The story of the WWII British camps on the Isle of Man where emigrant luminaries were detained and created an extraordinary society
Simon Parkin
Parkin is a British journalist, a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and author of the new book The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
Using the floor as a giant board, they designed a game that approximated an attack on a convoy in the Atlantic—and solved a major mystery.
President Trump and others are wrong to blame video game for mass shootings, but we should still talk about aspects of gaming culture.
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