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A Moment of Truth about Maxim Gorky
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) is widely considered a Bolshevik author, closely allied with the likes of Lenin and Stalin. But this is far from the truth.
Gorky's real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. He chose the pseudonym "Gorky" - "bitt ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 10134
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Another Look at Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians)
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Native Americans are often cast in the role of victims of White aggression and unbridled avarice-driven or gratuitous violence, especially in the territories known collectively today as the United States. But the first massacre was perpetrated by Ind ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 23672
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Facts and Figures about the Presidents of the USA
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The first president of the united States was not George Washington.
Washington was the first president under the Constitution of June 21, 1788, ratified by 1790.
The first constitution of the USA was titled "Articles of ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 16616
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Human-made Monsters
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Humans made monsters by inhuman treatment abound in literature. In "The Man Who Laughs", published in 1869, the French author, Victor Hugo (1802-1885), described the comprachicos thus:
"The comprachicos (child buyers) were strange and ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 8632
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Lindbergh, Charles Augustus
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a nonstop flight. This made him an instant celebrity. When, in 1932, his 19-months old son was kidnapped and murdered, the nation was appalled.
Finally, a German ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 26635
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More about the Prohibition
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Prohibition - the legal enforcement of abstinence from alcoholic beverages - is not an American invention. The USA was preceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 20625
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The Abdication Crisis Revisited
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The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest A ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 21086
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The Armenian Genocide
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The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 in which some 600,000 Armenians perished. The Armenians were also raided by Kurdish tribesmen on a regular basis. An Ottoman military ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 14763
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The Building of the Pentagon
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The Pentagon was completed in 16 months. It was built on a swamp and on the area of the old Washington airport. Trucks hauled some 5.5 million cubic yards (4.2 million cubic meters) of junk and soil and dumped it in the marshes. The building's founda ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 17216
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The Constitution of the Weimar Republic
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The Weimar Republic was established in February 1919 in defeated Germany and lasted until March 1933, when it was replaced with Hitler's Third Reich. The Constitution of the Weimar Republic was adopted in August 1919. It created a bicameral house of ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 26065
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The Family of Jesus Christ
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Was Jesus born 2002 years ago? Was he born in year zero?
The first year AD was 1 - so, Jesus could not have been born in year zero. The very concept of zero was invented much later.
Numerous historical minutia in the gos ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 651
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The First September 11
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September 11, 2001 was not the first time an airplane crashed into a skyscraper. Actually, such tragedies are more common than is thought.
On July 28, 1945, for instance, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber traveling at 200 miles (c. 370 kilometer ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 3965
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The Story of the Guillotine
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The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier's head from the rest of his body.
The device was ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 12198
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The Teapot Dome Scandal
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With the exception of Watergate, there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the Teapot Dome affair during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. It involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing t ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 15624
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The Uganda Scheme
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Theodore Herzl, the visionary who founded Zionism, was an assimilated Jew, who did not consider Palestine the optimal choice for a resurgent Jewish nationalism.
When the British offered to him a homeland in East Africa (today's Uganda) ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 22408
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