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Originally posted on History of Sorts: My shoes are touching the promenade on “Poor Man’s Kilkee” Rain is falling on my head and drops are slowly reaching my face. A man in a coffee shop is putting up a Christmas tree. Undisturbed the Shannon flows, in so much splendor and grace. The town with its…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. The American Catholic missionaries in Tapaz,Philippines probably could not be specified as vulnerable but the people they cared for were. additionally the missionaries themselves did not pose any threat themselves to…
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On this day 75 years ago a real Hero died. Betsie ten Boom died in Ravensbruck on 16 December 1944, at the age of 59. Sge ended up in Ravensbruück for one reason and one reason only, She died because she did the righteous and decent thing. Together with her family she hid numerous Jews…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? Angelo P. Marcaletti and Charles James Jr, who were they? To be honest I don’t know who they were. However I do know they both lived in New Philadelphia,Ohio, and they both had attended the Dover High school in Tuscarawas County,Ohio. I also know they were buddies when they…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: For the NSDAP to become as powerful as it did, it had to receive financial backing, They could not only rely on donations of party members, because in the early 1930s many of them were not that wealthy, one of the reasons they had joined the party was to…
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