Monthly Archives: April 2009

Of birds and fish…

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Here are some magnificent photos of birds of prey taken by an amazing artist. (Thanks to Tigerhawk).

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Renditions in Poland.

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Khalid Sheikh Muhammad supposedly was transferred to Poland for harsh interrogations.  Spiegel Online reports. Clarification:  Muhammed was not waterboarded 183 times. He had water poured on his face 183 times, and was subjected to 5 sessions of “ill-treatment”.

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Message in a bottle.

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

The primordial urge not to be forgotten: “Construction workers have found a message written by inmates of the Auschwitz death camp almost 65 years ago…”

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Blogging Warsaw in spring.

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

To understand what Warsaw, Poland is all about, take a virtual tour here, here, here, and here, enjoy it’s people, food, parks, as depicted by an expat Pole who just returned to her city of birth. (Thanks to Althouse).

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We can do it, if we try…

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Ever feel overburdened? tired? that life is too complicated and you think you have been dealt a most difficult blow? I used to read to my children The Little Engine That Could because I always thought the little book conveyed … Continue reading →

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America’s nightmare.

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Spiegel Online reports that the economic crisis in the US has plunged the middle class into poverty. The article provides a window as to how we are seen -and reported about- overseas.   I may be jaded, but this sounds way … Continue reading →

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Frozen mammoth.

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

National Geographic has neat pictures about a frozen baby mammoth found by reindeer shepherds in Siberia.   Will these shepherds benefit at all from this find?

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Tattoos.

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Everything you want to know about the origins and antiquity of tattoos is at the Smithsonian Magazine.

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Hatred of the Jew is like the lunar eclipse.

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

On anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism, too, will have its eclipses, but they are necessarily ephemeral. The primordial hatred of which we are speaking will continue to circle and shine and proceed through its phases because it has always done so — and … Continue reading →

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Babylon: The cradle of civilization.

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Babylon has received US government funding to develop it for tourism.   Here’s an interesting video from MSNBC about the cradle of civilization.

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Irena Sendlerowa.

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

I’m disappointed that I missed the  Hallmark Hall of Fame television docudrama about Irena Sendlerowa.  But I came across these comments from Phyllis Chesler that are worth pondering: … yesterday was the fiend Hitler’s birthday and the day the United … Continue reading →

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The story of a blind boy.

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Last night I watched a beautiful Iranian film that I had missed, and which has been around for 9 years! It is a lyrical story of a physically blind boy and his spiritually blind father. The Color of Paradise gave … Continue reading →

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On Mathematics, and drowning Turks.

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

From Poland’s The News.pl: “We did not try to exhort anyone to hate. What mattered to us was the mathematical model – the historical context was irrelevant. In order to solve the problem one needs to be acquainted with principles … Continue reading →

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Warsaw: “A city that no longer exists.”

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

In Poland,  a new exhibit of …two dozen or so black-and-white pictures in “Warsaw from Above” give visitors an eagle’s eye view of the Polish capital as the densely packed, almost honeycomb-like city of tenement buildings, townhouses and palaces of … Continue reading →

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Provincial elections: reconstructing Iraq.

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Here’s a New York Times article on what has happened in Iraq since the provincial elections last January. Since Kenneth has been living in Hilla for the last year, I found this description sobering: Babil’s provincial capital, Hilla, is a … Continue reading →

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