Notice

Following books are available from Amazon.com.
Muckle in the Valley of Eagles – picture book (English)
Muckle van het Dal van Adelaars  (Dutch version)
The Goodwill Rose           -picture book
The Life of Aesop             -pocket book  and
Sufficient unto this Day – pocket book
Those who are interested may visit books section  Amazon and click my name.
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Pen Portraits-45

HERMANN WILHELM GOERING (German)  (1893  – 1946)
Politician.
He aspired to be the Falstaff of the Nazi’s movement, swaggering genial, bon vivant, despising his colleagues anti semitic crudities and a lover of (other people’s) pictures. He was the ’salon Nazi’ acceptable to landowners and industrialists before the take over to foreign diplomats afterwards. A Bavarian, the son [...]

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(PAUL) JOSEPH GOEBBELS (German)  (1897  -  1945)
Propagandist
The chief propagandist of the Nazi Party – was the greatest master of propaganda in the 20th century – Goebbels was the one man of genuine intellect in the Nazi leadership and the only one from an industrial background (a Rhenish Catholic artisan family). Initially Goebbels belonged to the [...]

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Storytime

Mr. Half-Half Makes Small Talk ©
By
Benny Thomas
Half-Half was not much of a party goer. For a toad he was content to get some news from television which he turned on every evening. It was as good as going to a party. Half-Half said,”Parties are waste of time!” But his wife thought otherwise.
She was also Half-Half. [...]

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Notice

I have started a new blog exclusively for films. A Night at the Movies it is called. I hope to post some 100 films which have a different format than the Movie Lists. I just posted Pepe le Moko.
Those who are interested may check out cinebuff.wordpress.com.
benny

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The Beast Among Us

Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse after a nine-year investigation published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland’s castaway children. Wednesday’s five-volume report on the probe — which was resisted by Catholic religious orders — concluded that church officials shielded their orders’ pedophiles [...]

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The Fox-spirit of the Tiger Caves

( Wang and Lung, the identical twins have made two predestined enemies on the New Year’s eve and their mother is aghast. She is too wrapped up in her mourning so she persuades her only surviving brother to take them off her hands. He agrees. He is a sea-captain who is aggressively trying to get [...]

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Duckweeds-cogito ergo…

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ROBERT HUTCHINGS GODDARD (American) (1882  -  1945)
Physicist.
Pioneer in American Space Research it was Goddard who put down theories into practice while the Russian Tsiolkovsky first published calculations on liquid propelled rockets. He began his investigations in 1909 at Clark University; he perserved through years of professional neglect and financial failure.
The press delighted in ridiculing him [...]

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT( Macedonian) (356-323 BC)
Conqueror
A man of great contrasts,-reckless,intemperate,magnanimous and courageous he stands even by contemporary standards unsurpassed for his greatness. His beginning by all accounts was auspicious. In 356 BC Philip of Macedon just as he won a hard-won battle, he received from three messengers the news his general had won a decisive [...]

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