The Blitz
September 15 is the designated Battle of Britain Day in England. In the past the day was marked with the flyover of the City of London by a Hurricane and a Spitfire. September 15 saw the climactic...
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JackPoynter wrote:LS,The only urges we have are 'animal urges,' since we are animals, therefore there is nothing for them to be distinct from.Are you a proponent of the 'tabula rasa'? Do you think...
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JackPoynter wrote:LS,The only urges we have are 'animal urges,' since we are animals, therefore there is nothing for them to be distinct from.Are you a proponent of the 'tabula rasa'? Do you think...
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Bob, I would have treated this as a simple typo, but I have to ask, since you wrote the same thing twice, what is 'tabula rosa'? Tabula rasa, used in this context, means the concept that everything we...
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Bob, I would have treated this as a simple typo, but I have to ask, since you wrote the same thing twice, what is 'tabula rosa'? Tabula rasa, used in this context, means the concept that everything we...
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JP wrote:Basically, altruism has its place in our emotional makeup. Greed, its opposite, appears to have a place also. Hate is as appropriate as Love, depending on circumstance. Branding any one...
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Altruism is a moral concept, not an emotion.I stopped reading when I got to that comment. Obviously we don't agree on definitions, and so will be writing at cross purposes henceforth.
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The most interesting nature/nurture studies come from research on identical twins raised apart. Of course the numbers are limited. I don't have any of that readily at hand, but it would be worth...
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The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London during the afternoon of September 7, 1940 heralded a tactical shift in Hitler's attempt to subdue Great Britain. . . . This was the beginning...
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The photos from HistoryPlace are outstanding. This one looks like something out of a movie....http://www.historyplace.c...ar2/ww2-pix/london12.jpg
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The Coventry Blitz 'conspiracy'By Ian Shoesmith & Jon Kelly BBC NewsIt's 70 years since Germany launched one of the most devastating bombing raids of World War II, on Coventry. But did Winston...
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While London was taking the brunt of the bombing and would continue to suffer until the following May, nowhere in Britain was entirely safe from the...
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It was constant running battle to deal with the huge numbers of unexploded bombs.http://ww2today.com/21st-...se-widespread-disruption--"Morale remains consistently high both in London and the...
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Over 500 German bombers hit the English midlands town of Coventry in successive waves over the course of the night of the 14th/15th November. The Germans used pathfinder bombers, guided to the city by...
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At the beginning of the war Leicester had been considered a relatively safe location, suitable for the reception of evacuees. There seemed to be no part of Britain that was excluded from the danger of...
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The first of two major attacks on Sheffield took place on the night of 12th-13th December 1940. It was not until the morning that an attempt could be made to investigate the pile of rubble that had...
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"On the 7th January, during the most extensive daylight raiding that we have known for some weeks, London was raided intermittently for three and a half hours, and bombs were dropped in fifteen...
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The Parnall Aircraft Works at Yate, Bristol, were hit on the 27th February and considerable damage was done to buildings. Full production will be restored in about a month’s...
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Hull suffered a major raid on the night 18th March 1941, one of several large raids that spring, although it had been frequently bombed since the summer of 1940 and would continue to be a target into...
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The worst single loss of life in the history of the Fire Brigade occurred during the night of the 19th when 34 firemen were killed at the Old Place School in Poplar, East...
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The 10th saw the last major raid during the London Blitz. It was not the last time London would be bombed but it was the end of the major campaign that had started on the 7th September 1940. An...
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