Click Here to Read:The high street that became the highway to hell: 70 years on, chilling then-and-now pictures of the town next to Auschwitz y ED by Ed Wight January 27, 2015 UPDATED: January 31, 2016.
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Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis
Click Here to Read: Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis By Katie Hunt, on the CNN News website on July 14, 2022.
Longlin 1 partial skull (each bar = 1 cm) found in Longlin Cave in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China. Image Curnoe, D.; Xueping, J.; Herries, A. I. R.; Kanning, B.; Taçon, P. S. C.; Zhende, B.; Fink, D.; Yunsheng, Z Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
In Poland, a return to the scene of an unspeakable crime
Click Here to Read: In Poland, a return to the scene of an unspeakable crime: A journey to Jedwabne, site of the massacre of 1,600 Jews, kindles both anger and a sense of redemption By Gary Lucas on the Forward website on July 09, 2022
.Memorial in Jedwabne, dedicated to murdered Jews: In remembrance of the Jews from Jedwabne and surrounding areas, men, women, children, co-habitants of this earth, murdered, burned alive here on July 10th, 1941. Image: Fczarnowski Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
What a 1904 War Can Teach Vladimir Putin
Click Here to Read: What a 1904 War Can Teach Vladimir Putin: The Russo-Japanese War led not just to an immediate revolution, but to deeper and longer-lasting change years later By David Gioe on the Atlantic website on June 23, 2022.
The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v. 1-3 (no. 1-10), Apr. 1904-Sept. 1905 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Yiddish Folk Song in Classical Music
Click Here to Read: Yiddish Folk Song in Classical Music: Since before the 18th century, Jewish folk melodies have had a rich, unexpected influence on musical composition by Alex Weiser on the Tablet website on June 24, 2022.
A photograph of Joel Engel, Russian composer and ethnomusicologist, with an Edison phonograph used in recording Jewish folk songs. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons,
