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Irena Sendler
1910-2008
A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won - for a slide show on Global Warming.
Source (via nixsayo)Good lord. I just can’t stop thinking about this.
Romanians stood behind a fogged tram window in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday. A strike by subway workers, who are demanding a 20% pay raise, forced up to 700,000 people in the Romanian capital to find alternative means of transportation. (Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations linked hands for a group photo Sunday. From left to right: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar’s Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, U.S. President Barack Obama, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Laos Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh in Singapore. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
Todd Barry, “Thanksgiving Dinner”
A billboard stood against the backdrop of San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru, Thursday. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)
Eat Turkey.
Hallo turkey. *hug*
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Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
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This is rude!
Have you ever lost your luggage and wondered where it has ended up? Most of it ends up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. It’s a massive thrift store style warehouse selling clothes, cameras, iPods, souvenirs, prescription eyeglasses, and of course the luggage, itself.
The majority of items are from unclaimed baggage which, after at least 90 days of intensive tracking by the airlines, are declared unclaimed. They’ve even devoted sections of their website to the most Interesting Stuff they’ve come across and a Peek In The Bag, where you can view a customer’s receipt.
The best part of the store is that you can’t shop online, you must discover “lost treasures from around the world” in person.
