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Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman.
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Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a “doctress”. In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. In 2004, she was voted the greatest black Briton in a survey conducted in 2003 by the black heritage website Every Generation .…
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IN REMEMBRANCE AND HONOR OF GEORGE KIELAK.
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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. – The year is 1944 and George Kielak fights in the Polish army during the Warsaw Uprising. For 63 days he and his comrades fight to liberate World War II Warsaw, Poland, from Nazi Germany occupation. “In the Polish army, I carried ammunition and messages…
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English Men Once Sold Their Wives Instead of Getting Divorced
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Between the 17th and 19th centuries, wife-selling was a weird custom with a practical purpose. George Wray tied a halter around his wife’s waist and headed to the nearest market. He wasn’t there to buy anything—he was there to sell his wife. Onlookers shouted as he auctioned her off to…
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Katherine Campbell and Martha Lang were hanged and later set ablaze in Scotland for witchcraft.
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The girl who had accused Campbell of stealing milk was the victim of their curse, which was their crime. The truth is that the girl developed an unidentified sickness following this incident, which caused her to experience extreme hysterics or catatonic states. During her visits, ash, coal, chicken bones, and…
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Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants.
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Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants. A new footage, revealed to be filmed last year, appears to show Daesh terror militants gunning down 200 Syrian children in a savage mass…
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THE CURIOUS SURRENDER OF WILHELM DEGE. THE LAST GERMAN SOLDIER TO SURRENDER.
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The surrender of Wilhelm Dege’s command is a little curious story to be told. At the time of Germany surrender, Dege and his command weren’t informed about it at all. It was only months later, on 3 September 1945, that a small Norwegian boat, the Blasel, appeared off the Rijpfjord…
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Persecution of Buddhists
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Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution TV. Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution because of their adherence to the Buddhist practice, including unwarranted arrests, imprisonment, beating, torture, and/or execution. The term also may be used in reference to the confiscation or destruction of property, temples, monasteries, centers of learning, meditation…
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It cannot be bought, bottled or measured. But courage, like that displayed by my late father on D-Day, is THE greatest of all human virtues
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Nelson Mandela, who became the first black president of South Africa after spending 27 years in prison, once said: ‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that…
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Heroic pilot who sacrificed his life to save comrades at the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago
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Flight Lieutenant David Lord and his fellow airmen undertook the mission of helping British and Allied soldiers who were being cut off by the enemy. By the afternoon of September 19, 1944, the situation for many Allied troops had become increasingly desperate. The Battle of Arnhem, part of an audacious…
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Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster in 1983, saw the word “LAUNCH” flash across the Soviet Union’s attack early warning system.
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His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union. Petrov had to make a decision: should he report an incoming American strike, or should he hold off, confident that what they were seeing…