Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 30 March – 5 April Future president of the USA, John F. Kennedy, spent a summer’s vacation from his university studies at Harvard touring Europe. His journey included a spell in Nazi Germany and he only made it to London on 1 September 1939. He was in the gallery of the House of Commons to hear the United Kingdom’s declaration of […]
Daily Archives: April 5, 2012
Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 22 March – 29 March A vast array of vaguely interesting snippets that aren’t quite long or interesting enough to be articles all on their own! Did an American women prevent Hitler from committing suicide after the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923? Helen Hanfstaengl’s brush with history isoutlined in Andrew Nagorski’s Hitlerland. The Louvre in Paris is the world’s most visited art […]
Stephen Irvine, 5 April 2012 The asylum teemed with the grey-faced and the hopeless; shuffling cardboard cut-outs no longer able to communicate with the world at large, each believing themselves completely alone despite taking their place in the most intense of throngs. To attempt to shatter their sense of isolation with the mallet of conversation was tantamount to waving into blind eyes. The uninitiated found whatever […]