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A Wrong Turn Led To The Death Of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand And Sparked WWI
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was a key event in the leadup to WWI, one often considered to have started it all. In truth, tension among European powers was intense by the time Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, visited Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The demise of both…
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1941The Navy and it’s Bureau of Yards and Docks (abbrev.: BuDocks) decided to improve project oversight of civilian contractors by creating “Headquarters Construction Companies”.These companies would have 2 officers and 99 enlisted, but would do no actual construction.
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On 31 October 1941, Rear Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, authorized the formation of the 1st Headquarters Construction Company. Recruiting began in November while boot training began 7 December 1941 at Naval Station Newport. By 16 December, four additional companies had been authorized. December 28 Rear…
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The conflict in the Asia/Pacific theatre during World War II garnered many unsung heroes.
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On a national level, one such hero was the Commonwealth nation of Australia. While it is undoubtedly true that most Australians are keenly aware of the great efforts put forth by their countrymen during the war, much of the rest of the world is not so well informed. To remedy…
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Martha Ballard was a midwife, healer, and diarist who lived in colonial Maine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries–
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Her diary, which covers a period of 27 years, provides a rare and valuable window into the daily life, medical practices, and social customs of the time. Martha Ballard was born in 1735 and lived in Hallowell, Maine, which was a remote frontier town at the time. Despite the lack…
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lessons I have learnt from the book “How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge
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“Influence is not about climbing the corporate ladder; it’s about climbing into the hearts of those around you. When you earn the right to be heard, you’ll be amazed at the influence you can have from wherever you are.” 7 lessons I have learnt from the book “How to Lead…
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One of the hardest goodbyes is to happen when we love someone and at the same time see that it is impossible to build a healthy relationship with them.
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Staying means to continue waiting for changes that won’t come, tolerating actions that hurt us, accepting the minimum effort, losing ourselves in the attempt not to lose it. We know walking away will hurt, but it will be the road to healing. Instead, staying will continue to open the wound…
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AVOIDING UNNECESSARY PRESSURE
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8.Don’t copy yourneighbor’s lifestyle,she earns well and herhusband is a ‘bigman’ 14.Don’t be incompetition withanyone…The purpose of shoesand clothes are tomake us smart andgood.
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Most Older Women Will Be Single And Depressed Because Of Their Bad Past Decisions.
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11 Reasons Why We Have Older Women Who Aren’t Married. 1) Hoe Phase. Women always have this illusion that always come back to haunt them; they wish to s*xually explore, and when they are done, wait for a f00l!sh man to marry them, who will likely not marry them. 2)…
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THINGS THAT CAUSE REGRET AT OLD AGE.
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When younger, we make various choice’s without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they’re older. Beyond Horizon
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Japanese war crimes – Unit 731, Cannibalism, torture, chemical weapons, murdering of PoWs and civilians and other atrocities
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Japanese war crimes occurred in many Asian and Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. These incidents have also been described as an Asian Holocaust and Japanese war atrocities. R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the…