Cross platform GUI with a comfortable IDE and GUI designer (Windows/Linux/OS X) and information visualization libraries?

I use Netbeans and love it. Simple to use and uses Swing not SWT for its GUI's which should get you 100% cross platform support.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.