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Celebrating Martin Luther King - Revisiting a German radio program of January 2017
Yesterday, on Monday 19.01.2021 our American friends celebrated Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. This reminded me of a blog that I wrote four years ago on the important travels of Martin Luther King Sr and Jr (father and son) to Germany. Both visits had consequences and it ... -
Historical anniversaries 2018 - Part Three: Remembering Mahatma Gandhi
In my two recent posts I focused on historical anniversaries that coincided on the 27th of January - the very day to remember the victims of holocaust (liberated from Auschwitz) and the beginning of the Finnish civil war (1918). Having written these two posts I thought I would retreat to ...