Note: On the night of November 4, 1966 the Arno overflowed, reaching 10 feet above street level. It filled many of Florence’s historic streets, museums, churches, and libraries with mud. After the disaster, citizens and foreigners living in Florence took to the streets, museums, and libraries to salvage masterpieces and manuscripts from the mud, in the most uncomfortable […]
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Mud Angels (Gli Angeli del Fango)
Posted in Flood, Florence, Natural Disaster, River, The Arts, The Shoah on January 23, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
Knowing it’s the End
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Fear, Hebrew School, Mortality, The Shoah on February 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
On January 13, 2018, an employee of the Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency issued a ballistic missile alert. Thirty eight minutes later, a second message was sent, describing it as a “false alarm.” Here’s a modern day math problem: After launch, a missile travels 4600 miles. At an average speed of 306.67 miles per hour, […]