In Tribute to the Extraordinary Power of Women
From ancient times, the rise and fall of landscapes and panoramas have enchanted man. Yet none captivated him as much as the rise and fall of a woman’s flowing curves.
The Warrior of World War I Whose Story you Cannot Tell
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.
The Little Match Girl: A Heartbreaking Tale
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.
The Nonconforming British Historian Who Tried to Warn the World
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.’
Ireland’s Pioneers in Medicine: A Lasting Legacy
Take Robert James Graves, a Dublin-born physician whose insistence on careful observation helped drag medicine from superstition into science.
Marcus Daly: The Irish Copper King of Montana
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.
Miracle Rescue of a Woman Lost in an Impenetrable Forest
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.
Julia Butterfly Hill: Two Years in a Redwood Tree
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.
‘Well, I guess that’s the last we’ll hear from her.’
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.
THE TRAGEDY OF GEORGE ORWELL
“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.
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