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REAL COMBAT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRENCH SOLDIERS GOING OVER-THE-TOP AT MESNIL-LES-HURLUS DURING THE SECOND BATTLE OF…..
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The photographed French soldiers were all from the 65th Infantry Regiment; Colonel Xavier Desgrées du Loû holding the flag, with his nephew Yves Desgrées du Loû and a Lieutenant Lerbet behind him. All men were killed in the attack that ensued. The soldier on the left, Captain de Corta, was…
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In 1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman’s door in Reevesville, South Carolina.
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He was ly.nched by a white mob General Lee was ly.nched on January 13, 1904, near Reevesville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. He was an African American man, approximately thirty years old, with a wife named Henrietta and six children named Willie, Curtis, Bertha, Timothy, Nellie, and Lila. At the time…
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An avowed atheist and free speech advocate, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet and playwright who married Mary Godwin in 1815, the famed author of “Frankenstein.”
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On this day in 1822, Percey boarded his new boat in the Mediterranean Sea, only to be hit by a violent storm during which he was thrown overboard and killed. A month later, his body was cremated in front of friends and family on a beach in Italy. For reasons…
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DESPICABLE!
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Despicable it might be, yet it is a relatively irrelevant incident in India. The latest is the case of Firoz, a 1 2. -year-old boy who is now reportedly suffering from serious psychological trauma after being forced by a Head Constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) to gather the…
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EXECUTION IN IRAN
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Although officially outlawed since 1981, human rights groups claim a number of people are still being stoned to death in Iran. This is likely due to the murky nature of Iran’s Sharia-based legal system where judges are only given vague punishment guidelines. This includes ordering judges to simply to execute…
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THE TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF THE JOSEF SCHULZ AND THE PARTISANS
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This event had taken place on the 20th of July 1941. As the German troops were pushing towards the Soviet union their main stop before crossing the borders were the Yugoslavian partisans fighting against fascism. Most of the partisan members did not flee towards the Soviet Union as they wanted…
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Karl Gebhardt was a respected surgeon and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS.
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During World War II, the Nazi doctor worked at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where he had unfettered access to prisoners to use as subjects in experimentation. Gebhardt exploited the opportunity, performing needless and painful tests. At one point, he attempted to transplant limbs from camp victims to German soldiers wounded…
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THE TERRIBLE STORY OF THE MAN THAT COULD NOT BE HANGED
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John ‘Babbacombe’ Lee famously dubbed the man they could not hang’ was accused of the murder of Miss Emma Anne Whitehead Keyse. In the early hours of November 15 1884 in the hamlet of Babbacombe, Devon, Emma Keyse was discovered brutally murdered. Her throat was slit, she had three wounds…
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ON JAN. 17, 1961, PATRICE LUMUMBA, A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRIME MINISTER WAS EXECUTED WITH THE ASSISTANCE IN CONGO.
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In his 1960 independence day speech Lumumba said, We are going to show the world what the Black man [and woman] can do when he works in freedom. On Jan. 17, 1961, democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was executed with the assistance of…
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THE WORST AND TERRIBLE EXECUTION (1946: ANDREI VLASOV, TURNCOAT SOVIET GENERAL)
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On this date in 1946, Soviet Gen. Andrei Vlasov and 11 fellow members of the Russian Liberation Army were condemned to death in Moscow for German collaboration, and immediately hanged.* Vlasov was at the peak of his career at the outset of World War II, and earned a decoration for…