Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. There are schedules, ph...
Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: 'Let the thing be pressed.
Immediately after the war, a group of Jewish partisans known as the Nokmim traveled throughout Germany and Austria hunting down former members of the SS. Also known as the Avengers, this band of merce...
I can be smart when it’s important, she replies, but most men don’t like it.
From their lofty summits overlooking Boston Harbor and the city itself, the colonists can fire cannonballs—which is why the British have spent the last three weeks secretly plotting an invasion of the...
Christmas Eve is known throughout Germany, ends late for Adolf Hitler. It is four o’clock on Christmas morning as he slowly ascends the stairs from his War Room and readies himself for bed. Rising at...
By 1933, when Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party assumed power in Germany, the military was divided between the Wehrmacht—the traditional army, navy, and air force of the German state—and the SS,...
The Secret Service is now saying that Hinckley could have been stopped. All it would have taken was for Delahanty and the other Metro Police officers on the rope line to continue facing the crowd as R...
Sway.
Misanthropic society,
Infidelity is as common as sunrise.
Enormity of the German caravan
Diplomacy by balance of fear.
Coffee
Aware that it is the year in which he will remarry, father a new child, and vote Republican for the first time in his life.
Autobiography, he claimed
A touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.
University of
The world is filled with concern but also with hypocrisy. Hypocrisy on the part of people who see no evil and speak no evil to avoid becoming involved.--- Marcello Pera
The end of the world is no time to keep the American people uninformed.