Much was made of the 70th anniversary of D-Day last week which was the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Third Reich (along with Stalingrad in the east for the Soviets).  Much less talked about in the US is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I coming up this summer.  The beginning […]

Emel Ertas was an IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) classmate of mine.  She was interviewed on her opinions on the upcoming elections in Turkey.  Their politics sounds about as divided as it is in the United States. Going back to the days of the Alexander the Great, Turkey (then called Asia Minor) has always been […]

Much has been written about the similarities between Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte.  Hitler was an Austrian who was a failed artist who was abused as a boy.  Through cunning and luck he rose from obscurity to become a heinous dictator of his adopted county, Germany.   Napoleon was a Corsican who had once tried to […]