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Discussions of things historical.
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Were the Muslims and Jews allies during the Crusades?
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I have always read that in those days, the Christians were doing terrorist tactics on the Holy Lands and that the Crusaders were killing both the Jews and Muslims. Moreover, the Jews and Muslims acted as brothers fighting against the common enemy. Is this true or has history been sanitized?.
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Holocaust Calendar: November 20
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[Follow-ups set] November 20 1943 The "Death Brigade" in the Lesienice camp outside Lvov, consisting of Jewish prisoners who had worked alongside Sondercommando 1005 to destroy traces of German atrocities, stages a revolt. The prisoners attack the German guards, killing a number of them, but are overpowered; fewer than... flere »
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Eagle Pennell 16mm classic screened for Corpus Christinos
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On Nov 18th in Bay Hall of Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Eagle Pennell's 1978 classic "The Whole Shootin' Match" was screened together with "The King of Texas" short by Claire Hughes. Pennell started as cameraman for 16mm school football game films. "Shootin' Match" was shot on weekends in the Austin area by a crew that largely worked fulltime in local businesses. The... flere »
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Health reform’s conservative roots
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In the following op-ed piece, the first quotations attributed to Bismarck are contained in Moritz Busch's book, "Bismarck: Some secret pages from his history," Macmillan, New York (1898) Vol. II, p. 283-284. On page 283, Bismarck also described his social legislation as "'practical Christianity,'' and Bismarck called this program... flere »
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Holocaust Calendar: November 19
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1935 The Jewish Section of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany celebrated a "festive opening."(Friedlaender, 192) 1943 A group of prisoners in Sonderkommando 1005 in the Janowska camp within the Lvov city limits stage a revolt. Several guards are killed, and some prisoners escape to the forests;... flere »
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Holocaust Calendar: November 18
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[Follow-ups set] November 18 1944 A transport from Bolzano transit camp to Mauthausen concentration camp includes children and partners in mixed marriages. (USHMM, 1994, p. 67) The Jewish Council in Budapest is informed of the decision to establish a ghetto. The decree ordering the creation of the ghetto is published on November 29. The relocation of... flere »
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Holocaust Calendar: November 17
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[Follow-ups set] November 17 1933 Rudolf Hess establishes a Racial Policy Division, under Dr. Walter Gross, in order to develop and carry out the Nazi plan to destroy "inferior racial stock." (3322-PS, 3163-PS) (NCA II, 475) 1944 In the aftermath of the assassination in Cairo of Lord Moyne, British resident minister in the Middle East, by... flere »
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Hamid Karzai and the Afghan Drift to European Orbit
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Karzai and the Afghan Drift to European Orbit Sources: Rich, Baker & Bowley, N.Y. Times 10-11-09; Jaffe/Wilson/ DeYoung, Houston Chronicle, 11-12-09; Nevins & Commager, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE U.S., Modern Library, 1956. After the “spotless record of failure” of the Three Hawks (McCain, Lieberman and Lindsey Graham)... flere »
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