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Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the vessel liberated more enslaved people than any other in Britain’s West Africa Squadron. As Britain attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to ships such as the Black Joke as they battled slavers, weather disasters and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans.

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking - as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being - and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience.

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An in-depth, and comedic look, at stories from history. Join Zach Hamer, and a variety of guests, as they journey throughout our past and explore tales from another time. @historysajokepod historysajokepodcast@gmail.com lavenderfingerproductions.com

Is racism over, like the majority of the Supreme Court seem to think it is? Or is it just hidden away, a big joke to be shared by a certain kind of white person. Decide for yourself.

Marjorie J. Preston and her friends compiled a bunch of the best Ohio jokes and spun them into a little joke book! Some they wrote, and others have been passed around for years. Old gems, new twists on old themes, plays on words, and local Ohio color are all here. This book is a perfect gift for die-hard Buckeyes, as well as for those just passing through.

1963 wird John F. Kennedy heimtückisch ermordet. An der Alleintäterschaft von Lee Harvey Oswald gibt es bald Zweifel. War die Mafia beteiligt? Oder politische Konkurrenten? Im Jahr 2002 stößt der Journalist Christian Blees auf mysteriöse Tonbänder in englischer Sprache. Diese haben offenbar etwas mit dem Anschlag zu tun. Seine Recherchen führen Blees rund um den Erdball und schließlich zurück nach Deutschland. Hier trifft er einen ehemaligen Stasi-Mann, der behauptet, JFK ermordet zu haben.

Anekdot v russkoj literature - ehto korotkij po soderzhaniyu i szhatyj po izlozheniyu rasskaz o zamechatel'nom ili zabavnom sluchae iz zhizni vydayushchegosya cheloveka. Vospominaniya Andreya Nartova, "Petra Velikogo mekhanika i tokarnogo iskusstva uchitelya", v vide kratkih i pouchitel'nyh istorij donosyat do nas unikal'nye svedeniya o postupkah, mirovozzrenii i o lichnoj zhizni imperatora. Petr I - mudryj pravitel', despot, a mozhet byt' prosto takoj zhe chelovek, kak i vse my, so svoimi slabostyami i nedostatkami? Poslushajte rasskazy Andreya Nartova i sostav'te sobstvennoe predstavlenie o yarkoj lichnosti Petra Velikogo. V muzykal'nom oformlenii diska ispol'zovany temy iz proizvedenij russkih kompozitorov XVIII veka.