[etni] Fw: Good for Yom Ha'Shoah / brain teaser
----- Original Message ----- From: Esther Revivo - estherrevivo@xxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Good for Yom Ha'Shoah / brain teaser
Dear Friends and Colleagues: I just got these from my uncle, a retired attorney who sends me challenging "mind benders" and other interesting pieces. The first is linguistic so I am passing it on; the second can be used for Yom Ha'shoah. Good luck and enjoy! 
Esther Revivo
Ulpanat Tzvia Sedot Negev

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I am only sending this to my smart friends.

I could not figure it out and had to look at the
answer.

If you can figure out what these words have in common,
you are a lot smarter than I am.

Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess

Are you peeking or have you already given up?


Give it another try . . .

You will kick yourself when you discover the answer.
Go back and look at them again; think hard.



OK . . . Here You Go . . . Hope You Didn't Cheat.

This Is Cool.



Answer:

In all of the words listed, if you take the first
letter,
place it at the end of the word, and then spell the
word backwards, it will be the same word.

Did you figure it out? Even if you didn't, don't
worry.
Just send it to more people and stump them; then,
you'll feel better, too.
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Who was Harry Bingham and why is he getting a stamp?
Just an interesting piece of evidence of the curious behavior of the Roosevelt administration toward the Jews during WWII ----- A few months ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave a posthumous award for "constructive dissent" to Hiram (or Harry) Bingham, IV. For over fifty years, the State Department resisted any attempt to honor Bingham. For them he was an insubordinate member of the US diplomatic service, a dangerous maverick who was eventually demoted. Now, after his death, he has been officially recognized as a hero.
Bingham came from an illustrious family. His father (on whom the fictional character Indiana Jones was based) was the archeologist who unearthed the Inca City of Machu Picchu, Peru, in 1911. Harry entered the US diplomatic service and, in 1939, was posted to Marseilles, France, as American Vice-Consul.
The USA was then neutral and, not wishing to annoy Marshal Petain's puppet Vichy regime, President Roosevelt's government ordered its representatives in Marseilles not to grant visas to any Jews. Bingham found this policy immoral and, risking his career, did all in his power to undermine it.
In defiance of his bosses in Washington, he granted over 2,500 USA visas to Jewish and other refugees, including the artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst and the family of the writer Thomas Mann. He also sheltered Jews in his Marseilles home, and obtained forged identity papers to help Jews in their dangerous journeys across Europe. He worked with the French underground to smuggle Jews out of France into Franco's Spain or across the Mediterranean and even contributed to their expenses out of his own pocket. In 1941,
Washington lost patience with him. He was sent to Argentina, where later he continued to annoy his superiors by reporting on the movements of Nazi war criminals.
Eventually, he was forced out of the American diplomatic service completely. Bingham died almost penniless in 1988. Little was known of his extraordinary activ ities until his son found some letters in his belongings after his death. He has now been honored by many groups and organizations including the United Nations and the State of Israel. 

PLEASE  honor his memory and resend this.



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