Showing posts with label The Irish Savant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Irish Savant. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A Question of Strength

The Island of Rab

Have any of this blogs' dear readers heard about how, in 1945 on an island in the Adriatic, 4,000 people were brutally and sadistically massacred in a period of a few days? No, neither had I. You would think something like that would get a mention somewhere when you check out the name of the island where this happened? For instance on Wikipedia? Well you'd be wrong.

In that case visit the blog, The Irish Savant and read the story. The comments to the story are also well worth reading.

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