Given this centuries massive migrant refugee crises around the world, it’s not hard to fathom the intense Irish immigrant bigotry of the mid-1800’s. The great Irish Potato Famine lasted nearly a decade and brought massive numbers of Irish refugees to America, Canada and England. Faced with eviction and starvation, hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrated across the AtlanticContinue reading “Podcast : An Irish Immigrants Welcome – No Irish Need Apply”
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Podcast: An Immigrant’s Ellis Island Fate Depended on 29 Questions
For a vast number of Americans, their great-grandparents arrived in the U.S. as immigrants in the early 1900’s. There were no airports back then, just a cold, grey ocean to cross. So all the Poles, Russians, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Swedes, and Germans arrived in New York by steamship. Poorer immigrants in third class “steerage” were ferried by barge withContinue reading “Podcast: An Immigrant’s Ellis Island Fate Depended on 29 Questions”
Both Germany and the Allies used Poison Gas in World War I
The horrors that man is capable of unleashing upon his enemy during warfare reached its pinnacle during World War I, when BOTH slides liberally used Poison Gas against each other.
10 Reasons ‘Saint Germain’ Sounds so Darn Familiar
The Count of Saint Germain was an ageless adventurer of the 18th century. Alchemist, spy, composer, diplomat, and general enigma, the mysterious Count was an actual historic figure, with adventures across 18th century Europe and the Far East. Throughout all this time, he never appeared to age. He is the main character of “The Man WhoContinue reading “10 Reasons ‘Saint Germain’ Sounds so Darn Familiar”