We have booked to see the movie Quartet in a few days. It is a most enjoyable movie, which we saw perhaps a decade or so ago. The movie was…
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In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands, issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence…
At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, there was an incident where British artillery had the opportunity to fire directly at Napoleon Bonaparte, but the action was stopped by the…
Like many people who use computers, I use Microsoft Word for much of what I write for this blog and I also for my scientific papers. In addition, I used…
While I never thought I would witness a genocide in my time on this planet, there have been several; one of the worst, and happening now, is the appalling genocide…
After the Second World War, with the demise of Nazi Germany, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) occupied most of eastern Europe, and in most of these countries they…
