UK Treasury, Pears Foundation Pledge £1.5m. for Holocaust Education Article by Jonny Paul, In the Jerusalem Post Britain’s Treasury and the Pears Foundation, a major contributor to education and civil rights causes in the UK and abroad, will each contribute £250,000 a year for three years to the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) to train instructors…
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Unions for a Global Economy By Harold Meyerson, April 26, 2007; The Washington Post The business press has barely noticed and the usual champions of globalization have been mute, but an announcement last week in Ottawa signaled a radical new direction for the globalized economy. The United Steelworkers — that venerable, Depression-era creation of John…
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Guernica — April 27, 1937 Â During the Spanish Civil War the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica on April 27, 1937, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica. Source: Click Here Â
