Hans (left) and Sophie Scholl with Cristoph Probst (right), leaders of “The White Rose” resistance movement. Munich Germany, July 1942.
Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie were part of “The White Rose”, a group that opposed Hitler and the Nazi party. Hans served as a medic on the Eastern (Russian) front from late July to October 1942. One month later, 300,000 Germans were trapped in Stalingrad and only 5,000 returned to Germany. . .
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February 18 at 11:59 pm (MST) is the National Park Service (NPS) deadline to comment on proposed changes to NPS polices that protect our National Parks. It will only take you a couple of minutes to send an online form letter, or a little longer to write your own.
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From the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees web site, February 16, 2006
Why should you be concerned about the proposed changes to the “2001 Management Policies” of the National Park Service (NPS) ? Because the The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees is concerned.
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Grocery store, February 14, late in the afternoon. Photo © Jim Doty, Jr.
Ah! Valentine’s Day. I was at a local grocery store about an hour ago and the flower section was packed with men and women doing some last minute shopping. The card section was packed too and the card shelves looked like a tornado had gone through.
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Grizzly Bear Man, Tommy Treadlow
Grizzly Bear Man is an off-the-wall parody of the movie Grizzly Man. The parody is an 18MB download and you will need QuickTime installed on your computer to watch it (a free download for Windows or Mac). Featuring “Tommy Treadlow,” much of the parody will only make sense if you’ve seen the original movie. This is definitely a low budget production with a “limited” cast.
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“Grizzly Man” Timothy Treadwell
The award winning documentary film Grizzly Man is showing on the Discovery Channel this weekend. If you like nature, Alaska, bears, nature photography, or human behavior that is beyond the edge, you will probably enjoy this movie. Director Werner Herzog’s movie provides a fair, sensitive, non-sensationalized account that is worthy of the awards it has won at the Sundance Festival 2005 and from the L.A. Film Critics.
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