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Jan.23.2012
RED TAILS a film review by Jeanne Powell
“Red Tails” from Lucas Studios is being released with many advantages – major funding, well-known actors, a significant online presence and heroes you can believe in. Producer George Lucas is known internationally for adventure films such as “...
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Jan.17.2012
(Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.)
Grandpa in WWI Dad in WWII
My Dad and I...
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Jan.15.2012
The missus and I are movie fans, but we have two problems with local movie theaters. First, the price: the last movie we saw in a theater cost over $30 - and that was a matinee. Admittedly, we had popcorn and a drink with the movie. And secondly, the theaters aren't kept clean here. With probably...
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Jan.14.2012
Third Reich Victorious – Alternate Decisions of World War II, edited by Peter G. Tsouras
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Gaming the outcomes of history’s various wars can be as tempting as playing Monday morning quarterback to sporting events. In this book, Tsouras and...
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Jan.09.2012
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Arthur Zimmerman (1864-1940)
The Ems Telegram sparked the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, which led to the unification of Germany’s many independent states into...
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Dec.21.2011
Last Monday, I received the last of my editor’s notes on Velva Jean #3 (in which she finds herself spying in World War II), and, at my editor’s request, I have addressed her notes, big and small (cutting 26 pages in the process), and delivered the edited manuscript back to her by this morning...
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Nov.11.2011
I was the only grandchild on my dad's side. These were the things I knew about my grandparents (two of my very favorite people ever): Cleo, my grandmama, loved to take me shopping for clothes and Barbies. She was straightforward and honest and statuesque--she always had a...
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Oct.13.2011
Don Benito Mussolini, the Ultimate Crime Boss
In the early 20th century, German economist Max Weber said that a sovereign nation is defined by its ability to maintain a monopoly on violence. Benito Mussolini’s suppression of the Sicilian Mafia during the 1920s put Weber’s theory into practice....
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Oct.07.2011
King Alexander and Queen Draga
Previously on Red Room: Uncrowned Heads: Whatever Happened to the 20th Century’s Ousted Monarchs?
With the possible exception of the Romanovs, King Alexander I and Queen Draga, right, suffered the most ghastly end of any of Europe’s crowned heads....
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Oct.07.2011
Winners and Losers in a Dangerous Royal Derby
King Juan Carlos of Spain
Ex-King Simeon and Current Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra
Murdered King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia
Woodrow Wilson tricked an isolationist America into...
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