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So, my sister brought home a live chîckéñ we would use to make Nsala soup (white sóúp), but Bubu, her son of 2 years, immediately turned the chîckén into his pet.
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When it was time for me to take the chîckén to Johnny, the guy who would help us sláûghtér the chîckéñ, Bubu hugged the chîckéñ tightly and was crying. I should leave his baby alone for him. I wanted to take the chîckéñ forcefully from him, but his mother said…
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Jewish skull collection
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The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by the Nazis to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the “Jewish race” and to emphasize the Jews’ status as (“sub-humans”), in contrast to the German race, which the Nazis considered to be Aryan “superhumans” The collection was to be housed at the Anatomy Institute at the Reich…
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During World War II, millions of people were sent to concentration camps, including women.
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Women in concentration camps were subjected to brutal treatment and often faced more severe conditions than their male counterparts. The conditions in the camps were inhumane, and women were often subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experiments. Women were treated differently in concentration camps than men. They were often…
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Reincarnation can explain some of life’s mysteries, it is confirmation that life does not end at death.
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Reincarnation can explain some of life’s mysteries, it is confirmation that life does not end at death. In Igbo land when a child is born, the parents normally goes to Afa (divination), to inquire about the life of the child. Many people visiting Afa are doing so to know who…
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January 24, 1943 Wahoo spotted a destroyer with submarines around it. Morton fired three torpedoes on the destroyer, but they missed.
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Wahoo watched as the destroyer headed its way, and at dangerously close range, Wahoo fired another torpedo that broke the enemy ship in half. A few days later, Wahoo encountered another convoy and was credited with sinking Buyo Maru, Fukuei Maru, and an unknown maru. On February 7, Wahoo arrived…
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This Day in History-Jan 26, 1945
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American Lt. Audie Murphy, is wounded in France. Born the son of Texas sharecroppers on June 20, 1924, Murphy served three years of active duty, beginning as a private, rising to the rank of staff sergeant, and finally winning a battlefield commission to 2nd Lieutenant. He was wounded three times,…
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HERO’S
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The smallest artefact can grow into an extremely long trail and important story. This Ulster Volunteer Force lapel badge from 1913 belonged to the husband of the cook for Lord and Lady Smiley of Drumalis in Larne.He farmed a local farm known as Droagh Farm near Larne and he was…
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Preely Coleman, born into slavery, told his life story at age 85 in Tyler, 1935.
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Preely was born in 1852 in New Berry, South Carolina, but he and his mother were sold and taken to Texas when he was only a month old… They settled near Alto, where Preely lived most of his life. Here are his words, preserved thanks to the WPA project:“I’m Preely…
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque.
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Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the…
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Silas Marner
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“Silas Marner,” the classic novel by George Eliot, published in 1861, weaves a tale of betrayal, redemption, and the transformative power of love. Set in the rural English countryside of the 19th century, it tells the story of a reclusive weaver whose life is forever altered by a golden-haired child.…