Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Team Friedman Though the genius Alan Turing deserves pity for the ultimately fatal persecution he suffered for his homosexuality, at least he’s since been admired and embedded deep in well-known history for his extraordinary mind and accomplishments. There’s no shortage of writing and talk about him and his life, and his very name has …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ “One of Those Great Elemental Barbarians” Martin Luther wrote what might be the defining statement of his life in 1533: “Almost every night when I wake up, the devil is there and wants to dispute with me…I instantly chase him away with a fart.” All at once these words reveal the man’s off-color wit, …
In their struggle with “the wicked” the virtuous are often wicked too. – Nikolai Berdyaev, The Destiny of Man Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Keeping Up with Jim Jones My four favorite history subjects of the 20th century are the Nazi era, the scourge of Communism, the Manson Family and Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple, probably because their foolish and …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. – Doctor Zhivago Lara Antipova and Yuri Zhivago are among my favorite fictional lovers (such as Gone with the Wind’s Scarlet and Rhett, and Cheers’ Diane and …
