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Originally posted on History of Sorts: So many involved in the Nazi atrocities did get off so lightly or escaped punishment altogether. How the judges in the war crimes trials came to some of the sentences or lack thereof has always been a puzzle to me. Additionally there were also many how fled to countries…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: All of us will have grown up experiencing first special occasions in our lives, like a first kiss for example. But because of the warped ideology of some evil men, these experiences were denied to so many. The picture above is of Henriette van der Sluijs murdered in Auschwitz on…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Most people will know Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester in the Addams Family. What is less known about Jackie Coogan is that he was the first child stars in film history. In 1921 he starred in “the Kid” alongside Charlie Chaplin, Jackie was 7 at the time. He also served…
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Originally posted on keithgarrettpoetry: A HORSE CALLED STORM Jet black, tall and strong, he stands in the Morning light, Out in the grassland roams this free spirit. Never ridden, not a man calls him theirs, Answers to not a soul does this horse left alone. His name is storm, dark as the night, Moves like…
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Music is not just a few notes strung together to create a tune, often accompanied by lyrics. Music is much more then that. It is therapy. It gives hope where there is despair. It gives joy where there is grief. It can transport you back to the days of yore, when time was complicated. It…
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Who doesn’t know the Rolling Stones master piece “Sympathy for the Devil”? For anyone of you who don’t know the song, go to YouTube, Spotify or any other music streaming platform and listen to it. I don’t mean that awful Guns N Roses version but the original by the Rolling Stones. The song is basically…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It’s at times of great inhumanity that you can find the greatest examples of humanity, if you look closely enough. Jan Żabiński (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974, Warsaw) and Antonina Żabińska (1908–1971) were a married couple from Warsaw,recognized by the State of Israel as the Polish Righteous…
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I have 3 children and I witnessed the birth of all 3 of them. The birth of a child must be the greatest miracle, Sure the sex beforehand is wonderful, but just imagine it, a sperm cell from a fertile man swims up through the vagina and into the uterus of a woman and joins…
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