Erwin Rommel was a German Field Marshal in World War II. He was a highly decorated officer of World War I. His troops were known to treat the war prisoners humanely and never accused of war crimes. He was highly skilled in the art of desert warfare, which earned him the name Desert Fox. Hitler forced …
Salinger was a Jewish Catholic by birth, but as an adult he did not follow any of these family faiths. He practiced Zen Buddhism for several years during late 1940. Then, in 1952, he read Joseph Campbell’s translation of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, and became a follower of Advaita Vedanta Hinduism.
The year was 1938. World War II was about to begin. A wonderful invention, which only became ubiquitous with time, happened: The ballpoint pen. The biro, or the first ballpoint pen, was named after its inventor Ladislao José Biro (1899–1985). Biro was a Hungarian journalist and painter. On his visit to a newspaper printing press, he could not help …
