Herschel Grynszpan

At the moment I'm reading Hannah Arendt's book "Eichmann in Jerusalem - Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen". This book and all the history described in it is really... well, I am at a loss for words - horrible, unbelievable, sometimes incredibly absurd, but anyway real. I read up on some names that pop up in the text and that's how I stumbled on the story of Herschel Grynszpan. Early Years Herschel Grynszpan was born on March 28th 1921…

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10,000 Birds Trapped In the World Trade Center Light Beams

They were thousands of birds, trapped into the beams, confused by the intense light while trying to go over New York City, en route to warmer climates. The birds saw the intense light from the distance and, lacking any other navigational reference in the sky, they went into it.

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