On July 31st, 1944, Saint-Exupery took off from the military base “Borgo-Poretta” in Corsica Island (France) on a mission of photographic recognition. He was supposed to take pictures of the coast of “Provenza” in order to prepare the landing of the allies’ troops. But, while he was flying, Horst Rippert, a German Nazi pilot saw […]
Last year, Pep Guardiola (who is a Spanish professional football manager and currently manager of Premier League club Manchester City) showing a soccer ball to his soccer players said to them: “Some guys don’t want this: to play with the ball. They don’t want this. We will win at Anfield, because we will want this
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Aron Lustiger was born on September 17, 1926 in Paris. His parents, Charles and Gisèle Lustiger, were Jews from Będzin, Poland. They left Poland during World War I. Aron Lustiger studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, where he first encountered anti-Semitism. Visiting Germany in 1937, he was hosted by an anti-Nazi Protestant family whose
In October 1911, two teams of explorers tried to reach the South Pole in order to be the first human beings to touch it. After almost two months, one team, led by Roald Amundsen, arrived to the South Pole, and returned home safely. The other team, led by Robert Falcon Scott, reached the South Pole
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