From 1931 to 1946 , the world saw an ending series of bullying sessions, as big and aggressive nations bullied small nations and small peoples and small individuals.
Contemporary historians are tending to extend WWII to run from 1931 to 1946 --- which is a good first step.
But they still tend to view it exclusively through political and military lenses, but might do well to start calling a spade a spade .
Because contemporary parents and children (if not historians) increasingly recognize bullying as something that does not begin and end in the childhood schoolyard ....
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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Aug 14, 2013
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