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[Johnny West]

Jun 30, 1913, Herta Heuwer was born. The name might not be internationally famous, but she’s a legend in Berlin, as the creator of the currywurst! In 1949, she was feeling bored in her snack bar in West Berlin. She started experimenting with some curry powder she had acquired from British soldiers – mixing it with tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, a little salt, and sugar – and served the sauce up with a bratwurst. Customers were thrilled with the new dish – and the currywurst was born.

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The inventor of the Currywurst was born 30. June 1913 in Königsberg, then the regional capital of the German province of East Prussia and now Kaliningrad, Russia.
Herta Heuwer… who in 1949 added spices and Worcestershire Sauce from the British NAAFI, in Berlin's Charlottenburg - British military sector, to tomatoes and onions, and invented the sauce that turned a sausage into Berlin's iconic Currywurst.
Her snack bar, on the corner of Charlottenburg's Kant and Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse, began offering Currywurst for 60 pfennig, at the time about 50 US cents/6 UK pennies, on 4. September 1949, and a cult began.
Delicious, cheap, easy to prepare and nutritious, it spread over Berlin and throughout Germany.
When Herta Heuwer died in Berlin on 3. July 1999, she took the closely guarded secret of her recipe “to her grave”.
Photo credit: German Embassy, Washington

 

[Luckytrim]

When the Titanic sank, it carried millionaire John Jacob Astor IV. The money in his bank account was enough to build 30 Titanics.
However, faced with mortal danger, he chose what he deemed morally right and gave up his spot in a lifeboat to save two frightened children.
Millionaire Isidor Straus, co-owner of the largest American chain of department stores, "Macy's," who was also on the Titanic, said:
"I will never enter a lifeboat before other men."
His wife, Ida Straus, also refused to board the lifeboat, giving her spot to her newly appointed maid, Ellen Bird. She decided to spend her last moments of life with her husband.
These wealthy individuals preferred to part with their wealth, and even their lives, rather than compromise their moral principles. Their choice in favor of moral values highlighted the brilliance of human civilization and human nature.

 

[Johnny West]

 

[Luckytrim]

A Jewish family named Karnofsky, who immigrated from Lithuania to the United States, took pity on the 7-year-old boy and brought him to their home.
There he stayed and spent the night in this Jewish family home, where for the first time in his life he was treated with kindness and tenderness.
When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnofski sang him Russian lullabies, which he sang with her.
Later he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs.
Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family.
Mr. Karnofsky gave him money to buy his first musical instrument, as was the custom in Jewish families.
Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions such as St. James's Hospital and Go Down Moses.
The little boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family, who adopted him in 1907.
In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore the Star of David and said that in this family he learned "how to live a real life and self-determination."
This little boy's name was Louis Armstrong. This little boy was called Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish and “Satchmo” is Yiddish for “big cheeks, a nickname some say was given to him by Mrs. Karnofsky!