The Beautiful Peacemakers
One British Woman, an aristocrat, a free thinker, had a shot at ending WWII before it began, Diana Mosley (nee Freeman-Mitford), one of the six… Read More »The Beautiful Peacemakers
Frank Hilliard
The Grand Sophy
This charming woman in her fashionable Regency dress and her basket of flowers looks a little like a flower herself. Perhaps her muscular dog with… Read More »The Grand Sophy
Famous British Defeats of WW II
Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano is credited with writing in his diary, “victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” With that… Read More »Famous British Defeats of WW II
You Can’t Dance
You can’t dance. I know this because I’ve been to enough wedding receptions, socials and bars with dance floors to notice that North Americans don’t know how to dance. They hold their partners and shuffle across the floor, but neither party would know a dance step if it bit them on the ankle.
Residential Schools Were a Woke Idea
The current debate over Canadian residential schools for native children has avoided analyzing the real reason why they were started in 1876 and lasted until 1947.
Men into Women, Women into Men
If you look around you, really look, you’ll see a transition going on in society in which women are becoming more masculine and men are… Read More »Men into Women, Women into Men
Ahmad Massoud, Man of the The Hour
Every crisis reveals a leader; and so it is with Afghanistan. The chaos, anguish and incompetence in Kabul are sweeping away a century of American… Read More »Ahmad Massoud, Man of the The Hour
The German Engineer Who Defeated Germany
Most people think Germany had the best engineers in WWII and so they’re not surprised at the V2 rocket, Tiger tank and the Me262 jet… Read More »The German Engineer Who Defeated Germany
Germany, 1st in Space
Germany was the first country in space, not the United States, not Russia: Germany. Its Aggregat 4 (V2) rocket had a first successful test flight… Read More »Germany, 1st in Space