When historians read the last battles of wars, armed conflicts and the social statues of defeated people under the authority of their occupiers tyranny they will be confronted by a singular social phenomenon – rape, Systematic rape. In 1915 Ottoman forces were accused via reports of having committing rape against…

Besides Armenian genocide. Islamization of Armenians was carried out as a systematic state policy involving the bureaucracy, police, judiciary, and clergy and was a major structural component of the genocide. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Armenians were Islamized,[186] and it is estimated that in the early twenty-first century as many…

“The infamous SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, also known as the Dirlewanger Brigade, came into the spotlight in Poland last week  The Warsaw Uprising Museum has obtained a list of members of the infamous brigade The infamous SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, also known as the Dirlewanger Brigade, came into the spotlight in Poland last week…

In 1975, a disabled Vietnam vet named Oliver Sipple saved President Gerald Ford from an assassin. Although Sipple was hailed a hero at first, the tide quickly turned when the media outed him as a gay man. Not only did the exposure of his homosexuality overshadow his heroic act, it…

After her mother died in the ghetto, 14-year-old Sara moved in with her aunt Cesia. On January 16, 1942, the German authorities began the first wave of deportations of Jews from the ghetto.  Cesia and her five children were among this wave of deportees murdered at Chełmno killing center.  In…

On the night of April 28, 1881, just two weeks before he was set to be hanged, the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid was sitting in a jail cell on the top floor of the Mesila, New Mexico courthouse, awaiting his fate.  Then he asked the deputy who was watching…

On January 30, 1925, William Floyd Collins got stuck in a passageway deep inside Kentucky’s Sand Cave, inciting a media spectacle that drew tens of thousands of people to the scene in hopes of seeing him rescued. Floyd Collins was an experienced cave explorer. A participant in what became known…

Beck Weathers was left for dead and fellow climbers had already called his wife to tell her he was gone — then he somehow made it down the mountain and walked back into camp. On May 11, 1996, Beck Weathers died on Mount Everest. At least, that’s what everyone was…