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The Irregulars: An Engaging Bio of Roald Dahl During the War That Flags When the War Ends

Alex Remington | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Roald Dahl, Jennet Conant, The Irregulars, Ian Fleming, World War II, Books News
Alex Remington

Jennet Conant's recent book The Irregulars is the perfect Washington summer read: it's a breezy society tale about British spying on America before and during World War II.

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Astoria Characters: The Grandson of Mom-and-Pops

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Bartunek Hardware, Astoria, Chevy, Steinway Street, New York Post, Czechoslovakia, Gary Bartunek, New York News, World War II, New York Daily News, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Gary got his counter spot at Bartunek Hardware from his father, Edward, who was born the same year as the store and who waited on customers until earlier this year when he died at age 84.

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Jewish Liberation From The Ghetto: Excerpt From "Emancipation"

GlobalPost | Michael Goldfarb | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Palestine, Globalpost, Jews, Marx, Judaism, Books, Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, New Books, Moses Hess, Communism, Michael Goldfarb, Emancipation, Israel, World War II, Books News

Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part IV

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Gloria Vanderbilt, Bobby Short, Marta Raymond, Anderson Cooper, Jeanette Dempsey, Adele Astaire, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Worldcom, Carol Marcus, John Gutfreund, Corcoran Group, Fritz Kritzler, Gordon Parks, Hubert De Givenchy, Huntington Hartford, William Saroyan, Robert Bradford, The Great Depression, Francesco Galesi, Maureen Orth, Salomon Brothers, Butterfield Eight, The Stork Club, Ellen Kourtides, Susan Gutfreund, Joshua Logan, Robert Postel, Henry Luce, The Dakota, Marshall Field, Evelyn De Rothschild, World War II, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

As late as 1970 no apartment sale in New York had ever exceeded $1,000,000. At today's River House, indeed, there is none for less.

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The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Atomic, Veterans Day, Nuclear, Veterans, Coverup, World War II, Media News
Greg Mitchell

This country rushed into the nuclear age with its citizens having neither a true understanding of the effects of the bomb on human beings, nor why the atomic attacks drew condemnation around the world.

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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Kamikaze, Dag Hamarskjold, Subway, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Yrok News, USS Missouri, Calendar Girls, Bookstore, Toyko Bay, We the Living, Jonathan Kellerman, Nagasaki, Astoria, Ayn Rand, Harry Fiegelson, Faye Kellerman, Ditmars Boulevard, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Yokosuka, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News
Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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Obama Asked To Visit Hiroshima Or Nagasaki, Japanese Atomic Bomb Cities

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Hiroshima, President Obama, Hiroshima Anniversary, Japan, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Nagasaki, Barack Obama, Us President Apologies to Japan for Bomb, Obama Visiting Hiroshima, World News

TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hirosh...

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The Twin Brother of Annihilation

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: World War I, Time Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Doomsday Clock, War, Nobel Peace Prize, Russell-Einstein Manifesto, World War II, Mutually Assured Destruction, Albert Einstein, World News
Robert Koehler

The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.

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Networking Governments

Gary Hart | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Epidemic, International Relations, World War II, Cold War, Swine Flue, Harry Truman, World News
Gary Hart

More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.

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The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize

John Lundberg | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fiction, Prose, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska, Literature, Herta Muller, World War II, Poet, John Lundberg, Living News
John Lundberg

I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).

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Auschwitz Memorial Launches Facebook Page To Reach Young People

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Social Media, Auschwitz Facebook, Auschwitz, Holocaust, World War II, Auschwitz Facebook Page, Facebook, Genocide, Auschwitz Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Auschwitz, Auschwitz Facebook, Auschwitz Memorial on Facebook Removed ?, World News

WARSAW, Poland — To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social net...

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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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If Pearl Harbor Were Attacked Today Could We Afford to Defend Ourselves?

Paul A. London | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: World War II, Federal Budget Deficit, Spending, Economic Crisis, Economy, Business News
Paul A. London

Many Republicans know this "deficits will kill us" stuff is bull. The country can afford to spend money to put Americans back to work, just as surely as it could afford to spend money to fight World War II.

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"Happy" Anniversary, Iceland

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: IMF Funding, International Monetary Fund, Economic Crisis, Iceland Economic Crisis, Norway, Alcoa, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Denmark, Iceland Bankrupt, Iceland Banks, Iceland Economy, Lehman Brothers, Iceland National Bankruptcy, IMF Bailout, Financial Crisis, Western Europe, Imf, Iceland Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, World War II, Iceland Bank Crisis, Monty Python, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it's not likely to get better anytime soon. The public's anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter's uprising.

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Can We Finally Tell the Truth About Britain's Vile 'Queen Mother'?

Johann Hari | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Neville Chamberlain, William Shawcross, Queen Mother, British Treasury, King Edward III, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, Michael Mann, British Monarchy, Adolf Hitler, Woodrow Wyatt, World War II, Monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth, King George, World News
Johann Hari

William Shawcross has won the favor of his fellow monarchists by taking the Queen Mother's curdled life and presenting it as the best of British.

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Spain: Judge Moreno Indicts 3 Alleged Ex-Nazis

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Josias Kumpf, Johann Leprich, Nazis, Spain Nazi, Moreno, Judge Moreno, Spain, Anton Tittjung, World War II, Spain Nazis, World News

MADRID — A Spanish judge on Thursday indicted three alleged ex-Nazi death camp guards who all lived for many years in the United States, chargin...

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Hey, Dan Brown, Call Me

Jessica Rovello | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iphone, Nikola Tesla, Pini Society, Arkadium, King Tuts Tomb, Dan Brown the Lost Symbol, The Lost Symbol, Jessica Rovello, Symbol Quest, World War II, Dan Brown, Nile, Entertainment News
Jessica Rovello

Whether you love or hate his ideas, it's hard to deny that Brown has a gift for pulling you in and getting you excited about the possibility that there are truths being kept from us.

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Time to Face the Truth About World War II

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Red-Army, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, World War II, Ribbentrop-Molotov, Ussr, World News
Eric Margolis

Medvedev claimed Stalin saved Europe from Hitler. But the facts tell us a different story. Stalin was an even worse mass murderer than Hitler by a factor of three or four.

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September 1, 2099

Gershon Hepner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: W.H. Auden, World War II, Politics News
Gershon Hepner

Of all days this one was the worst, '39, September 1st, when hell began to hit the fan, resuscitating ancient hate to undermine the status quo like ancient walls of Jericho.

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A 9/11 Reality Check

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Afghanistan, Interrogation, Hiroshima, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Vietnam, Anniversary, World War II, World Trade Center, Politics News
Robert Scheer

What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millio...

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German Law Clears All WWII Nazi "Traitors"

Reuters | Caroline Copley | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: German Parliment, Germany, World War 2, World War II, Nazi Germany, Nazi War Criminals, Ww2, Nazi Traitors, World News

BERLIN (Reuters) �" The German parliament passed a law Tuesday clearing the names of those branded traitors by the Nazis in World War Two -- ending ...

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Bartering To Build Your Savings Account

Tamara Conniff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, U.S. Economy, Coupons, World War II, Barter System, Benefits of Yoga, Economy, Bartering, Great Depression, Living News
Tamara Conniff

It's a satisfying exchange when you give a skill in return for a skill. And, I'm saving money -- it's my personal 401K.

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An Inglourious Basterdization of History

Bryan Farrell | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Melanie Laurent, Nonviolence, Brad Pitt, Roger Ebert, Nazis, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Tom Cruise, Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, World War II, Valkyrie, Entertainment News
Bryan Farrell

There is a surprising truth about WWII: nonviolence, of the kind Gandhi practiced, was used successfully against the Nazis.

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Why is Pat Buchanan Defending Hitler?

Aaron Keyak | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Pat Buchanan, Ethan Porter, Msnbc, Anti-Defamation League, Hitler, Worst Person in the World, National Jewish Democratic Council, Keith Olbermann, World War II, Media News
Aaron Keyak

You might think that Buchanan would have stopped using this sort of unrepentant rhetoric as his career moved from a Republican firebrand to a to cable news commentator -- but you'd be wrong.

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