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29/12/2025

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29/12/2025

Edgar Allan Poe
🖋️ “Years of love have been forgot,
In the hatred of a minute.”

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his haunting poetry and dark, psychological short stories. A central figure of American Romanticism, Poe helped shape modern literature and is widely regarded as the inventor of detective fiction and an early contributor to science fiction.

Born in Boston, Poe faced tragedy early in life—his father abandoned the family, and his mother died when he was only two. He was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia, though never formally adopted. Despite immense talent, Poe became the first well-known American writer to earn a living solely through writing, a choice that brought both literary immortality and lifelong financial hardship.

His words still echo today—dark, emotional, and timeless.

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28/12/2025

The Heads That Fooled Alcatraz 🧠🪨
In 1962, three prisoners pulled off one of the boldest escape attempts in American history — not with weapons, but with fake heads.
These weren’t props from a movie set.
They were handmade in prison cells using soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, and concrete dust, carefully shaped and painted. Real human hair was added, collected from the barbershop floor.
At night, the decoys were placed in the beds, blankets pulled up, faces turned just right.
From the guards’ angle, everything looked normal.
By the time anyone noticed the truth, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin were already gone — vanished into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay.
No alarms.
No immediate chase.
Just silence… and three heads staring back at an empty prison.
To this day, the escape remains officially “unsolved.”
Bodies were never found.
And Alcatraz never reported another successful breakout.
Sometimes, history turns on the smallest details.
And sometimes… on a face that isn’t real at all.

26/12/2025

In 1932, Jan Ernst Matzeliger received a patent for an automatic car gear shift. Major companies welcomed his inventions. Its patent #1889,814.

By the time he created the automatic safety brake in 1962, Jan Ernst Matzeliger was losing his vision. To complete the device, he first created a drafting machine for blind designers. The machine would soon be used in almost every school bus nationwide.

These are other inventions by Jan Ernst Matzeliger:

railroad semaphore (1906)

automatic car washer (1913)

automobile directional signals (1913)
beer keg tap (1910)

self-locking rack for billiard cues (1910)

continuous contact trolley pole (1919)

combination milk bottle opener and cover (1926)

method and apparatus for obtaining average samples and temperature of tank liquids (1931)

automatic gear shift (1932)

transmission and shifting thereof (1933)

automatic shoe shine chair (1939)

multiple barrel machine gun (1940)

horizontally swinging barber chair (1950)

automatic safety brake (1962

26/12/2025

A 16-year-old girl stepped off a train in 1902 wearing a heavy coat in July heat—and when authorities demanded to know why, everything she had risked came undone.
Mary was sixteen when the orphanage told her she was being sent west on the Orphan Train. Alone. Her three-month-old sister would go separately—to a different family, a different life. The matron's words were final: "Families want teenagers for work or babies to raise. Never both."
Mary nodded. Then, the night before departure, she slipped into the nursery, lifted her sleeping sister from the crib, and made a choice that could destroy them both.
July 15, 1902. The train to Kansas was packed with orphans—children who'd already lost everything once. Mary sat by the window, her sister hidden beneath her coat, pressed against her heartbeat. For two hours, she barely breathed. The baby stayed silent, as if she understood. Other children noticed the unusual shape beneath Mary's coat. They said nothing. Orphans knew the unwritten code: loyalty over rules.
At the first stop, the train doors opened to Kansas heat. Mary stepped onto the platform, coat buttoned tight, legs shaking. Farm families circled, evaluating children like livestock. A stern-looking couple approached. "You look strong," the woman said. "Can you work?" Mary agreed immediately—too quickly. The woman's eyes narrowed. "Why are you wearing that coat? It's ninety degrees." Mary stammered. "I'm... cold. I get sick easily." The woman reached for the coat. Then the baby cried.
The sound cut through the crowd. The woman's face hardened. "What is that?" Mary backed toward the train, clutching her coat, ready to lose everything. Officials rushed over. Families whispered. The baby cried louder.
Then a quiet voice spoke. "I'll take them both."
An older man stepped forward—Thomas, a widower who'd been watching from the edge of the crowd. "The girl and the baby. Both." Mary's legs nearly gave out. "Do you... do you mean it?" He nodded slowly. "I lost my wife and daughter to fever three years ago. I know what it means to lose everyone. I won't let it happen to you."
For eight years, Thomas raised them as daughters, not servants. He taught Mary to read, manage the farm, stand on her own. When she turned twenty-four, he signed the deed over to her. "This is your home now. It always was."
Mary lived on that land for sixty-three more years. She raised her sister there, watched her marry, held her grandnieces and nephews. When Mary died in 1973, her sister brought a faded photograph to the funeral—the moment Mary stepped off that train, fear frozen on her young face, her coat hiding everything she loved.
One act of defiance. One stranger's compassion. Sixty-three years of life built on the gamble that love was stronger than rules.
How many lives turn on a single moment when someone refuses to let go?

25/12/2025

Construction workers decorated a muddy 20-foot tree with tin cans and blasting cap foil on Christmas Eve 1931.

It was the height of the Great Depression and these men were grateful just to have jobs at the massive excavation site in New York City.

They decided to pool their money together to buy a small balsam fir to bring a little spirit to the bleak worksite.

Their families helped create handmade garlands, and strings of cranberries were looped around the branches.

There were no electric lights or Swarovski crystals on this tree.

The ornaments consisted of tin cans and the foil wrappers from blasting caps used in the construction.

Workers lined up beside this humble display to receive their paychecks in the dirt and mud.

That simple gesture of gratitude and community sparked an idea that would return two years later as an official event.

What started as a spontaneous act by blue-collar workers trying to find joy in hard times became the world-famous tradition we see today.

25/12/2025

Did you know that Paddington Bear, the marmalade-loving star of the books and films was inspired by Jewish children escaping the Holocaust on the Kindertransport?

Paddington’s creator, Michael Bond (1926–2017), never forgot the sight of refugee children arriving at London’s Reading Station during WWII, each with a tiny suitcase and a label around their neck so they wouldn’t be lost.

So in the very first book, there he is: a small, hopeful traveler sitting alone in Paddington Station with a suitcase and a handwritten tag…

“Please take care of this bear. Thank you.”

In other words: Please take care of this child.

Paddington is welcomed into the Brown family, a reminder of the kindness that saved so many young lives. And his dearest friend? Mr. Samuel Gruber, an elderly Jewish man from Hungary who himself escaped the N***s.

And one more sweet twist: When “Paddington 2” debuted in Israel in 2018, one of the beloved voices belonged to Nechama Rivlin, the late wife of Israeli President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin. She adored Paddington — the little bear with the enormous heart.

May we always remember where hope comes from and keep passing it on.

Photo: Geoff Pugh
Source: American Society for Yad Vashem

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to our brave men and women in uniform, past and present, who safeguard our freedoms. Thank you!

23/12/2025

Madam C. J. Walker, known as the first female self-made millionaire in America thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women, was born on December 23, 1867. A talented entrepreneur with a knack for self-promotion, Walker built a business empire, at first selling products directly to Black women, then employing “beauty culturalists” to hand-sell her wares. The millionaire—whose parents had been enslaved—used her fortune to fund scholarships for women at the Tuskegee Institute and donated large parts of her wealth to the NAACP, the Black YMCA and other charities. She died in 1919.

23/12/2025

I ❤️ America!

22/12/2025

Marlene Dietrich, 1929.

On the edge of legend.
That was the year The Blue Angel turned a Berlin cabaret singer into an international icon. With a tilted top hat, cigarette smoke, and a gaze that didn’t ask permission, Dietrich rewrote what glamour looked like—cool, ambiguous, untouchable.

1929 wasn’t just the start of her fame.
It was the moment modern stardom learned how to stare back. ✨

22/12/2025

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