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This photo, taken on December 8, 1943, in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, shows PFC Homer J. Finley Jr., (U.S. Marine Corps) and his four-legged comrade “Jack”, a Belgian Shepherd of the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon.
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Together, Homer and Jack landed on Bougainville and bravely fought against a relentless enemy. During that short period, they always looked after each other, which created a special bond between them, but Homer was then assigned to other duties, and the two Marines were separated.Jack was later wounded by a…
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Today we pay tribute to Tommy Norris, Michael Thornton, their families
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“I lost an eye and part of my head and brain and had some other bodily injuries. I have another eye. You just go on.” From April 10-13, 1972, Thomas “Tommy” Norris, a 28-year old native of Jacksonville, Florida, who was an Eagle Scout and had joined the Navy in…
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On This Day 21-FEB 2008, We Remember a Fallen Hero
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Drew W. Weaver was born 5-JUL 1987. He lived in St. Charles Missouri and attended St. Charles West High School graduating in 2005. Drew and his best friend, Marine Corporal Ryan Hanson, joined the Marines together right after high school and went through basic training together. Ryan literally was by…
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Pascoe & Whitty – Britain’s penultimate hangings.
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Russell Pascoe, aged 24 and 22 year old Dennis John Whitty were jointly convicted of the murder of 64 year old William Garfield Rowe in the doorway of his house at Nanjarrow Farm at Constantine near Falmouth in Cornwall at around 11 p.m. on Wednesday the 14th of August 1963.Pascoe…
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Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet.
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Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet. Inspired to create a repertory ballet company with dancers drawn from the School, she also founded The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet and nurtured some of the world’s most renowned…
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Horse Attempted To Rape A Police Officer(pic)
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A police officer sent a wrong signal to a horney horse in the united states of America when the police officer bent over at event. it took another police officer to rescue the exposed officer from the rod of the horney horse. Analyst says the horse should be named after…
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Since Florida wants to pretend history didn’t happen, here is a random image I came across and its history.
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Hungarian SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945. The British were horrified by what they found…
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After fighting for the independence of Europe, Arabs and Muslims
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After fighting for the independence of Europe, Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East were massacred by the military forces of their alleged Western nation allies, such as on May 8, 1945 when French soldiers clased with Muslims who were celebrating the collapse of the Nazi regime in Germany Ankara,…
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Undressed woman was observed standing on ledge outside kitchen window of HDB building in Yishun before she jumped to her death.
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The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has since issued a statement and rejected the claims, saying that the woman was not a domestic worker, in response to several social media posts that claimed the woman was a Filipino maid. On Thursday, October 12, the unfortunate occurrence took place in a HDB…
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The Dancer Doomed as a Spy
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In the early hours of 15 October 1917, a guard entered Mata Hari’s prison cell and awoke her. Her time had come. She arose, donned her black stockings, high heels and a velvet cloak lined with fur. ‘I am ready,’ she announced. The guards whisked her off to the outskirts…