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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? I am actually not a great fan of Comic books or Graphic Novels as they are called now, although I did read them as a kid but was never really fascinated by them. However I do like the notion of Super Heroes and I do like them portrayed…
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From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German Occupation. During that period, local courts continued to function and to apply Island law. Lawyers, judges and government officials in Jersey and Guernsey continued to swear oaths of allegiance to the British Crown. But German anti-Semitic laws and…
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I usually don’t pay homage to actors or figures from the pop culture, but this is different, for Christopher Reeve really became the character associated with him, Superman. He died on October 10, 2004 but he didn’t give up without a fight. His courage, strength and positive attitude should serve as an example to all…
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I want to start by saying that the photographs in this blog do not actually portray the victims. But that is also the reason why this crime has been forgotten because this crime was shrouded in secrecy by the perpetrators and victims. Although there are no exact numbers it is estimated that 15% of all…
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In September 1740, as unrest rose among the Chinese population in Batavia(nowadays Jakarta in Indonesia), spurred by government repression and declining sugar prices, Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier declared that any uprising would be met with deadly force. On 7 October, hundreds of ethnic Chinese, many of them sugar mill workers, killed 50 Dutch soldiers, leading Dutch troops to confiscate all weapons from the Chinese…
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I find it very hard to fathom any of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but the one thing that gets to me most is the murder of children. They did not pose any threat or any kind of danger, neither did their parents, but the children had no option to defend themselves. They…
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Netflix has released a new series in the Star Trek franchise called “Star Trek Discovery” I don’t want to judge because I have only watched the first episode so far, which left me a bit underwhelmed to say the least. There were just a few things that annoyed me and maybe I was to focused…
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One of the reasons why the Nazi’s became so powerful as they were, was because a lot of people and companies in Germany and indeed across the world decided to look away or ignore the atrocities because it suited their own agenda and lined their own pockets. The Associated Press At the height of World…
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Most people will have heard of the “Manhattan Project” it was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. Despite the data gathered from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing, the nuclear testing were still conducted in an extremely reckless manner far…
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