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I am 46 years old and I am a teacher. I live in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England and I have a particular interest in the two great European civil wars.
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Arts & Humanities > The World Wars Holocaust: Why it should never be forgotten: 3 of 41
If we ignore the lessons of history, we are destined to repeat it. It is one of the great truisms of our age that we tend to ignore such lessons. But, much worse than ignoring the lessons of history is the deliberate act of forgetting our past in order to air-brush inconvenient truths from it. Over the last 20 years or so, ma... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Spiritual Life Predicting the end of the world: 10 of 35
predicting the end of the world is a very strange thing to do as it ends for someone in every second in every day. The end of the world simply means, to me at least, the end of my time on earth. To know your time of dying is an ancient curse, therefore i would imagine anyone who predicts the end of their own world is doing so... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Political Values Convicted prisoners' right to vote in elections: 6 of 21
To me, as soon as someone enters a prison, guilty of an offense, they leave their rights at the gate. Sure let them pick up their democratic rights on their way out, but not while they are being punished by the state. Most prisoners, in my experience, have little interest in the democratic process. What marks them out is thei... More..
Arts & Humanities > The World Wars Military blunders that Germany made in World War II: 3 of 9
Almost from the end of World War 2, historians have pointed out two major military blunders that German carried out that ultimately led to her defete in 1945. First, in 1940, Germany did not follow through their routing of the French and Belgiums by immediately invading Great Britain. Secondly, Hitler launched operation Barba... More..
Arts & Humanities > European History The collapse of the Weimar Republic: 2 of 6
The collapse of the Wiemar republic should not be viewed as a surprise but rather in light of a shock that it lasted as long as it did. Germany emerged defeated after the first world war with her system of government in tatters. As Hannah Arendt had argued in her book, On Revolution, It is difficult to imagine any system of g... More..
Arts & Humanities > The World Wars Hitler's foreign policy: Nazi or nationalistic?: 1 of 3
What we are beginning to discover about the inner workings of the Nazi party seems to suggest that Hitler didn't have any policy as such, but was rather motivated by whims and impulses. Foreign policy certainly appears in this way. Very little of Mein Kampf is given over to foreign policy, instead it is full of dull ramblings... More..
Arts & Humanities > The World Wars World War I and its relationship to World War II: 3 of 8
It has been argued that without world war 1 , world war 2 could not have taken place. Fritz fischer, a German academic has further argued, that the inter war years were just a pause in a continuous conflict rather than the wars being two separate events.The principal German war aims in 1914 were not greatly different from tho... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Ghosts & Paranormal Phenomena Experiences with ghosts: 59 of 122
As a young man I was often aware that I was never alone, just a funny feeling that there was always someone else there. However, as teenages do, I just got on with my life without worrying too much about the others. Yet, it was an odd feeling being sure someone was with you. Riding my bike down a steep hill near my home, I ca... More..
Arts & Humanities > The World Wars Why did Hitler adopt the swastika symbol for Nazis?: 3 of 6
The Swastika was an ancient symbol used by many creeds. However, in the twisted, quasi-science of Nazi ancient history, the Swastika was the symbol of the Aryan race, the purest element of humanity, from whom all true Germanic stock was descended. By adopting the swastika the Nazis were affirming their association with the Ar... More..
Pets & Animals > Animal Rescue & Adoption The merits of adopting a dog through a rescue league: 59 of 102
Nero, our Labrador, bounded in to our life two years ago. Sat here by my feet, it is hard to imagine he is the same animal that was brought to us from out of his rescue pen. He trembled, he was starving. He could hardly walk and had been living rough on a City's streets. A scar on his leg suggested he had at some point in his... More..