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When you open the fridge and there's still half of the turkey left.
December 28, 2024 at 2:14 PM
When you open the fridge and there's still half of the turkey left.
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RIP Victor Brombert
When his incredible past as a member of the secretive Ritchie Boys in WWII became know, former students asked why he had never spoken of it.
“I was supposed to talk about Stendhal, about Balzac, about Virginia Woolf,” he said. “But my war? No.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
When his incredible past as a member of the secretive Ritchie Boys in WWII became know, former students asked why he had never spoken of it.
“I was supposed to talk about Stendhal, about Balzac, about Virginia Woolf,” he said. “But my war? No.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
Victor Brombert, Princeton Scholar With a Secret Army Past, Dies at 101
As a Jewish teen, he fled the Nazis for America — then landed at D-Day and swept across Europe in a unit that gathered intelligence. Its work was hidden for decades.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM
RIP Victor Brombert
When his incredible past as a member of the secretive Ritchie Boys in WWII became know, former students asked why he had never spoken of it.
“I was supposed to talk about Stendhal, about Balzac, about Virginia Woolf,” he said. “But my war? No.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
When his incredible past as a member of the secretive Ritchie Boys in WWII became know, former students asked why he had never spoken of it.
“I was supposed to talk about Stendhal, about Balzac, about Virginia Woolf,” he said. “But my war? No.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
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We have power.
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 3:12 PM
We have power.