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Dunkirk on Monday, May 20, 1940
A summary of the WWII events this day: German armored columns, led by General Guderian (a tank expert), severed all communication between the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the north and the main French army in the south. He also … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Sunday, May 19, 1940
A summary of the WWII events this day: The situation in France was unravelling fast. The Germans had now secured their breakthrough in the gap they had forced north of the Maginot Line. The great bulk of the French Army … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Saturday, May 18, 1940
A summary of the WWII events of this day: The German Army in Belgium captured Antwerp and entered Brussels. The British and French forces in Belgium fall back to positions behind the Dendre River. Twelve RAF Blenheim bombers attacked advancing … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Friday, May 17, 1940
From Walter Lord’s book, The Miracle of Dunkirk: This same day Winston Churchill for the first time began thinking of the possibility of evacuation. No one was more offensive-minded than Churchill—nobody prodded Gort harder—but every contingency had to be faced, … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Thursday, May 16, 1940
Normally talk of individuals saving civilization is correctly limited to summer sci-fi movies. But in those very movies nowadays, it seems that the Germans of WWII are the only universally acceptable symbols of evil. [The unwillingness to identify other evils … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Wednesday, May 15, 1940
From Walter Lord’s book, The Miracle of Dunkirk, the moment that Winston Churchill realized that the Allied forces situation was worse than imagined: At 7:30 a.m. on May 15, Churchill was asleep in his quarters at Admiralty House, London. The … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Tuesday, May 14, 1940
Walter Lord’s book, The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo, begins as follows: Every man had his own special moment when he first knew that something was wrong. For Royal Air Force [RAF] Group Captain Collard, it … Continue reading
Dunkirk on Friday, May 10, 1940
Some days in history kinda put other days in history to shame. Take for example May 10th, 1940: On this day in 1940, Hitler begins his Western offensive with the radio code word “Danzig,” sending his forces into Holland and … Continue reading
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Moneyballing a PhD wannabe vs The Great Courses
Moneyballing – ˈmənē/bôl/ing – to buy what is undervalued and sell what is overvalued. In the introduction to his recent book, The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis admits that reviewers of his Moneyball book made an important observation about his book’s … Continue reading
Wrights and infectious stuff
The brothers who ultimately stand atop the Right Stuff pyramid, knew all about infectious stuff, like bacteria and dreams. A pair of separate events occurred in 1896 in which the human spirit triumphed in confronting the deadly age-old bacterial infection, … Continue reading
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