The few who have made history were the ones who said no, not the courtiers or the servants of the cardinals. [Pier Paolo Pasolini | “We are all in danger”] I. 5:11 in the afternoon: the feeling that the mind, the consciousness, is to explode like an explosive device I swear ::...
Built on the spot where an early Christian bishop, Nicasius, was supposedly decapitated by encroaching barbarians, the cathedral is packed with reminders: the beautiful stained- glass windows by Marc Chagall, who escaped both Stalin and the Nazis; the magnificently carved facade’s smiling angel, ...
During World War II, the Nazis used this district as the ghetto for the displaced Jewish inhabitants of Krakow. Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, an operation that saved the lives of many Jewish workers during the war, is located here. There’s also the Holocaust Memorial in Ghetto Heroes S...
Guys, we were fed a lot of bullshit this year, including, but not limited to: White-Supremists, Nazis and the KKK being given the benefit of the doubt by the president of the U.S., the largest mass shooting in U.S. history happened and we’re not talking about it anymore, we sti...
she thinks, fearing that the Nazis had decided to abandon all pretense and simply exterminate the remaining Jews in their beds. She discovers, however, that the sounds come from a former schoolhouse just down her street. Puzzled, she asks a neighbor about the sounds. “Do be quiet, for ...
“I’ve never encountered Nazis, to my knowledge, never been chased by anyone or run out of anywhere,” she said. And real-life adventures don’t always wrap up with a tidy ending. “You always find the burial on the last day of excavation,” Thornton said. ...
Factory bosses used children to climb into the insides of industrial machinery to clear a jam, sometimes with fatal consequences. These were not isolated incidents but common. Families were poor and hungry and they took what work they could find, even if it meant sending a child as young as...
“My grandfather was a kosher butcher and delicatessen owner,” she continued, noting that the family home and butcher shop was located at 347 Aberdeen Avenue. “He maintained an Orthodox household and expected that his eldest son would become a rabbi. But, my father was rebellious and interest...
To do otherwise is to play directly into the hands of the Statist Gotchas, who regularly insist that, were libertarians to have their way, evil corporations would be selling us all exploding toasters and meat tainted with rat poison. The typical libertarian response to such arguments is, “...
Anne Frank was the daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. They, along with Anne's sister Margot, were forced into hiding during the Nazi persecution of jews and the subsequent jewish Holocaust. Anne, her sister and her mother would all be murdered in the Jewish Holocaust; only her father Otto ...