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THE DAY AFTER… BATTLE of MAGERSFONTEIN – the TRUCE for retrieving dead and wounded… ACCIDENTALLY BROKEN. And the WITHDRAWAL.
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This text from Steve Lunderstedt (KIMBERLEY CALLS…AND RECALLS): “On this day, the 12th December, in 1899, as the sun rose in the sky on the battlefield of Magersfontein, the OFS burghers in the trenches closest to the wounded Scottish soldiers still lying badly wounded after some 24 hours, had heard…
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“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all…
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Of all the war’s exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There’s no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one’s breast like a nightmare. Trenches look like…
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British Soldier Leonard Thompson experience during the Gallipoli campaign.
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“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trenches but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging, even waving. There was one…
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What is Krampus ?
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The Feast of St. Nicholas is celebrated in parts of Europe on 6 December. On the preceding evening of 5 December, Krampus Night or Krampusnacht, the wicked hairy devil appears on the streets. Sometimes accompanying St. Nicholas and sometimes on his own, Krampus visits homes and businesses. The Krampus (German:…
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A HEART WRENCHIG STORY
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Bronx mother accused of hanging her 6-year-old daughter in a closet and beating her before she died due to prolonged abuse has been indicted, prosecutors said Tuesday. Lynija Eason Kumar, 27, was charged with murder and manslaughter after cops were called to the family’s 12th-floor apartment in NYCHA’s Forest Houses…
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In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic Swimmer, had just completed a 12-mile run with his brother when they saw a trolley bus crash into a dam reservoir.
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The trolley bus sank 80 feet offshore at a depth of 33 Feet. Shavarsh immediately dove in and swam to the bus and despite zero visibility, managed to kick in the back window, injuring himself in the process. He proceeded to save twenty people trapped in the bus, one at…
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In 1867, deep within the dense forests of Uttar Pradesh, India, a hunting party stumbled upon an astonishing sight in a jungle cave:
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a young boy living among wolves, behaving more like a wild animal than a human. This child, later named Dina Sanichar, would go on to baffle missionaries, scientists, and colonial authorities alike. Some claimed he was raised by wolves; others argued he had been abandoned due to disability or social…
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She got married at the age of 14, and at the age of 20, she became a single mother.
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The first female millionaire who made a fortune with her 10 fingers.She entered the Guinness Book of Records as the first woman to become a millionaire independently, without inherited money.Sara Breedlove was born in 1867 in the south of the USA, in the state of Louisiana. Her parents, older brothers,…
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Today we Remember Charlotte Salomon
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On April 16, 1917, Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin, Germany—a gifted artist whose life and legacy would become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. 🎨✨ Born into a cultured German-Jewish family, she lived through the rise of Nazi persecution, a time when her world was slowly…
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The Woman Who Lived Across Three Centuries — Jeanne Calment
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She was born in 1875 — before the light bulb, the Eiffel Tower, or sliced bread.And she lived until 1997. Jeanne Calment wasn’t just old. She was history walking in slow motion.At 122 years and 164 days, she holds the Guinness World Record for the longest confirmed human lifespan. 🕰️…