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Tina Turner: From Captivity to Queen
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From the dusty fields of Nutbush, Tennessee, to the glittering stages of global arenas, Tina Turner’s journey was nothing short of extraordinary. Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, her early life was marked by poverty and hardship. But it was her tumultuous marriage to Ike Turner that would truly shape…
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An emaciated female Jewish survivor of a death march lies in an American military field hospital in Volary, Czechoslovakia.
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Pictured is twenty-six year old Elizabeth Klein. The Helmbrechts death march was one of hundreds of forced marches that occurred near the end of the war. As Allied troops closed in on Germany from all sides, the prisoners in concentration camps and slave labor commandos were evacuated to camps further…
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Mass R-p- in Europe by Allied soldiers after World War 2
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The greatest crimes against women and Europeans in history, was the mass rape of the European women after the Liberal-Communist victory in 1945. It would be easy for you to toss this newsletter aside and pickup more pleasant or amusing reading The rapists were mainly Soviet and US soldiers. They…
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He simply was too much ahead of his time.
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On May 30, 1832 a duel took place in Paris in which a young man — barely twenty years old — was lethally wounded. Much later, he turned out to be one of the greatest mathematical minds in history. Although it was clear during his lifetime that he had “some”…
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The unbelievable Agabbadòra Hammer
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“In Sardinia, the use of the “femina agabbadòra hammer” was a women’s practice. Whenever an elderly man or woman of a given family was dying and in great pain, the family would call for the Accabadòra or Lady of the Good Death. She would usually be a widow dressed entirely…
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Einstein’s letter to Curie when she was facing relentless attacks on her personal life, saying that she “tarnished the good name” of her late husband, Pierre Curie.
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She was denied a seat in the French Academy of Sciences in January 1911 for reasons that probably included gender and religion.Prague, 23 November 1911Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie:Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.But I am so enraged by the base manner in…
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The really cool black stone.
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Back in 1786, a French botanist named André Michaux was wandering around Baghdad when he stumbled upon this really cool black stone near the Taq Kasra ruins. It had some pretty odd carvings and writing on it, and Michaux was totally fascinated. He ended up keeping it with him for…
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When they disconnected my uncle and said he’s dead, I stayed watching him, he had his hand clinging to mine and even so it was still warm.
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I continued to observe him, he seemed asleep, perhaps 3 or 4 minutes had passed and his skin color was the same. Suddenly, from his face a veil began to fall, which every time it descended, leaving his mummified and disfigured yellow appearance. Under this non-transparent veil, soft and not…
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On This Day, September 29, 1941, the massacre at Babi Yar began.
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Over the course of two days, 33,771 Jews were murdered in the Babi Yar ravine, located on the outskirts of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine (USSR). A week after the Germans captured Kiev, they decided to massacre the city’s Jews. The Jews were ordered to assemble in the morning for…
