Memories of a former journalist

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Sometimes I miss working in journalism. Not the high profile sniping that we read in the newspapers or the reports of political shenanigans, though that was often fun to write about. No. I miss the every-day conversations with people that led to intriguing stories about the lives of everyday people. It’s been almost 20 years, but I still recall meeting the man who’s mind’s eye could still see his former surroundings of 50 years earlier on that Sunday morning that will live in infamy for the United States.

Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 06:12:17 PM

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Something has puzzled me for a long time now... why isn't there a White History Month?

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There is a month for just about everything under the sun but this. Why?

Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 06:12:17 PM

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More than Chinese Americans came to Angel Island

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Fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria, Elfriede "Alice" Edelstein and her mother boarded a boat with 100 other Jewish refugees and headed across the sea in 1940. Yet when they reached the U.S. coast, the two women were greeted not by Lady Liberty's golden torch but rather by San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. They had taken the long way to America. The Edelsteins' story, along with many others, is chronicled in Erika Lee and Judy Yung's forthcoming "Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America" from Oxford University Press. The book, available later this summer, is billed as the most comprehensive history of Angel Island's...

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175 years To Muslims attack on Jews in Hebron Israel "Palestine" - July 1835

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July, 1835, Muslims Attack Jews in Hebron (Israel ("Palestine")Tammuz - This Day in Jewish History - OU.ORG Druse Arabs attacked the Jews of Tzfat, 1838. [16 Tammuz] ... Jews of Hebron were attacked by Arabs, 1835. http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/bhyom/hebrew/tammuz.htm Palestine 1913 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine ... 1835 Event - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine ... http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/p/palestine.html Today in Palestine History 1835-07-25 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine... http://www.historyorb.com/countries/palestine In 5594 (1834), Hebron met with a heavy calamity, since it was taken by storm on the 28th day of Tamuz...

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Thousands of WWII pictures from 1944 / Normandy period

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I've had these pictures sat on my PC for years so i've finally got around to hosting them. I'm slowly captioning them too, based on translations from a French Flickr account. I think he copied them from somewhere else so i don't feel too bad about using them. I'm not copying word for word anyway. Anyway, hope some of you enjoy them ! http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO

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