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POPSLee Sandlin: Losing the War Quite long – click through for the full essay. More: I figured people had to know the basics -- World War II isn't exactly easy to miss. It was the largest war ever fought, the largest single event in history. Other than the black death of the Middle Ages, it's the worst thing we know of that has ever happened to the human race. Its aftereffects surround us in countless intertwining ways… So what did the people I asked know about the war? Nobody could tell me the first thing about it. Once they got past who won they almost drew a blank. All they knew were those big totemic names -- Pearl Harbor, D day, Auschwitz, Hiroshima -- whose unfathomable reaches of experience had been boiled down to an abstract atrocity. The rest was gone… I think what my little survey really demonstrates is how vast the gap is between the experience of war and the experience of peace.
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POPSfrom the Sacred Text Archive: Prophecy & Divination texts
What does the future hold? This is one of the big questions we'd all like answered. This page has links to resources at sacred-texts that relate to prophecy and divination. Prophecy The Prophecies of Nostradamus by Nostradamus. The complete predictions of Nostradamus both in English and Old French, with a biography of Nostradamus and some notes about the events of 9/11. Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time by Lee McCann . A biography and historical novel of Nostradamus, with many interpreted quatrains, written during World War II. The Oracles of Nostradamus by Charles A. Ward . The complete text of one of the best books about Nostradamus ever written. The Sibylline Oracles Tr. by Milton S. Terry . Read the mysterious (purported) predictions of the Roman Sibylline Oracle. The Book of Revelation-The most famous Christian prophecy. The Prophecies of Paracelsus by Paracelsus, tr. by J.K . The alchemist and esoteric philosopher issued a set of
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POPSWhat Americans owe to those who serve "Each November we are asked to pause and honor them, which is, or should be, an honor in itself. After the events of the last week at Fort Hood in Texas, with their reminder of the sacrifices that the men and women of the military make for us, Veterans Day will hold special meaning this year."
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POPS80-Year Anniversary Of "Black Tuesday"
More commonly known as "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929 was the last of four so-called "black" days which ushered in the Great Depression. In fact, the stock market collapse in the U.S. for at least one month after Black Tuesday. Eventually, the Great Depression grew into a worldwide financial calamity that lasted, by most conventional accounts, until the end of World War II. By 1933, the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was cut in half. The Depression caused many farmers to lose their farms. At the same time, years of erosion and a drought created the “Dust Bowl” in the Midwest, where no crops could grow. Many traveled to California to find work, a subject written about by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath." Many others ended up living as “hobos” or in “Hoovervilles”, make-shift homeless encampments named after then-President Herbert Hoover. During the 1928 Presidential campaign, Hoover campaigned on a number of slogans, one of which was "Vote for Pros
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POPSLiong Tek Go Family Association. The Go Families continued to grow and spread through out the country so that by 1948, after World War II. the first Liong Tek Go Family Association provincial chapter was established in Leyte, Samar. Two years later, in 1950 another chapter was established in Cebu. In 1958, the Liong Tek Go Family Association celebrated their 50th Golden Anniversary.
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POPSPostal Service in the Philippines a trivia about Postal Service in the Philippines, the manila central post office located at liwasang bonifacio is a neo classical style building designed by architect juan marcos de guzman arellano in 1926, it was destroyed during the world war 2 and rebuilt in 1946 after the war
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POPSGrepalife In 1967, a partnership between Grepalife and Worldwide Memorial Trust gave birth to Pacific Memorial Plan as a new subsidiary and first pre-need carrier in the country. A year later, Grepalife, along with the other members of the Yuchengco Group of Companies, adopted the blue hexagon as official logo, signifying the strength of synergy within the mammoth conglomerate.
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POPSBenguet Corporation Trivia about Benguet Corporation. A corporation by two former american soldiers / mining prospectors and a soda fountain owner. they were among the many americans that stayed in the Philippines after the Spanish - American War. they pioneered gold mining operations in country and ushered the beginning of the Philippine Mining Industry.
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POPSLa Union National High School La Union National High School which was given the name The San Fernando High School when it first opened in January 19, 1903 , was the first secondary school established in La Union during the administration of Senor Joaquin Ortega.
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POPSMasonic Charities for Crippled Children, Inc (MCCCII.) Exceptfor a brief period during World War II, the ward has operated continuously and has increased its capacity to 20 beds. It is managed by the MCCCI which is supported by annual assessments on Philippine Masons and run by a 9-member Board of Trustees. It also receives donanons and legacies.
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POPSGloria Macapagal Arroyo She pursued her Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree and graduated magna cum laude at the same school. She then took her Masteral Degree in Economics at the Ateneo de Manila, her Doctoral Degree in Economics at the University of the Philippines, and further studies at the Georgetown University where she was consistently in the Dean's List for academic excellence.
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POPSRoque B. Ablan, Sr. trivia about Roque B. Ablan, Sr.,Outstanding public servant and World War II hero, Roque Ablan was born on 09 August 1906 in Laoag, llocos Norte to Victor Ablan and Raymunda Blanco.
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POPSExposing the Colour of Prejudice John Howard Griffin was a remarkable man. As a Texan teenager who found himself in France at the outbreak of World War II, he helped to smuggle Jewish children to safety and freedom. He then served with distinction in the US Air Force in the Pacific. And then, after the war - when illness struck him blind for 10 years while he was still relatively young - he became a prolific writer. It was after his sight returned that he hit upon the idea of Black Like Me, the work which is his most important legacy. The whole business of racial impersonation might make us feel vaguely uncomfortable now, but in 1959 a black writer simply could not have found an audience for such a graphic portrayal of African-American grievance. Griffin's grim adventures as a black man in a white man's world are worth reading. They remain a set text for many American high school children.
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POPSOct. 23,1983 Lebanese Terrorists Bomb the Marine Barracks in Beirut
. . with Syria. Although the United States had mounted two previous successful peacekeeping operations in Lebanon in 1958 and earlier in 1982 (to facilitate the evacuation of P.L.O. forces from Beirut that had been defeated by Israel), the ignominious end of the MNF intervention brought disastrous consequences. The failure of the peacekeeping mission led to renewed fighting between Lebanese factions and the ascendancy of Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria. Moreover, the Marine barracks bombing, which was the deadliest terrorist attack against Americans before the 9/11 attacks, later inspired Osama bin Laden, who viewed the United States as a “paper tiger” because of its rapid withdrawal of peacekeeping forces from Lebanon and Somalia after suffering casualties. Al Qaeda members were later dispatched to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon, according to the 9/11 Commission Report (p. 68). Posted October 23rd, 2009 in American Leadership.
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POPSObama Has Won The 100 Metres at The 2012 London Olympics Thus, with President Wilson alone, the Nobel Peace Prize death toll is over 50 million and counting. Occasionally the peace prize has gone to actual peace negotiators but usually, per Teddy Roosevelt, when there was nothing left to negotiate. Carlos Saavedra Lamas got his in 1936 for mediating between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35). Both nations were exhausted, 100,000 soldiers were dead, and the Chaco was--as it had been and remains--a vast, useless weed patch. Likewise, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (1976) and John Hume and David Trimble (1998)--the four of them were standing around when, after 500 years, the fool residents of my ancestral homeland ran out of ammo and beer. Of course, if you go around giving prizes left and right (mostly left) for more than a century, you're bound to give some to worthy people once in a while. With the Nobel committee this usually involves the Red Cross (1901, 1917, 1944, 1963). But the Red Cross doesn't bring peace . . .
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POPSPhilippines-France Diplomatic Relations The Treaty provides that there shall be "constant peace and perpetual friendship" between the Philippines and France and today provides the foundation for the enduring ties between both countries. Historically these ties can trace their roots to the French Revolution, which is said to have inspired Andres Bonifacio and the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
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POPSShōichi Yokoi "It is with much embarassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan. The remark would become a popular saying in Japanese. For twenty-eight years, he hid in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. Yokoi was the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after the war.
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POPSU.S.Troop Funds $2.6 Billion Taken From Guns and Ammunition For "Pet Projects" Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, called the transfer of funds from Pentagon operations and maintenance "a disgrace." "The Senate is putting favorable headlines back home above our men and women fighting on the front lines," he said in a statement. RELATED STORIES: • Michigan town lobbies for Gitmo transfers • Top Treasury posts stay empty in financial crisis • VA Dept. hospitals botched treatments Mr. Wheeler, who conducted the study, compared the Obama administration's requests for funds with the $636 billion spending bill that the Senate passed. He discovered that senators added $2.6 billion in pet projects while spending $4 billion less than the administration requested for fiscal 2010, which began Oct. 1. Mr. Wheeler said that senators took most of the cash for the projects from the "operations and maintenance" or O&M accounts. "These are the accounts that pay for troop training, repairs, spares and supplies for vehicles, weapons, ships and planes,
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