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  • How Did Joan Of Arc Die? Inside Her Grisly Demise While Being Burned At The Stake

    How Did Joan Of Arc Die? Inside Her Grisly Demise While Being Burned At The Stake

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    After leading France from the brink of defeat during the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc was captured and put on trial for heresy by the English — then burned at the stake. Joan of Arc didn’t set out to become a martyr. But as the teenage French warrior faced…

  • Ki11ing someone’s Soul … 

    Ki11ing someone’s Soul … 

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death!  Bone Pointing …  A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed. The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out…

  • A LETTER TO ALL MEN

    A LETTER TO ALL MEN

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    Dear Men, If you want to make it in life, you don’t have to enter every HOLE you see. Some holes are dead traps. Some holes are destiny destroyers, business destroyers and life destroyers. My brother, do not obey your Erection at all times. Most Erections mislead you to wrong…

  • Dandara dos Santos, 42, was taken from her home, beaten, stripped and thrown in a wheelbarrow before being taken away to be killed.

    Dandara dos Santos, 42, was taken from her home, beaten, stripped and thrown in a wheelbarrow before being taken away to be killed.

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    The gang of six men who attacked her laughed and cheered as they kicked, punched and beat her with shoes and plank of wood. The terrified woman, who lived in Fortaleza in northeastern Brazil, is seen wiping blood from her face and body in the video while pleading with her…

  • The pain of separating from their son was so unbearable that Emily and Frank Ullman made a stunning promise before sending their only child into hiding.

    The pain of separating from their son was so unbearable that Emily and Frank Ullman made a stunning promise before sending their only child into hiding.

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    “We promised to each other we wouldn’t talk about our son,” Emily remembered decades later. For more than two years, Emily and Frank survived hidden in an attic, wondering if their toddler, Leo, was alive—and imagining how big he might have grown. But they weren’t allowed to know where he…

  • ‘Shell Shock’

    ‘Shell Shock’

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    Captain John Harris was completely exhausted when he collapsed on 24 July 1916. At Pozières, his battalion had suffered under one of the heaviest bombardments of the war. Harris recalled seeing descending shells in their last 40 feet of flight. ‘The only thing to do was grin and bear it.’ …

  • Lieutenant Bill Heptinstall’s M4 Sherman from New Zealand’s 20th Armoured Regiment, lays knocked out down the side of a road next the Tiger I tank that destroyed it. 

    Lieutenant Bill Heptinstall’s M4 Sherman from New Zealand’s 20th Armoured Regiment, lays knocked out down the side of a road next the Tiger I tank that destroyed it. 

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    The Tiger has been self-destroyed and abandoned by its crew, possibly leaving it there as a road block. Florence, Italy. August 4th, 1944. From the 13th of June to the 13th of July 1944, the New Zealand 20th Armoured Regiment was given a rest period in the Liri Valley, after…

  • On 20 June 1942, four prisoners escape Auschwitz through the front gate, disguised as SS officers. 

    On 20 June 1942, four prisoners escape Auschwitz through the front gate, disguised as SS officers. 

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    Among them is the Polish 22-year-old Kazimierz Piechowski. During the first days of the war, he saw how the Germans killed his friends from the boy scouts, who were perceived as potential sources of resistance. Knowing that he will suffer a similar fate if he doesn’t flee, Piechowski decided to…

  • On May 11, 1943, 12,500 U.S. soldiers landed on the northern and southern ends of Attu Island. For over two weeks, battles raged over the tiny island. 

    On May 11, 1943, 12,500 U.S. soldiers landed on the northern and southern ends of Attu Island. For over two weeks, battles raged over the tiny island. 

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    There were few large-scale engagements; as in the rest of the Pacific Theater, the Japanese preferred to employ “small group” tactics, using the rough terrain of Attu to their advantage and lying motionless for hours in foxholes until they could pin down American units with sniper fire. As they moved…

  • During World War I, the youngest soldier was a 7-year-old boy, Momchilo Gavriku.

    During World War I, the youngest soldier was a 7-year-old boy, Momchilo Gavriku.

    December 9, 2024

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    David

    The youngest soldier ever who was officially a soldier and fighting in a unit was the 7-year old Momčilo Gavrić. He was born in 1907. near Loznica, Serbia. At the beginning of the war, in August, 1914., Austro-Hungarian soldiers of the 42nd Croatian Home Guard Infantry Division maimed and hanged…

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