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On this day November 29th, in African Ourstory
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In 1781, the Zong massacre began. This was a mass killing (at sea) of more than 130 enslaved Black Africans by the crew of the British slave ship Zong during the Middle Passage. Owned by England, when the Zong sailed from Accra with 442 slaves on August 18, 1781, it…
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Russian soldiers standing over the remains of Armenians burned by Ottoman forces in the Anatolian village of Sheikhalan, 1915.
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Colourised by @color_by_klimbim. The following is excerpts of Danish-German soldier Heinrich Jessen’s diary entry from June 1916, who served in a machine-gun battalion in the Middle East. Translated by myself Note: This is a purely historical post on a Danish-German soldier’s eyewitness account. Please do not report, even if you…
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Rubin Stacey, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, surrounded by onlookers, including girls, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Rubin Stacy, 37 was a homeless tenant farmer who knocked on a white woman’s door (Marion Jones) – she screamed, and he was arrested. As he was being led to jail by six deputies, a mob of about 100 overpowered them – ran their car off the road, and…
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After giving care for a scalp wound, a Japanese baby is cared for by men a medical unit of the 27th Infantry Division.
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The baby was discovered by a tank crew during the fighting below Mt. Tapotchau on Saipan in July of 1944. 🗻 Saipan 15 June 1944 Two 4th Division US Marines take cover in a shell hole on Saipan, June 1944 . On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign, U.S.…
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Vera Salvequart – for war crimes.
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28 year old Vera Salvequart had not been an SS guard, but rather a prisoner herself in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was born on the 26th of November 1919 in Czechoslovakia of Czech and German parents and had trained as a nurse. According to her she served 10 months in…
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The Farnese Atlantic, National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
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The Farnese Atlantic, National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The Farnese Atlantis is a 1.85 m high marble sculpture dating back to the 2nd century AD. The statue belongs to the group of sculptures from the Farnese collection found in the Terme di Caracalla in Rome in 1546 and then moved…
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A crocodile with hundreds of its babies is the wildest photo of the year.
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The spectacular image of this crocodile, with its babies posing on it, has been captured by wildlife photographer Dhritiman Mukherjee, who has been awarded the ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ by the National History Museum in London. This species of crocodile (freshwater gharial) is critically endangered. Where once there were…
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The world record for “Most Prolific Mother Ever” belongs to a Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyev.
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Between 1725 and 1765, she reportedly gave birth 27 times — to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets, for a total of 69 children. Not only that, but her husband Feodor allegedly had 18 more children with his second wife after Valentina died.…
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Bob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies:
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“Who cares about perfection?Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters. The sea is incredibly beautiful, but salty and dark in the depths. The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy. So, everything that is beautiful isn’t perfect, it’s special. Therefore, every woman can be special to…
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Don’t date two Persons at a time.
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I repeat, don’t date two Persons at a time. No matter how confused you are, No matter how in love with two guys/ladies you think yourself to be, don’t date two Persons at a time. End one Relationship before you enter another What happens when you think you are in…