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On Dealing with a World Gone Crazy
There’s a story, which may or may not be true, that an old Chinese curse was “May your children be born in interesting times.” The curse was because, goes the story, the yearly chronicles included things like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, peasant rebellions, invasions, plagues and so on. So it meant that may your children suffer disaster. We live in…
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Some positive things for me in 2025
When the year is winding down is a time in which I usually get to recalling the events of the year. It so happens that 2025 was a year in which I have a lot to reflect on and be grateful for.
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What’s It All About?
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The Most Remarkable POW Escape of All Time?
During World War Two there were some remarkable escapes by prisoners of war (usually abbreviated to POW), and movies have been made about them. By far the best known is the one by more than 70 Allied pilots and aircrew, who tunneled out of the German Stalag Luft III in March of 1944. That escape earned…
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Andrew and Rachel Jackson
If you’re looking for great American love stories, Andrew and Rachel Jackson might seem a bit odd. Images of Rachel show a stout middle-aged woman who liked to smoke a pipe, not the beautiful young woman who’s the usual image in a love story. Images of Jackson from his presidency show a somewhat gaunt, aging man looking alert, wary and suspicious, like…