History

  • Derry Girl

    Technically you weren’t a Derry Girl , you were born and raised in Belfast. But you made Derry your home, you became one of its daughters. Like the show Derry Girls, witty, sharp and funny, so were you. But what happened today is not funny, It is rotten to the core. A talented young prime…

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  • American-Dutch diplomacy

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: On April 19, 1782, John Adams was received by the States-General and the Dutch Republic as they were the first country, together with Morocco and France, to recognize the United States as an independent government. John Adams then became the first U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands and the house…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is one of my most personal blogs, having that said there still will be people saying it is ‘fake news’. As the title says the 6th of December 1944 will mean little to most but it means a lot to me. It is the day that one of…

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  • The Wilhelm Scream

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: What do the movies. Star Wars-The Empire Strikes Back,Toy Story 3,Juno,Where Eagles Dare and Distant Drums(and a few hundred more) have in common? It’s not the cast or screenplay or even the studio but there are 2 seconds in all these movies which are identical. Those 2 seconds are called…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: On the 10th of September  1897, a London cabbie with the  name George Smith slammed his taxi into a building and becomes the first person to be arrested for drunk driving. He did plea guilty and was fined 25 shillings. Police officers did suspect that Smith was drunk because of…

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  • The Computer bug

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: Don’t worry I am not going to go into details what a computer bug is and what to do how to resolve it. Nor will I explain what the implications of a computer bug are. That would be a long and tedious blog. In fact this blog will be…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: There are so many images of death and destruction during WWII, Images of dying children or children that already have been killed. Images of families torn apart not knowing if they will ever see each other again, But the amazing thing though, amidst all of these portrayals of the…

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  • The book of…..

    They say that everyone has a book in them. Just imagine the millions of books which were never written because of a regime that deemed millions unworthy of life, leave alone worthy of writing a book. So many potential authors and scholars who never got a chance because of policies based on hate. The book…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: On this day in 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…

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