July 2023
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Ireland lost one of its most talented singers yesterday. Sinéad O’Connor was a great performer and artist, there were very few like her. However, she wasn’t always known for her music, she had many controversial moments. She leapt to international fame with the release of her first record, The Lion and the Cobra in 1987,
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A troubled soul, a demon with an angel’s voice or an angel with demons haunting her. Often misunderstood, also by me, but always genuine and sincere. The world without you will go on, but it will be a bit more boring and a bit less beautiful. Nothing did compare to you and nothing ever will.
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Levie Peper was a son of Abraham Peper and Margaretha Rood. He was born in Amsterdam on 24 June 1874, and he earned his money as a hawker. On 30 March 1905, he married Johanna (Naatje) Vos in Amsterdam, who was born there on 22 April 1871 to her parents Joseph Vos and Marianna Aron
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There were, of course, millions of families murdered during the Holocaust. The reason why I am focusing on only two families today is that they were young families. Both families had a child who would have had their 80th birthday today. I am only giving the details of their…
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Originally posted on Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos: My first novel in this series on Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos is out!Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all major book outlets and stores, in paperback, Kindle, Nook, and PDF download! Buy book one, Traitor Comet! Coming soon: L’Étoile de Mer (The Starfish), sequel to…
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Starting off the Soft Side of Rock N Roll with a classic Rolling Stones track “Fool to Cry” The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Mick Taylor had just left the band and the Stones were left without a lead guitarist. The recording of Black and Blue acted as a sort of
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(Originally posted on July 25, 2023 on Dr Helmy’s 122 birthday) When you opened your Google page today, you would have seen a doodle celebrating the 122nd birthday of the birthday of Dr Mohamed Helmy. Before I go into the important story of this great man, I want to highlight a disturbing trend that is
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In the Middle Ages, beer was the drink of the people. “Ordinary” rain and canal water was not safe to drink. Because the drink had to be heated during the production process, the barley juice contained fewer harmful bacteria than water and was therefore healthier. It is estimated that the average Frisian drank as much
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