Courtesy of my local public library, which offers its members free access to digital magazines via the Zinio iPad app, I've started reading History Revealed magazine. It's a engaging read during my weekday commute to and from work, but it could do with more careful proof reading.
Allow me to explain. This month's issue had an article about Adolf Hitler and Britain. As a soldier in the First World War, and when he began his political career, he respected the Britain and the Empire, and envisaged forming an alliance with them. It wasn't until after the ill-fated 1938 Munich agreement that his attitude changed, and he regarded Britain as an enemy.
The article also mentions that King Edward VII was reputedly an admirer of Hitler. After he abdicated, it is well known that as Duke of Windsor, the former king and his wife Wallace Simpson visited Nazi Germany in 1937, meeting Hitler and his deputy, Rudolf Hess, and visited a concentration camp. Had Hitler achieved his war aims of subjugating Britain, he would have reinstalled Edward as a puppet king.
It was actually Edward VIII who abdicated the British throne in 1936 to marry Wallace Simpson. King Edward VII was his grandfather, and reigned from 1910 to 1936. No doubt an eagle-eyed reader will point this mistake out in a letter to the editor, and this will be acknowledged in a future issue.
http://www.historyextra.com/history-revealed/current-issue
Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts
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Here's a couple of takes on the iPad launch. I should point out that I'm a big fan of Apple products, and am something of a Mac loyalist.
Some parts of the education sector are already zealously jumping on the iPad bandwagon, and plan to eventually phase out textbooks altogether. It remains to be seen what this means for libraries, resource centres, or information commons, whatever you want to call them.
On the other hand, news has emerged of suicides at the Chinese electronics plant where iPads are manufactured. The bad language aside, this article from David Pemberthy of The Punch is a pretty harsh critique of Western consumer culture.
Some people find it exciting to queue up outside a store and be among the first to own a new piece of technology, but how often do we stop to think about the consequences of our consumer choices? Then again, in my own way I've bought into the culture of consumerism, and for this feel challenged and rebuked by the words of Jesus in Luke 12:15, who denounced covetousness when he said, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." (NASB)
Some parts of the education sector are already zealously jumping on the iPad bandwagon, and plan to eventually phase out textbooks altogether. It remains to be seen what this means for libraries, resource centres, or information commons, whatever you want to call them.
On the other hand, news has emerged of suicides at the Chinese electronics plant where iPads are manufactured. The bad language aside, this article from David Pemberthy of The Punch is a pretty harsh critique of Western consumer culture.
Some people find it exciting to queue up outside a store and be among the first to own a new piece of technology, but how often do we stop to think about the consequences of our consumer choices? Then again, in my own way I've bought into the culture of consumerism, and for this feel challenged and rebuked by the words of Jesus in Luke 12:15, who denounced covetousness when he said, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." (NASB)
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