Jewish Voices from the Past make Mincemeat of Zionism and anti-Semitism

Edit Dissident Voice 05 Nov 2016
Lord Edwin Montagu ...Benjamin Freedman ... The other is a letter in 1917 by Lord Edwin Samuel Montagu, a prominnent British Jew, disagreeing with the Balfour Declaration. I had seen neither before ... ... In August 1917, while the Palestine deal was still being discussed but before Balfour issued his Declaration, Montagu penned a memorandum to the British Cabinet headed ‘On the Anti-Semitism of the Present Government’ ... He assumed.....

Hillsborough resident Roos was a soldier, a civil servant, a clothier

Edit The Mercury News 05 Nov 2016
All of Peninsula and San Francisco high society seemed stunned by the news on June 30, 1951. Robert A. Roos, 68, president and general manager of Roos Bros., one of the region’s most prominent clothiers, widely celebrated for catering to “particular men,” had died in his Hillsborough home ... And it was all true ... Born in 1883, Robert A ... 30, 1908 ... He began in 1917 as a lieutenant and, a year later, had been promoted to major ...   ....

Lenin on the Train review: All aboard the Red ball express

Edit The Irish Times 05 Nov 2016
On Easter Sunday 1917, one of the most important train journeys in 20th-century European history began. In the late afternoon of April 9th, leading Russian Bolshevik Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, his wife and fellow activist Nadezha “Nadya” Krupskaya, and some of his closest associates departed from Zurich’s main railway station bound for Germany ... From there they boarded still another train bound for the Russian capital of St Petersburg ... ....

West Glacier Weather Station Records Rainiest Month on Record (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Nov 2016
(Source. NPS - National Park Service) News Release Date.. November 4, 2016. Contact. Lauren Alley, 406-888-5838 ... Glacier National Park has collected weather data since 1914 ... The previous precipitation record at the West Glacier weather station was set in December of 1917 at 9.48 inches ... 2016 ... December 1917 ... December 1917 from monthly weather summary ... November 1917 showed only .14'' so potentially there was some carryover in record keeping....

West Glacier Weather Station Records Rainiest Month on Record (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Nov 2016
(Source. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park) News Release Date.. November 4, 2016. Contact. Lauren Alley, 406-888-5838 ... The other two are in St. Mary and East Glacier ... The previous precipitation record at the West Glacier weather station was set in December of 1917 at 9.48 inches ... 2016 ... December 1917 ... December 1917 from monthly weather summary ... November 1917 showed only .14'' so potentially there was some carryover in record keeping....

Lee, Vera (Jacobsen)

Edit Omaha World-Herald 04 Nov 2016
Lee, Vera (Jacobsen) Oct 6, 1917 - Nov 1, 2016 Ft. Calhoun. Vera Lee was born October 6, 1917 in Grundy County, Iowa to Martin and Anna Jacobsen. The first 8 years of her education were received in a small… ... ....

How Billy Hughes lost the 1916 conscription referendum (Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Nov 2016
(Source. Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House) ... So it was with Australia in 1916 and 1917 ... In the second conscription campaign Hughes did provide more detail, proposing a scheme along the lines of the New Zealand one, but the 1917 referendum was probably doomed to fail, given that little had changed since 1916, other than the number of casualties- which had only soared in the terrible battles of 1917 ... (noodl. 36133954) ....

Putin leads inauguration of statue of Prince Vladimir

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 04 Nov 2016
... Day, a contemporary holiday that replaced the Soviet Union's annual celebration of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917....

Family gets Pennsylvania WWI soldier's lost Purple Heart

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 04 Nov 2016
HARRISBURG, Pa ... Jacob Nailor enlisted in the Army in 1917 in Harrisburg and was injured in France during the Aisne-Marne campaign in October 1918 ... ....

Vladimir Putin leads inauguration of statue of Prince Vladimir at Kremlin

Edit Belfast Telegraph 04 Nov 2016
The opening took place as Russia marks National Unity Day, a contemporary holiday that replaced the Soviet Union's annual celebration of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 ... ....

Here’s Why Daylight Saving Time Isn’t Worth The Trouble It Causes

Edit IFL Science 04 Nov 2016
Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time (DST) by setting our clocks an hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 6. On Nov. 7, many of us will commute home in the dark ... Massachusetts is also studying whether to abandon DST ... Poster celebrating enactment of daylight saving time during World War I, 1917 (click to zoom)....

Idaho groups reopen lawsuit against Atlanta Gold re Boise River system pollution

Edit The Spokesman-Review 04 Nov 2016
Twitter Facebook Reddit. Here's a news item from the Associated Press. . By KEITH RIDLER. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two environmental groups have reopened a lawsuit contending a Canadian mining company is polluting the Boise River system despite a court order to stop ... Environmental Protection Agency ... He said the U.S ... A U.S ... As part of its exploration process, the company reopened 200 feet of a mine tunnel first drilled in 1917. ....

Jacksonville’s 100-year-old silent film studio granted national landmark status

Edit The Florida Times Union 04 Nov 2016
The only remaining piece of Jacksonville’s once-glowing silent film-making fame, parked in the middle of Old Arlington, just received a pretty important 100th birthday gift ...Richard E ... “It also means that another layer of protection for the facility.”. Jacksonville was home to about 30 silent film studios from 1908 through about 1917, including this one, begun as Eagle Studios in 1916 on Arlington Road ... It was designated in 1994. ....
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