An excerpt from: 60. SUICIDE BOMBERS The first Palestinian suicide bombing inside Israel took place in April 1994 in response to the massacre at the Tomb of Abraham Mosque in Hebron in February that year. Hamas claimed responsibility for the two bus attacks that followed in the towns of Afula…
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The Offspring of Intifada and the Madrid Conference
An excerpt from: 53. THE OFFSPRING OF INTIFADA Within a week of the children launching the first stones in 1987, the Muslim religious organisation HAMAS was formed, with the stated aim of reuniting Palestine and destroying Israel. Another group to be inspired by the rebellious youth were the Arabs of…
Italian-American History
An excerpt from Italianità: The Essence of Being Italian and Italian-American by William Giovinazzo * Chapter 5: What is an Italian? Hath Not an Italian-American Eyes I am an Italian-American. Hath not an Italian-American eyes? Hath not an Italian-American hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food,…
Chapter 3 – Salazar the Dictator
An excerpt from Wolfram Wars by Rod Ashley * Portugal’s story during these years is also the story of its leader, Dr Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. How could one man wield so much influence and what factors shaped his character, ideals and, ultimately, his actions? This chapter will analyse the…
What happened to the band Traffic?
An excerpt from the acclaimed book Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic’s Chris Wood by Dan Ropek CHAPTER 25 - THE BEGINNING OF THE END There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but completeness; and for…
Liverpool’s Role in the US Civil War
Liverpool in the 1860s Unlike the rest of Britain, Liverpool’s population and economic status plummeted after World War Two. Go back 80 years further, though, and you have Britain’s second great metropolis, thriving off King Cotton and still benefitting hand-over-fist from the transatlantic slave trade. In modern terms, it would…
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V: THE DONKEY AND THE CUCUMBER: HOW WE LEARNED TO CURSE FROM THE MASTERS
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. Wipe the Floor With It! In the tailor shop in Calabria, where my grandfather learned the trade, the Master Tailor was known for having a bad temper. As an apprentice in the shop, Grandpa not only learned…
IV: I THINK WE WOULD KNOW IF THE BED WAS ON FIRE: MY PARENTS’ GENERATION
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. The Shoe-Make Nannie’s seven children were all born at home. Six of the children lived well into adulthood, and five lived either just shy of, or well past, their 80th birthdays. The first five children were born…
III: YOU COULD EAT OFF THE FLOOR: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS CREATED A WORLD, AND HOW THEY TOOK THAT WORLD WITH THEM, WHEREVER THEY WENT
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. Unless you somehow had inside access to this culture, you could never fully know what it meant to live in a twentieth-century, Italian-American home. Many of the people who lived in this world began with almost nothing,…