http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ In the wake of the latest instability everyone has an opinion on the future of Egypt. But the future of Egypt is the past, not the distant past of its pre-Arab culture, but a repetition of the last century. In a region that has never escaped from the past, history is not a road, […]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/20/hedy-lamarr-biography-hedy-s-folly-by-richard-rhodes-review.html
How the world’s most beautiful woman helped invent GPS, Wi-Fi, and a homing torpedo.
Actresses often long to turn director, but how many of them yearn to turn inventor? Given the success that the screen siren Hedy Lamarr achieved in that realm—revealed in Richard Rhodes’s fascinating biography, Hedy’s Folly—it’s a pity more of them don’t consider it.
In 1940, while acting alongside Jimmy Stewart and Judy Garland in the MGM musical Ziegfeld Girl, the 26-year-old Lamarr spent her free time devising a radio-controlled submarine missile-guidance system to help the U.S. Navy in World War II. What moved her to do this? “She didn’t drink and she didn’t like to party, so she took up inventing,” Rhodes explains. Of course, there was more to it than that. The torpedo was not the starlet’s only invention: she also came up with an antiaircraft shell with a proximity fuse, and a fizzing cube that could turn a plain glass of water into soda.
How did a woman who couldn’t spell (by some accounts) make such signif-icant contributions to science? Born Hedwig Kiesler into a refined Viennese Jewish family in 1914, she dropped out of high school to act on stage and screen. In 1931, when she was 16, the director Max Reinhardt cast her in the play The Weaker Sex and called her “the most beautiful woman in the world”—an epithet that stuck. Two years later, she attained notoriety for her memorable (if fleeting) nude scenes in a Czech art film called Ecstasy. The film horrified her parents but thrilled munitions mogul Fritz Mandl.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303936704576397391770753856.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop A Republican Foreign Policy Credibility—not consensus—should be the GOP’s watchword. STEPHENS MAKES GOOD POINTS BUT OMITS SOME CRITICAL ISSUES…A CANDIDATE SHOULD STATE FIRMLY WHO IS OUR ENEMY? WHAT IS THE IDEOLOGY THAT DRIVES TREASON AMONG SOME AMERICAN RESIDENTS AND CITIZENS? WHY DO OUR BORDERS REMAIN POROUS AND PERMIT AN INFLUX OF DRUG CARTEL CRIMINALS […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3727406,00.html Nakba nonsenseNakba commemoration unrelated to exercise of legitimate individual freedom Martin Sherman Adherence to the doctrine of democratic governance is not a suicide pact. Neither is it obligation to self-destruct by means of terminal stupidity. Belief in democratic principles does not require one to forego the distinction between friend and foe, between ally and […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/553407/201011101914/Shining-A-Light-On-Shariah-Creep.aspx Islamofascism: The Council on American-Islamic Relations may wish it never sued to overturn an Oklahoma ban on Shariah law. Now the entire nation will get to see it and other Islamists’ true anti-American colors. CAIR is thumping its chest over persuading a Clinton-appointed federal judge to temporarily block Oklahoma from enacting a state constitutional […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2010/11/9/main-feature/1/whos-right-in-israel-and-who-isnt Who’s “Right” in Israel, and Who Isn’t By Elliot Jager Ze’ev Binyamin Begin, Binyamin Netanyahu. Last month, two dozen followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane marched on the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, stronghold of the extremist Islamic Movement. They were making the point that Jews have the right to go anywhere […]
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/11/05/15992721.html Douglas Fisher Comment Columnists / Salim Mansur Disgusting silence on church bloodbath By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency Last Updated: November 6, 2010 2:00am The non-Muslim world is increasingly not surprised and unmoved by the depravity of Muslim jihadis committing outrage, one after another without end in sight, and what can only be explained, unsatisfactorily, […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3970752,00.html 500 Arabs begin studies in Ariel: ‘There’s no racism here’ Hundreds of Israel Arabs, Druze decide to push politics aside and enroll in West Bank university center. Ariel is a large city that has existed for many years; we just came here to get an education,’ they explain Yair Altman Some 11,500 students, among […]
The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism http://frontpagemag.com/2010/10/20/the-untold-story-of-israels-victims-of-terrorism/ Posted By Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Giulio Meotti, an Italian journalist and author. His columns have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Commentary. He graduated with a degree in philosophy at the University of Florence. He is the author of the new […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/middle-east-peace-talks-degenerate-into-farce/ Middle East Peace Talks Degenerate into Farce Posted By Benjamin Kerstein At the moment, the Middle East peace process appears to have descended into a bizarre impasse, more akin to farce than tragedy. Both sides are announcing demands and possible concessions, none of which seem to last longer than a single news cycle. Israeli […]
