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During the 1930s, as Hitler was rising to power in Germany, the man who would turn out to be his most implacable foe was drowning — in debt and champagne. A new book recounts the unbelievable excess.

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Readers of The Fault in Our Stars certainly know that a pivotal portion of the book takes place in Amsterdam. I'll be honest; this was not in our vacation budget. However, thanks to google images there's no reason why we can't look at pictures and pretend that we went there. Most of the action takes place in four places: The Hotel Filosoof The Oranjee Peter Van Houten's Home Anne Frank House No such place as the Oranjee restaurant exists so no photos can be adopted from google's vast array of purloined images. There is however, an Oranje Hotel in Amsterdam on the outskirts of the red light district and while they do serve breakfast they do not provide lunch or dinner. I know this only from my internet research--I have not secretly flown off to have breakfast at value-priced hotel in walking proximity to the retail sex markets in Amsterdam. And, as Peter Van Houten is a fictitious, I don't need to spend time trying to find his townhouse. So that leaves the Hotel Filosoof which is a real location: The Lobby Staircase Assorted Rooms: And now on to the Anne Frank House If you're familiar with Amsterdam you'll know right where the blue house in the above image is but for the rest of us our imaginations can run wild with the historical significance of the buildings in this district in general as we grimly focus on the very specific significance of the Anne Frank house. Below is the bookcase which concealed the secret entry into the Frank's cramped living quarters. The bookcase opening to reveal the entryway. The first set of stairs that Hazel Grace had to overcome The room that Anne shared with dentist Fritz Pfeffer. You can see the blackout curtains over the windows. The staircase leading to the room where the van Pels family lived that Hazel described as "essentially a glorified ladder". Anne's writing desk, pen set, and diary--replica's no doubt. Seeing these photos makes we want to visit the house but more importantly the photos make me want to re-read the Anne Frank Diary as it has been over 40 years since I did so. I am a firm believer that we should remember history so that we do not repeat it and the evil that swelled up during WWII is a prime example of what should not be forgotten. Up Next: The Speedway Gas Station at 86th and Ditch Road

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I've decided to switch gears here. I will eventually come back to chainmail but seeing that I already have a chainmail shirt and there is loads of information on the Internet on making chainmail, I'm moving on to something else...Roman Armor. Specifically Lorica Segmentata. From what I've been able to find, this type of armor is a perfect next step in armor making. It doesn't require a number of speciallty tools and seems fairly straight forward. This is a picture of what I'm talking about (from http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/default.aspx). The pattern I'm using is from http://www.larp.com/legioxx/lorica.html. This website has been very helpful. I will be attempting the Corbridge Type A pattern. I've read that it is best made with poster board first to make sure that it will fit. It is easier to make any adjustments (and less expensive) with paper than it is with metal, so this is where I'm starting. I printed out the patterns onto card stock paper and started making the hinges. This was a little tricky becuase the patterns are just images. Luckily the patterns have a scale on them. I just copied the images into a Word document and resized the picture until the scale on the pattern matched the scale in Word. You need 8 hinges for this pattern. The hinges are made of 3 pieces: the two halves (shown above) and a 1/8" bar that serves as a pin. To make the pin, I just rolled a piece of paper that was approximately 1/8" in diameter and taped it. The two different halves are similar, however 8 of the halves will have 3 "bars" connecting the two sides (as shown in the ones already cut above) and the other 8 halves will have only 2 "bars". Each half is bent around the 1/8" pin. When each half is bent the pin is threaded through the "bars" connecting the two sides. This was also a little tricky. I am glad I am doing this with poster board first. The half with the 2 "connecting bars" has to fit between the spaces between the half with the 3 "connecting bars". I had to trim the pieces slightly in order for them to fit. It was pretty time consuming but here are the finished hinges. They don't completely bend all the way but they do enough for their purpose. I'm planning on making a video to make things a little clearer. To be continued...

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HU 52740. Madame Breshko-Breshkovskaya (often referred to as “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution”) in exile in Siberia for participation in earlier civil disturbances

The beret is likely one of the very few subjects that hasn't been written about regarding Anne Frank; the poor girl's short life has been so much studied, spelled-out and analysed - what would she have thought of that? And here I add my little bit as well, with this 1937 passport photograph. Father, Otto Frank, took to wearing a beret as well, after the war. Pictured here on a Getty's© photograph with his second wife Fritzi at the Anne Frank Memorial Forest in Israel, circa 1965. And here in an Amsterdam street, again together with his wife Fritzi and Victor Kugler, who helped Anne Frank and her family hide from the Germans during the occupation of the Netherlands. Pictured here sisters Ruth, Eva and Mirjam Wiener, playmates of Anne, in Amsterdam in 1940.

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