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Video: Scarlett Johansson Discovers Her Relatives Perished in Holocaust
by Shifra on October 31, 2017This episode of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” is scheduled to air tonight, October 31. Via Times of Israel. In the forthcoming episode of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” American Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson discovers the tragic fate of her relatives who died in the Holocaust…. Johansson’s grandfather left Poland for the United States, where he worked as a grocer in New York. The PBS show used documentation from Yad Vashem to determine that his brother and family died in the ghetto…. “It’s crazy to imagine that Saul would be on the other side selling bananas on Ludlow Street. And how different it would be being in America at that time,” the 32-year-old actress says. “The fate of...
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Note With Einstein’s Theory On Life Auctioned For $1.3 Million
by Tammy on October 24, 2017Neat! Via Reuters. Strapped for cash in a Tokyo hotel, Albert Einstein wrote his take on life on a note and handed it to the bellboy instead of a tip. The physicist’s formula for happy living fetched $1.3 million (£990,424) on Tuesday, a Jerusalem auction house said. In 1922, Einstein was en route to Japan when the announcement came he would be awarded the 1921 Nobel prize in physics, Winner’s Auctions and Exhibitions said. Upon his arrival in Tokyo, he holed up in his hotel room trying to put his thoughts to paper. When an attendant came to his room to make a delivery, Einstein found himself without any money for a tip. Instead, he handed him a signed note...
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Man Shot During Fight At Doc Holliday’s Tombstone Saloon
by Tammy on October 15, 2017History repeats itself! Via AP, HT Newser. Arizona authorities say a saloon shooting in the Old West town of Tombstone put one man in the hospital with a leg wound and another in jail. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting occurred in Doc Holliday’s Saloon when the two men struggled following a verbal altercation that also involved a woman and a third man. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carol Capas says 47-year-old James Edward Roberson remains jailed on suspicion of aggravated assaulted and other crimes. Capas says Roberson and his female companion surrendered their handguns to the bartender when they entered the saloon Friday evening and that the struggle and shooting occurred after the couple retrieved their guns early Saturday morning…...
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Happy 60th Birthday to “In God We Trust” on U.S. Paper Currency
by Shifra on October 1, 2017Despite all the lawsuits, these words endure. Via CBS News. ….October 1st, 1957, 60 years ago today … the day a familiar phrase gained currency. For that was the day the words “In God We Trust” first appeared on America’s paper money. First stamped on a two-cent coin during the Civil War, and on ALL U.S. coins starting in 1938, the phrase owes its debut on our bills to the Cold War. Representative Charles Bennett of Florida had campaigned hard for the words, seeing them as a bulwark against what he called “materialistic Communism.” Occasionally challenged on separation of church and state grounds, these official invocations of God have been upheld by the United States Supreme Court….
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‘Mona Lisa Nude Sketch’ Found in France
by Tammy on September 29, 2017Neat! Via BBC. A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection for more than 150 years may have been a sketch for the Mona Lisa, a French art expert says. The charcoal portrait of a nude woman, known as the Monna Vanna, was previously attributed only to Leonardo da Vinci’s studio. But experts have found enough clues to suggest the artist worked on both. After tests at the Louvre Museum in Paris, curators believe the sketch is “at least in part” by Leonardo. It has been held since 1862 in the collection of Renaissance art at the Conde Museum at the Palace of Chantilly, north of the French capital. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the great painters of...
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Woman Who Destroyed Durham Confederate Statue Is a Pro- North Korea Marxist
by Tammy on August 16, 2017Surprise! Are these the people we’re going to allow to dictate public policy? Via Daily Caller. One of the activists who toppled a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., on Monday night is a member of an extreme leftist group that supports the totalitarian regime in North Korea and wants to abolish capitalism. Taqiyah Thompson, a student at North Carolina Central University, was arrested Tuesday following a press conference in which she defended the actions of the demonstrators and equated police officers to Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members… Thompson is a member of the Worker’s World Party (WWP), a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist group originally formed in 1959 as a hard-line offshoot of the more moderate Socialist Workers Party. In addition...
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Video) Tucker Carlson: Erase the Past? Prepare For the Consequences
by Tammy on August 16, 2017Excellent points from Tucker about the importance of knowing our history, the madness of tearing down statues and the hypocrisy of the left. Via Fox News. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com One thing President Trump said Tuesday deserves more attention than it will likely get. On Monday a mob torn down a civil war soldier’s memorial in Durham, North Carolina. Police stood idly by and liberals across the country applauded it. Which statues are next, the president asked today, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson? It’s not a joke. Suddenly it’s a serious question. Thomas Jefferson indisputably was a great man. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence. Founder of the University of Virginia and maybe, most importantly, the...
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The Ninth of Av: Jewish Day of Mourning and Remembrance
by Shifra on August 1, 2017One day, when I was in the fifth grade, my teacher walked into class, holding a large book. Flipping through the pages, he said he wanted to show us a picture. “It’s called the Arch of Titus,” he told us. “It’s in Rome.” As the book was passed from student to student, my teacher asked us to look closely at the top of the Arch. He explained that the Arch was built to celebrate the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of Emperor Titus.in 70 A.D. Carved onto the top of the Arch, Jews being taken into captivity are depicted. And the conquering Romans mocked the captured Jews by calling out: “Hierosolyma est perdita” (“Jerusalem is lost”). Then he asked...
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Muslims Boycott Temple Mt. Over Israeli Police Installing Metal Detectors
by Shifra on July 17, 2017If you are following the very recent events in Israel, you will probably see the words “Temple Mt,” Waqf,” and “security.” The Temple Mount, also known as the Dome of the Rock, is, according to Jewish tradition, the holiest spot on earth, for the last four thousand years. (But, of course, the Muslims just had to build a mosque there, in 705. Remember the outrage when a Muslim group tried to build a mosque at Ground Zero in Manhattan?) Following the 1948 War of independence, Jordan captured and gained control over half of Jerusalem, which included the Western Wall as well as the Temple Mt. In 1967, in the Six Day War, Israel regained control over all of Jerusalem. Here...
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Artifacts of American Revolution Offer Glimpse into History
by Tammy on July 4, 2017Neat history on our Independence Day! Via Fox & Friends. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Inside Philadelphia’s New Museum of the American Revolution … So much history has unfolded in the United States since the revolution that it can be easy to forget that American independence was not inevitable. The choice between breaking away from Great Britain or staying loyal to the crown divided families, communities and whole cities. The museum brings this tension and uncertainty to vivid life through its thoughtful installations of flags, documents, everyday objects and works of art. Much of the museum’s collection comes from that of the old Valley Forge Historical Society, which was founded by Reverend W. Herbert Burk and includes some iconic...
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UK Gov’t Refuses to Apologize to Arabs for 1917 Jewish Homeland Declaration
by Shifra on April 26, 2017Lord Arthur Balfour Here is a timeline of all the rulers of the land of Israel, also known as Palestine, which got its name from the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who blotted out the name “Judea” and renamed it “Provincia Syria Palaestina” in AD 135. Yes, Canaanites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Romans, the Jews – when King David captured Judea from the Philistines in 1000 BC – have all ruled the land. But the so-called “Palestinians” ? Not so much. In 1917, when WWI ended, Britain was given rule of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire, who had ruled for the past 400 years. In November, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour wrote the following letter to Walter Rothschild, a leader of...
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Survivors Visit Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
by Shifra on January 27, 2017Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In honor of the millions of souls who were murdered, all the Trump-hating Dems need to stop comparing President Trump with Hitler; the “comparisons” are vile and disgusting, and trivialize the horror of all that happened during WWII. Via NY Post. Dozens of Auschwitz survivors placed wreaths and flowers Friday at the infamous execution wall of the former German death camp, paying homage to the victims of Adolf Hitler’s regime exactly 72 years after the camp’s liberation. January 27, the anniversary of the day that the Soviet army liberated the camp in German-occupied Poland in 1945, is recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Commemorative events also were being held across Europe and Israel…. Elderly...
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Voynich Manuscript: The World’s Most Mysterious Book
by Shifra on December 18, 2016No one, not even the cryptographers who broke the German and Japanese codes during WWII, has been able to decipher the meaning of this ancient manuscript. But the Democrats will probably tell us the manuscript’s hidden message: The Russians did it! Via WSJ. In 1665, at the age of 63, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher appeared to know everything. He had written some 20 books and had several others under way. If you wanted to learn about magnetism, or the history of China, or Noah’s Ark, or optics, or music theory, or herbal remedies, or the nature of fossils, or how to create a universal language, Kircher was your man. People from all over the world—popes, kings, dukes, diplomats, merchants,...
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WH Spokeshole: WWII Vets Should Get Over Their ‘Bitterness’ About Pearl Harbor Attack
by Shifra on December 7, 2016Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack killed 2,403 Americans, and brought the U.S. into WWII. Many veterans are unhappy about Japanese PM’s visit to Pearl Harbor, but Earnest suggests the vets should get over their bitterness for the greater good. I’m not sure about that, but here’s another suggestion: Maybe the Democrats need to get over their bitterness over Hillary losing the election. You know, for the “greater good of the U.S.” Via Blaze. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that it’s natural for World War II veterans to feel “personally embittered” by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s impending visit to Pearl Harbor, but they should get over...
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1980: What the Electoral Map Looked Like Last Time the Country Had Had Enough
by Tammy on September 29, 2016Just a reminder that Americans can only be pushed so far by incompetent liberal jerks.
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