Goodies From Ol' Remus

Six days after Germany’s invasion of Russia, Spain recruited volunteers to join the attack although Spain itself remained officially neutral. The quota was met many times over within a week, mostly fanatically anti-communist regular army and Spanish Civil War veterans. Their Blue Division, officially the Wehrmacht’s 250th Infantry, fought alongside the Germans for three years.
 
Bill Buppert, on the education complex, at ZeroGov:

There is no way to fix it but to raze it to the ground, cashier all the administration and faculty and not let a single red cent of government money onto any campus across America ever again.

  Daily Mail – Florida girl, 16, who was born without arms qualifies as an army cadet after learning to do everything with her feet … she taught herself to draw, she actually can tie other people’s shoes, she feeds herself

History Net – Who Leaked FDR’s War Plans? … In December 1941, someone leaked America’s top-secret blueprint for war for all the world to see

Excerpt: The German general staff saw the story as an intelligence coup and seized on the 1943 date. German war planners believed total victory in the West might be within Germany’s reach if they could neutralize Britain before then.

  Techxplore – A new way to provide cooling without power … initial proof-of-concept testing achieved a cooling of 6 C (about 11 F)

History Net – Battlefield as Crime Scene: The Japanese Massacre in Manila … In acts of shocking brutality, Japanese soldiers and marines massacred tens of thousands of civilians as American troops advanced into Manila in early 1945