The Conversation: How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder
13 Mar, 2021 02:09 AM
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Prisoners are forced to give company to fellow sufferers with happy music to execution at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Photo / Getty Images
Prisoners are forced to give company to fellow sufferers with happy music to execution at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Photo / Getty Images
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In December 1943, a 20-year-old named Ruth Elias arrived in a cattle car at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She was assigned to Block 6 in the family camp, a barracks that housed young women and the camp s male orchestra, an ensemble of incarcerated violinists, clarinet players, accordion players and percussionists who played their instruments not just when the prisoners marched out for daily labour details, but also during prisoner floggings.
Sydney woman Jessica Camilleri who beheaded mother gets 21 years in prison
12 Mar, 2021 02:07 AM
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Jessica Camilleri, 27, has been sentenced for killing her mother, Rita, in a gruesome mutilation death at their Sydney home in 2019. Photo / Supplied
Jessica Camilleri, 27, has been sentenced for killing her mother, Rita, in a gruesome mutilation death at their Sydney home in 2019. Photo / Supplied
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Jessica Camilleri has received a sentence of 21 years and seven months for the brutal decapitation killing of her mother Rita in 2019.
The offender sobbed and then people in the court room clapped after the long sentence was delivered, the judge saying the 27-year-old did not deserve a concession for her mental disabilities.
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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Good news came in a bundle this week for workers furloughed last year from the Walt Disney Co.’s California theme park.
FILE PHOTO: Walt Disney Co s Disneyland and California Adventure theme parks in Southern California are now closed due to the global outbreak of coronavirus in Anaheim, California, U.S., March 14, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake
The company said it would bring back a first tranche of 10,000 employees as it readies to reopen Disneyland in late April, and for those who don’t get that first round call or aren’t comfortable returning to work yet because of the pandemic, President Joe Biden’s stimulus bill, signed on Thursday, extends their unemployment benefits through the summer.
One year ago, our world shut down. We went home. Schools and stores closed. We lost jobs and loved ones, went mad with loneliness, took risks to help others, waited on God, forestalled futures. We learned to fear. What we didn t always realize: We were together in isolation, and our many private moments would tell a story of discovery and resilience, and of an indelible mark made upon us.
A man wore a plastic bubble as he walked down William J. Day Boulevard in Boston. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
There was no room at the front of the bus, so the woman slipped in through the back door. “Excuse me,” she murmured, squeezing on board as the bus lurched and the people swayed. When it crossed the Tobin Bridge, she looked past her reflection in the window to watch the city before dawn, shining towers over dark water.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Talk of a commodities “super cycle” and gains in prices from iron to copper have brightened the outlook for resource-linked currencies, but the tide hasn’t lifted all boats, with emerging market currencies struggling to keep up with developed peers.
FILE PHOTO: Brazilian Real and U.S. dollar notes are pictured at a currency exchange office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this September 10, 2015 photo illustration. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Emerging currencies have been at the sharp end of a recent rise in U.S. Treasury yields, which sparked a shakeout across global markets.
Below are four charts showing the connection between commodities and currencies and how current moves compare to previous episodes.