'May the 4th be with you': How World War II influenced 'Star Wars'
One does not have to stray far to glean that the galaxy of “Star Wars” is rife with WWII-based allegories.
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One does not have to stray far to glean that the galaxy of “Star Wars” is rife with WWII-based allegories.
Professors and teaching assistants at SU are grappling with boundaries for classroom discussions and public statements as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
It happened in the middle of the afternoon, as a market took place nearby.
Amidst all of the debate around Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I was shaken this week by a typically salutary thread by Alan Allport on the anniversary of another bombing. Eighty years ago, in a ten-day joint operation, American bombers by day and British bombers by night destroyed a large part of the German industrial and port city of Hamburg.
Operation Gomorrah, a combined British and U.S. raid on the port city of Hamburg left unimaginable destruction and a problematic legacy.