He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class on December 2, 1914. He was also awarded the Bavarian Military Medal, 3rd class, with a bar, and later the Iron Cross, 1st class. He received, as did all wounded soldiers, the Cross of Military Merit.
Her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, had told her this. Her grandmother was now dead. She had told her that when a star falls, a soul is going up to God.
American historian Robert Conquest (1917-2015) documented Bolshevik mass murder in Ukraine. He also investigated the Gulag system. Meanwhile, Western academics were celebrating the ‘Soviet experiment.’
Take Robert James Graves, a Dublin-born physician whose insistence on careful observation helped drag medicine from superstition into science.
What he discovered underground was not merely silver, but the unmistakable glint of copper. Others saw a struggling silver prospect, but Marcus Daly saw something else entirely: the future.
She had no food, no water, and no phone. Only one’s own physical endurance and the soul, which had to undergo a brutal test.
It showed the power of nonviolent resistance. It inspired people around the world to believe that individual action can create real change. Luna still stands today, protected and growing, even after surviving vandalism in 2000.
In Saudi Arabia, an angry crowd refused to believe a woman had flown the plane solo. They remained skeptical until someone climbed up to peer into the cockpit. Only then was it confirmed that no man was hiding inside.
“I SHOULD LIKE to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Adolf Hitler. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs.
‘Do you know what Northcliffe would have done? He would have said, ‘One more word from you, and the Daily Mail placards tomorrow will carry the words: ‘Jews threaten British press’ ‘; you will have no further trouble’.
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