Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here are the York Minster choir performing Good King Wenceslas (1995, 2:51). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Ella Fitzgerald performing It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (3:14).
Also, for those of you interested in reading classic works on the Interwebothique, I can report that I have finished reading Ulysses S. Grant‘s Personal Memoirs (1885), and I am now half-way through reading an English translation of René Descartes‘ Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Verité Dans les Sciences, commonly known in English as Discourse on the Method (1637). I can say with some confidence that I find both those works to be excellent reading.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source
Pew Research Center ^ | December”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153509/posts
“Ortona This battle possibly the bloodiest of WWII………..c’mon get real – the battle for Stalingrad claimed 1.5 million
Posted by: Larry Lloyd at December 23, 2008 3:46 PM ”
The bloodiest battle of WWII,the Bolshevik Revolution.But then that doesn’t count,because it was only Russians killing Russians.
Stalingrad was a single engagement between two armies. General Paulus of Germany had just over 1 million and Zukov(?) had over 1 million Ruskies.
The Ruskies cut off the Germans and surrounded them with over 7000 pieces of heavy artillery and tanks. And kept tightening the circle.
The Ruskies that were left took only about 90,000 German POWS in the spring. It was street fighting of the first order. Mainly because Hitler had specifically ordered Paulus not to surrender. Many had starved and froze to death.
‘The Battle of Stalingrad’ from the Why We Fight video collection is a good watch for history buffs.
“The bloodiest battle of WWII,the Bolshevik Revolution.But then that doesn’t count,because it was only Russians killing Russians.”
Wrong War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad