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Random Links, Presented Randomly
Apr. 26th, 2013 09:14 amRandom links, presented randomly:
A) Interesting trivia about WWII - True fact: The last Nazi SS troops defending Berlin were…French. The Nazis were very concerned about racial purity when the war was going well, but by 1943, they changed their tune and busily recruited everybody they could find. This "everybody" included Indians from then British-governed India. Guess where those folks were stationed? Normandy on D-Day! Yep - some of the folks shot while Saving Private Ryan were dark-skinned Indians.
B) I've said it before, but the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion was no accident. The plant had been ignoring safety rules for decades.
C) Yesterday was ANZAC Day, the 98th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in WWI. Future historians will divide this period of history into pre-WWI and post-WWI, as that was by far the most influential war of the 20th Century.
D) What writers earn - a cultural myth. (Note - 1 British pound = $1.50 US)
A) Interesting trivia about WWII - True fact: The last Nazi SS troops defending Berlin were…French. The Nazis were very concerned about racial purity when the war was going well, but by 1943, they changed their tune and busily recruited everybody they could find. This "everybody" included Indians from then British-governed India. Guess where those folks were stationed? Normandy on D-Day! Yep - some of the folks shot while Saving Private Ryan were dark-skinned Indians.
B) I've said it before, but the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion was no accident. The plant had been ignoring safety rules for decades.
C) Yesterday was ANZAC Day, the 98th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in WWI. Future historians will divide this period of history into pre-WWI and post-WWI, as that was by far the most influential war of the 20th Century.
D) What writers earn - a cultural myth. (Note - 1 British pound = $1.50 US)
