Mary Babnick Brown (1907 – 1991) was born in Colorado, the eldest of four children of Slovenian immigrants. She left school at age 12 to help support her family, and ended up working 42 years in a broom factory. She loved to dance, and taught G.I.s how to dance during World War 2. Brown had [&[...]
Posts Tagged ‘history’
October 11th, 2017 - 1:35 am § in Misc.
Einstein Makes His Biggest Mistake
This Day in History 1939: Jarred by a student’s discovery of nuclear chain reactions, Albert Einstein wrote to FDR, urging America to develop nukes before Germany would, a letter he would regret. read more: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/1.746926[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Where did the Phoenicians originate?
Researchers have successfully sequenced the first complete genome of 2500 years old remains of a young man discovered in Carthage. The aequencing revealed that the ancient boy’s genome contains a rare European hunter gatherer genes; the finding has the potential to trigger the rewrite of the migra[...]
April 19th, 2017 - 12:56 pm § in Uncategorized
What did the Allies know, and when did they know it?
New scholarly research based on previously restricted archives concludes the Allies knew about the Nazi death camps no later than 1942 and indicted hundreds of Nazi “foot soldiers of atrocity” while the Holocaust was still underway. This finding overturns the popular myth that the Allies[...]
April 3rd, 2017 - 1:05 am § in Misc., Saudi Arabia
When Arabia was Jewish
The Ancient Jews of Arabia .. before Mohamed. In 2014, researchers from a French-Saudi expedition studying rock inscriptions in southern Saudi Arabia announced they had discovered what could be the oldest texts written in the Arabic alphabet. But they did so very quietly, perhaps because the conte[...]
February 9th, 2017 - 12:26 pm § in Misc.
CHINA: Understanding a very different civilization Tags!
UNDERSTANDING CHINA Western views of “world history” do not really apply to China. For example, China has no “roots” in the Roman Empire, Greek philosophy or in the Jewish bible. As such there is not equivalent to the renaissance, or the enlightenment until the time of [...]
January 25th, 2017 - 11:51 pm § in Misc.
A Jew dies in Milwaukee
Born Itzek Markowski in Poland in 1924, and known in his youth as “Prisoner 144346,” Jack Marcus died Tuesday in Milwaukee. A tailor by trade, he spent his retirement by speaking at schools about the Holocaust. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel tells his story here. Briefly summarized, when[...]
November 19th, 2016 - 11:49 am § in America
Gettysburg
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived an[...]
October 14th, 2016 - 10:13 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Michelle Obama’s Speech. This will be in history books forever!
‘It has shaken me to my core’ HILLARY.@FLOTUS, I’m in awe. Thanks for putting into words what’s in so many of our hearts. -H[...]
Origins of “European Civilization”