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Wars, Just Causes, War Crimes, Civilian Non-Combatant Casualties, World War...
Wars, Just Causes, War Crimes, Civilian Non-Combatant Casualties, World War II, Moral Philosophy. Wow, that is a mouthful for a title. For many years, it has troubled me that so many civilians (several...
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History 101: Praise or Curse The French Revolution: Source of Marx’s Ideas
History 101: Praise or Curse The French Revolution: Source of Marx’s Ideas Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels were not original in many of their ideas. The genesis of many of their ideas is to be found in...
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Andrew Jackson, Jack Daniels’ Tennessee Whiskey and “Old No. 7″
Andrew Jackson, Jack Daniels’ Tennessee Whiskey and “Old No. 7″ It had always been a mystery to me, perhaps I am dumb, as to why there is the well known “Old No. 7” on the black label on bottles of...
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Ming Dynasty Vases
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Flight 19 – the 1945 US navy planes disappearance
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Facebook and The Sad Legacy of the British Empire
Facebook and The Sad Legacy of the British Empire Greetings everyone! Two essays today. Facebook Did you know that when you post something to your Facebook page that it only is routed to about 15...
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Suppressed, and/or little known history
Suppressed, and/or little known history “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC) ”The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Hiram Johnson, US...
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different explanation for the WTC collapse on 9/11/01
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book review – The Last Crusade (Spanish Civil War)
book review – The Last Crusade (Spanish Civil War) The impulse came to me during breakfast today to write a short essay about this book and its subject matter. This impulse is delaying work on another...
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remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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looking back on the assassination of President Kennedy
looking back on the assassination of President Kennedy On Friday, November 22, it will be 50 years since US President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. 50 years later we still do not...
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some books by Hilaire Belloc and the demise of post-Christian Europe
some books by Hilaire Belloc and the demise of post-Christian Europe We will blog even in the current sub-Arctic conditions that we are enduring. Greetings! Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953) was a Catholic...
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the immorality of purposely bombing civilians and other Allied war crimes
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the second world war – causes, culpability and lessons
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intriguing question: independent invention or diffusion of ideas in the...
intriguing question: independent invention or diffusion of ideas in the ancient world What are the people like on the yonder shore? Are they like us? Are they so very different? An interesting...
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a critical look at how the Holocaust (of European Jewry) has been used and...
In this essay, we look at how the official history of the Holocaust has been used since 1945, and afterward we add a few relevant, important questions to the discussion. For readers in Canada,...
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reality check: Muslim barbarities and Allied war crimes
The world was understandably and justifiably outraged at the news earlier this week that a young Jordanian air force pilot had been burnt alive by the murderous group known as ISIS. This was a heinous...
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the immorality of purposely bombing civilians and other Allied war crimes
the immorality of purposely bombing civilians and other Allied war crimes Our next 2 essays are sure to be “controversial” and also politically incorrect. Thus, reader discretion is advised. In this...
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looking back on the assassination of President Kennedy
looking back on the assassination of President Kennedy On Friday, November 22, it will be 50 years since US President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. 50 years later we still do not...
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some books by Hilaire Belloc and the demise of post-Christian Europe
some books by Hilaire Belloc and the demise of post-Christian Europe We will blog even in the current sub-Arctic conditions that we are enduring. Greetings! Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953) was a Catholic...
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