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Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death

If there was one group of doctors who paid no attention to the first principle of the Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm,” it would be the doctors in the Nazi death camps who aided and abetted the murder of some 6 million Jews and other untermenschen (undesirables) during World War II. The most famous

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Bruce’s History Lessons: Ronald Reagan: The Hedgehog

“The fox knows many things. The hedgehog knows one big thing.” – Isaiah Berlin Ronald Reagan, born this week (Feb. 6) in 1911, was a hedgehog from his tail to his snout. And the one big thing he knew was that Communism was an ideology devoid of a single redeeming factor, and that its chief

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Creating Winnie the Pooh

“Winnie the Pooh doesn’t know what to do; got a honey jar stuck on his nose. He came to me asking for help and advice, and from here no one knows where he goes.” – “Return to Pooh Corner” by Loggins and Messina Allen Alexander Milne knew exactly where he wanted his literary creation, Winnie

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