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Meet Irena Sendler (1910-2008)

She was a 98 year-old Polish woman at her time of death. During World War II, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She dedicated herself to  smuggle Jewish children out. Infants were carried in the bottom of the tool box she used and older children in a burlap sack she had in the back of her truck.

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children during this time

She eventually was caught and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families but most had been killed. She then helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007, Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.

Al Gore won for presenting a slide show on Global Warming.

That’s our society for you.

Not to slight her, but I’m sorry, Al Gore won for a lot more than ‘a slide show on global warming’. You can devalue a lot of things by pretending to write them in the most bland manner possible.

Could it be? Peridot? 

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Today, in Tumblrs we love.

Airbus has announced an airplane with a clear hull. It’s called the 2050. I hope that’s not a supposed delivery date, expect this aircraft to be in service some time around “Beneath the Planet of the Apes.” 

Peace bro. 

theatlantic:

Crisis in Yemen

An anti-government protester flashes the victory sign through a gap in his national flag raised by other demonstrators during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 5, 2011. [AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen]

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This is a yearbook photo of US Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum that I found on The Atlantic’s website. 

Creepy kid. Google “Rick Santorum” if you don’t already know. He’s a terrible politician and this picture makes perfect sense. 

“Yearbook did not list awards or activities for students.” (It only says that next to his picture).