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Echoes of the SS St. Louis today
Echoes of the SS St. Louis today by Derek Royden 671 words On May 13th, 1939, the SS St. Louis, a luxury cruise ship, departed Hamburg, Germany bound for Cuba, where its 937 passengers, most of them Jews fleeing Hitler’s Germany, expected to gain entry into the United States. After weeks at sea, likely filled
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The Coup That Wasn’t
The Coup That Wasn’t by Mel Gurtov 1005 words A Narrow and Costly Escape Tensions between the Russian defense ministry and the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, had been running high for months, mainly because of differences over war strategy and Prigozhin’s accusations of insufficient battlefield support. Last week those tensions reached
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It’s Time to Stop the ‘Insect Apocalypse’
It’s Time to Stop the ‘Insect Apocalypse’ by Robert C. Koehler 884 words I was reading about bumble bees recently — specifically, their looming demise, thanks to human greed and ignorance — and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We should have eaten from it! Well, we did, but then apparently