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Every few hours, Morell would also give him a cocktail injection of mostly glucose and several times the daily requirement of vitamins, as well as several 'Fuhrer-branded' gold-wrapped chocolates containing even more sugar and vitamins.

Hitler himself was teetotal, and it was likely he had no idea what Morell was putting into his body through the 30s and 40s. If he started to experience withdrawal, he became more unstable than ever, so the Fuhrer's blood sugar and addiction became a matter of national (and personal) security for his inner circle.

Source: Ohler, Norman. <em>Blitzed</em>

And why?

Because left wing dissidents wanted to break away from US patronage and nationalize US property in their country and forge their own destiny. This would basically infringe on US corporations rights to exploit poor South American countries for their own profit. US didn’t like that much and engaged in a systematic terror campaign aimed at attacking any grassroots resistance to US backed dictators. The result was essentially a war on peasant populations not just inEl Salvador, but in several other Latin American nations.

Important to note that this is par for the course of US intervention in the third world. I encourage every American to read up on it.

Edit: a word Edit2: A good book on US foreign intervention

Check out Eric M. Bergerud’s book <em>Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific</em>. It does a phenomenal job at showing the reader that the environment is as much the soldiers’ enemy as the enemy himself. Malaria, dengue- and yellow fever, fungus, sword grass, snakes, and even crocodiles harassed soldiers in the Pacific as much as opposing armies.

Here's a picture from my window earlier in the winter: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNbBnumrbYYLsF-dIjkle8uDmU5RoD1Q7WhO3VPD0NbKE8c8wZTFQVur2Y8wf1e9g?key=SE8zREtRbEJDNHNZRlZ3ZDdkd25jZ2N4NDR4YXFn

There's a book about that, and how the Canadian government deliberately allowed Indigenous peoples in the Prairies to starve after the bison were hunted off the land. I haven't read it but it got a lot of attention when it came out. https://www.amazon.ca/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967

All of CO isn't like that. Aspen is one of the premiere ski resorts in NA. You could probably rent that place out for over $1000 a night on Airbnb if you wanted..

Here's a place in the same area for $1650 a night.

Airline engineer here. Depleted Uranium (DU) is a common weight balance installed on the tail of not only the 747, but all Airbus aircraft. DU has a high density and is ideal for reducing lateral tail flutter.

https://www.slideshare.net/stigmatasoul87/volumesno-namesalazar-period2gulf-warpresentation1

I'm not a historian, but I am reading that this was done to pass the time during winter months:

> During the long, boring months when armies were in winter quarters, efforts were often made to enhance the aesthetic landscape of the camps by laying out streets, organizing neat rows of cabins or tents, and even planting trees. Occasionally, they were also planted for shade.

Below is the link to my source. Further reading shows cedar trees were preferable for their fragrance as well as building and bedding materials. Soldiers' letters in this book mention simple enjoyment of the trees and birds living in them.

Source: End of page 54 to page 55 and beyond of Floura and Fauna of the Civil War: An Environmental Reference Guide by Kelby Ouchley, 2010.

[Link to refrenced page]

Edit: I personally suspected cedar trees would be used for only fragrance and moisture control during longer encampments. The aesthetic purposes frankly surprised me. OP, thanks for posting such a great (and high-res) photo.

Edit2: For those unaware, cedar is still a fantastic solution to a lot of everyday problems today.

Here is the full speech written by Marlon Brando to be read by Sacheen Littlefeather. speech

It is surprisingly hard to find and I am not sure if this is the full version as it does not seem to be 15 pages long as described. It is not included on Ms Littlefield's wikipedia page nor on the Oscar website for acceptance speechs.

When the green British volunteers were marched (!) in ten columns toward the German trenches in the Battle of Loos in 1915, they were mowed down in their thousands until they were stopped by barbed wire. The Germans were so sickened by the slaughter, they stopped firing and allowed the survivors to turn around and return to their trenches. German medics then tended to the British wounded. The Corpse Field of Loos.

> In 1992 she took her own life, although she was already 90, by overdosing on sleeping pills.

The reports of her committing suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills are not well founded from what I can see. By the time she died, she had suffered a stroke and was almost entirely immobile. She could move her hand (her arm, not so much) and she could only utter three words..."yes", "no", and "Maria".

The suicide story was probably a misinterpretation of her daughter theorizing that her mother had committed a "protracted suicide" by abusing alcohol and sleeping pills for many of her later years.

Source 1 Source 2

Edit: typo repair

Check out "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. It'll change the way you view things like the Holocaust.

Not to get into what is an incredible book on human psychology and spirituality written by a very, very wise fellow, but basically after all that suffering for Holocaust victims, morality was long out the window in terms of good vs evil or justice vs crime for victims of the Holocaust, not unlike how a body will atrophy after a long bout with cancer.

I'm summarizing poorly, but one of his points is that in light of something that long, systematic, and terrible, there really never is any "satisfaction." Ever.

Thank you for the book recommendation.

Also, Hitler and the Nazis based many of their anti-Jewish laws (no Jews in parks, Jews not allowed in restaurants) on American Jim Crow Laws. http://billmoyers.com/story/hitler-america-nazi-race-law/

https://smile.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/dp/0691172420

Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881.

The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national park tourism destination, and is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Wiki)

"When the statue was first erected its copper exterior caught the sunlight, but within a couple of decades the metal had oxidized and Libertas had adopted her now familiar shade of green." - READ MORE IN MY BOOK "THE COLOUR OF TIME", available on Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and at the nearest bookshop!

I read a book a couple years ago that was interviews of German soldiers that survived D Day. Super interesting and worth a read.

D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VX372UE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_FM9fBb66MB71E

I believe this is her on FindAGrave...the record includes both her maiden and married names. She lived to be in her 80s.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GSln=Hawkins&amp;GSiman=1&amp;GScty=23952&amp;GRid=144664246&

ETA her marriage record is here: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fridell-3

The Grand Marshall of the NYC St. Patrick's day parade have historically been militant IRA supporters.

One of the former Grand Marshalls of it was one of the ringleaders of the main US-Ireland gunrunning from the late 60s to 1980 (they brought over all the armalites). Him and all of his co-defendants walked free after a FBI sting that caught them skimming money from NORAID and caught them red handed with hundreds of guns, rounds of ammo, and grenades. FBI called it "Operation Bushmills". They claimed they were working with the blessing of the CIA, when the CIA was asked to verify this claim by the trial judge the CIA stated that they could not confirm or deny anything the judge asked.

https://books.google.com/books?id=0ucCAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=PA58&amp;lpg=PA58&amp;dq=new+york+magazine+patriot+games&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ZcQJ4EkJYD&amp;sig=2Jf-ddFm1txIz0PEvM36PR9ykxc&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=fTe5VM_9D9PisAS3t4HADQ&amp;ved=0CCwQ6AEwA...

I think this is it. https://www.amazon.com/DAY-Through-German-Eyes-Hidden-ebook/dp/B00VX372UE

It's hard to imagine being overwhelmed like that, just waves of men and material swarming inland and there's nothing you can do to stop it. All after years of being sold on the superiority of your forces.

If you like this you should watch Around Cape Horn-by Irving Johnson. He joins a similar boat as it rounds the Horn in 1929 and films the trip. Its pretty insane

Here's a link to watch it http://www.4shared.com/video/IqQMDWHh/around_cape_horn_-_irving_john.html

This was taken by Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig and you can find the picture in this fantastic collection.

Weegee also happened to be the inspiration for Nightcrawler.

No, but it was allowed by the court

"The mountaineer testified he tried to "get her in an orphanage" But failed. It was then that he married her"

FYI: the extent of pain JFK was in due to his back was concealed. After his death, Jackie said that JFK was in a wheelchair more often than he wasn't in a wheelchair while president, but they didn't photograph it. Which is fucking shocking. I mean, people today go on about how FDR's wheelchair was concealed and not photographed, but we all know about it now. But most don't know about JFK's wheelchair. (source: https://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Kennedy-Historic-Conversations-Life-ebook/dp/B005M51OBC/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=jacqueline+kennedy+historic+conversations&amp;qid=1626892767&amp;sr=8-2).

Also, this particular surgery was written up in the medical journals, because JFK was reportedly the first person with Addison's disease to survive major surgery. Addison's disease involves the destruction of the adrenal glands, which produce many hormones, including adrenaline, which you need to live. When you are experiencing a physical crisis such as having major surgery, you need a lot more adrenaline than normally, and they weren't accounting for that when they did surgery on people with Addison's. Doctors thus refused to perform surgery on JFK. He was insistent, though, due to the extent of his pain. So they agreed and tried a new protocol: they basically gave him massive amounts of adrenaline during the course of the surgery, which kept him alive and later became standard protocol for surgery for those with Addison's disease.

I started learning Russian from an app this week. I'm so proud of myself for reading нет as nee-yet.

EDIT: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atistudios.italk.ru here's the app, it's free!

They look a lot like landing ships (or landing craft tanks), which were transports / landing vehicles for war supplies. As an aside question, how does one sink a waterproof container?

*Edit - wow, I meant that last little comment as a joke only because it sounded funny. I imagined trying to sink a Gladware bowl while keeping it water tight.

From that spot? Quite a bit different. The town flooded and burned several times after 1876, and that transformed things significantly: all the old wood buildings are long gone, and Main Street moved a few feet east and about six feet up. Also, we don't use horses and wagons very much these days, and they put a stop to building placer diggings in the middle of the street...

My office is a few hundred feet from the spot that picture was taken, so it's not exact, but here's what it looks like from my window: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNbBnumrbYYLsF-dIjkle8uDmU5RoD1Q7WhO3VPD0NbKE8c8wZTFQVur2Y8wf1e9g?key=SE8zREtRbEJDNHNZRlZ3ZDdkd25jZ2N4NDR4YXFn

Not segregation, it was to gather more forces against Germany. It was a Jewish movement to create that brigade, and at first the British opposed, then changed their minds and it was founded.

Source: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Jewish_Brigade#/Background

If she managed to fall headfirst, she could still die. A few years back an NYPD cop tasered a naked guy, who went rigid and fell, forehead first, onto the sidewalk (and died).

Extra-depressing sidenote: eight days later, the taser cop killed himself.

I recall hearing about a Syracuse suicide where a lady went head-first off the third floor and landed, 18 meters later, on the ground floor. That's a lot higher than any of these examples - but I'm sure she would have had similar success from the second story.

Here is the preceding line:

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”

From here

The NY Times report of the assassination said:

CAIRO, Oct. 6 -- President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt was shot and killed today by a group of men in military uniforms who hurled hand grenades and fired rifles at him as he watched a military parade commemorating the 1973 war against Israel.

Egypt's treaties and international commitments would be respected. He said the Speaker of Parliament, Sufi Abu Taleb, would serve as interim President pending an election in 60 days.

The assassins' bullets ended the life of a man who earned a reputation for making bold decisions in foreign affairs, a reputation based in large part on his decision in 1977 to journey to the camp of Egypt's foe, Israel, to make peace.

Not quite.

1. RAF pilot's uniform. Note the low brim and the two buttons in the front.

2. Red Army WW2 era uniform cap. Note the high brim.

The dude in the photo is Soviet. It's the most logical conclusion to start with, I mean, what are the odds that an RAF POW ends up in a POW camp for Red Army soldiers and happens to be captured in a super-iconic photograph?

It is part of the prestigious Bettmann Collection of Corbis Images. Here is another angle.

I had that book as a kid! It’s written in the first person from Millie’s perspective- she enjoyed tennis balls and mauling woodland critters in the Rose Garden.

Larger version, in case anyone's interested: http://i.imgur.com/sFW4M.jpg

Also, here's what it looks like today, courtesy of Google Streetview. Obviously a lot has changed, but the three buildings that feature most in the photo are still standing. The rightmost building still has a pharmacy, amusingly.

This again. It's funny how these myths take off. Churchill was susceptible to pneumonia and the long cold flights weren't good for his health (none of Churchill's planes were pressurized). He would wear an oxygen mask on some occasions (even when he slept). Sometime in 1942 they did build a pressure chamber for him, but they couldn't get it into his plane without dissembling the tail section. The contraption was rejected out of hand - thus never used.

Source.

Apparently taken from a French commercial postcard. via drakegoodman flickr - cc/non com/attribution

Edit: dates for this image vary elsewhere from ca.1917-1919

Morelli was executed by electric chair in 1949.

Newspaper report about the killing:

GANGSTERS IN GUN DUEL

THREE KILLED IN CHICAGO .

(A.A.P.)

Three men were shot dead and two others wounded by gunmen out for revenge in Chicago on Saturday night. One of the gunmen was later shot dead by police. Tom Daley, a man with a criminal record, had quarelled with John Kuesis, and had sworn to wipe out the whole of the Kuesis family. For this purpose, he enlisted the aid of two youths aged 19. Police described the men as "mad dog killers." . They went to a garage own ed by Nick Kuesis, a brother of John. There they shqfc dead John Kuesis. Then they herded Nick Kuesis and three garage workers into a car and "took them for a ride." Nick and one of "the garage workers were shot and thrown out of the car, apparently dead, but actuallly only wounded. The other two garage work ers were killed and their bodies tossed into ditches beside the highway. Nick Kuesis called the police, who trapped Daley and killed him with a-burst of gunfire. One of the youths who ac companied Daley on his venge ance hunt was seized by the police. The other youth is still being sought.

Source.

According to this newspaper account from 1967, it was the other front. He grew up in East Germany and became a communist.

This was all I could find, and it's just one sentence in the middle that states a live infant was found, then further down captions this photo by again stating the infant was alive. I realize it's not much to go on, but it seems to be a decent read: http://hubpages.com/education/Chernobyl-Revisited

More precisely, they modeled their law system after Roman law which was predominantly used in the German lands as it acted as a complex unifying force between many princedoms, free cities, dukedoms and other entities in the HRE. The German civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) started it's development in 1881 and was finished in 1900 and it did influence many legal systems around the world including the Japanese one, but the study of Western law with lectures in Roman law started earlier in Tokyo in 1874 since it provided the historical background and an indispensible means of understanding the western legal system which Japan tried to incorporate (in jurisprudence, this phenomena is called a reception of law) .

Ref: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29678456_Roman_Law_Studies_and_the_Civil_Code_in_Modern_Japan_System_Ownership_and_Co-ownership https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242449266_GERMAN_RECEPTION_OF_ROMAN_LAW_AND_JAPANESE_RECEPTION_OF_GERMAN_LAW

Cool, Kendra is the wife of one of my best buds. Hell of a gal.

If anyone is actually interested in reading up on Vivian and her relationship with Laurence Olivier then her book Vivian Leigh: an intimate portrait is on Amazon

Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0762450991/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_D7HpCbPGYW106

It's also been optioned by Natalie Dormer.

Actually, according to neutral analysts like John Fricker and even Indian authors like Shaikhar Gupta , the Pakistani airforce dominated the Indian airforce despite being heavily outnumbered and outresourced.

Psychedelics played a bigger role than most people realize. It was the first time on earth there was a substance available to the mainstream in huge quantities that actually changed your perception on a massive level, and it was being taken by prominent social figures. Even as a psychedelic user and advocate myself, I totally underestimated the impact until I read the book "Acid Dreams - The Complete Social History of LSD". Highly recommended.

Edit: Incoming downvotes from people who probably dont know much about psychedelics

There’s a famous and quite good book My fathers keeper by Stephan Lebert. The authors interview many high ranking nazi’s children. The children rank from healthy ordinary people that renounce nazism over something that need diagnosis by doctors to hardline nazis themselves. The son of Hans Frank (general governor for Poland) famously tells of how he hates his father so much he masturbates on his photo each year on the day of his execution while crying on the floor.

To be fair, his response wasn't exactly the most clever turn of phrase ever either.

"Yes I have. "

Also, I think that ("you've / I've never _____ such ______") may have been a common exclamation format back then.

E.g. "oh dear, it was quite the commotion! You've never seen such a ruckus! "

Found some evidence of that, actually:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=you've+never+seen+such&amp;case_insensitive=on&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2000&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t4%3B%2Cyou%20%27ve%20never%20seen%20such%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B...

That's not what happened at all. Why do people make shit up like this? It's not even a clever reason, it's ridiculous.

They killed her because she killed a trainer. The townspeople were angry and threatened to not allow the zoo to return if the animal wasn't killed. Two minutes on Google:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(elephant)

That whole era was pretty wild. I suggest Lawrence Goldstone's excellent book "Birdmen" to get the whole story.

>Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 25

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>Aufgestellt in Koblenz (R.Stb., I., II., III.) Unterstellung: 30. L.I.Brig. Kommandeur:Oberstleutnant Erhardt

>I.:Major Graf Vitzthum v. Eckstaedt II.:Major aus ́m Weerth(I.R.Nr. 68)

>(I.R.Nr. 173)

>III.:Oberstleutnant z. D. Fischer (Bez.-Kdr. Andernach) Verluste:19 Offz., 370 Uffz. und Mannschaften.

According to this Flickr page.
Some quick points: Served in Landwehr Infantry Regiment nr. 25, which was raised in Koblenz. "L.I.Brig." would most likely translate to Light Infantry Brigade, in which he served under Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Erhardt.
The rest of the description is almost gibberish to me, haven't delved into military texts for a while.

Lots of things are said, printed and didn't actually happen. One person reports a rumor and another and another and all of a sudden it's printed in "history books."

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This book investigated the claims. None can be proven. These claims were mainly just because he was Irish. He made his money clearly and, at the time, legally.

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He was the first chairman of the SEC under FDR, and subsequently made many tactics he had previously used illegal.

The guitar player looked familiar and I couldn't remember from where, until I did: Looks like they used this photo for the album "Rough Guide to East Coast Blues" that came out a few years back:

https://www.amazon.com/Rough-Guide-East-Coast-Blues/dp/B00UBCTR6K

This was a really interesting book about that.

The British had an incredibly successful disinformation campaign to make the Germans think the invasion would be in a different place.

The camp was discovered by British SAS who were acting as forward recon for the advancing American Army. My guess is that those guys are part of that SAS detachment. There is a really good book out telling the history of the SAS called "Rogue Heroes". At the end it has accounts of their discovery of this camp, its liberation, and how it effected them for the rest of their lives.

The leggings (or gaiters) were better than puttees by but not by much.

Here's an explanation of what happened: http://www.culinarylore.com/food-history:what-happened-to-jello-pudding-pops

Forgive the ad heavy page.

TIL You can make your own with a kit from Amazon :

Jell-O Pudding Pops Mold Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ESJ71DI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_iCnLxbYFZETQY

Just in case anyone is interested in the Krupp family and their significance to modern German history, this book is fantastic and extensive. Starting as a merchant family, the Krupps became the most important industrial corporation favored by the Kaiser of the German Empire for their weapons manufacturing.

This family owned corporation was so important that the Kaiser literally arranged political marriages to keep it an effective ally of the state. Alfred Hugenberg, one of the managers of the company, left to found a propaganda film company that eventually took over UFA. He was also instrumental in bringing Hitler to power, as he also founded the Fatherland Party, the only party to make a coalition with the Nazis. If you like histories of corporate power dictating and clashing with political power, the Krupps are a great subject.

> I wonder if there was a skin regimen in vogue back then to lighten?

Absolutely. Here is an ad for Marlé Skin Bleaching Lotion from The Afro American, Jan 18, 1930. Not even slightly fake or a joke. (I found this a while back while scouring newspapers for submissions to /r/OldNews/)

TBF, in Germany the book was called Holt Hartmann vom Himmel! ("Shoot Hartmann down!"). The book was criticized for reinforcing the "clean Wermacht" myth and its reinforcement of anti-Russian stereotypes, so your critique has not gone unrepresented in the press.

Per Bf 109 Aces of the Russian Front, the German high command scrutinized the kill counts quite closely of the Eastern front aces, because the numbers were so large, they achieved fame, and because of the military awards they were earning (p201). There' s not much reason to believe they were inflating their claims.

Read or listen to Kill Anything that Moves by Nick Turse. Excellent overview and description of the atrocities that occurred during the late 60s in Vietnam. Nothing went too far, literally the worse things you can possibly think of to do to other humans and just scale it up to US War Machine levels. To all humans: babies, children, women, and men. To animals, livestock, cultivated fields, and whole ecosystems. And the attitudes, no remorse, no empathy, just kill as many humans as possible as quickly as possible. I can’t believe it’s not generally known what the US did down there, it’s just not taught in schools. You’d be lucky to find someone who remembers the My Lai Massacre, but that’s about it.

Most of them:

24,511 U.S. Marines died during World War II. 68,207 WIA. Highest death rate of all U.S. Services at 3.66% killed. SEMPER FI

Branch Number Served Percent Killed

U.S. Army= 7,860,000 2.8% killed U.S. Army Air Forces= 3,400,000 2.5% killed U.S Army Total= 11,260,000

U.S. Coast Guard= 241,093 0.78% killed

U.S. Marine Corps 669,100 3.66% killed U.S. Merchant Marine 243,000 3.9% killed

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_us_marines_died_in_ww2#ixzz20forwFcb

Yes but this was Russia under Stalin, who had no problem killing more of his own people than Hitler did When you put it in those terms, Im surprised 5000 German prisoners made it home at all.

IIRC from the book Prince of Many Faces about Vlad, Dracula meant Son of the Dragon, as his father, Vlad Dracul, was a knight on the Order of the Dragon.

u should read up on what followed after. Unit 731, i remember they interviewed a doctor who worked their.

They did all sorts of human expirements to (mainly) chinese. One of which was performing a vivesection on a live pregnant woman. God knows what they wanted to know from that. They believed performing expirements on dead people would affect the results, so they always did expirements while the victim was alive.

Awoke, she grabbed the doctors arm and pleaded for him to save the babies life. Obviously that didnt happen and they carried on with the brutal expirement. Its interesting to note that the doctor was weeping while recounting this horrific memory, like their was some humanity left in him which caught me off guard considering why they did it in the first place.

I highly recommend the book, got it off amazon. Any book talking about UNIT 731 is amazing, but the one i choosed focused on interviewing the victims and the doctors. https://www.amazon.com/Unit-731-Testimony-Wartime-Experimentation/dp/0804835659

The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt is brilliant as a general history (and has a lot about Sindelar).

There are many excellent country-specific books. My favourite is Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos which has masses of obscure history (scandalously obscure, given that the country has 200 million inhabitants).

Reminds me of this interesting article about the changes Manhattan NYC would need if everyone everyday drove to work instead of utilizing the subway and public transportation.

The black spaces represent the area that would needed for parking lots to accommodate all the vehicles.

I got a newfangled zip drive for downloading pr0n on the school's 13MBps Frame Relay. So much faster than downloading spank material over dial up.

I read old 90s BYTE / PC Mag on google books & archive.org. Seeing the pundits talk out of their asses is hilarious to look back on.

So instead of the Cloud it was all, Expert Systems with Neural Networks and shit. Fucking comical.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Abyte-magazine&amp;sort=-publicdate

According to my source (Zeit Geschichte magazine, 01/14) the man is an Unteroffizier. This is a bit hard to translate, as it can mean either a Sergeant or NCO. I just don't know enough about rank insignias to identify in this case. Maybe there's some expert here that can help out. :)

You can see it better in the bigger print version, but I love the approving smirks of the passing men, especially the mustachio'd fellow in the back!

The son is wearing a protective cover for the shiny Pickelhaube as it would become common in the field until the iconic Stahlhelm would be introduced in 1916.

His pa apparently had been awarded the Schützenschnur, which he is displaying.

> forcibly relocate

this is a way of wiping them out... the Dawes Act also provided for "the forced education of Indian children in off-reservation boarding schools and the suppression of Native religions, languages, and cultural practices." Source

I'm not sure if there's a source saying that everyone was always drugged up, but there are studies indicating that in 1971 approximately half of enlisted men tried opiates and of those, half developed increased tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. This summarizes a lot of it, and the guy who wrote it conducted several of the studies in the 1970s on it.
Drug Use in Vietnam

I have it in his collected shorts.

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

He has some great shorts stories. Really varied.

So many adults on reddit seem to have taken an economics 101 course and skipped the segment about market failures. Pure capitalism is a dystopian nightmare, and the reasons for this have been well understood since The Wealth of Nations, if not before. People hold up the boogey-man of communism and demonize the people pointing out externalities and other utterly predictable failures.

Wearing jean overalls! How western of her!

That was actually a big act of rebellion at the time.
If you're curious; heres an article on it
And heres a scan of a 1976 Ludington newspaper discussing it from a primary perspective.

edit: as /u/Aspos pointed out. this picture is from 1991, far after the time period of my links

You may be making shit up about him but i am not. The fact that he didn't learn to ride a bike until after high school is a fact he revealed in his own book and was established in several other books about him. Example: https://books.google.com/books?id=n7xKwvMhWsQC&amp;amp;pg=PT44&amp;amp;lpg=PT44&amp;amp;dq=bill+clinton+didn%2527t+learn+bicycle&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=0xgjX3fMAe&amp;amp;sig=II6xs-de05_q_nF6wzh_yDoTF_k&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei...

Parent is talking about this controversy. My own little contribution to this topic is the discovery in the New York Times during April 1945 of warnings that the US issued to Germany that they must immediately plant crops rather than send every available male to the front, and that after the war German POWs in Europe will be fed only from German stocks. They were warned that they had been plundering the conquered territories for food in order to free up manpower, and would not receive leniency in food distribution during the coming food crisis; distribution would be prioritized for their victims.

Just a note. Anyone ever planning to go up the Empire State Building. Pay the extra and get the Express Pass if you can. Totally worth it IMO. The only way it isn't, is if you go at a time there is no line. But every time I've gone (Which have been quite a few over all the many years I've gone to NYC), the wait was 2-3 hours and I've always said screw it and left. This past summer I got the pass and it was awesome. We were up in about 10 mins. Straight passing everyone in line. Better still was no wait coming down either...

Best of all, my gf had no idea and she was wondering how we got VIP all the way up while everyone looked at us as we got escorted by them and through security instantly.

Anyone interested. I have some pics from that night up there here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bwilliamp/sets/72157637860814713/

Going back this summer and we'll go up again (But during the day this time).

Yes, and not just one victim. I was just reading the account by Brian Masters and he was so sickened by what Dahmer did he deliberately held back some details and changed others so that they could not be attributed to individual victims. (He said that himself, straight out, in the middle of the book).

Julie Sheldon was featured in the Jun 6, 1955 LIFE Magazine

>Baby On The Bottom

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>Julie Sheldon, who swam at 9 weeks, now plays under water at 19 months

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>In 1953, when she was only 10 days old, Julie Sheldon of Los Angles was taken into a pool by her grandmother, Mrs. Jen Loven, and given her first swimming lesson. At 9 weeks (left), already established as the youngest swimmer in the world, Julie could swim for distances up to 10 feet as her grandmother walked closely behind (LIFE, Jan 18, 1954).

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>Today, an accomplished swimmer of 19 months, Julie has also become an underwater baby. In the outdoor pool on Hollywood Boulevard where her grandmother keeps toys resting on the bottom in the 4-foot depth, Julie submerges for as long as seven seconds and intently plays with everything from a tricycle (above) to a teet-totter.

Pic from Life Mag

From Wikimapia:

> At 0835hrs on July 25th, 1946 the BAKER test was initiated and within four milliseconds of the bombs detonation a supersonic hydraulic shock wave slammed into the Arkansas’ hull with enough force to crumple her entire Starboard hull, rip off her Starboard propellers and rudders and slice a 25ft section of her hull off the ship. Obscured from view by a low-pressure “Wilson Cloud” the Arkansas was pushed forward and forced down by the bow by the two million tons of spray and seabed being forced into the air at speeds of 2,500 feet per second by the bombs blast, however her bow struck the seabed 180ft below and dug in, which caused the 26,000 ton, 535ft ship to be stood up vertically by the rising water column behind her. Now visible to video cameras recording the blast, the Arkansas is recorded in her vertical position for a few seconds before she was enveloped by the base surge of falling water and disappeared from view. It is speculated that the Battleship fell backwards through the water column and was inundated by the collapsing water column which when combined with the catastrophic damage to her hull, caused her to roll over and sink at this position at approximately 0840hrs on July 25th, 1946.

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Hmm... The projectiles cost a dollar apiece, but you can usually recover them as long as you don't blast them into the stratosphere. I shot one 6 times to develop a range table that tells me how much powder to use for what distance.

Gunpowder is usually measured in "grains", and there are 7000 grains to a pound. I can buy a pound of powder for about 20 dollars, and 50 grains is a stout load for the mortar. That means I can get 140 shots at 14 cents apiece out of a pound. Assuming I always recover the ball, it's very cheap to shoot. To put that in perspective, each shot costs me about $1.20 when I go muzzle loader deer hunting.

Here's a video of the range tests: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i74g6yzplk9yjtz/Range_Test.mov?m

>was already heading towards this trajectory

No, sorry but the statistcal facts don't support this view. In fact Iran's Human Development Index prior to the revolution was low, and not at all rising: https://photius.com/rankings/human_developement_index_1975-2005.html

And Iran's decision to try to topple Saddam since he was a continuing threat, was in fact vindicated by subsequent events when even the US sought to topple him. Had the Saudis, Kuwaitis and US listened to Khomeini when he warned them that Saddam would turn on them too. Imagine how much death and suffering would have been avoided there.

And this book refutes the claims of the likes of Milani

A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran https://www.amazon.com/Social-Revolution-Politics-Welfare-State/dp/0520280822/ref

I purchased the book many years ago as I was browsing a book store. I was compelled by this photo which appears on the cover. The book is fascinating and moving in that the photos capture a moment in a moment of sadness for so many in America. The perspective from the train is so unusual and each shot is sometimes just a literal blur of a nation in mourning. If you can find a copy, I recommend checking it out. Down the rabbit hole...

> A source that doesn't involve Goldhagen and his discredited book?

I think you'll find other authors that come to much the same conclusion. Including at least one of his detractors.
Let's not forget the facts on the ground: While the concentration camps inside Germany were not Vernichtungslagers, the prisoners were not intended to survive their stay. (excluding most German citizens who were housed separately). And, those camps were basically set up as slave camps with 100's of subcamps spread all over Germany. Schindler's List's workplace was a subcamp.
These starving slaves were ALL OVER Germany. Not a secret at all.

There is a great interview with DL Hughley and the leader of some American Nazi thing.

http://www.frequency.com/video/dl-hughley-dl-hughley-white-power/63999687/-/5-189857

Could only find it on that weird website for some reason.

There is a site called hemingwayapp that you can upload your writing to have it find simpler synonyms, highlight confusingly long sentences, and remove unnecessary adverbs.

I ran this sentence through it and it told me to remove "confusingly" and even after that it was still "very hard to read."

I'm wondering if they were mother and child, as they had different last names (I realize this may not mean anything, as I also have a different last name than my son).

EDIT: According to this article, Tiare is Diana's goddaughter, and Diana did in fact break her fall. Diana was only 19 and Tiare was just two, and hasn't had an easy life since then.

In addition, the temperature in Vegas on Feb 18, 1953 at 10 am was 50 degrees F, a bit chilly for hanging out at the pool.

However, on Mar 29, 1955, it was a balmy 74 degrees F (Still a bit cold to swim for me, but when you're on vacation, you take what you can get.)

Do you have a source for this info? I ask not to be pedantic or because I don't believe you, but because I'd like to learn more. The summaries I've read of the Venona Project suggest otherwise: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/haynes-venona.html

If you're interested in reading more, East West Street by Philippe Sands is quite good. It focuses on Lviv, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin -- the lawyers who established the concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide respectively -- who both came from Lviv, and Hans Frank -- Nazi governor-general of occupied Poland which included Lviv. The book is fairly long but very interesting, especially if you're interested in the international law side of things.

Edit: Fixed author's name bc I'm bad at spelling. Also, here's an Amazon link -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525433724/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tmB7Bb4BKJXXK

I'm familiar with some of those. WW2 was just not something I ever looked into or was ever required in any academic setting I've been in. I recently read Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" and none of the names you mentioned were referenced, but certainly Auschwitz was.

And screw you to the people that downvoted for me admitting I learned something in honesty instead of acting like i know everything after looking it up in wikipedia like you do.

Definitely WWI

>I.:Major Graf Vitzthum v. Eckstaedt II.:Major aus ́m Weerth(I.R.Nr. 68) >(I.R.Nr. 173) >III.:Oberstleutnant z. D. Fischer (Bez.-Kdr. Andernach) Verluste:19 >Offz., 370 Uffz. und Mannschaften. Verkuste is losses, so they lost 19 Officers, and 370 NCO's and other-ranks.

The previous picture in the series is WWI. https://www.flickr.com/photos/joerookery/5685472333/in/set-72157625312178195/

http://www.pickelhaubes.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3679 This page explains more.

why not start today? I'm about 50% of the way through French, and while I couldn't comfortably hold a detailed conversation with a Francophone, I could make myself understood about the basics.

> This is just not very politically correct, but maybe men and women have some natural difference wired into their brains. Women bear babies, so it's perfectly natural to assume they would have a stronger interest in social and biological sciences.

Or we're just discriminated against?

I'm going to guess that your gender is male when you say that you didn't notice that ads were directed at boys instead of girls. Many of these messages are very subtle and start at a very young age. It might not even be something that you noticed in the ad, but was a conscious decision on the part of the marketers to market to boys.

I think it was more based on racism. The code idea is interesting but a lot of the records they would have been listening to would have been black artists from the 30's before the war. The Nazi's hated the idea of black culture and art infiltrating the Reich. Here is a hilarious list of rules for jazz musicians in Nazi Germany. They are pretty much saying "Play lame, slow, unsyncopated jazz!" http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/the_nazis_10_control-freak_rules_for_jazz_performers_.html

c) Hm, I'm only familiar with feminist groups working for equality when it comes to the draft. Either no draft, or both genders being drafted. The National Organization for Women was trying to get it more equal even back in the 80's.

I found these photos after watching the episode on Mayday/Air Crash Investigation (not sure if it's the same show as Air Disasters because it has so many names). Here's a link to it if anyone is interested.

backstory...

bonus video...

It's hard to imagine why people wouldn't want revenge after losing millions in a war, especially as most of us have been lucky enough to never live through anything so horrific. And anyone that has habours deeper feelings than we can fathom for their enemies. I don't think it's right in my world and personal view, but I can't see that people can view it with any other eyes than an outsiders. I mean we have young children now thinking it about western countries killing their families in the middle east over the last 10+ years and that seems alien to many still. Anyway Just my thoughts...

A decent BBC documentary about post WWII Germany. https://www.bitchute.com/video/Tk02Q5dFzpBW/

There's a book on this: Truth Lies and O-Rings. Covers the fact that the information presented wasn't 'clear or convincing' enough to stop launch. The lesson is on how to present data ... interesting book that I haven't gotten around to reading.

An excellent trilogy written by Edmund Morris. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt covers his time from birth until the presidency. Theodore Rex covers his time as the President. While Colonel Roosevelt covers his post presidency life.

Source

> An aerial view of the Hellish moonscape of the Western Front during World War I. Hill of Combres, St. Mihiel Sector, north of Hattonchatel and Vigneulles. Note the criss-cross patterns of multiple generations of trenches, and the thousands of craters left by mortars, artillery, and the detonation of underground mines. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive)

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To give you a sense of what it was like, here's a news archive from 1980.

Guests included Margaret Thatcher, Prince Philip, US VP Walter Mondale, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, the Soviet Union's president and foreign minister.

Here's a scanned New York Times obituary for Tito, from 1980

I would assume he is consecrating Nazi flags with the "Blood Banner" (Blutfahne). The myth goes, that this was a flag that was covered in "martyr" blood during the failed putsch of 1923.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Blutfahne#/Storage_and_uses