| On this day, February 22, in 1943, three brave young people in Germany, founders of the White Rose Society, a student resistance movement, were tried and summarily executed by guillotine, for having distributed leaflets against the brutal, totalitarian Nazi control of their country. Their society was named after a novel, The White Rose by B. Traven, who also wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Thought this might be of interest to my fellow readers of this board. Walt
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| quote: Originally posted by Walt:
On this day, February 22, in 1943, three brave young people in Germany, founders of the White Rose Society, a student resistance movement, were tried and summarily executed by guillotine, for having distributed leaflets against the brutal, totalitarian Nazi control of their country.
Their society was named after a novel, The White Rose by B. Traven, who also wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Thought this might be of interest to my fellow readers of this board.
Walt
Ugh. Augh. I read this story in German, during high school German class, not knowing the accuracy or historicity of it. This has to be the same event. Ugh. Even though I don't remember the correct German words for it decades later, "they were allowed to smoke a last cigarette together" is seared into my memory, never to stop searing. |
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| The funniest man on TV died. 2006. Don Knotts!
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| Pre-Twitter: On this day in 1886 Thomas Edison married Mina Miller. He wooed the 19 year old woman via Morse code.
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| 1983: The last episode of M*A*S*H, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, aired on television
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| quote: Originally posted by dandelion:
...Just learned Edison was a real bastard to French filmmaker Georges Melies...
I imagine this was over Edison's insistence that the Edison company had invented the motion picture, and trying to secure a monopoly through the enforcement of patent rights. |
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| Born 1904: Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) 1933: World premiere of King Kong Died 1982: Philip K. Dick
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| Speaking of the devil: Born 1847: Alexander Graham Bell 1959: Pioneer 4, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit Sun, launched 1969: Apollo 9 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy
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| quote: Originally posted by jkt:
Speaking of the devil: Born 1847: Alexander Graham Bell
Accused of some stuff almost as bad as Edison but in his case perhaps not as clear cut. |
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| Born 1475: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Born 1906: Lou Costello
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| 1966: Brian Wilson's heartbreakingly beautiful ballad Caroline, No was released. See!
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