August 2026
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A truly remarkable story of love and survival. In the late 1930s, Anka Bergman was a lively law student living in the Czechoslovakian capital, Prague. “I wanted company and boyfriends and to enjoy myself. I didn’t know that Hitler was coming, but I filled my time with only cinemas and theatres and concerts and parties,”…
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Coffee: it’s the drink we rely on for energy, the beverage that brings people together, and a ritual embedded in cultures worldwide. But coffee’s story is as rich and deep as the flavors we savor in each cup. Let’s take a journey through the history of coffee—from the ancient hills of Ethiopia to the bustling…
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The title of this blog could be from any fictitious novel. A children’s book or even a fairy tale, but it actually describes a bizarre reality which caused so much destruction. The story of Hitler’s naturalization process resembles something of a farce. On April 7 1925 he had given up his Austrian citizenship, it was…
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War brings out the best and the worst out of people, that is just a fact. It is easy to acknowledge the good but there is often a struggle acknowledging the bad, even to the extent of trying to completely erase it from history. When it comes to the Holocaust there is no question about…
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“The Daffodil Knows” Beneath the frost where silence sleeps,Where time runs thin and memory weeps,A bulb lies still in winter’s grave,Yet dreams of sun and all it gave. I stood alone where you once stood,The air still held your quiet good—No voice, no breath, just earth and stone,And daffodils you might have known. Grief is…
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It should be no surprise that I cherish beauty, and to me, none compares to the timeless grace of a woman’s bare form. This is a tribute to the women who carry the earth’s stories in their eyes and the strength of generations in their spirit. Their beauty is not bound by trends or fleeting…
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The contemporary landscape of the British Isles, characterized by rolling green hills, temperate woodlands, and dense urban centers, offers little immediate hint of a wilder, more megafaunal past. Yet, for hundreds of thousands of years during the Pleistocene epoch—commonly known as the Ice Age—what is now Great Britain was home to some of the largest…
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The Holocaust wasn’t something that happened overnight, it was a gradual process. In Germany, it started in 1933, and in the Netherlands, it started shortly after the German occupation n May 1940. Below is a brief timeline of what eventually led to the murder of 75% of all Dutch Jews. 1940 July 1stJews are forbidden…
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Conversation with GeminiWrite a substantial essay about Kepler’s Mother Arrest In the history of the Scientific Revolution, 1615 is usually remembered as the year Johannes Kepler was refining his laws of planetary motion and preparing his landmark work, Harmonice Mundi (The Harmony of the World). Yet, during this pinnacle of his scientific career, Kepler’s life…
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Despite her exotic name Mata Hari was a Dutch woman. Her real name was Margaretha (Gretha)Zelle and was born in Leeuwarden, in the province of Friesland in the North West of the Netherlands.. Today marks her 150th birthday. At 18, Zelle answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod (1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928),…
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