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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I contribute this movie to have triggered my long lasting love affair with the silver screen.I vividly remember watching this movie on one of the German TV Channels. Although even at a young age I found it annoying that the Germans just couldn’t resist dubbing any non German movie,…
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It is no surprise that the Oxford English Dictionary is the leading dictionary when it comes to the English language.As a historical dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary explains words by showing their development rather than merely their present-day usages. Therefore, it shows definitions in the order that the sense of the word began being used, including word meanings…
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It’s amazing how ignorant someone sometimes can be. Although I wasn’t a great of fan of the shows I did watch Hogan’s Heroes and the Bold and the Beautiful on a regular basis,especially the latter one in the period of 1990-1992. The reason why I mention these 2 shows because it starred Robert Clary. In…
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One of the most powerful weapons during WWII and indeed any other war was propaganda. It was however not only the governments that used propaganda, private also used propaganda, albeit in a more subliminal manner, in their advertising campaigns. Some of these ads would put 21st century advertisers to shame. following are some examples of…
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There you are having your minding your own and before you know it there is a MiG 21 parked in your living room. This is what happened to some inhabitants of the Plattenbau” building, Cottbus, East Germany. On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, 33, wass on a training mission with his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21…
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The World War II Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial Margraten is a war cemetery which lies in the village of Margraten 10 km (6 mi) east of Maastricht, in the most southern part of the Netherlands. If you have never been there it is a well worth place visting. 8.301 brave men are buried there and there are another 2,000 or so memorials…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: “The silicon chip inside her head got switched to overload” is the opening line from the Irish new wave/punk band Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Monday” The song was based on true events. On this day 38 years ago 16 year old Brenda Spencer went on a killing…
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I am going to keep this one simple. This is a blog about babies killed while they were still in diapers. What danger did they pose? These are picture of babies killed by the Nazi regime. I don’t have a name for the baby above, only the age. 1. Frederika Madeleine van Coeverdan murdered in…
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world Dr. Gene Shoemaker died…
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