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When is a loser a LOSER?

randyehrler wrote 5 minutes ago: Kurt Warner. Ray Kroc. Harrison Ford. Winston Churchill. Are these guys losers? Of course not. At le … more →

Tags: Things, Life, What-Not, Arena Football League, England, Great Britain, Grinding It Out: The Story of McDonald's, harrison ford, Hosea Ballou, Kurt Warner, mcdonalds

Narvik (GDW): The Allied Strategy

tonydatiga wrote 17 minutes ago: Norway: The last days of peace (click image to enlarge) It is fairly obvious from the beginning that … more →

Tags: Norway, Second World War, Gaming, narvik

Europe's Oldest Bungee Jumper

kirisyko wrote 27 minutes ago: A MAN aged 90 has leapt 131ft from a bridge for charity, becoming the oldest bungee jumper in Europe … more →

Tags: Air, Bungee Jumping, BBC, Bob Steele, Bungee Jump, Chichester, Egypt, Great Ormond Street Hospital, killiecrankie

10 Ways to Expect Less

Nicholas Mandal wrote 32 minutes ago: By: Nicholas Mandal Many of our woes come from expectations.  We build elaborate scenarios in our he … more →

Tags: Life Refinement, American, Art, Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Goals, H. L. Mencken, happiness, Kurt Vonnegut

Check out these Photos from our WWII Encampment

Danny Benson wrote 33 minutes ago: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a quick write-up about our WWII encampment over the weekend … more →

Tags: Around MKE, Events, JSonline, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, mjs, Trimborn Farm, wwii, WWII Encampment

Pirate Radio: British Counterculture and the Hegelian Dialectic

Grant Maxwell wrote 46 minutes ago: After the darker novelty of World War II, the postwar era in Britain generally seems to have consist … more →

Tags: Bob Spitz, Britain, CounterCulture, Dialectic, Great Britain, Hegel, Hegelian Dialectic, Phenomenology of Spirit, ...Pirate Radio

Nathan Kaufman - Germany Must Perish!

gooldstein wrote 48 minutes ago: Germany Must Perish! is the title of a 104-page book written by Nathan Kaufman and self-published in … more →

Tags: Rheinwiesenlager, Instrument of Surrender, 1945 and Germany, Reichsbürger, Anonymous, Germany, united states, Nazi Germany, Climate

Take Budapest! - Kamen Nevenkin

Oldcat wrote 1 hour ago: The Struggle for Hungary, Autumn 1944 These are interesting times on the Eastern Front.  The opening … more →

Tags: Books, History, The 1900s, 20th Century, Germany, hungary, Russia

The Greatest Generation 2.0?

jonathanf15 wrote 1 hour ago: (Property of Time Magazine) The recent passing of U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg is yet another re … more →

Tags: Air Force, Army, Current Events, marine corps, Navy, Veterans Issues, greatest generation, iraq, Tom Brokaw

Peace in a war museum?

Esther Epp-Tiessen @ MCC Ottawa Office wrote 1 hour ago: A visitor to the Canadian War Museum’s newest display – “Peace: the Exhibition” – might be forgiven … more →

Tags: engagement, peacebuilding, Canadian Mennonite University, canadian war museum, indigenous, MCC, MCC Ontario, Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Heritage Centre

The Happiness To-Do List3 comments

Thought Catalog wrote 1 hour ago: 1. Hug more people because you absolutely adore them, and since time changes everything, make sure t … more →

Tags: Life, A Man Without a Country, book, Grocery Store, happiness, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, To-do List, united states

More British WWII Dirty Tricks Revealed: Espionage in the USA and Bribery in Spain1 comment

justice4germans wrote 2 hours ago: British WWII Spying in U.S. Shown in Secret Files By Robert Hutton - bloomberg.com May 22, 2013 Brit … more →

Tags: Churchill, Germany, Great Britain, Policies, united kingdom, USA, Black operations, Dirty Tricks, Documents

November 11, 1942 (Gladys)1 comment

Genealogy Lady wrote 2 hours ago: November 11, 1942 Envelope November 11, 1942, p. 1 November 11, 1942, p. 2 November 11, 1942, p. 3 N … more →

Tags: Foster, genealogy, World War II letters, World War II rationing, Yegerlehner, Bernard "Bun" Walkup, David A. Yegerlehner, Emma (Lawhead) Foster, genealogy

Stalin-era documents published online

Christina George wrote 2 hours ago: Chinese Stamp, 1950. Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong are shaking hands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) … more →

Tags: Library/Archives, Andrei Sorokin, Churchill, Federal Archival Agency, History, History of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin fund, molotov

Camera Totin' Gaijin

tinypapercrane07 wrote 2 hours ago: I’ll be honest, this past week has seen me running all over the place with a camera and a trip … more →

Tags: Asia, Documentary, Filmmaking, Gaijin, Japan, Japanese People, kyoto, Liberal Democratic Party, Movie club

What did you do in the war Grandma??

Thomas wrote 3 hours ago: In September 1943 a Handley Page Halifax dropped a smock covered figure into France as they had done … more →

Tags: Agent, England, France, gallantry, Germany, handley page halifax, historian, History, macqui

Interfaith Resistance Against Nazis & Serbians Must Inform Justice Campaigns Today

Bob Shine wrote 3 hours ago: I spent last weekend at the Pax Christi USA conference, reflecting on peacemaking and nonviolence fo … more →

Tags: Religion & Culture, Bosnia, Catholic, Christian, Faith, genocide, Holocaust, Interfaith, interreligious

Focus On: WWI & WWII

alexandrap529 wrote 3 hours ago: Ever since the latest season of Downton ended, I’ve been searching for something to fill the v … more →

Tags: Book Review, Movie Review, Reviews of Reviews, Bomb Girls, Downton Abbey, housebound, i'll be seeing you, i'll be seeing you review, Land Girls

June reading roundup #2

katieleigh wrote 3 hours ago: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World, Matthew … more →

Tags: Books, Friendship, Travel, Civil War, Classics, Fiction, History, Oxford, spies


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