Units » Infantry Unit Pages » 36th Infantry Regiment » 36th Armored Infantry Regiment WWII. The division was formed in Poland in September 1944, by redesignating the 580th Volksgrenadier Division, under the … They are scanned at 200 dpi. Lowry Frank H, With Fire and Zeal the 276th Infantry Regiment in World, Company L 276th Infantry World War II History and, 276th Infantry Regiment World War II unit histories, 276th Infantry Regiment 70th Infantry Division American, World War II unit histories, WWII US Military Units C ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 The casualties suffered by a typical American infantry regiment serving in World War II were horrendous. William Darby of Ranger fame was named CO of the Regiment in February. 317th 318th 319th. [1], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=276th_Volksgrenadier_Division_(Wehrmacht)&oldid=999320980, Military units and formations established in 1944, Military units and formations disestablished

Students who visited the Museum were able to engage with this consequential history by handling original artifacts. They were inspired head, heart and hand.. Fortunately, our collaboration with PBS Learning Media to design and create four digital lessons based on the Museums artifact and document collection will continue. The interactive media collection, called Life During WWII: Using Artifacts to Understand History, can be located and accessed free of charge on their website. Two lessons, one on wartime propaganda and the other on young people and the war, are completed and available now for use. Two others, on women and the war and a teacher resource on using primary sources in the classroom, will be added by mid-October. We were pleased to learn recently that the lesson on wartime propaganda won the APEX 2019 Grand Prize for Electronic Media.. We are finalizing plans for the Museum owned artifacts and donated artifacts to be given to another nonprofit World War II museum in which we have ...

LOS ANGELES - For as long as he can remember, Rishi Sharmas heroes havent been sports stars or movie stars or any other kind of stars. Theyve been the U.S. combat veterans who won World War II.Alarmed that even the youngest of them are now in their 90s and dying each day by the hundreds, the Southern California teenager has launched a campaign to try to ensure each ones legacy.

There is a suggestion that the first Belarusian immigrants to the United States, settling there in the early 17th century in Virginia, could have been brought by Captain John Smith, who visited Belarus in 1603.[2] The first wave of mass emigration from Belarus started in the final decades of the nineteenth century and continued until World War I. They emigrated to the United States via Libava (Liepāja, Latvia) and northern Germany. When they arrived, most settled in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore. However, most of these first Belarusians were registered either as Russians (those who were Orthodox Christians) or as Poles (Roman Catholics). Most Belarusians who immigrated to the United States after World War I were political immigrants, mainly from western Europe and Poland. There were only several thousands of them. Very few Belarusians, mostly from Jewish-Belarusian families, came to the USA between the late 1930s and the end of 1941.[2] In the post-World War II period, from 1948 ...

Introduction. S6 HISTORY Study on the First World War Sub-topics: Results of World War One Q: How did the First World War affect the world? A: The First World War was the most destructive war in the history of mankind. It mobilized all the resources of the combatant countries. Nearly all European countries joined the war. The First World War started in 1914 and ended in 1918. The war lasted for 4 years and caused total destruction of the world. It affected the political, economic, social, cultural, and military development of the world in the following decades. There was little political stability in Europe after 1918. The end of the war incited revolutions everywhere. The 1917 Russian Revolution was an example. Those revolutions brought an end to absolution in Europe. The great dynasties of Romanov of Russia and Hohenzollern of Germany had collapsed. Moreover, the war brought an end to the Hapsburg Empire and Turkish Empire.The collapsed empires was replaced by new forms of government, for ...

Red Cross parcel refers to packages containing mostly food, tobacco and personal hygiene items sent by the International Association of the Red Cross to prisoners of war during the First and Second World Wars, as well as at other times. It can also refer to medical parcels and so-called release parcels provided during World War II. The Red Cross arranged them in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Convention of 1929. During World War II these packages augmented the often-meager and deficient diets in the PoW camps, contributing greatly to prisoner survival and an increase in morale. Modern Red Cross food parcels provide basic food and sanitary needs for persons affected by natural disasters, wars, political upheavals or similar events. More recent catastrophes involving delivery of Red Cross parcels include events in Georgia, Thailand and Great Britain. The Australian Red Cross reported dispatching a total of 395,695 food parcels and 36,339 clothing parcels to Allied PoWs in Germany ...

Albions Dance was inspired by the authors memory of her childhood ballet teacher who danced in Britain during World War Two. Dancers memoirs and the writings of dance critics are central resources for this book that asks how ballet in Britain survived during the war and how the end of war resulted in a newly refined national ballet. Exploring the so-called ballet boom during World War Two, the larger story of this book is one of how art and artists thrive during conflict, and how they respond pragmatically and creatively to privation and duress. The way ballet participated in propagandistic discourse and answered to a public mood of pragmatism and idealism are part of this story. Also considered are the distinct roles of dance critics, male and female dancers, producers, audiences, and choreographers. Each population contributed to the creation of a uniquely British ballet identity. After the war, British ballet emerged on the international stage demonstrating superb qualities of dramatic acuity,

World War II (1941-45) ushered in a new era of benefits, in part because Congress was determined to avoid the mistakes and difficulties that had marked the demobilization of forces in World War I. Influenced as well by the social-welfare policies of the New Deal, Congress by 1945 had created the most comprehensive benefits program in our history. Since then subsequent legislation has expanded the original program for the 16.1 million veterans of World War II and extended those benefits to 6.7 million Korean veterans, 3.1 million veterans of the officially designated Cold War (1955-64), and 6.6 million veterans of Vietnam, at a cost since 1945 of $250 billion.. Under the direction of the Veterans Administration, a broad range of benefits and services is available to veterans from the moment of discharge until death and even beyond, for in certain circumstances benefits continue for survivors. As in World War I, most of these benefits are extended to the able-bodied as well as the ...

Countries with nothing to fear do not fear the ICC. The United States and Israel are very afraid of the ICC. The murder of unarmed civilians is a war crime. So is torture. Israels indiscriminate bombing of densely-populated civilian areas, its half-century occupation of Palestinian territory and its construction and expansion of Jews-only settler colonies on Palestinian land are all also illegal under international law. Neither Israel nor the United States has joined the ICC. Other leading human rights violators, including North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and Ethiopia, have either never joined or have withdrawn from the court.. The United States, which was instrumental in forging the post-World War II human rights framework embodied by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and admirably demonstrated at the Nuremberg trials, has sadly abrogated its role and responsibility to promote and uphold human rights in recent decades. After Nicaragua successfully sued the United States in the ...

I would like to make decisions within the government, rather than through the ruling party, he said. Japans newly elected parliament is expected to convene Sept. 16, at which time he is likely to be elected prime minister given his partys overwhelming strength in the legislature. Hatoyama also said he would announce a Cabinet lineup the day he is appointed. Such a timetable would allow Hatoyama to assume office in time to attend a Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh and a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, both set for September. Diplomacy - and particularly ties with Washington - were also likely to dominate his first months in office. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is planning to visit Tokyo in October to discuss the U.S.-Japan military alliance. The United States has about 50,000 troops deployed across Japan under a mutual security pact that has been in place for most of the post-World War II era. Hatoyamas Democrats have said they want to re-examine Tokyos relations with ...

Making the materials come alive and demonstrating the relevance of international law to students today is a vital element of these modules, so each is accompanied by a short video featuring an expert with personal experience. Featured are Benjamin Ferencz, former prosecutor at the post-World War II Nuremberg War Crimes Trials; David Crane, former chief prosecutor for the Special Court of Sierra Leone; Donald Donovan, 2012-2014 ASIL president and counsel for Jose Medellin and Mexico before the Texas and U.S. Supreme Courts and the International Court of Justice; Richard Jackson, special assistant to the U.S. army judge advocate general for law of war matters; and Surya Subedi, UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia ...

Show moreEvangelical summer camps blossomed in the post-World War II years, more than tripling their numbers from 1945 to 1960. But scholars have yet to explain the phenomenon at this critical juncture in American history. Summer camps provide a lens for how evangelicals saw themselves in an increasingly secular postwar world. Many believed the influence of evangelicals was on the decline, and scholars have indicated the overall waning of the influence of mainline Protestant denominations throughout the twentieth century. But an examination of summer camps reveals that evangelicals desired to engage in mainstream culture through reaching American postwar youth. They consciously worked to influence Americas youth in unprecedented ways, appealing to them through the combination of faith and fun, working to attract the growing teenage subculture in order to create and sustain the next generation of evangelical leadership. Summer camps, an innovative approach to reaching Americas youth, aided ...

Richmond Barth (1909-1989) was the first modern African American sculptor to achieve real critical success. His accessible naturalism led to unprecedented celebrity for an artist during the 1930s and 1940s. After four years of academic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Barth reaped the benefits of the 1920s New Negro Arts Renaissance. He also endured difficulties as a gay, Roman Catholic, Creole sculptor working during the nations post-World War II era. He gave his black subjects in particular an intensity and sensuality that attracted important European American patrons and the press. Much of Barth s biography is recorded here for the first time in tandem with analyses and interpretations of his sculpture. Born to Creole parents in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Barth s art brought him out of poverty. At the height of his fame, he was often criticized for not talking about injustices African Americans faced. He expected his art to speak not only for itself, but also for him. He

Human Rights, State Sovereignty and Medical Ethics: Examining Struggles Around Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women examines the mobilized use by people and groups of the international human rights law framework to move legal, policy and ultimately social change at national and local level. One particular case study is examined in detail: efforts by Romani women in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to secure legal remedy for coercive sterilization. International legal aspects of these cases are examined in detail. The book concludes by endeavouring to answer questions concerning the nature of international law and the evolution of the post-World War II international human rights framework, the structure of national sovereignty, and the potential impact of both on human autonomy ...

Within a month of forming the new government, Chirac was able to present to the Assembly a plan for privatization. The plan called for the privatization of 65 enterprises over a five year period (A Five-Year Plan for Privatization!) The 65 enterprises had a workforce of 900 thousand and were thought to have a market value of 300 billion francs. If this plan were to be carried out it would involve privatization on a greater scale and at a faster rate than that carried out by the Thatcher Government in the United Kingdom. This plan went far beyond reprivatizing the enterprises that had been nationalized by the Socialists during the period 1981 to 1986. Included in the privatization plan were enterprises such as the Renault automobile company which Charles de Gaulle had nationalized in the immediate post-World War II period. François Mitterand characterized these enterprises as national assets. Probably few outside of France would have characterized Renault as a national asset. Mitterand opposed ...

Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earths surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.. Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planets surface - as a means of see no evil waste disposal - already sounds ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further detail.. Alleged fracking links to the contamination of the public water supply and critical aquifers, as well as ties to earthquake upticks near drilling locations that are otherwise not prone to seismic activity have created uproar in the years since the 2005 Cheney loophole, which allowed the industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.. Now, it is apparent that ...

When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a key foundational paradigm for both second and third wave feminist thought.

In Italy we are only just holding our ground. This week we have destroyed the Monastery of Monte Cassino. Questions have been asked in Parliament about the destruction of ancient monuments, and there has been an awful lot of gabble about it, in fact, this question of the preservation of historic buildings has been turned into a burning war issue. People talk about the value of civilization of the great architectural monuments of the past, but not those who have sons and brothers, husbands and lovers, doing the fighting. We are not giving our men so that they may save the manifestations of civilization, but so that they may save civilization it self. Civilization ultimately survives in the minds of men, not in bricks and mortar, oil and canvas, print and parchment, and the survival of civilization depends on the civilization of civilized men. In war civilized men die. We cannot afford to lose our civilized men for material things. Things can be replaced. What man has made once he can make again. ...

The George H. Williams Jr. World War I Aviation Library includes books, serials, documents, photographs, and other archival materials relating to aviation of that period collected by Williams Jr. himself and other donors. The largest and most important collection in that record group is the Ed Ferko Collection containing more than 50,000 photo prints, about 10,000 negatives, as well as roughly 200 annotated original photo albums from German aviators. The papers contain documents sorted by units, personnel, and official reports from all fronts, notes, moving images, and artifacts. George H. Williams Jr. was born on Apr. 7, 1915 in Frost, Texas. He acquired a Bachelors Degree in Business from Baylor University in 1939. During World War II, he was a Signal Officer with the 94th Signal Battalion, which was attached to Gen. George S. Pattons Third Army, that was engaged in the Battle of the Bulge. In his civilian career he was with the mortgage department of the Equitable Life Insurance Co., first ...

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Anti-Semitism had been around in Europe for hundreds of years. Pogroms, attacks on Jewish communities, took place long before the Nazis took power. The Nazis opened Dachau concentration camp near Munich, on March 22, 1933, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women. At first intellectuals were targeted for deportation, and then undesirables like the retarded or criminally insane.. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 prevented a diverse group of people from holding government jobs, teaching in schools and universities, or owning or operating businesses. This group included Jews, homosexuals, communists, socialists, evangelical Christians, Gypsies, and those critical of the Nazis. The laws defined who was racially pure.. Germans got used to the disappearance of their neighbors. Many Germans supported the deportations as a necessary part of reclaiming German national pride. Thousands were sent to concentration ...

Join the Lakeside Heritage Societys Sunday Lecture Series.. Todays lecture is World War II POW Camps in Ohio: Camp Perry presented by James Van Keuren. During World War I, Camp Perry served as a training center for Army officers and marksmanship instructors. During World War II, Camp Perry served as a POW camp for German and Italian prisoners. Italian prisoners were lightly guarded and worked alongside the civilians at the camp and as workers at various local industries, returning to the Camp each night. James Van Keuren, a summer PIB resident, is a retired professor of educational administration and dean of the College of Education at Ashland University. Jim will have copies of his book on this subject available for purchase. The Lakeside Heritage Society (LHS) is a private, non-profit organization organized in the state of Ohio, dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of Lakeside, Danbury Township, the Village of Marblehead and the Historic Chautauqua Movement in Ohio and all of ...

Oklahoma women made vital contributions toward victory in both the first and second world wars, serving in a wide variety of capacities in the armed forces, in industry, and on the home front. Given the late entry of the United States into World War I in 1917 (the war began in 1914), American women had less time to mobilize than their European counterparts. However, they still found numerous ways to become involved in the war effort. At home they joined men in debating sedition laws and standardized food prices, witnessed the federal government take control of the railroad industry and large sectors of the economy, and watched as more than two million men volunteered for or were drafted into the armed forces.. Approximately ninety thousand Oklahoma men served. More than one thousand were killed and 6,286 wounded, causing a great impact on families. Oklahoma women shouldered the burden of providing for their families while their husbands and/or fathers were away. Almost half a million women ...

I dont want you to think that the picture is all bleak. There has been good news as well as bad. Last year, the Norwegian government publicly apologized for the role of Norwegian authorities in deporting Jews during World War II. The Belgian Senate passed a resolution in January recognizing the role of Belgian authorities in the Holocaust and indicating a desire to include Holocaust education in Belgiums curricula. Last October, Ukraine celebrated the opening of the Menorah Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum. Here at the Department of State, we have hosted multiple events, including commemorating the survivors of the MS St. Louis. This past January, our International Holocaust Memorial Day program paid tribute to victims of the Holocaust by Bullets, which took place in Eastern Europe during World War II - a horror with which I became familiar during my tour of duty in Belarus. ...

It is a great pleasure to greet all the good friends of the United Nations who have gathered for this observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. I welcome in particular the Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans who have joined this solemn ceremony. Ladies and Gentlemen, Courage is a rare and precious commodity. Today, we celebrate those who had the courage to care. Throughout the Second World War, Jews, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war and others who failed to conform to Hitlers perverted ideology of Aryan perfection were systematically murdered in death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. But some were able to avoid the slaughter. They escaped because a few brave souls risked their lives and their families to rescue Jews and other victims of persecution from almost certain death. Some sheltered the intended victims in their homes; others helped families to obtain safe passage. Some of the accounts of the rescuers have achieved ...

THE latest discovery of about 100 unexploded ordnance (UXOs) at Gilbert Camp in East Honiara is concerning but not surprising.. This is because Honiara city is located on a battle ground and one of the hot-spots where fighting occurred more than 76 years ago.. The discovery over the weekend and subsequent death of two young Solomon Islanders should send a clear picture of the huge number of second world war remains in parts of the city.. Who knows, it might be just a tip of an ice-berg of the danger many of our people are prone to.. History has it that at the conclusion of the second world war, most of the artillery were never taken back home to either Japan or United States.. Its likely most of these world war weapons, ammunition, buildings, airplanes, vehicles and many more equipment have been left behind.. So the most obvious option for them was to bury underground or being dumped into the ocean. The discovery by a resident at Gilbert Camp over the weekend has confirmed what had been done ...

This book tells the story of Jewish survivors who pioneered Holocaust research in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Just liberated from Nazi terror, amidst political turmoil and privation, ... More. This book tells the story of Jewish survivors who pioneered Holocaust research in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Just liberated from Nazi terror, amidst political turmoil and privation, physically exhausted and traumatized women and men founded historical commissions and documentation centers throughout Europe to chronicle the Nazi Final Solution. By comparing the cases of France, Poland, and the Displaced Persons camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy, the book explores the motivations and methods which guided survivors in compiling archives of tens of thousands of Nazi documents, eyewitness accounts and questionnaires, ghetto and camp literature, wartime diaries, and artifacts, and in publishing dozens of historical works. Its comparative method illuminates the ...

I believe the answer is a mixture of two and three...it depends on your view of the nature of freewill. Would the same person make the same choices every time, given that all of the circumstances are the same? If you believe yes, then that implies #2 (because #3 is impossible). If not, then its two and three together.. But clearly there is a point where histories diverged significantly. Its unclear exactly when this was, but it would seem to be no later than World War II. I cite the Enterprise Mirror Universe episode opening as evidence.. In the clip, we are treated to a militaristic view of our history, up until the point where the emblem of the Terran Empire appears superimposed over marching figures (apparently) from World War II (at any rate, the clip which immediately follows that is definitely from WWII). Its possible that the point of divergence is earlier, since later history still seems to hew reasonably closely to the primary timeline, at least until the events of TOS.. One other ...

Richard Shawn Faulkner will give a talk on Mud, Blood, and Dysentery: The Doughboys Life in Battle as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center and the UGA Libraries. Faulkner will speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.. Richard Shawn Faulkner retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is a supervisory professor of military history at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Faulkner is the author of Pershings Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I, published in 2017 by the University Press of Kansas, and The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces, which won the 2013 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society for Military History.. ...

IF CHINA WANTS TO TRY AND RUIN THE AMERICAN DOLLAR FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE PURPOSES, I HAVE AN ACE ... SOME GERMAN NAZI SCIENTISTS CREATED AN ANSWER IN TECHNOLOGY WHICH WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE MANUFACTURING IN THE WORLD. THEIR ANSWER GOT FORGOTTEN AFTERWARDS ... I GOT THEIR ANSWER YEARS AGO IN A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OPERATION. I SPENT ELEVEN CALENDAR YEARS IN MILITARY ACADEMIES ... I GOT BY MILITARY INTELLIGENCE THE TOP ULTIMATE WEAPON DESIGN LEFT OVER FROM NAZI GERMANY INTENDED TO CONQUER THE WORLD WITH. AN ACCIDENTAL BOMBING NEAR STUTTGART, GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II BY A BRITISH BOMBER WHICH BY ERROR BOMBED THEM INSTEAD OF THE INTENDED TARGET IN STUTTGART DID ENOUGH DAMAGE TO THIS NAZI ULTIMATE WEAPON RESEARCH CENTER SO THEY COULD NOT BUILD THE HITLER ULTIMATE WEAPON IN TIME TO SAVE NAZI GERMANY AND WIN WORLD WAR II FOR NAZI GERMANY INSTEAD OF THE ALLIES. ... AFTER WE HAD COMPLETED THIS NAZI TECHNOLOGY, I LATER SPOTTED A WAY TO MODIFY IT SO IT COULD BE USED ON A MORE MODERATE SCALE THAN JUST WIPING ...

Oral History Jola Hoffman, born in Leipzig, Germany on June 13, 1931, discusses her childhood in Leipzig; the establishment of the Nuremberg laws in 1936; her aunt and uncles departure from Germany prior to the start of the World War II; the Gestapo forcing her family and others to leave their homes; their train ride headed for the Polish border in 1938; the familys ability to enter Poland because they had family in Łódź; her fathers experiences traveling between England and Poland prior to World War II; her fathers move to Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), under the advice of the mayor of Warsaw; the invasion of Warsaw by the Germans; her and her mothers trip to Lwów to join her father; the emigration of some of her family members; the deportation of the Jews from Germany between the years of 1938 and 1939; volunteers who were given the opportunity during the Russian occupation to leave for German-occupied Poland; her fathers move to the Warsaw ghetto; her and her mothers dangerous ...

Osur, Alan M. Separate and Unequal: Race Relations in the AAF During World War II (University Press of the Pacific, 2004).. Race relations between white and black Americans in the Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II ran the gamut from harmonious to hostile, depending upon the unique circumstances existing within each unit, command, and theater. In analyzing racial policy as it was implemented throughout the chain of command, are a number of themes relevant for an understanding of the utilization of African Americans during the war. First, the AAF never willingly accepted black soldiers. This service had totally excluded them for over two decades before they were permitted to enter, and then used them only reluctantly. The fact that the AAF even opened its doors to African Americans and proceeded to make additional opportunities available to them was due to pressures aimed at the War Department and the AAF. Individuals and organizations within the black community and white liberals in and ...

John Harrison and Robert Harrison were Harlowton, Montana, residents who served in Europe in World War II. This collection consists primarily of letters written by John C. and Robert Harrison to their parents in Harlowton and Bozeman, Montana, while they served in England, Belgium, and Germany during World War II. The letters discuss the war, the Harrison family, wartime Europe, and life in the military, including a letter from Robert in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. Johns letters to his mother also mention Montana politics including references to Lee Metcalf. A large group of the correspondence consists of typed transcriptions of letters from John C. to his wife China. Also included in the collection is miscellaneous correspondence (1943-1946), clippings (1940s), and a writing (1944) by John Thompson describing the military action in the hundred days after the Normandy invasion. In addition there are photocopies of a speech (1950s) to a U.S. Congressional Committee concerning ...

In 1958, the Medical Follow-up Agency (MFUA) of the Institute of Medicine began a project to identify twins who had jointly entered military service during World War II. In the end, MFUA identified nearly 16,000 White male twin pairs born 1917-1927 in which both members had served in the military. These twins comprise the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council World War II Twin Registry (NAS-NRC Twin Registry). This collection represents data from service records, a mailed questionnaire assessing zygosity, and repeating health surveys, including information on education, employment history, and earnings. There are nine datasets associated with this restricted-use collection: 1) The Administrative dataset includes demographic, zygosity, service history, mortality, and questionnaire participation data; 2) The Service and Other Records dataset contains information collected from service records, physical exam data, cognitive test data, and dental records; 3) The Questionnaire 2 ...

World War One (8 episodes,docudrama) (subtitles) - 60048 - - Docudrama,Historical reenactmentThe project is dedicated to one of the most remarkable and dramatic periods in history -- World War I.Although the First World War gets less attention than its s

People understood the concept of radar long before scientists first built a radar system. In the late 1930s all of the countries involved in World War II rushed to create better radar systems to use in the war. Great Britain was one of the leading developers of radar in the years leading up to World War II. The research they conducted led to an early warning radar system called Chain Home. They built radar stations around the British Isles to provide warning of an aerial invasion. This was one of the advantages which helped the outnumbered Royal Air Force defeat the German Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. While radar development was encouraged by wartime efforts, people were also interested in using radar as an anti-collision system. After the Titanic ran into an iceberg and sank during bad weather in 1912, people were interested in ways to avoid this happening again.. Out of these all of these efforts, weather radar was developed. ...

Historian Rick Atkinson has become famous as one of our greatest chroniclers of war with his World War II Liberation Trilogy, and hes off to a strong start to his Revolution Trilogy with the 2019 best seller, The British Are Coming.. More than a decade before he won the Pulitzer Prize for An Army at Dawn (Liberation Trilogy, Book 1), Atkinson caught the attention of military history readers with 1989s The Long Gray Line, a chronicle of 25 years in the life of the West Point Class of 1966.Advertisement. The book captures a shift in military culture. These young officers were born in the waning days of World War II and inevitably brought a different perspective that sometimes clashed with senior officers whose experiences were defined by that conflict.. Some of these men didnt make it back, and others were instrumental in remaking the Army in the years after Vietnam. Atkinson uses their experiences to tell an epic story of how U.S. forces redefined their mission in the late 20th ...

In an October 21 editorial arguing against just such additional spending, the Post warned citizens to disregard progressive commentators (like myself) who offer the example of World War II, when the government ran deficits many times larger than the current one. In the deficit debates to come, the Post insisted, Mr. Obama should heed the hawks.. Wrong. The mobilization for World War II produced one of the most remarkable success stories in US economic history. War production not only overcame lingering weaknesses from the Great Depression but transformed the economic system into the modern powerhouse that became the platform for our long-running postwar prosperity. All this was achieved by the government, largely with borrowed money. By wars end Washington had piled up federal debt totaling around 120 percent of annual GDP (nearly double todays debt level). During the wartime emergency the government took charge of the economy and rapidly shifted the industrial system to armaments while ...

The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno dItalia) was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia; it existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution.. During the time of the regime of the National Fascist Party under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini from 1922 to his ousting in 1943, the name often given by historians to the Kingdom of Italy during this period is Fascist Italy. Under fascism, the Kingdom allied with Nazi Germany in World War II until 1943. In the remaining two years of World War II, the Kingdom of Italy switched sides to the Allies after ousting Mussolini as Prime Minister and banned the Fascist party. The remnant fascist state that continued fighting against the Allies was a puppet state of Nazi Germany, the Italian Social Republic, still led by Mussolini and his loyalist Fascists in northern Italy. Shortly after the war, civil discontent led to a referendum in 1946 on whether Italy would remain a ...

As head of Japans infamous Unit 731 (a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II), Dr. Shiro Ishii (head of medicine) carried out violent human experimentation of tens of thousands during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.. Ishii was responsible for testing vivisection techniques without any anesthesia on human prisoners. For the uninitiated, vivisection is the act of conducting experimental surgery on living creatures (with central nervousness) and examining their insides for scientific purposes.. So basically, he was giving unnecessary surgery to prisoners by opening them all the way up, keeping them alive and not using any anesthetic.. During these experiments he would also force pregnant women to abort their babies. He also played God by subjecting his prisoners to change in physiological conditions and inducing strokes, heart attacks, frost bite, and hypothermia. Ishii considered these subjects ...

The White House announced this morning that Keeble will received the Medal of Honor posthumously in a ceremony scheduled for 2:30 p.m. March 3, 2008. Keeble is one of the most decorated Soldiers in North Dakota history. A veteran of World War II and the Korean War, he was born in 1917 in Waubay, S.D., on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Reservation, which extended into North Dakota. He spent most of his life in the Wahpeton, N.D. area, where he attended an Indian school. In 1942 Keeble joined the North Dakota National Guard, and in October that year, found himself embroiled in some of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat of World War II on Guadalcanal.. Guadalcanal. Guadalcanal seemed to be on his mind a lot, Russell Hawkins, Keebles stepson, said. His fellow Soldiers said he had to fight a lot of hand-to-hand fights with the Japanese, so he saw their faces. Every now and then he would get a far-away look in his eyes, and I knew he was thinking about those men and the things he had to do. At ...

Barnett charged publishers $25 per week for access to the latest stories. Because most black papers were weeklies, the service began with mail delivery instead of delivery by wire. At the start, packets were sent out once a week, eventually increasing to three mailings per week.. By 1935, the ANP was serving about 225 newspapers and magazines across the country. After World War II its membership grew to include more than 100 African newspapers as an increasing number of countries on the African continent moved toward independence.. The Fight Against Military Segregation and Segregation of the Blood Supply. During World War II, Barnett and other black journalists pressured the U. S. government to accredit black journalists as war correspondents. Barnett traveled widely and wrote many accounts on the adverse effects of segregation in the armed forces. (For an example of segregation in the Navy, read Dorie Miller, Pearl Harbor Hero.) Using the ANP to reach black Americans all over the country, he ...

By Elisabeth Faure. Author Anne Applebaum has won the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill University for her book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Allen Lane - Penguin Books / McClelland & Stewart). Applebaums account of the rise of the Iron Curtain in post-World War II Europe was chosen from amongst 116 submissions.. I know its hard to believe - even the most successful and well-reviewed history books rarely make much money for their authors, said Applebaum. It takes years and years to research and write a book like the ones that have been recognized by the Cundill Prize committee… So its wonderful that there is now a prize which focuses especially on well-written history, which is one of the most difficult and time-consuming literary forms that exists. And its wonderful that there is real prize money attached. As this years Grand Prize winner, Applebaum will walk away with $75,000 US - the worlds richest prize in historical non-fiction. The ...

Over the last few years, the safety record of U.S. commercial airlines has improved to the point where the statistics on accidents are negligible. The overwhelming numbers of aviation fatalities occur in General Aviation (GA) accidents. While the fatal accident rate has improved-from around 5.0 per 100,000 miles flown in the post-World War II era to varying between 1.2 and 1.5 since 1996-it still results in 450 to 700 deaths per year. In 2013, improving GA safety was on the National Transportation Safety Boards (NTSBs) most wanted list. The NTSB has cited a lack of aeronautical knowledge as the cause of many of these accidents. If pilots are required to pass Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) knowledge and practical tests prior to obtaining a new pilot certificate, how could they not possess the knowledge needed to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS)? Some, attributing it to a failure to learn basic aeronautical knowledge, are concerned that potential pilots memorize the answers ...

What General Eisenhower and his party witnessed in April of 1945 was some of the real-life evidence that hinted at the notion that Nazi Germany was systematically exterminating large numbers of people. Eventually, the mass slaughter of certain European civilians by the Nazis during World War II, with a particular focus on such ethnic groups as Jews and Gypsies, would become known as The Holocaust. As Eisenhower suspected, it did not take long for the Holocaust deniers to appear. Wikipedia defines Holocaust denial as the act of denying the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II. The key claims of Holocaust denial are that Germanys National Socialist regime had no Final Solution policy and no intention of exterminating Jews, that Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers to mass murder Jews, and that the actual number of Jews killed was significantly (typically an order of magnitude) lower than the historically accepted figure of 5 to 6 million.. An ...

NEVADA CITY- The Impact of World War I on the Formation of the Modern Middle East is scheduled for Friday, November 9th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, 175 Ridge Rd., Nevada City. Marwan D. Hanania, PhD., Assistant Professor of History, San Diego Mesa College, will explore the relationship between WWI and the Middle East, where Americas soldiers still fight today. Hosted by the Nevada County Historical Society, Hanania has many fascinating facts to share.. This program is part of a project entitled Over Here: Nevada Countys Experience of WWI which is supported by California Humanities through an Humanities for All Quick Grant. Although the battlefields of World War I were far from rural Nevada County, its residents were deeply engaged in the wars issues and the challenges it presented. The war was the most consequential event of the 20th century, yet it has almost faded from modern memory. Over Here: Nevada Countys Experience of World War I is a multifaceted program ...

Christine Pittsley has been the Project Director for Connecticut State Librarys award winning World War One programs, including the Digging Into History trench restoration project and the Remembering World War One Digitization program. She was Connecticuts liaison to the United States World War One Centennial Commission and has been recognized as a leader in the nations commemorative efforts. She has worked at the State Library since 2008 and created and led the archival and museum digitization and metadata programs. She has been involved in a number of statewide digital initiatives and serves on the Connecticut Militia Heritage Council and served on the boards of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History, Cheshire Historical Society, and Cheshire Historic District Commission.. The Weston Historical Society would like to thank its annual sponsors: Fairfield County Bank and KMS Partners at Compass. The Weston Historical Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. For more ...

How do you review a memoir or, more precisely, two memoirs, the first one written in the midst of World War II, the other in the 1980s? Though an unconventional endeavor, the Schrag family story of survival and escape by illegal routes through Western Europe is so thrilling that it not only deserved to be published by a reputable university press but also to be scrutinized by scholarly eyes that are familiar with the history of the Holocaust and World War II.. The two memoirs, written independently by the father Otto Schrag in 1941 and his son Peter Schrag in the 1980s, retell the familys story around a time of great upheaval and uncertainty for German Jews in Europe prior to the implementation of the Holocaust. Otto was born into a family of bourgeois origins in southwest Germany (Baden) and made a career in the beer malt-processing business. When his business was Aryanized in 1935, he and his family moved first to Luxembourg and then to Brussels, Belgium, in 1939, with Otto again pursuing a ...

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Employment-based health benefit programs have existed in the United States for more than 100 years. In the 1870s, for example, railroad, mining, and other industries began to provide the services of company doctors to workers. In 1910, Montgomery Ward entered into one of the earliest group insurance contracts. Prior to World War II, few Americans had health insurance, and most policies covered only hospital room, board, and ancillary services. During World War II, the number of persons with employment-based health insurance coverage started to increase for several reasons. When wages were frozen by the National War Labor Board and a shortage of workers occurred, employers sought ways to get around the wage controls in order to attract scarce workers, and offering health insurance was one option. Health insurance was an attractive means to recruit and retain workers during a labor shortage for two reasons: Unions supported employment-based health insurance, and workers health benefits were not ...

A pilonidal cyst or pilonidal sinus is an abscess (sinus, small hole or tunnel) that develops along the tailbone (coccyx) near the cleft of the buttocks. A pilonidal cyst is generally located 5cm-6cm above the anus. A pilonidal cyst has a distinguishing epithelial track (the sinus) located in the skin of the natal cleft, a short distance behind the anus. This sinus track generally contains hair; as such the term pilonidal is derived from the Latin words pilus (hair) and nidus (nest). Pilonidal sinuses were first described in 1880 by Hodges, and was a common condition in drivers during World War II. During World War II, 80,000 U.S. soldiers were diagnosed with pilonidal cysts. Researchers believed the condition was caused by riding in bumpy Jeeps and so became known as Jeep Disease. Additional research has demonstrated appropriate management and some methods of preventing pilonidal cysts, but currently, the cause of pilonidal cysts remains unknown ...

Introduction 1 Part I: Origins of War 7. Chapter 1: The First World War: An Overview 9. Chapter 2: The World in 1900 29. Chapter 3: Crisis Mismanagement: Unpicking the Causes of the First World War 55. Part II: Europe at War, 1914-1916 75. Chapter 4: 1914: The First World War Starts Here 77. Chapter 5: 1915: Cunning Plans to Win the War 101. Chapter 6: 1916: The Big Battles 117. Part III: A World at War 137. Chapter 7: Welcome to the World of the Trenches 139. Chapter 8: War at Sea, War in the Air 155. Chapter 9: Turkish Delights 175. Chapter 10: The Imperial War 195. Chapter 11: America Goes to War 213. Part IV: Home Fronts 229. Chapter 12: The Civilian War 231. Chapter 13: Women at War 249. Chapter 14: Struggles for Power 265. Part V: Armistice and Aftermath, 1917-1918 and Beyond 281. Chapter 15: 1917: The Year of Big Changes 283. Chapter 16: 1918: Victory and Defeat 303. Chapter 17: Aftermath: The World After the War 323. Chapter 18: Remembering the War 343. Part VI: The Part of Tens ...

Too often histories of the concentration camps tend to be ignorant of the wider political context of nazi repression and control. This article tries to overcome this problem. Combining legal, social and political history, it contributes to a more thorough understanding of the changing relationship between the camps as places of extra-legal terror and the judiciary, between nazi terror and the law. It argues that the conflict between the judiciary and the SS was not a conflict between good and evil, as existing accounts claim. Rather, it was a power struggle for jurisdiction over the camps. Concentration camp authorities covered up the murders of prisoners as suicides to prevent judicial investigations. This article also looks at actual suicides in the pre-war camps, to highlight individual inmates reactions to life within the camps. The article concludes that the history of the concentration camps needs to be firmly integrated into the history of nazi terror and the Third Reich. ...

These were things secretly made in the camp. Prisoners could be punished if caught but many disregarded camp rules and continued to make art in secret. Things like dolls for orphaned or lost children. Chances were not good for children at Ravensbrück. Many lost their mothers and as a result, lost what little protection they did have. Many were medically experimented on or killed. Children on their own would not survive in the camp but women would step forward and behave as surrogate/adoptive mothers, making dolls and taking care of them.[42]. The creation of art or personal belongings in the camp was strictly prohibited. Despite this, there are still artifacts found today that display resistance. A sprig of the lily of the valley[43] is a prime example. While only a piece of plastic, if caught could be considered an act of sabotage and largely punishable. In an interview done just after liberation in Sweden, Interview 420 describes: The smallest infractions were elevated to the level of ...

CONCENTRATION CAMP PLANS FOR U.S. CITIZENS Transcript of taped message concerning the implementation of a dictatorial government in the United States. A NATIONAL EMERGENCY: TOTAL TAKEOVER This is William R. Pabst. My address is 1434 West Alabama Street, Houston, Texas 77006. My telephone number is: (713) 521-9896. This is my 1979 updated report on the concentration camp program of the Dept. of Defense of the United States. On April 20, 1976, after a rapid and thorough investigation, I filed suit on behalf of the People of the United States against various personages that had a key part in a conspiratorial program to do away with the United States as we know it. This is a progress report to you, the plaintiffs, you the People of the United States. The civil action number is 76-H-667. It is entitled, Complaint Against the Concentration Camp Program of the Dept. of Defense. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the southern district of Texas, Houston division. The judge responsible for the ...

Deletant argues that Romania had always been rather inclined towards the cause of the Allies, owing to their support in 1918 of the creation of Greater Romania (comprising Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia and the Old Kingdom), but that the country was surrounded by revisionist neighbours (especially Hungary, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union). This position changed only when the European order started crumbling after the 1938 Munich Accords, which in a short span led to Romania losing considerable parts of its territory to its aforementioned neighbours. With France and Britain geographically far away, and with the French being knocked out of the war in the summer of 1944, the spectre of Stalin weighed heavily on Romanias political leaders. It was under this context that Romania turned towards Germany for an alliance and some sort of insurance against its Eastern neighbour. Yet, Deletant is not an apologist for Antonescus regime. He thus argues that while not necessarily the most eager of the ...

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The agency became the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863. Its emblem was a red cross on a white background, the inverse of the Swiss flag. A year later the first Geneva Convention was adopted initially by 12 nations, codifying acceptable treatment of sick and wounded soldiers. Dunant was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 for these accomplishments.. The ICRC encouraged the creation of national Red Cross societies, today known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. These organizations were independent from the ICRC, which acted as a liaison between the societies. During World War I the ICRC expanded from ten employees to over 3,000 and organized itself into national bureaus for each combatant nation.. Red Cross efforts were invaluable during World War I. The ICRC stablished the International Prisoners-of-War Agency that was responsible for arranging the exchange of over 200,000 POWs, gathering records on millions of prisoners, and ...

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During and immediately after World War II, millions of ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from the countries of eastern and central Europe. Hungary was a somewhat reluctant participant in this process, starting only at the behest of the occupying Soviet forces and continuing only under pressure by the Allied Control Council. After expelling some 180,000 ethnic Germans (mostly to West Germany) the Hungarian government halted the process in 1948. In 1950 they actually rescinded the expulsion orders, opening the door for the expellees to repatriate. [1]. How many expelled ethnic Germans availed themselves of the opportunity to return to Hungary? I understand that, for ideological and economic reasons, the number is not likely to be very high, but it was almost certainly non-zero. (For comparison, the CIA estimated that over 90,000 people migrated from West Germany to East Germany from 1952 to 1954.) [2]. ...

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Humans have always had a fondness for sweets. During the world wars, saccharose, (common sugar) was obtained from sugar cane or beets. Saccharin, the first artificial sweetener, was synthesized in 1879, and was popular during the world wars due to its low production cost. After World War II, sugar became more affordable, and since the 1950s, the reason for using saccharin shifted to calorie reduction. However, the bitter after-taste of saccharin produced a growing need for improved taste of calorie-reduced substances. Artificial sweeteners are classified as first generation (saccharin, cyclamate and aspartame) and new generation (acesulfame-K, sucralose, alitame and neotame). Cyclamate was introduced in the 1950s, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned it from all dietary foods in 1970, due to suspicion that it induced cancer in experimental animals. Cyclamate is still used in other countries, especially in combination with other sweeteners. Aspartame (NutraSweet) was approved by the ...

The ALA Archives is always pleased when our records are used in publishing new historical research, and today is the official release date for the book When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Manning, which includes research from records held at the ALA Archives. The book tells the story of the revival of mass-organized library services for the armed forces, which had been premiered during World War I but fallen into neglect during peacetime. The Victory Book Campaign was a joint effort from librarians, booksellers, publishers, and the US armed forces to not just rekindle the library program, but to greatly expand it. Librarians focused their efforts on organizing book donation drives, as demonstrated with this poster to the right.. Ms. Manning used the papers of Althea B. Warren, ALA President 1943-44, when researching this book. The ALA Archives holds additional records related to its work in the Victory Book Campaign, including reports, correspondence, and ...

Susan Pollack, a Hungarian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust at the age of 14, spoke these deceptively simple words this month at a virtual event hosted to mark the launch of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnerships new exhibition focused on the death marches, the forced evacuations from the Nazi camps at the end of the Second World War.. Her remarks were brief, composed, and yet disturbing in their detail. She was forced on a death march from a slave labour camp to Bergen-Belsen. The experience shapes her life to this day.. We often hear concern about what will happen to Holocaust education and memory after the survivors die. This is not a new debate. But it also implies that weve learned all there is to learn from survivors, like Susan, who are very much still with us. Remarkably, Susan spends much of her time speaking to learners of all ages for key Holocaust education organisations in the UK, such as the Holocaust Educational Trust. In 2020, her webcast for Holocaust ...

Together with plague, smallpox and typhus, epidemics of dysentery have been a major scourge of human populations for centuries(1). A previous genomic study concluded that Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), the epidemic dysentery bacillus, emerged and spread worldwide after the First World War, with no clear pattern of transmission(2). This is not consistent with the massive cyclic dysentery epidemics reported in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries(1,3,4) and the first isolation of Sd1 in Japan in 1897(5). Here, we report a whole-genome analysis of 331 Sd1 isolates from around the world, collected between 1915 and 2011, providing us with unprecedented insight into the historical spread of this pathogen. We show here that Sd1 has existed since at least the eighteenth century and that it swept the globe at the end of the nineteenth century, diversifying into distinct lineages associated with the First World War, Second World War and various conflicts or natural disasters across Africa,

Together with plague, smallpox and typhus, epidemics of dysentery have been a major scourge of human populations for centuries(1). A previous genomic study concluded that Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), the epidemic dysentery bacillus, emerged and spread worldwide after the First World War, with no clear pattern of transmission(2). This is not consistent with the massive cyclic dysentery epidemics reported in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries(1,3,4) and the first isolation of Sd1 in Japan in 1897(5). Here, we report a whole-genome analysis of 331 Sd1 isolates from around the world, collected between 1915 and 2011, providing us with unprecedented insight into the historical spread of this pathogen. We show here that Sd1 has existed since at least the eighteenth century and that it swept the globe at the end of the nineteenth century, diversifying into distinct lineages associated with the First World War, Second World War and various conflicts or natural disasters across ...

Her surviving became an important part of his living …. In five decades of rock n roll, the four steel strings of his bass guitar have left deep furrows at the fingernails of his right hand. The tips of his fingers are callused. With these fingers, KISS frontman Gene Simmons (70) gently strokes a name and the number 318 on a document - Flora Klein. Its his Jewish mothers maiden name. The document records her liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp 75 years ago.. The liberation marked the end of an ordeal that included living in a ghetto in Budapest and in three Nazi concentration camps. The young woman (then 19) was liberated on 5 May 1945. Simmons sees the historic document for the first time.. ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina on Tuesday gave Israel thousands of World War II era documents during a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he says marks a new dawn in his countrys relationship with Latin America.. The digital documents delivered by President Mauricio Macri include nearly 140,000 secret files and photographs from 1939-1950. They include letters, telegrams and reports that were digitized by Argentina and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.. We have delivered these digitalized historical documents about the Holocaust so that the state of Israel can make sure that they are investigated, Macri told Netanyahu after giving him a box containing five hard drives. This is very important for us.. The documents will clarify what help Argentina provided to Nazi criminals after the war.. Read More. by JTA and AP. ...

6:23:36 p.m. Eastern. BRET BAIER: As a Trump administration sanctions those responsible for what officials call the massive concentration camp system in North West China, we look at the case of one man whos detained there and his sister here, fighting for his release. State Department correspondent Rich Edson reports.. [Cuts to video]. RICH EDSON: After a three-week State Department business program in the United States, Ekpar Asat returned home to Xinjiang, China to build his own media business. Instead, his family says Chinese authorities arrested him and moved him into a concentration camp.. RAYHAN ASAT (Sister): Here I am achieving my American dream, where is my brother? He is detained. And his life is simply unimaginable.. EDSON: In 2016, Rayhan became the first ethnic Uighur to graduate with a masters degree from Harvard law school. Ekpar was planning on come back to the U.S. for his sisters Harvard graduation. He never made it.. ASAT: I worry that he thinks hes forgotten. I will not ...

DOWNEY - John Francis Cole, a World War II veteran and longtime resident of Downey, died at his home April 28.He was born to John and Mary Ellen (Molly) Cole on Aug. 30, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the eldest of four children followed by Timothy, Helen and Kathleen Cole. He joined the Navy at age 17 and served four years during WWII. After discharge, he met his future wife, Charlene S. Wells. They were married Oct. 19, 1947. Cole was recalled to serve in the Korean War and was discharged 1 1/2 years later due to encephalitis. In 1953, the couple bought their home in Downey. They joined the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church congregation in 1957. In 1959, they began their family when they had two children, John Michael and Sue Ellen Cole. Coles job took the family to Tulsa, Okla., for five years beginning in 1983. He retired from Baker Oil Tools in 1987 to pursue leisure hours on the golf course, mainly at the Rio Hondo Golf Club. This lasted only a few years due to his health. Cole ...

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At the close of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, having rejected a federal system, the new countrys predominantly Czech leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the increasingly strident demands of other ethnic minorities within the republic, most notably the Slovaks, the Sudeten Germans, and the Ruthenians (Ukrainians). On the eve of World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the territory that today comprises Czechia, and Slovakia became an independent state allied with Germany. After the war, a reunited but truncated Czechoslovakia (less Ruthenia) fell within the Soviet sphere of influence. In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the countrys leaders to liberalize communist rule and create socialism with a human face, ushering in a period of repression known as normalization. The peaceful Velvet Revolution swept the Communist Party from power at the end of 1989 ...

Like All the Light We Cannot See last week, this is one of those generations-spanning, world-tramping novels that takes real events in World War II as its starting point. Jack, stationed in Salzburg at the very end of the war, is charged with guarding a train filled with the valuables of Hungarian Jews sent to concentration camps: their jewellery, silverware, artworks. A century later, his granddaughter travels to Budapest to try to reunite a particular piece of jewellery - a bejewelled peacock, purloined by Jack - to its rightful owner, or as near to such a person as possible. And in 1913, at the dawn of the fight for womens rights, a psychoanalyst is called in to help a young Hungarian proto-suffragette whose story will become entwined with the peacock ornaments. I liked the leapfrogging structure of this book, which moves through three distinct time periods, united by works of art; its uneven, however, since compared to the engaging WWII narrative and the psychoanalysts notes on his young ...

A decade or so after we first met, director Rob Cohen is as passionate about filmmaking as he was, even when the industry turns against him. With the failure of his big-budget Stealth, Cohen remains circumspect about his life and career.. Now the father of triplets, he has been able to inject his personal passion about Chinese culture into the latest Mummy film, which catapults the audience into Ancient and post-World War 2 China. It was a typically honest Cohen that sat down with Paul Fischer.. Question: When you go through an experience like Stealth, does it give you a sense of disillusionment in this industry? Or do you kind of try and take it on the chin?. Cohen: Well, Stealth was my 29th movie, and this is my 30th, obviously. I had very few illusions about Hollywood, but it knocked me to my knees because of the bad behavior of people that claim to be my close personal friends. It also made me go into an introspective period of going, What did I do wrong? Because in Buddhism, you really ...

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has called on the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to reconsider its decision to honour former monarch Simeon Saxe-Coburg in private and public liturgies as Tsar of the Bulgarians.. Critical media coverage of the decision by the churchs governing body said that the church appeared to think that Bulgaria had two heads of state.. Saxe-Coburg became king of Bulgaria in 1943 after the sudden death of his father, Boris III. A post-World War 2 referendum under communist domination abolished the monarcy, and the countrys first democratic constitution in 1991 made no mention of a monarchy.. After the fall of communism, Saxe-Coburg returned to the country and was elected prime minister in 2001, with his government serving a single term before participating in a socialist-led tripartite coalition government from 2005 to 2009.. On May 2, Plevneliev was among dignitaries at church ceremonies in the ancient former capital of Pliska as the ...