Mother Night is an excellent novel with morals that are still of social relevance fifty years after it was written. While framed in the era of WWII, one rife with racism and hatred, this story focuses on some of the mindsets that arose from it, as well as the lies that men often tell...
I have always wondered why some people are more successful than other (I mean, most other) people. It is probably a combination of personal charm, smartness, a lot of hard-work, and some luck. But when it comes to leadership the qualities are probably the same, and it’s really less ...
What Winston Churchill once said of the fighter pilots who defended England during the Blitz in WWII also applies to these staff and volunteers, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” During the Blitz, 40,000 English citizens were killed, or roughly the same number of Americans...
But the reality is that of course there are things that are saving me or I wouldn’t be reading my email, or even getting out of bed. Some are therapy(or so I’m told, i just barely began), audio books, reading to my other son, hot tea and the texts and phone calls from ...
The first was Temppeliaukio Church, the Church in the Rock, a church excavated into a hill in town after WWII. While they do hold services there, it seems to be primarily used as a tourist attraction (€5 a head). It’s a nice space, although kind of small, especially ...
in WWII. Later he functioned as an advocate for his tribe. In 1977, he and his wife were invited to meet the Queen of England when her yacht was moored off the coast. Though the book was an interesting biography, documenting the particulars of a transition from a hunter-gatherer way of...
these days, but during WWII, steely-eyed Londoners reminded each other to “keep calm and carry on.” I suspect it’s a cultural thing, perhaps a gender thing, but “carrying on” has always led me straight to thoughts of my belly. No matter what happens, we all have to eat, right...
Rotary WWII Plaque World War II A concerted effort was made by North Carolina during World War II to keep track of service men and women and of the casualties of war. A War records committee was appointed with representatives from every county. In 1942 Mrs. Laura Worth, the county historian...
is that the lacquer is modernity. The cracks are China as China has always been: the China where Emperors pursued immortality, where all books got burned repeatedly, where they tried to ban grandmothers from telling stories, and where the individual counts for very little, and oppression lasts ...
They found that 43% (2,267) of patients refused to begin insulin therapy when their doctors recommended it. Further, diabetics who declined the recommendation not only had higher blood sugar levels than those who began insulin, but had greater difficulty achieving glycemic control later on.[1] ...