Doomed

You probably have not heard of the voyage of the SS St. Louis. It took place on the eve of WW II and was a sordid piece of history for all countries involved.
It started out thus:
The German propaganda ministry and the Nazi party conceived of a propaganda exercise which would demonstrate that Germany was not […]

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A few things for the curious.
Did you know the Smithsonian Magazine had a website? They do, and it has a lot of content. If you have enjoyed reading the magazine, you might want to check the site out.
Search for the Holy Grail, end up dead. The Telegraph had an interesting article on a real search […]

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Here are two things, not of sufficent worth to rate a post by themselves. The last is something that could make a very long post, but which I don’t have the time at present:
Fatal Mushroom
If you promise to never, ever, eat a wild mushroom, you don’t need to read this article. Go here to read […]

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Action T4, what could that possibly mean?

Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program in Nazi Germany officially between 1939 and 1941, during which the regime of Adolf Hitler systematically killed between 75,000 to 250,000 people who had intellectual or physical disabilities. Performed unofficially after 1941, the killing became less systematic.
As it is so aptly […]

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This is only for those who have a little bit of computer geek hidden deep inside themselves.
ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer and it was, “was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of […]

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