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Originally posted on History of Sorts: To quote John Miles”Music was my first love and it will be my last”. Music is my passion, its power has no equal. A good song can make you happy, sad or angry, a great song will make you think. There are songs that made a difference and made…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: In the years 535 and 536, several remarkable aberrations in world climate took place. They were the most severe and protracted short-term episodes of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2 Millennia. Including bizarrely low-temperatures, with snow fall during the summer months in some locations; widespread crop-failures…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I know that some people will disagree with the description of victim, but unfortunately Anne Frank did die as a result of the Holocaust which does make her a victim. But before that she was also a child. This blog contains pictures to remind us of the fact that…
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Isaäc Swart, what can be said about him and who is ? Basically there is not much that can be said about him , he was just an ordinary travelling sales man. Today would have marked his 95th birthday. He was born April 21,1914 in Amsterdam. Three days before his 26th birthday he married Henderika…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ++Contains some nudity++++ Fear not, I haven’t turned my site into a porn site, not that there is anything wrong with that, but each to their own and that just isn’t me. But because we live in a PC world and so many people get so easily offended I…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: A mistake many people make is to think that Auschwitz was only 1 camp.Aside from Auschwitz ,Auschwitz Birkenau and Monowitz which were the 3 biggest camps, there were another 40+ camps. One of these camps was Rajsko (Gärtnerei, which means Horticultural center or nursery). It was officially established on 12th…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: What’s in a name? Usually not much really but sometimes it can be everything. It can even be the difference of life and death. In this case the name Jean Stephan, both men were members of the French resistance but their lives had completely different outcomes. Jean Stéphan was…
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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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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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