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23 DECEMBER 2023TRUTH WILL OUT – DOES TAKE A LONG TIMENEWSDocumentary Dares To Question What Is Known Of George Floyd’s Killing
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ByTruth PressPublished Splashed across placards, chanted by protesters and graffitied on walls: it was the slogan of 2020. ‘I can’t breathe’. A routine police encounter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25 that year had resulted in the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man. White police officer Derek Chauvin,…
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A little but more greek art by the late Peter Connoly. Here its two pieces from myth of Thesseus. The first shows Thesseus killing the minotaur in labyrinth in crete .
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Thesseus is wearing a classic mycenean kilt and boots , while he was a bronze dagger in his right hand . The other piece of art shows Thesseus departing Athens and going to crete . The ship is a classic mycenean/mioan ship . The famous Black sails from the myth…
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This is a bit wicked so please brace yourself…. 😲
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LIFE With Mike the Headless Chicken: Photos of a Famously Tough Fowl No, it’s not the latest eye-popping item from the always entertaining Weekly World News. Instead, it’s an actual headline from the October 22, 1945, issue of LIFE magazine, above an article about … well, a headless chicken: “Beheaded…
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George Nunn – “The Wortham Murder”.On the evening of Saturday the 8th of July 1899, 33 year old Eliza Dixon had gone to the village pub, the Dolphin Inn, on the other side of Wortham village green in Suffolk, to buy some beer for her and her husband to drink with dinner.
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Eliza, who was the mother of six children, was described as being “of prepossessing appearance” in the press, or in modern language pretty. Once inside the inn, 18 year old George Nunn accosted her and tried to buy her a drink and talk to her. She rebuffed his advances but…
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Videos appear to show Israeli soldiers abusing bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees
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In a graphic scene, a group of detainees lie on the ground. Some are naked. An Israeli soldier can be seen stomping on the head of a Palestinian man, who covers his face with his bound hands. TEL AVIV — Several videos have emerged on social media appearing to show…
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On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended.
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On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended. During this 2 month period over 265,000 Jews were crammed into sealed freight trains and deported to the Treblinka death camp, where they were murdered. Recalling the Great Deportation, Holocaust survivor Chaim Kaplan recounts in his diary:…
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Nordhausen (Germany)
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Nordhausen was a sub-camp of the concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau. This camp was created by the SS for prisoners too weak or too ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the fabrication of the German V1 and V2 rockets. Following the Nazi terminology, Nordhausen was a “Vernichtungslager”, an extermination…
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