however was a gifted violinist. Today Leon Jessel is best known internationally as…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Why do you hate me? We have never met before. How can you look at me and feel a justification to kill me? Why do you follow orders of someone who doesn’t care about you? How can you still consider yourself a human being. Why do you hate me?…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Transport 64 from Westerbork in the Netherkands , was the designated transport number for the moving of 2511 people to Sobibor in Poland, on May 18th 1943.(The transport also had designated number 12, there would often be more numbers for 1 transport) Most of them were residents of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Holocaust was without a shadow of a doubt the worst atrocity ever committed in the history of the world. But what makes it possibly even worse is the fact that so many key players responsible for the Holocaust got away with it and even got high positions in…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The slogan America First was not first used by Donald J Trump but by President Woodrow Wilson, and also by Warren G. Harding during the 1920 US Presidential elections. On September 4th 1940 R. Douglas Stuart Jr., who was a student at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, founded the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I find it very hard to fathom any of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but the one thing that gets to me most is the murder of children. They did not pose any threat or any kind of danger, neither did their parents, but the children had…
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