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Hace 5 días · As a humble act of regret and a plea for forgiveness, Fujita presented to the town a 400-year-old samurai sword that had been handed down in his family from generation to generation. The town forgave Fujita, hung the sword in the local library and even named Fujita an “ambassador of good will”. 24.
Hace 5 días · This is a sad, accidental scientific experiment that’s difficult to get your head around. The Accidental Twins is as raw as it gets because the subjects are interviewed. The hospital mix-up spurred a series of events that happened by luck. Being mixed up was bad luck, but finding each other was good luck. This is the kind of story that ...
Hace 5 días · For Qian Xiuling, often known as Madame Perlinghi-Tsien, the choice to save more than 100 Belgians from the Nazis during World War II was obvious. It was also incredibly brave. She was awarded the "Hero of the State" medal in Belgium after the war. Although her actions were like those of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved 1,200 ...
Hace 5 días · Theodore was an intelligent, humorous child who delighted in dressing up as one of his beloved Household Cavalry soldiers and reciting poetry. He died unexpectedly of appendicitis on a family trip to Swanage in April 1911. George Trevelyan, and his wife Janet, were initially numb with grief. George’s sister-in-law, Molly, who was with them ...
Hace 4 días · The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts. [10] The idea of a universal library in Alexandria may have been proposed ...
Hace 5 días · The story follows a torrid affair between an upper-class married woman and the working-class man who serves as the gamekeeper of the impressive Chatterley estate in Wragby. In Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s rendition of ‘ Lady Chatterley’s Lover ,’ Constance “Connie” Reid’s husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, returns home, paralyzed from the waist down.
