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Rogel @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I followed a recommendation and discovered this wonderful short story by Winston Churchill from 1930. Churchill demonstrates, in this story, his mastery in using words to express ideas and his sharp analytical abilities in this interesting attempt to play with alternative history:

THE quaint conceit of imagining what would have happened if some important or unimportant event […]

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67 years ago

Rogel @ August 31, 2006 # No Comment Yet

 

Sixty seven years ago, on September 1st, 1939, German forces invaded Poland and started what later become World War Two. And now 67 years after that horrible war, with all the experience that we presumably gained, can we say that the world is safer?

Can we look into the eyes of a child in Darfur and explain to […]

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The conception and its collapse

Rogel @ May 8, 2006 # 2 Comments

Recently I started to read a new book about the “Yom-Kipur” war, or the October 73 war in its other name.  The book, "The Yom Kipur War – Moment of Truth ", is not translated to English yet, but I suspect it is not long until it will. Since this war is a […]

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