Virginia Hall was a female spy for the US and England during World War II. He covered operations that aided the resistance in France and assisted in sabotage missions near the end of the war. She is known to be strong, flexible and intelligent. Despite his race and notable disability, he never retired from his […]
Tag Archives: French Resistance
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Feb
Dark, minimal, existential – these words characterize the writing of Nobel Prize winning author, Samuel Barclay Beckett, born in 1906 in Dublin Ireland. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for play writing and novel writing, and in the Nobel summary it states: “for his writing, which – in new forms for the novel […]
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You creep down the dank, dimly lit corridor as goosebumps tickle the back of your neck. There is no turning back. You swallow hard, and continue to inch into the menacing gloom. Suddenly, you find yourself surrounded by piles of ancient human bones. Millions and millions of bones. Where are you? The shadows whisper no […]
Tales of Russian and Jewish customs and folklore, children and their Babushkas, living on a farm and catching fireflies at night . . . but how did author Patricia Polacco dream up all of these wonderful stories? The fact is she didn’t; well, for the most part anyway. Her ancestors and her lived them. Patricia […]