History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On the night of August 8, 1969, Charles “Tex” Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian were sent by Charlie to the old home of Terry Melcher at 10050 Cielo Drive. Their instructions were to kill everyone at the house and make it appear like Hinman’s murder, with…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am always intrigued in the history of how things come to be. Like who was the first to discover could be turned into a hot beverage. However, as the title suggest this is not a blog about coffee but about my other guilty pleasure, Chocolate. The history of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Just a picture of a soldier with his family. One could easily dismiss this photograph as just someone’s memory. A father who loved to smoke, a mother all dressed up and 2 well dressed children, a boy and a girl. This picture could have easily been a picture of…
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Joseph is just one of the 6 million Jews who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was murdered today 80 years ago in Auschwitz. He was born in Amsterdam, 20 February 1921. Joseph Charles Rosenberg Polak (Jop) lived with his parents at 163 Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat in Amsterdam. He wanted to study medicine, following in
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am amazed and equally appalled that so little is known about this awful event which took place only a few days before Hitler’s suicide, and less than a month before the end of WWII in Europe. Maybe that is why it is only a footnote in history. Prisoners,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is not often that all versions of a song are great. However, Whitesnake’s -Here I go again certainly has 3 great versions of the song. “Hang on” I here you say” Are there not only 2 versions of that song> The 1987 album version and the radio edit…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I had done two blogs about these children before, but because it is such an uplifting story I decided to revisit it once again, I also came across a few new pictures. Hoensbroek Castle, one of the largest castles in the Netherlands, was used from December 23, 1942 as…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: “Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote credited to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. Legend has it, it was the queen’s response after being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. “Let them eat cake” is the traditional translation of the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Westerbork was liberated on April 12, 1945, by Canadian forces. At the time there were still 876 inmates there. Something which isn’t widely known is that this liberation nearly was a destruction. The Canadians thought the camp was a Germany military base. They had plans for shelling Weseterbork. This…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Mornidine advertisement, 1959.Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 81, No. 1, p. 59. Now she can cook breakfast again… when you prescribe new MORNIDINE (brand of pipamazine)A new drug with specific effectiveness in nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, Mornidine eliminates the ordeal of morning sickness.With its selective action on the…
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