Banff Summer Fine Arts School Opens With Arts Camp
The Banff School of Fine Arts will run July 25 to August in collaboration with the Calgary Institute of Technology and University of Alberta Extension. Courses include music, crafts, French, theatre, taught by a Canada United States faculty in the Rockies. The program aims to blend creative arts with recreation in Banff National Park, promoting Canadian arts and crafts nationwide.
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Calgary Institute of Technology and Art
Department of Extension
University of Alberta
Banff School of Fine Arts
Canada
United States
Canadian Rockies
Ursuline
Quebec
Europe
Ursulines
Prize Painting Recovered From Goering Collection
In Ossining New York a fine arts expert from the 11th Airborne Division recovered a valued painting by Jan Vermeer titled Christ and the Adulteress. The work, valued at about 1,000,000 dollars, was found in a nurse Christa Gormans room hidden inside a four foot stove pipe wrapped in a blanket.
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Hermann Goering
Jan Vermeer
Christ
Christa Gormans
Goering
Harry Anderson
Ossining
11St Airborne Division
Schloss Fisch Horn
Zellam See
Anderson
Vermeer
British policy on Dodecanese sovereignty after World War II
In London the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs replies to a parliamentary question on the Dodecanese Islands. He states that sovereignty changes should not be decided before a peace settlement and warns that disregarding this principle would create chaos aided by Nazis. The policy aims to maintain strict observance of pre peace terms and addresses Yugoslav claims on Italian and Austrian territories.
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London
United Kingdom
Dodecanese Islands
Europe
Yugoslavia
The True Glory Film on Allied Western Front Ends
Garson Kanin and Carol Reed direct The True Glory an Allied government produced film covering D Day to Germany’s surrender. Eisenhower cooperates and will deliver the prologue as portions viewed already, with footage selected from millions of feet by Allied cameramen.
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Dday
Germany
United States
Garson Kanin
Hollywood
Carol Reed
Eisenhower
Sir Francis Drake
Words and Photos Marked D Day to Surrender War
War correspondents produced vast volumes of reporting on the European campaign from invasion to surrender. Allied press censorship checked film and photos, plus millions of words weekly on military PR handouts and troop footage, by a 410 officer team.
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Europe
Take Your Choice Dandelions and Grass Diets Featured
The piece surveys dandelion removal methods from mowing to digging and even old car battery juice, noting garden opinions. It contrasts varied views on dandelions with a Windsor Star aside on grass diet experiments and Conscientious Objectors testing a grass diet in Arkansas camps.
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Windsor Star
Churchill’s wartime rhetoric praised by New York Times
The New York Times notes Winston Churchill’s eloquent wartime review praising British resolve. It cites phrases like the terrible war-like German Army and these heavy, stormy years, and applauds his call to forward until the whole task is done and the world is safe.
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Mr. Churchill
Churchill
London
Goering
France
New York Times
London Daily Mail to publish book of German horror camp photos
The London Daily Mail plans a book compiling photographs of German horror camps with reports from correspondents who have visited them. It will be library and institution limited at first, then kept in print for posterity as the situation eases.
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London Daily Mail
Alligator Ear Flaps Hidden Behind Eyes
A study notes alligators hide their ears directly behind the eyes with protective skin flaps, concealing openings and enabling stealth sound reception.
Soviet Ukraine suffers WW II losses. official tally released
Red Star cites Guards Col. Vladimir Mochalov reporting 7 million civilian deaths in Ukraine during the war. Of the losses 2.5 million died, 1.5 million are missing, and 3 million were sent to Germany. Prewar population listed as 40 million. material losses exceed $100 billion.
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Soviet
Ukraine
Vladimir Mochalov
Red Star
Germany
Mochalov
Soundproof room at Brooklyn Navy Yard tests sensitive gear
A disclosed facility at the Brooklyn Navy Yard features an 18 by 30 foot soundproof chamber built on rubber columns and lined with spun glass and other absorbent material. The room is used to test sensitive communications equipment and to allow a person to hear his own heartbeat within the walls.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Fossil fuels energy tied to ancient plant and animal life
The text explains that petroleum in cars contains energy stored by plants and animals long ago, highlighting the long geological time scale required to form fossil fuels.
Bells of St Pauls Recall Historic War Echoes
The bells at St Paul’s Clock Tower recall centuries of victories from Marlborough to Trafalgar and 1914 18. Great Tom and Great Paul, with Great Tom tolling for royals and city leaders, mark daily services while recording hours since 1939.
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St. Paul's
Marlborough
Gibraltar
Trafalgar
Low Countries
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Egypt
Abyssinia
India
Hong Kong
Tom
Paul
Edward I
Edward of
Westminster
Palace of Westminster
Canterbury
London
St. Dunstan's Chapel
Ceded Territory Post Seven Years War
At war end in 1763 Britain gained all France’s east of the Mississippi except New Orleans while Spain ceded Florida to Britain. The note mentions Bay War Savings Stamps regularly.
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France
Great Britain
Mississippi
New Orleans
Spain
Florida
Canadian Firm Spearheads Radar Production Near Toronto
The Canadian company Research Enterprises Ltd. at Leaside near Toronto has produced radar and optical instruments valued over 200 million dollars since starting from scratch in 1940. By 1941 Britain supplied a working model, and the plant now makes about 20 major radar types for anti aircraft, submarine, and land targets with wide peacetime uses foreseen.
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Research Enterprises Ltd
Britain
Leaside
Toronto
Munitions Department
Canada
National Research Council
England
Robert Watson- Watt
United Kingdom
The Wheel's Rise Through History in Transportation
The article traces the wheel from primitive log runners to the first one piece wooden wheels and axled designs. It notes Roman disk wheels in chariots and emphasizes wheels as essential to trains, cars, ships and modern machinery, framing transportation as civilization.
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Rudyard Kipling
Ben Hur
St. Thomas Times Journal
Brantford Youth Tests Limits With Early Army Service
A Brantford boy Walter Smer ciak forged his age to join in 1942 at age 14, sailed to Montreal, served as corporal then sergeant overseas, trained as a machine gun instructor and dispatch rider in England, was sent home when his age was found out, and now reenlists legitimately at eighteen.
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Canada
BBC
Gerry Wilmot
Brantford
Walter Smerciak
Montreal
England
Pribilof Islands Seal Industry Prewar Production
Before the war the Pribilof Islands seal industry in Alaska maintained an annual production valued at two to three million dollars, reflecting its economic importance prewar.
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Pribilof Islands
Alaska
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