Random Learnings #32
Crimea has been a major area of conflict and disagreement between Russia and Ukraine since the breakup of the Soviet Union. The 2014 Ukraine Crisis say Russia essentially invade Crimea…
Random Learnings #30
I have read many - too many - books, articles, scholarly papers, etc., about the anti-Semitism faced by Holocaust survivors faced returning home, especially in Eastern Europe. By a large…
Cool Photos #6
January 1993. London, England, interviewing for jobs. Original plan for my wife and I to move together, but by this time we were separated but I still had dreams of…
Cool Photos #5
This is the reading room of the Rijksmuseum Research Library in Amsterdam. From the main museum there's an entrance that leads to a viewing platform from where I took the…
Civilian Casualties
Image: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/picture alliance/dpa/TASS While the Crocus City Hall was still burning, speculations had begun about who was responsible: Russians whom blame Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny; protesters…
Random Learnings #21
From The Encyclopedia Britannica, Thirteenth Edition (1926), Volume 2: Effects of the War Eastern Europe - The War completely changed the face of the Jewish world. In the Russian Empire…
Cool Photos #3
A rainy evening walking around Munich, circa 1991. My camera is an Olympus OM/2 35mm camera with a 50mm/1.6f lens and loaded with 3200 ASA black-and-white film . As I…
Random Learnings #19
From the June 1951 National Geographic, Occupied Austria, Outpost of Democracy. Ranked as a liberated nation, not a former enemy, Austria has its own Federal Government and exchanges diplomats with…
Highline 179
While driving through Austria on our way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, my wife and I drove under a long, narrow bridge high stretching high above us from the valley floor. Gobsmacked…
Random Learnings #16
I purchased The Traitors by Alan Moorehead during my last visit to the Strand Bookstore in early December. Originally published in 1952 and updated in 1963, the book is about…