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...origins and role of the State of Israel. Europeans with guilty consciences did not "colonize Jews on a strip of desert," nor were Jews colonized in any way, shape, or form. Zionist immigration was a protracted, eclectic, and voluntary process which began around 1881. And from the 1920s and '30s onward, most Jewish refugees from Europe had to be smuggled past British colonial authorities. Moreover, a majority of Israel's current Jewish population originated in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not Europe...
Jean de Florette, set in the 1920s, described the attempt of the clever Papet (Yves Montand) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil)--the last remaining members of what used to be the richest and most glorious family in the region--to wrest the land of a neighboring farmer, a hunchback...
Some lines still deliver the old-fashioned, ultra-posh service reminiscent of the 1920s. Aboard the three ships of the San Francisco-based Royal Viking Line, which are among the few that still make extravagant, 100-day round-the- world cruises, passengers frequently don tuxedoes and evening gowns. Perhaps the most luxurious ships of all are Cunard's Sea Goddess I and Sea Goddess II, on which a crew of 79 attends to just 116 passengers (daily rate: $600 a person...
Aristotle theorized that the father's degree of arousal during intercourse determined the offspring's sex; great excitement, he reasoned, produced a boy. In the 1920s, scientists confirmed the existence of human sex chromosomes, two of the 46 chromosomes people normally carry. Ordinarily, women have two X chromosomes, whereas men have an X and a Y. In 1959 the sex determining factor was traced to the Y chromosome. But it was still unclear whether the "switch" consisted of one gene or many...
...novel is considerably better than that bleak forecast promises. Certain scenes are vivid and memorable; a zeppelin raid over London achieves an eerie, horrifying beauty. And as the brothers' paths diverge in the 1920s, Deighton skillfully displays the tangled politics and passions that were leading Germany toward another disaster...