How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?: In the hit show, Queen Elizabeth II puts the British prime minister in check for his secret plan to attack Egypt. In real life, he was checkmated by David Ben-Gurion by Martin Kremer on the Mosaic website on March 1 2018.

A Westland Whirlwind helicopter taking off from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Albion (R07) to stand by for emergency rescue operations as the ship turns into the wind to fly off her aircraft on a strike. Visible on deck are De Havilland Sea Venoms of 809 Naval Air Squadron, and Hawker Sea Hawks from 800 and 802 NAS. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After in the New York Review of Books om December 26, 1963 • Volume 1, Number 9.

Photo: White House Press Office (WHPO).

7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 28, 2018June 14, 2018 History

Click Here to Read and View: 7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater: In an unprecedented discovery, archaeologists identify a site where prehistoric people once buried their dead—now submerged beneath the waves By Megan Gannon in the National Geographic Magazine on February 28, 2018.

The Day We Burned Our Neighbors Alive

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 21, 2018June 14, 2018 History

Click Here to Read: The Day We Burned Our Neighbors Alive: Polish journalist Anna Bikont faces history in Jedwabne in her masterful new ‘The Crime and the Silence’ By David Mikics on the Tablet website on October 20, 2018.

Click Here To Read: The Conscience of Poland: A Q&A with Adam Michnik: A conversation with the former dissident and public intellectual, about the ‘Polish mentality,’ anti-Semitism, and ‘wearing Jewish glasses’ By David Samuels December 18, 2014

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. Photo by Fczarnowski.

Austria shaken by ‘Nazi songbook’ scandal

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 5, 2018June 14, 2018 History

Click Here to Read: Austria shaken by ‘Nazi songbook’ scandal: Affair has thrown spotlight on the far-right Freedom Party, nationalist fraternities and conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz By Sophie Makris on the Times of Israel website on February 2, 2018.
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons