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More than any one man Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the day to day mechanics and logistics that lay behind the Holocaust, and made it possible.

As the Voyager space probe recently left the solar particle field for regions where the sun’s influence does not penetrate, it is timely to look at the history of human attempts to understand the cosmos.

The SS, Nazi Germany’s most feared elite regiment, responsible for some of the most appalling crime against humanity in WWII, will be the subject of a public lecture in Galway next week.

Standing on sodden fields at Waterloo awaiting battle; surviving the damp, dirt, and dead bodies in the Western Front trenches; and enduring the heat of the desert at El Alamein were hard enough experiences without also having to face death as the enemy closed in.

Whether prowling the battle fields of WWI, the deserts of north Africa in WWII, or threatening on the streets of Baghdad, the tank has become an indispensable part of any military’s arsenal.

AFTER THE Napoleonic wars a gap emerged between what weapons were capable of, and the tactics adopted to deploy those weapons. That gap grew and led to the slaughter of WWI.

The fall of France, the evacuation from Dunkirk, and the Battle of Britain will be examined in the next public lecture from the Renmore History Society. The lecture, entitled The Narrowest Margin – The Story of the Battle of Britain will be given by Brian MacGabhann in the Renmore Barracks on Thursday April 29 at 8pm.

Dan Browne’s The Da Vinci Code enraged the Roman Catholic Church with claims that Christ was a married man, while historians warned that the book is not based on factual, reliable evidence.

The Renmore History Society will begin its latest series of public talks on Thursday September 3.

NO DOUBT there are people out there who really believe that Jesus’ descendants were running around the south of France for centuries and that the Illuminati are in control of everything.