Model Airplanes

Staff at the Museum of the Pisz Region were tipped off that an aircraft had crashed in a specific part of the forest by an elderly local.

However, according to museum spokesperson Sławomir Wolski, the information was originally taken with a pinch of salt, as local lore has it that “there is a sunken tank or airplane in almost evert Masurian lake.”

Nevertheless, staff followed up the tip-off, and before long the searchers saw that they really were on to something.

With several parts of the plane already revealed, the museum is now extending the dig until mid-June.

It is believed that the plane was a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger, a model commonly used by the Luftwaffe.

The greater part of Masuria (save for the Działdowo region) was part of German East Prussia prior to World War II.

The Luftwaffe had an airport at Rostki (then Rostiken), near where the plane crashed. Aircraft took off from the site during the September 1939 bombing of Poland at the beginning of World War II. (nh)

Source: PAP

Article source: http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/208246,Remains-of-WWII-Luftwaffe-plane-discovered-in-Masuria

It’s not often you get to meet royalty in this day and age. Certainly, it doesn’t usually happen in Jacksonville, Fla.

Despite her age (97), and her walker (thanks to a recently broken hip), the word that comes to mind when encountering Raymonde Veber Jones is regal. Raymonde has lived in America for just under seven decades now, but she’s French by birth, and something of Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte has drifted down through the years into her bearing. Her throne is a simple easy chair, in which she sits straight and proud on the April afternoon she has chosen to grant me an audience. Her empire has been reduced to a couple of rooms in an assisted living complex down the street from the local chapter of the Mayo Clinic. But one glance and there is no doubt — you are in the presence of nobility.

I begin to sweat. It might be the lack of air conditioning, but it’s also nerves. Commoners are not meant to be this close, even if the eminence is wearing tennis shoes and a friendly smile, as Raymonde does.

And then she starts to talk about her past, in a French accent that remains heavy enough to require frequent interpretation from her children, Ray and Maryse (there is a third, Phil, in Virginia). The years melt away, and despite all the smartphones and other modern amenities lying around, we are soon transported back to occupied France. It might have been the

Article source: http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2015/5/27/8659877/roland-garros-at-war-the-oldest-french-tennis-champion-tells-all

By Maayan Lubell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed resuming peace negotiations with the Palestinians but with the initial focus on identifying those Jewish settlements that Israel would keep and be allowed to expand, an Israeli official said on Tuesday.

Peace talks collapsed in April 2014 over Israeli settlement-building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians seek for a state, and after Abbas angered Israel by reaching a unity deal with the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

Asked about Netanyahu’s position, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said settlement activity had to stop altogether before peace talks resume and that all core issues of the conflict with Israel needed to be addressed simultaneously.

In a meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Netanyahu told Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, that some of the land Israel captured in a 1967 war would remain in its hands while other parts would be left under Palestinian control, the Israeli official said.

“Therefore negotiations should be resumed in order to define those areas in which we can build,” the official said, quoting Netanyahu. The remarks were first reported in the left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

With

Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-offers-resume-peace-talks-settlement-focus-official-102628884.html