History
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Project A119 was the designated name by the US Air Force to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The project was called “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” aka ” Project A119 and was developed by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s. The aim was to intimidate the Soviet Union, who at
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Prisoners in Auschwitz were given a number, which was tattooed on their arm. Marking people with a number makes it easier to treat them as objects rather than human beings. However, not everyone got a number, and there were occasions when they ran out of ink. More people were killed in Auschwitz than the combined
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Just a young girl standing outside her school in Amsterdam with a sign that reads, “Memory of my school time, 1936.” The whole future was still ahead of her. The possibilities were endless. Her dream was to become a midwife, a noble profession to help deliver new life and witness the joy of young mothers,
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I know what you all will be thinking that this will be a blog about President Truman, possibly about the order he gave to drop the atomic bombs. Well, you’d be wrong. It is indeed a blog about some explosive events but nothing WWII related. In fact it isn’t about President Truman either. The subject
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When you think of psychiatry one of the names you think of first is Sigmund Freud. A controversial but a successful Austrian Jewish neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human personality. Although his work will have saved many from mental health issues, he was
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I don’t get shocked easily but the murder of Daniel Pearl shocked me and had a profound effect on me, why I don’t know, meaning he was not the first one to die by Al-Qaeda terrorists and he wasn’t the last either. But it did touch me. Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002)
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Usually I don’t do political or non historical blogs but because I am being attacked on a personal level I feel compelled to write a blog. I reallize that New and Neo mean the same thing but I could not find a better way to describe this. The new neo fascists are not the one
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“Collar the lot,” is what Churchill said about the citizens of enemy nations living in the UK, it didn’t matter if they were friend or foe,. During the Second World War (1939 – 1945) a number of internment camps for civilians from enemy countries were established on the Isle of Man. These were based at
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I know that many of you will be scratching your head thinking “Where is he going with this?” when you look at the title. But please bear with me. Last night I was watching a documentary about the early days of the Nazi party and mainly about the relationship between Dietrich Eckart and Adolf Hitler.
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Life is not a race. You take one step at a time. Sometimes it may mean you have to take a few steps back or down. For as long as you are on that journey called life, you are ok. Life is not fair, and not always easy. But no one ever said that it
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