J-M's History Corner

Last week I published Time Slips , which gave a couple accounts of persons who may have slipped through time.  I mentioned that I'd had a couple time slip experience, but didn't detail them.  Well, that's what I'm doing today. Fellow blogger Naomi has published my accounts on her blog Time Slip Accounts (highly recommended site).  I'll reproduce her article (which is narrated by me). Here are my time slip experiences, both from when before I became an adult:   The first time, I was looking for a ruler (I was homeschooled).  My Mum told me there was one on the desk in the far corner of the lounge.  As I walked over there, I passed my Dad on the computer.  He had his email inbox up, but was talking on the phone to a contact of ours.  I happened to notice in passing an unread email from the contact titled "Hannah" at the top of the inbox (immediately below it was an email we'd read earlier about Answers in Genesis' Ark Exhibit).  I got ...

The Holocaust was one of the largest mass murders in history.  Between 1941 and 1945, Germany's Nazi regime rounded up Jews and other "undesirables" into concentration camps, where 17 million people (6 million Jews - i.e. two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population - and 11 million non-Jews) were murdered.  It's one of the most well-documented genocides in human history, and in part (emphasis on in part ) contributed to the recreation of the State of Israel in the Jews' ancient homeland.  Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's actions forever once and for all exposed anti-Semitism (and indeed, all forms of racism) for the bigotry and horror they really are. But in recent years - in part thanks to the internet, and racist conspiracy theorists who are no better than the backward, superstitious Middle Age folks who blamed everything (even natural disasters) on the Jews (modern codename: "Zionists"; yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism) - with the rise of anti-Sem...