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2020

COVID-19: interesting data from Korea and from the Diamond Princessoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2020
Containment measures may create an offsetting factor for COVID-19 mortalityoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2020
Purim 5703/1943 in another timeline: Excerpt from Operation Flash, Episode 1original ↗
10 Mar 2020
25 Luglio 1943: Dino Grandi and the fall of Mussolinioriginal ↗
8 Mar 2020
Operation Eclipse: How Churchill and Canadian troops saved Denmark from Stalin in the last days of World War Twooriginal ↗
7 Mar 2020
Saturday musical delight: US Army Band performing “Time Stand Still” by Rushoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2020
Gestapo-NKVD contacts in occupied Poland, 1939-1941original ↗
19 Feb 2020
A brief Coronavirus updateoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2020
RIP Li Wenliang, one of the “Fallen Caryatids”original ↗
9 Feb 2020
“The Devil’s Mercedes-Benz” found, and other details on Operation Anthropoidoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2020
Disturbed, “Never Again”, live in Tel Avivoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2020
How did modern Germany come about? A very short history of German unification under Bismarckoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2020
Auschwitz Inmate 4859: the incredible story of Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)original ↗
22 Jan 2020
RIP Neil Peart (1952-2020), drummer and lyricist extraordinaireoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2020
Sabbath delight: Angela Hewitt interviewed on Bach, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and… baby hippos?!original ↗
4 Jan 2020
Out with the old, in with the new + Episode 3 updateoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2020

2019

The tragic story of pianist Karlrobert Kreiten: how speaking one’s mind in private could be fatal in the Third Reichoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2019
The “perfect Aryan poster baby” was actually Jewishoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2019
The “Malgré-nous”: Alsatian French citizens involuntarily recruited into the Wehrmachtoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2019
Jewish Rescue in Dutch Limburg: the NV Group [Kristallnacht anniversary post]original ↗
9 Nov 2019
Ernst von Dohnányi (composer) and “six degrees of separation” from the Operation Flash protagonistoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2019
Critical praise for “Operation Flash, Ep. 2”original ↗
29 Oct 2019
The wartime clandestine ‘Shetland Bus’ to and from Norway, and the Telavåg tragedyoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2019
Real, not alternate history: the Battle for Castle Itter, the one time when US Army and Wehrmacht fought together against the SSoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2019
Stranger than fiction: 3rd Reich abolished German “Fraktur” blackletter script as being “of Jewish origin”original ↗
12 Oct 2019
Guest post at According To Hoyt: “Brahmandarins”original ↗
8 Oct 2019
Rosh Hashanah and the Rescue of the Danish Jewsoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2019
Beethoven’s “missing” piano sonatas: the three Kurfürstensonaten, WoO 47original ↗
25 Sept 2019
RIP Stanislav Petrov, “The Man Who Saved The World”original ↗
24 Sept 2019
Sabbath delight: Tatiana Nikolayeva plays J. S. Bach’s entire Well-Tempered Clavieroriginal ↗
17 Aug 2019
Operation Flash, Episode 2: Hinges Of Fate — now out on Kindleoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2019
Cover reveal: Operation Flash, Episode Twooriginal ↗
15 Aug 2019
Repost: Tisha be-Avoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2019
Operation Flash, Episode 2 update: publication soonoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2019
Valkyrie Day post: Operation Flash, Ep. 2 updateoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2019
Operation Flash, Episode 2 updateoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2019
Sarah Hoyt on covers for Alternate History novels, and for “Operation Flash”original ↗
22 Jun 2019
Critical praise for “Operation Flash, Ep. 1”original ↗
9 Jun 2019
D-Day plus 75original ↗
6 Jun 2019
“Operation Flash, Ep. 1” now #3 in Alternate History SF on Kindleoriginal ↗
23 May 2019
RIP Herman Wouk, z”l (1915-2019)original ↗
18 May 2019
Out Now on Kindle: “Operation Flash, Ep. 1: Knight’s Gambit Accepted”original ↗
8 May 2019
Cover Reveal: “Operation Flash, Episode 1”original ↗
18 Apr 2019
Purim/Bach Day/Spring Day post: J. S. Bach, “Peasant Cantata” BWV 212original ↗
21 Mar 2019
Book teaser: “Operation Flash” (alternate history)original ↗
20 Mar 2019
Stranger than fiction: Albert Battel and the Przemysl rescue during WW IIoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2019
Plagiarizing a song that itself “plagiarizes” a classical compositionoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2019
The evolution of living languages (guest post at According To Hoyt)original ↗
25 Jan 2019
Georg Elser: the “Lone Wolf” who nearly stopped WW IIoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2019
“Black Propaganda” during WW IIoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2019
Origin of the expression “to encourage the others” (pour encourager les autres)original ↗
15 Jan 2019

2018

Sarah Hoyt’ Super Stupendous Holiday Extravaganzaoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2018
Has every song been written? “Eenheidsworst” (standardized sausage) in musicoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2018
Can you legally use a historical classical music recording in a video or book trailer?original ↗
26 Nov 2018
Black Friday Promotion: Novel “On Different Strings” just $0.99 from Tuesday through Saturdayoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2018
Eerily prescient 1907 poem by Stefan George: “Der Widerchrist”original ↗
12 Nov 2018
100 years ago: Armistice Day, end of WW Ioriginal ↗
11 Nov 2018
Midterm blue ripple, or midterm purple muddleoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2018
What, exactly, is a “correct” classical performance? And how do music editors correct typos? Bach’s Fantasy and Fugue for organ, BWV 542original ↗
27 Oct 2018
Disturbed, “Savior of nothing”original ↗
26 Oct 2018
Saturday the 13th: Tale of another failed Hitler assassinationoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2018
Bavarian Landtag (state parliament) elections 2018: “Wir haben es kaum geschafft” (we barely made it)original ↗
15 Oct 2018
The von Fritsch Affair: a WW II-era cautionary tale of how character assassination can succeed even despite complete exonerationoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2018
In honor of Battle of Britain Dayoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2018
The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effectoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2018
Why English is not a Romance languageoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2018
Embedding Spotify playlists on WordPressoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2018
Must-read: “Banned by the Faceless Machine” by Francis Turneroriginal ↗
16 Aug 2018
“Competitors, not opposites”: what Apple iPhone vs. Samsung Galaxy can teach us about politicsoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2018
Hiroshima Day post: Rush, “Manhattan Project” and Iron Maiden, “Brighter Than A Thousand Suns”original ↗
6 Aug 2018
Language registers, diglossia, and the Greek language struggleoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2018
The Kazakh Famine of the 1930s: another “Harvest of Sorrow”original ↗
22 Jul 2018
Repost: Tisha be-Avoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2018
Happy Moon Landing Dayoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2018
Valkyrie Day post: “The Tenth Righteous Man”original ↗
20 Jul 2018
What makes this song great? Rick Beato on “Roundabout” by Yesoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2018
The myth of the starving composeroriginal ↗
13 Jul 2018
Unreliable witnessesoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2018
Teaching the modes of the diatonic scale: another tackoriginal ↗
5 May 2018
5/4: Dave Brubeck Dayoriginal ↗
4 May 2018
Classical crossover delight: “Five” by Tony Banksoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2018
Cato the Elder: ancient Rome’s broken record and his famous use of the gerundivumoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2018
Fiction writing fact-check: Can Catholics ever marry non-Catholics in church?original ↗
21 Apr 2018
Happy 70th Independence Day!original ↗
18 Apr 2018
Cast a Giant Shadow: David “Mickey” Marcus (1901-1948), the IDF’s first generaloriginal ↗
18 Apr 2018
Mordechai Frizis, the “Greek Lion of Judah”original ↗
17 Apr 2018
“Wait for me, Saloniki”original ↗
4 Apr 2018
Karl Richter (1971) conduct Bach’s Matthäuspassion BWV 244original ↗
31 Mar 2018
Yes Kira, introverts existoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2018
Bach Day postoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2018
Roman numeral analysis, and “four chords that made a million”original ↗
10 Mar 2018
Saturday night music: “Prelude to a million years” by Tony Banksoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2018
12 Rules for Life: a review of Jordan Peterson’s bookoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2018
Valentine’s Day Promotion: On Different Strings and Winter Into Spring both FREE today and tomorroworiginal ↗
14 Feb 2018
Adding X-ray content to Kindle books: a guide for the impatientoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2018
The memo, and what it impliesoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2018
Kaddishoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2018
Parkinson’s Law of Trivialityoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2018
International Shoah Memorial Day: Chiune Sugihara (“The Japanese Schindler”), the Teheran Children, and David Draiman’s powerful memorial songoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2018
Chair of Belgium’s largest party: “The Left must choose: open borders or a welfare state”original ↗
25 Jan 2018
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