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The Porsche unknown story
Ferdinand Porsche with his son Ferdinand Anton Ernst “Ferry” Porsche in 1937
In December 1945 the French government invited Porsche to Paris, ostensibly to discuss licensing manufacture of a French Volkswagen. Ferdinand, Ferry and Anton Piech traveled to Paris but quickly found themselves in a political pressure cooker. The French government intended seizing the Volkswagen factory and moving it to France as reparations and they wanted Porsche’s patents. When Porsche stonewalled, the trio were arrested as war criminals. After four months imprisonment Ferry was released and hurried back to Stuttgart. To raise funds to secure his father’s release, Ferry began to promote a custom sportster that he’d been developing in Gmund. The first cars were entirely hand built from assorted VW parts in barn. Now Ferry moved the operation to Porsche’s Stuttgart workshop and started taking orders – with payment up front. Continue reading
“Smartness”
Being stupid is easier than to be smart. That doesn’t applied to nature that it do not use such skills.
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Bobby Sands str
Bobby Sands once wrote: “Of course I can be murdered. But I remain what I am, a political POW, and no one, not even the British, can change that.”
In 1981 the Iranian government officially changed the name of Winston Churchill Street where the British Embassy is based to Bobby Sands Street. According to one press agency at the time, “the British nationals employed at the embassy don’t want to be located in a street named after a man whose organisation brought terror to the UK.”
The response of the British was to seal the entrance to their embassy on Bobby Sands Street and knock through the wall into Ferdowsi Avenue, which is now their new address.
The Night We Named Bobby Sands Street
The message of the graffiti
Graffiti depicts how clear is the impression of the message the creator has in his head.
IRT 2 Train, South Bronx, NYC., 1980 – Photo by Danny Lyon
The Bosnian Pyramids
There are five pyramids which have been named the Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, the Pyramid of the Dragon, the Pyramid of the Earth, and the Pyramid of Love.
Here is an overview of the Visoko valley with the location of the pyramids.
The pyramid of the Sun is the talest one and it is estimated 722 feet (220 m) high, which would make it a lot taller than the Cheops pyramid in Egypt (147 meters).
Things to remember
Things to remember:
- You can’t remove historical figures from the context of their own time.
- You can’t blame people in the past for not knowing what we know in the present.
- Understanding the views of people in the past does not necessarily mean agreeing with them.
- In a century or two, they’ll look down on our society and say we were backwards.