Book of a lifetime: Maus by Art Spiegelman
Championing a medium often dismissed and overlooked, Bryan Talbot explains why graphic novel ‘Maus’ by Art Spiegelman is ...
King George VI and the Queen Mother narrowly escaped death in the bombing of Buckingham Palace during the Blitz - but the man who supplied 'inside information…
On September 13, 1940, a German pilot had been given a simple order: to destroy Buckingham Palace and kill the King and Queen ...
Banning Books In Prison: State Website Lists Titles Considered Inappropriate For Inmates
The list of disapproved books include such titles as: "Game of Thrones," "The Kite Runner," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Lady Gaga - Born to be Free." But most books that are banned seem to be ...
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Book Review: Samuel Graydon's 'Einstein In Time and Space'
Laments about the state of education are arguably as old as education is, or close to it. And they’ve always been a waste of time. That’s because knowledge isn’t bestowed on us as mu ...
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The SS nursery: Novelist recreates the Nazi maternity wards where babies were raised to swell the ranks of Himmler’s order
Belgian writer Caroline De Mulder, in a fascinating and terrifying work, describes the workings of the Lebensborn households in ‘Himmler’s Children’ ...
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Donald Trump is threatened by diversity because he’s a narcissistic sociopath
According to Greek legend, a young man was so fascinated and awestruck by his own image reflected on the surface of a pool ...
New evidence reveals Putin critic Alexei Navalny ‘was poisoned before his death’
A leaked report into Alexei Navalny’s death provides ‘compelling evidence’ that he was poisoned, according to the author of a ...
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Did a ‘Far Side’ Comic Convince David Letterman to Fix the Gap in His Teeth?
Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, David Letterman was known for two things: hosting a talk show, and having a big gap in his teeth.
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
At one point in Defining Hitler its author asks the reader the rhetorical question: why bother to read this book? For many writers this would ... Haffner’s brief autobiography is replete with ...
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From the History of Western War Crimes: The Dresden Massacre (February 1945)
It was in May/September 1945 when WWII ended – the bloodiest and most horrible war ever fought in human history. The war that caused the creation of the UNO in 1945 to protect the world from similar ...
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MK in exile: From the inside
A new book, If We Must Die: An Autobiography of a Former Commander of uMkhonto we ... Manong takes a further extraordinary step by relating the methodology of Imbokodo to that of Hitler. Introducing ...