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  • RIP Barbara

    This is one of those cases where you don’t agree with someone#s politics but yet admire and respect that person. I am not going to say too much about Barbara Bush except for although I didn’t necessarily agreed with the politics of her husband, her son or herself, I have to admit to me she…

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  • I am a product of love.

    I am a product of love,love between a man and a woman. I am a product of love, by 2 people who would do anything for me. I am a product of love, for anyone who looks into my angelic eyes can’t but love me. I am a product of love to all those around…

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  • There are 2 indisputable facts when it comes to the youngest members of society. A child is born with no state of mind, a baby does not know how to hate or how to love, he/she is taught how to do both and is conditioned to the environment he or she grows up in. He…

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  • (updated January 5 2024) On April 16 ,1977 David Soul scored a massive NO 1 hit with “Don’t give up on us baby”, take away the “on us baby” and you would have the perfect title for his life. Mostly known as the iconic Hutch from the  buddy cop  TV show “Starsky and Hutch”, David…

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  • This blog will be based on facts and some presumptions, but the presumptions are more then likely correct. I was going over the history of the deported Jews from my birthplace Geleen, south east of the Netherlands. when I noticed the name of the Cohen family. There is not a lot I know or could…

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  • I know the title may seem a bit disrespectful but it is not meant that way, it was the only way I felt I could describe it. In the summer of 1942, the Nazis made preparations to deport the Jews of Belgium. They converted the Dossin de St. Georges military barracks in the city of…

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  • It is often assumed that it was mainly the poorer passengers that died on the Titanic, but this assumption is only true to an extend. In fact the richest man on board, an it can be argued the richest man on the planet, also perished in the cold Atlantic waters on April 15 1912. Financier…

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  • Agatha Christie is one of the greats of mystery literature. For eleven days, she was at the center of her own mystery, that got international headlines. On a December night, she drove away from her home in Berkshire and vanished completely. Her car was found abandoned and a huge manhunt was launched. Arthur Conan Doyle,…

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  • You often hear the term ‘the coldest winter,or hottest summer on record etc’ but the oldest ongoing instrumental record of temperature in the world is the Central England Temperature record, started in 1659. Although I am not disputing the climate change, the fact is there have been climate changes  or freak weather events ever since the…

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  • First human in Space

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarinwas a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by…

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