Category Archives: 20th century

EASTER 1916 – YEATS

April 9, 2023 – 5:45 am

EASTER 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or […]

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Etaples France 1917

March 17, 2020 – 6:32 pm

Accoriding to Wilipedia the major UK troop staging and hospital camp in Étaples in France has been theorized by researchers as being at the center of the Spanish Flu. The research was published in 1999 by a British team, led by virologist John Oxford. In late 1917, military pathologists reported the onset of a new […]

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World AIDS Awareness Day

December 1, 2019 – 1:21 pm

In the Fall of 1978 I was hired as security at an uptown punk disco uptown. The job paid $100 a night and free drinks from the gay bartenders. I came home from Hurrah smelling of cigarettes, beer, and perfume. Alice slept on the bed. I crashed on the couch. Late one night a doctor […]

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Jerusalem 1920

August 2, 2014 – 6:24 pm

Population 1922. Jewish 33,971 Muslims 13,413 Christian 14,669 And about 4000 others. Of course the rest of Palestine was another story. Jeiwsh 84,000 Christian 71,000 Muslims 589,000 It was a different world. Jerusalem was a different place.

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Nelson Mandela Ad Infinitum

December 14, 2013 – 10:12 pm

Some people aren’t scared to speak the truth and their voice lives on forever. “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings… If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude […]

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