History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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On this day 19 years ago, I escorted my wife to the maternity hospital in Limerick. Our beautiful baby girl was born that day. Although I did not like James Blunt’s song “You’re Beautiful” prior to that moment, when it played on the radio in the maternity hospital room at the exact second she was
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The 1944 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIII Olympiad, was a planned international multi-sport event to be held from 22 July to 5 August 1944 in London, England, United Kingdom. However, the games were cancelled because of World War II. However there was one group who were determined that the games
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At the De Zorg farm, on the Oude Sloterweg in Nieuw-Vennep,the Netherlands, the Boogaard family, led by the 75-year-old Johannes Boogaard, showed remarkable compassion. They helped hundreds of—mainly Jewish—people in hiding, providing refuge in every corner of the yard: an air raid shelter, on the haystack, and in a car. Their compassionate actions during the