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How To Save Millions of Lives in World War I
By Mark Wilson
Michael Vlahos of The Atlantic contends that millions of lives could have been saved in World War I.
How? Two words. Body armor.
(Photo: Bashford Dean. Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare. 1920. Yale University Press, 1920.)
While many young soldiers fantasized and idealized medieval knights, many of them lacked the protection that could have saved their lives. While...
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The search for the last Nazi henchmen | DW.DE
It’s a race against time: Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes is looking for more than 50 former concentration camp guards. Even 70 years later, it could still secure convictions.
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Barry Diller: Newsweek Purchase a ‘Mistake’ |...
IAC chairman Barry Diller says that “it was a mistake” to buy Newsweek, and even expressed doubts about the viability of the 80-year-old news weekly that went to a digital only format last year.
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The Driver - By Mark Perry | Foreign Policy
An exclusive look inside the mysterious death and life of the world’s most dangerous terrorist not named Osama bin Laden.
The man was Imad Mughniyeh, the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden. His true identity as the violent mastermind of Hezbollah would have come as a shock to his Damascus neighbors, who thought he was a chauffeur in the employ of the Iranian...
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CIA to Karzai: Dolla Dolla Bill, Y’all!
By Mark Wilson
The New York Times reports the CIA has paid millions of dollars to Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, for over a decade. The money was delivered in suitcases, backpacks, and even plastic grocery bags.
Time and time again, Mr. Karzai was forced to channel his best Diamond Joe Quimby impersonation, “In the future, I would prefer a non-descript briefcase to the sack with...
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Survivors will help mark Holocaust museum...
Visitors to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum pass under this gate, a cast taken from the original entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, inscribed with the ironic phrase Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes One Free).(Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
As the museum turns 20, officials understand that the demise of those who survived the prison camps as children means looking backward in a...
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November 2012
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the-depth-of-life asked: How would you define history?
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May 2012
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“Arthur Jones, who has denied the existence of the Holocaust and is an avowed...”
– Illinois GOP refuses to support Neo-Nazi Congressional candidate
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Politicalprof: Print Journalism 101 →
politicalprof:
Here’s how to keep all that political ‘news’ in perspective…
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and…
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