“The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human ( Read more... )

From one of my colleagues in Poland:

Well, I don’t know why but that brings a memory of what I read about Lord of the rings….

You see, back in the communist era, there were people that were writing things aligned to what the party’s doctrine was and so some idiot wrote a review of the LotR

And so in his review, sauron was a poor land owner who was ( Read more... )

Floating around Teh InterWebs:

According to the Jewish calendar, the year is 5769.
According to the Chinese calendar, the year is 4706.

This means that the Jews went without Chinese food for 1,063 years.
This period was known as the Dark Ages

It is actually 5770 as of today, 18 September. A happy & a healthy new year to everyone. May you be ( Read more... )

I was going to post something similar to what I posted on the one year anniversary… that I was not going to let the terrorists win and that i was going to remember the other things about the day. But you can read that here.

Instead… this morning on the ride in, at 8:46am, NPR aired this story. Go read it, or better yet, listen to the audio. It ( Read more... )

6 June 1944 - 65 years ago today - Allied forces landed at the beaches of Normandy. A lot has been said and written about that day, but twenty five years ago today the President Ronald Reagan gave what is perhaps the definitive speech on D-Day. Here is the text of that speech ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the start of the Tet Offensive.

Just thought you all should know.

This is for soucyn for his mention of Operation Acoustic Kitty:

The United States’ OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA) needed a way to guide bombs to sink German ships. Somebody hit upon the inspiration that since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet and always land on their feet that if you attached a cat to a bomb ( Read more... )

Gacked from syrrichard...

If you could travel back in time to spend a day with someone, who would it be and why?Czar Nikolas Romanov just after the abdication, so I could ask him WTF were you thinking ( Read more... )

[Ed. Note ~ Ported from my old Diaryland blog on 11 September 2009]

September 11 in:

Ethiopia: New Year

Pakistan: Jinnah Day (1948)

Tunisia: Evening of Destiny

Hispanics: National Hispanic Heritage Week - - - - - ( Sunday )

US: National Grandparents’ Day - - - - - ( Sunday )

Afghanistan: National Assembly Foundation Day (1964) - - - - - ( ( Read more... )