![]() It was the eve of his wedding, an event he could not face. But the soldier had already made up his mind. Hirschfeld understood the soldier’s plight-he was himself both homosexual and Jewish-and did his best to comfort his patient. The infamous “Paragraph 175” in the German criminal code made homosexuality illegal a man so accused could be stripped of his ranks and titles and thrown in jail. ![]() It explained the cover of darkness to speak of such things was dangerous business. Distraught and agitated, the man had come to confess himself an Urning-a word used to refer to homosexual men. Late one night on the cusp of the 20th century, Magnus Hirschfeld, a young doctor, found a soldier on the doorstep of his practice in Germany. ![]()
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In her new book People Love Dead Jews – Reports from a Haunted Present, author Dara Horn quotes from a letter she received from Denise, a women who had read Horn’s novel The World to Come, the protagonist of which was a pogrom survivor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. Endurance is an unbelievable true story about how the Trans-Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton lost their ship and spent two years trying to get. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Launched in August 1914, the expedition became one of the most famous survival stories of all time after. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. 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The book spelled out widespread lapses in security and background investigations in the White House. ![]() “But unfortunately, this almost never happens and security clearances often become a long, very complicated, and voluminous process.” Bush and Bill Clinton White Houses on background checks of officials. 19,” said Gary Aldrich, the 26-year FBI agent who worked in the George H.W. “In a perfect world, everyone who is going to work in a new administration has all of their paperwork done along with the names with which to check their backgrounds on Jan. ![]() One day after the White House finally denied total security clearance to the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the former FBI agent who made sensational news 20 years ago on the issue of lax White House security clearances charged that the Trump administration is getting a “bum rap” on the same issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That year, the band released a 10-inch picture disc on Outsider Records. In 1997, due to touring commitments, the rhythm section of the band was replaced with Wade Walston on bass and Chip Hanna on drums. The next year, they put out an EP called Nevermind the Opened Minds.Here's the U.S. In 1996, they released their second album Garibaldi Guard! on Alive Records. ![]() Next they released their first full length Put Strength in the Final Blow.Īfter a few different lineup changes in their early years, they settled into a lineup of Peters, Martinez, and Reynolds, with Chuck Briggson guitar and Alex Gomez on drums. The band's first release was a double 7-inch called "Scouts of America" released in 1994 on Vinyl Dog Records with Peters on vocals, Martinez on guitar, Steve Reynolds on bass, and Benny Rapp III on drums. In 1993, Duane Peters left The Exploding Fuck Dolls and teamed up with Kerry Martinez to start a new band called U.S. Bombs play '77 style punk, influenced by The Clash, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Flyboys, Chelsea, Stiff Little Fingers, Shane MacGowan & The Popes, Sham 69, the Flys, & the Ruts. They have also played with Jonny "Two Bags" Wickersham. Bombs consisted of Peters and Martinez, with bass guitarist Wade Walston and drummer Chip Hanna. Bombs are an American punk rock band, formed in 1993 in Orange County, California, by Duane Peters and Kerry Martinez. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. ![]() This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. 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Pamela Redmond Satran & Linda Rosenkrantz The Ultimate Guide by America’s Baby-Naming Experts ![]() ![]() ![]() “…journalism may be the greatest plague we face today–as the world becomes more and more complicated and our minds are trained fo more and more simplification” “Recall that the accomplishment from which I derive the most pride is my weaning myself from television and the news media.” “It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent “studying” the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it impact your current knowledge of the world.” His distaste for the news and journalists made me giddy. Nassim Taleb gave voice to my concerns in Fooled by Randomness, and did so in a snarky and entertaining way. ![]() ![]() In part it was to open up time, but it was also because something was happening with the news that I couldn’t quite put into words. I used to spend at least and hour a day reading the newspaper (NY Times or Wall Street Journal) in addition to watching TV news and listening to current-event type podcasts. In focusing on the Books of Titans reading project, I had to make some sacrifices, and the news was one of the first things to go. ![]() |