History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: remove glitter with play dough! — i have been told, more than once, but less than a million times that people in my presence inexplicably end up with glitter stuck to them or on their food or in unexpectedly odd places or see traces of it…
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Originally posted on Thrills, Spills, and just a dash of Romance: This wouldn’t be so apt if it didn’t bring back a raft of bad memories, those days I used to go to the races, and back all of the wrong horses. I had a knack, you see, of picking horses that fell over, or…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I have to be honest but “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” would not be one of my favourite Rock songs. However it is a classic Rock song nonetheless. A friend once asked me if I knew the song “In the Garden of Eden” . He had heard it in the 1986 film “Manhunter”…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Meir Levison was born in Westerbork on 19 November 1943.He was murdered in Bergen-Belsen on 21 March 1945. He was 1 year old when he was murdered. There are no pictures of Meir. The opportunity for his proud parents to take pictures was taken away from them. Because Meir…
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I can’t say I am a great fan of car races. To be honest I don’t get the fascination of the F1-Formula One. However, I have to admit that despite my lack of enthusiasm for the sport, I am still proud that the current world champion is a Dutchman. It made me think though where…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Silvain Wolf was just a footnote in history. But his story is an important one to tell. He was born on October 7,1902 in Beek, a small town in the province of Limburg, in the South East of the Netherlands. In 1930 he moved to nearby Sittard, where he…
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This house was an orphanage for Jewish girls from 1861 to 1943.In 1889 the orphanage was extended to include the neighbouring house.On 10 February 1943, the girls and their attendants weredeported to the extermination camp Sobibor. They were supposed to have been deported before, but due to a scarlet fever outbreak on 4 July 1942,…
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Europe used to be a continent with a great number of currencies. Most European countries now have the Euro as the their currency. But where did it all begin? Stockholms Banco (also known as the Palmstruch’s Bank, Swedish: Palmstruchska banken) was the first European bank to print banknotes. It was founded in 1657 by Johan…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It always amazes me how easy it was for some Europeans to give up their Jewish neighbours. I know it is easy for me to say that in retrospect, because I don’t know how I would have reacted if I was put in that situation. But I have a…
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