Watching soccer teams like Spain or Italy work the ball into a position for taking a shot at the net is to watch artistry in motion.
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Hindenburg Disaster – My Grandfather’s Little Piece of History
Pop described watching the great ship come in and at first being totally in awe of something "bigger than Ebbetts Field in the sky."
Read More »Music Review: Scorpions – Comeblack
German rockers exit with a fine album.
Read More »The Battle of the Bulge and Fighting Global Hunger
Hunger continues to be the deadly companion of conflict and poverty around the globe.
Read More »Book Review: Wallflower by Holly-Jane Rahlens
A serendipitous meeting in the transit system in Berlin. Can such a short time change things forever?
Read More »American Epic Highlights War, Peace, and Child Hunger
Hoover's American Epic in Fighting Hunger is something we can learn from in today's struggle to win peace.
Read More »Armistice Day, World Peace, and Feeding the Hungry
On Armistice Day let’s remember that dream of world peace that should have followed the First World War.
Read More »Happy Birthday to Ike’s Food for Peace, But Will There Be More?
The House of Representatives has proposed reducing Food for Peace funding.
Read More »Book Review: After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
Slim novel effectively portrays life in pre-war Nazi Germany through the eyes of a young ingenue.
Read More »Book Review: The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
A story of fate and betrayal, of love and forgiveness, 90 years apart.
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