Shin-Kickers From History
Overnight Code: A Q & A with Paige Bowers
I’ve been waiting to read Paige Bower’s Overnight Code, the story of groundbreaking computer engineer and ship designer Raye Montague, ever since Paige announced the deal more than a year ago. When I finally got my hands on it, the book more than lived up to my expectations. Overnight Code is an important addition…
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Shin-Kickers From History: Gaston Madru Secretly Films Occupied Paris
Today I stumbled across an unexpected story–or at least a part of a story. Talking to a reporter about her experiences as a war correspondent Sigrid Schultz mentioned “our French colleague Gaston Madru who had been killed by German soldiers when they caught him alone in his car near Leipzig on April 19, 1945. Because…
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From the Archives: Shin Kickers From History: Margaret Chase Smith
My Own True Love recently reminded me about this post, which originally ran in 2018. It seems like a good time to run it again, for reasons that I think need no explanation. A blog post about Senator Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) could easily consist of nothing more than a collection of the trenchant…
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