Amazing - absolutely amazing that we keep learning new things. I just read, then watched, and then investigated about an historical event that is so horrific, and yet completely subdued from main line schooling. That event, "The Nanking Massacre". I learned Chinese history in elementary and high school. I learned about World War II also, but I never learned about this topic. We are told about the holocaust and all the Jews etc. that were murdered, but the events in China, I believe were even more horrific. Rape - babies, young pre-teens, grand-mothers, and decapitations and vaginal intrusions of all kinds. You should google it, become familiar with it. I love Japan, this is not meant to slight them or the culture. I just think we should not be bigoted in our belief that only the western holocaust existed. If you do read up on it, I would be interested in your feedback.
Showing posts with label Historical Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical Events. Show all posts
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Sunday, December 12, 2010
WHO SAYS YESTERYEARS WERE NOT BETTER
A lot of people talk about the good old days, and so many of us tend to dismiss it as rose coloured glasses of history. Yea, for sure, there tends to be a romanticism towards those years, but I think that has a lot to do with the gloom in the foreseers eyes, trying to 'prepare' us.
Well I got a chance to read a small bit of history, and I can tell you, it sure sounds like the good old days in many respects, were just that. And on either side of the big pond.
Have a read, I sure Deborah Cadbury won't mind.
Well I got a chance to read a small bit of history, and I can tell you, it sure sounds like the good old days in many respects, were just that. And on either side of the big pond.
Have a read, I sure Deborah Cadbury won't mind.
Chocolate WarsThe 150-Year Rivalry
Between the World's Greatest Chocolate MakersBy Deborah Cadbury
Between the World's Greatest Chocolate MakersBy Deborah Cadbury
Public Affairs Press. 319 pp. $27.95
Reviewed by Rickie Roberts
The inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, Nestlé, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale.
Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently in Chocolate Wars, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject.
Cadbury is considerably more than a descendant with a yearning to document the family's struggles to build a chocolate dynasty. She is a gifted and successful author of several books about history and industry, including Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2004), The Lost Kings of France (2003), and The Dinosaur Hunters (2001). She also has won numerous awards as a producer for the BBC.
How much can be said about chocolate? And what do the Boer War, religion, the welfare state, globalization, the suburbs, and both world wars have to do with our favorite chocolate treats?
Chocolate Wars lays out a history as rich and complicated as that of any industry in the world - from the days when the Aztecs made an oily, gritty, bitter drink from the cocoa bean through the innovations of the early industrial age, right up to the mergers and acquisitions of the last three decades.
Cadbury focuses her story on the Cadbury family but never leaves out a tidbit about the other chocolate giants, including Milton Hershey, Forrest Mars, Rodolphe Lindt, and
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
WE HAVE TO REMEMBER
November 11th is not a statutory holiday. I for one do not want it to become one either. Too many 'holidays' lose their meaning when you have time off from work. Personal tasks always take over. At least for most when working, at 11 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month we can take 2 minutes to honour those who sacrificed and are sacrificing to keep the world safe from oppression.
