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Born on April 28, 1935 in the market town of Rugby, England, Jeremy Randall Knowles lived through wartime days spent in cellars, taking refuge from German bombs. The boy who hid in the kitchen during blitz attacks grew into a leader of soldiers, entering the Royal Air Force...
...Rote Baron, a film opening this week in German cinemas, traces the wartime career of von Richthofen, his obsession with combat, his lionization by the Kaiser in Berlin as the poster child of the German war effort, and then his supposed love affair with a battlefield nurse who opened his eyes to the harsh realities...
That observation captures an often ignored side of the German-born Pope Benedict XVI, 80, on the eve of his first pontifical visit to the U.S. The trip, which begins in Washington on April 15 and ends in New York City on April 20, will present most Americans with their first opportunity to take the "new" Pope's measure. Some American Catholics already feel they are familiar with Benedict and his values and coexistence is not an association that immediately crops up. Benedict clearly lacks his predecessor's charismatic affability and sense of the dramatic gesture. His conservative writings suggest...
...Pope's admiration for the U.S. has deep roots. Unlike John Paul II, who was intellectually and theologically fully formed when he met his first Americans, Ratzinger first observed them when he was 18. As a defeated German soldier, he spent three months in a pow camp but was then allowed to return home and witness one of the great modern acts of charity, the rebuilding of Germany by an occupying force that could just as easily have exacted revenge. Cardinal William Levada, the Californian whom Benedict tapped as his successor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
...Comparative Zoology (MCZ) since the late 1800s but has not been shown at Harvard until now. Since the MCZ does not have any exhibition space, it has a collaborative relationship with the HMNH, where 50 of the models made their debut on March 21.Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka, a German father and son pair, are better known for their extensive collection of glass flowers, which is on permanent display in the HMNH, which the glass sea creatures predate. Originally, museums and universities could purchase specific models out of Ward’s Catalogue for teaching and educational purposes. The exhibit displays...