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Obsessions: Small and Monstrous

Thomas Scheff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living


Thomas Scheff

Humiliation can spiral to the point that it haunts us. Emotions, at their core, are bodily states of arousal. It is bodily arousal over which one has no direct control that makes the obsession painful and compulsive.

Mussolini And MI5: Documents Reveal Italy's Fascist Dictator Was Once British Agent

The Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British in...

Harry Patch, Britain's Last WWI Vet, Honored At Funeral (SLIDESHOW)

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 09.06.2009 | World


WELLS, England (AP) — Church, state and hundreds of warriors of other battles were according last honors Thursday to Harry Patch, Britain's last...

France Exhumes British, Australian War Dead

Telegraph | Posted 06.05.2009 | World


Work has begun in France to exhume the remains of up to 400 British and Australian soldiers who died in the Battle of Fromelles during the First World...

One of Last 2 WWI Vets in US Dies

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


TAMPA, Fla. — Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has d...