24 Wednesday Jun 2020
Posted in History
In 1957 a new strain of avian flu emerged in East Asia and quickly spread around the world, killing at least one million people. Sumi Krishna was nine years old when she caught the virus in India. Listen here.
1957 flu in Sweden
03 Wednesday Jun 2020
Posted in History
The memories of a Polish survivor of Nazi atrocities in the final months of the war in Europe.
Towards the end of World War Two in Europe, Polish civilians suffered terribly at the hands of retreating German troops. But many never received any reparations for what they’d been through. Kevin Connolly has been speaking to one survivor who was a child in those final brutal days of the war in Europe.
Undated image of Nazi soldiers travelling by motorcycle and car stop to watch a Polish village burn to the ground. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection).
15 Saturday Jun 2019
FIFTY YEARS AGO today, Doug Engelbart showed 2,000 people a preview of the future.
Engelbart gave a demonstration of the “oN-Line System” at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 1968. The oN-Line System was the first hypertext system, preceding the web by more than 20 years. But it was so much more than that. When Engelbart typed a word, it appeared simultaneously on his screen in San Francisco and on a terminal screen at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park. When Engelbart moved his mouse, the cursor moved in both locations.
The demonstration was impressive not just because Engelbart showed off Google Docs-style collaboration decades before Google was founded. It was impressive because he and his team at SRI’s Augmentation Research Center had to conceive of and create nearly every piece of technology they displayed, from the window-based graphical interface to the computer mouse. Read the rest HERE
02 Saturday Feb 2019
Posted in discovery, History, Holocaust, Social Science, Warsaw Ghetto
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Throughout the bitter days of the Warsaw Ghetto, a clandestine group of researchers compiled a vast archive detailing every aspect of life in this prison city built and then obliterated by the Nazis. Led by a historian, Emanuel Ringelblum, the group then buried the archive for future generations. Continue the story here at the BBC.
Tablet Magazine is featuring stories from Warsaw, Poland; Click Here Tablet in Warsaw.
12 Saturday Jan 2019
On 19 April 1943, a train carrying 1,631 Jews set off from a Nazi detention camp in Belgium for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. But resistance fighters stopped 
the train. One boy who jumped to freedom that night retains vivid memories, 70 years later.
In February 1943, 11-year-old Simon Gronowski was sitting down for breakfast with his mother and sister in their Brussels hiding place when two Gestapo agents burst in.
They were taken to the Nazis’ notorious headquarters on the prestigious Avenue Louise, used as a prison for Jews and torture chamber for members of the resistance. Read more here
