(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 07/10/20 5:14 am)
John E asked if I had visited the RSI cemetery in Nettuno, south of Rome.
Each April 25th I attend the ceremony at the RSI Cemetery in Altare near my Savona home. Originally th
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(Paul Pitlick, USA, 07/10/20 4:20 am)
When commenting on my post of yesterday, JE asked, "What is the present mood in California?"
I can't speak for everyone, and we have been under quarantine for almost 4 months, bu
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(George Aucoin, France, 07/09/20 5:24 am)
Could Dr Paul Pitlick address two topics for our edification with regard to COVID-19?
One would be the epidemic topic of "herd immunity" and the other would be the related concept of t
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(Enrique Torner, USA, 07/09/20 3:52 am)
American University of Paris has published a memorial to WAIS patriarch David W Pike:
https://www.aup.edu/n
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(David A. Westbrook, USA, 07/08/20 5:05 am)
In his last two WAIS posts, Gary Moore raises problems at the core of the contemporary preoccupation with "security." My buddy Mark Maguire (Dean of Social Sciences at the National Universi
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(Paul Pitlick, USA, 07/08/20 4:25 am)
In response to George Aucoin (July 7th), I think that one has to be a bit careful citing a single number for COVID deaths. While it is true that there were 261 deaths in the US on July 5th, that
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(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 07/07/20 2:30 pm)
I agree with Gary Moore's opinion (July 6th) that we will never know how much or how little benefit would have been derived from the Obama-era office and the playbook addressing health threats, be
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(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 07/07/20 4:53 am)
In my post of 5 July, I mentioned the US military cemetery of Nettuno, the resting place of 7861 gallant women and men. This cemetery was completed in 1956, but there are two others:
The nearby
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(George Aucoin, France, 07/07/20 3:55 am)
In response to Paul Pitlick (July 6th):
The coronavirus death rate in the US continues to plummet. No spike in deaths even though we've been hearing about the spike in cases as illustrated i
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(Paul Preston, UK, 07/06/20 7:08 am)
John E asked if I've ever been tempted to write a "sweeping and judgmental" history of Spain, as novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte has done. My short answer is NO.
I might oc
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