ThatBBC Newsreport also reminds us “It was the US and the Soviet Union which, in the first days of the Cold War, found themselves in a race against time to uncover Hitler’s scientific secrets”. Allied occupation zones in post WW2 Germany with the US, Russia and UK competing for the...
And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing...
packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill’s eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howard’s End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation’s most accomplished...
InThink Like a Freak, Levitt and Dubner wrote of several reasons why some incentives or schemes, even by smart and well-meaning people, backfire so badly. Their second reason was that “It’s easy to envision you’d change the behavior of people who think just like you, but the people ...
He wrote most of it on toilet paper and would kept it hidden on himself at all times. Here is one of his observations: "It's funny that being here, deprived of what we used to consider the necessities of life and forced to conserve and save everything, seems to have made everyone ...
It is from this perspective that Einstein’s first attraction to Zionism must be seen. Einstein himself wrote that “the torrent of German anti-Semitism at the end of the First World War not only “awakened” his “Jewish-national feelings,” but was also “my major motive for joining the...
Hitler's Popeby John Cornwell ~~ Pope Pius XII and World War II Bowl of Lightby Hank Wesselman ~~ about the ideas of a Hawaiian Kahuna Fractal Timeby by Gregg Braden Wonders in the Skyby Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck ~~ a compilation of UFO sightings going back to ancient times ...
It’s actually one of the most autobiographical works that Bellow wrote. Not only in the sense of being based on the facts of his life, but in that he really draws on his own childhood, on his own use of Yiddish. Bellow was one of the best Yiddish speakers I ever met in my life...
Censorship should not be put in place because some of the book that are censored my be historic and help people see what not to repeat in life. Books like the one Hitler wrote should not be censored because they show society how to not act and how we can not repeat history. Some old...
IT IS NOW well known that the Nazis were deeply influenced by occultism and that Hitler dabbled in fortune-telling and palmistry. The man who wrote the seminal work on the subject now returns with a fascinating study in individual pathology and the mystical roots of neo-Nazism.Mclynn, Frank...