Notations From the Social Grid (Weekly Edition): Some Historical #RandomThougths On Our World
Dr. Herschel Flowers created cobra bite vaccine by injecting himself with the venom
Dr. Herschel Flowers began his service in the Army as a veterinarian in 1961 where his mission was to study the development of antivenoms for poisonous snakebites. Focused initially on special forces Soldiers in Vietnam, Dr, Flowers developed a range of antivenoms for snakes all over the world that has helped millions of people globally. Read more.
Waking Up to History: Putin’s War and the Historical Precedent of World War I
 As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of its eerie associations with and similarities to the World War I-era Spanish Flu epidemic that killed millions globally, the crisis in Ukraine has emerged carrying its own unsettling resonances with the Great War. Writing on the EVN Report web site, Todd Gernes, Associate Professor of History at Stonehill College in Easton, MA, takes a look at the grim parallels. Click here to read more, and see how "Putin’s war against Ukraine evokes so many images and plotlines from the Great War of 1914-1918." Together in life and death: |
 Buried side by side at Suresnes American Cemetery just outside Paris, lie the Cromwell sisters, who traded in a life of prominence in New York City to be frontline nurses during World War I. The twin sisters survived the war, but overcome by what is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), jumped to their deaths from the ship that was to take them home in January 1919. Click here to read the whole story, and learn how the “Misses Cromwell,” as they were sometimes referenced in newspapers, were never far from active warfare, and how their shocking suicide helped put the mental trauma of war in a different light for the public. |
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