This film chronicles the career of Germany’s most brilliant World War II tactician. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) was nicknamed the “Desert Fox” for his brilliant leadership of German troops in North Africa. He had an unbroken string of victories until defeated by General Montgomery...
Last Saturday night, Peter started speaking about wanting “a nation with ambition as large as the continent on which we stand”, I thought “finally! After all this time, he’s going to start proclaiming his vision. And we’ll either have to have vision as grand as his, or be a one...
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Looking for a discussion based strategy where the students are in charge of the conversation, try a Socratic Seminar. In this discussion strategy a student begins by asking an open-ended question. Students listen closely to the comments of others, thinking critically for themselves, articulate their...
What Is the Definition of Atheist and Agnostic? Atheists in the Pulpit: Clergy Who Are Non-Believers Pascal’s Wager: Is It a Good Bet? Why Stephen Hawking Said There Is No God Does the Soul Exist? Conundrums, Questions, and Quandaries...
It is easy to think of other contenders such as the NHMUK in London (i.e., Owen), Jena in Germany, the MCZ at Harvard (e.g. Romer) and so forth. But they don’t quite cut the dijon. As today is John’s Freezer’s 7th blogoversary, and I was just at the MNHN in Paris ...
The day after the bombing someone strapped a stick of dynamite to an arrow and shot it at a memorial to William Mulholland in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. It did not explode. Olancha, Lone Pine, Independence, Big Pine , Alabama Hill, and Bishop. It’s all there on the ...
I’m from Germany and have lived in England for 29 years but after only three days of staying in the Quartieri Spagnoli I begin to feel much safer here than in some British places. The biggest danger for me seems that of getting run over while crossing the street in the little alleys ...
protestors — who were shot on sight — but by the late 1980s, Communism was collapsing, and the wall could not hold. German families were reunited. At that point, the government in Bonn that had run the western part of Germany was able to raid the Communist headquarters of the eastern ...
Someone remarked to me once that it had been a miracle that the US could create an army for WW2. I asked him in response what sort of occupation Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton had been involved with before the war. Shoe sales? Gas station ownership" Insurance sales? What?