Click Here to Read: Year of Wonders 1665-1667 Whilst escaping the Great Plague, Newton’s enormously productive time at Woolsthorpe is often called the Annus Mirabilis, or the “Year of Wonders’. Read about this period of intellectual endeavour, with extracts taken from the new Woolsthorpe guidebook by Patricia Fara on the National Trust of UK website.
Image: Sir Issac Newton by Gottfried Kneller. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to View: 77th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: New York Commemoration on YouTube.
Click Here to Read About: The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language and the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust HOLOCAUST Resistencc In Yiddish Poetry &Song on April 21 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm.
Click Here to View: Holocaust Remembrance in Poland on April 19. 2020 on YouTube. Continue reading Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemorations from Around the World
Click Here to Read: Would I Have Survived? As the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, I ask myself that question by Shula Kopf on the Tablet website on April 20, 2020.
Bunk Beds in Prisoner’s Barrack – Majdanek Concentration Camp – Lublin – Poland – 02 Image: Adam Jones, Ph.D. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: She discovered coronaviruses decades ago—but got little recognition: Scientific pioneer June Almeida is finally being acknowledged for virology breakthroughs she made a half century ago by Sydney Combs on the National Geographic website on April 17, 2020.
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Click Here to Read: How Pandemics Seep into Literature By Elizabeth Outka the Paris Review on April 8, 2020.
1918 flu epidemic: the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital. The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California, during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
