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Medieval Torture
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In the middle ages torture was used to extract information, force confessions, punish suspects, frighten opponents, and satisfy personal hatred. The word ‘torture’ comes from the French torture, originating in the Late Latin tortura and ultimately deriving the past participle of torquere meaning ‘to twist’. Many tortures rely on a…
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Guido Argentini
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Thea Playing with a Dead Tree, 2006. Argentini is a master of the female form and known to eternalize beauty. Combining the elegance of the landscape with the soft hills of the nude, these works marry elegance and sensuality in the subdued hues of dried grass and chalky rocks. Guido…
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The Human Problem: The High Cost of War Paid by Women
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“Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm forward. Kill! You gallant soldiers of…
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Puyi executed for treason
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Puyi executed for treason after his failure to restore the Qing monarchy in 1917 and then in 1931 when he collided with the Japanese and escaped to Manchukuo. After the Qing Dynasty ended in 1912, Puyi had attached himself to several different powers, but with each power fail, he somehow…
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Shocking!Five Prisoners Executed In Iran, Including Young Man Whose Death Sentence Was Condemned By Amnesty International.
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The Iranian regime’s henchmen in city of Karaj hanged at least five prisoners in Gohardasht Prison on Tuesday. The victims included Alireza Shahi whose death sentence was condemned by Amnesty International on Monday. Five men were part of a group of at least ten prisoners that their execution had been…
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Iranian mother forgives her son’s mu*derer, stops his execution.
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The parents of a young man killed in a street fight halt the execution of the convicted killer this week — seconds before he was to be hanged in front of a large crowd. It took place in Iran, where hangings are still accepted as a form of public execution.…
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Imagine this: it’s 1889 in Nampa, Idaho, and a team of workers drilling a water well stumbles upon a discovery that defies everything we thought we knew about human history.
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Enter the Nampa figurine—a small, mysterious artifact unearthed by chance, and dated to a staggering 2 million years old. That’s right, 2 million years! To put this into perspective, this predates North America’s earliest known human presence by hundreds of thousands of years.So, what exactly is this enigmatic figurine? Carved…
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Horace Seaver “Stump” Carswell Jr. was a United States Army major who was killed in action while serving as a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
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After the German invasion of Poland, Carswell decided to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. He was appointed a flying cadet in Dallas on March 26, 1940, and trained at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Randolph and Kelly Fields, Texas, getting his commission and wings toward the end of 1940. He instructed…
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Carter and one of the foremen work on the innermost coffin of the Egyptian pharaoh (colorized photo).
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The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings on 04 November 1922 by excavators led by Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun’s death and burial. On 4 November a worker uncovered a step in the rock. According to Carter’s published account the workmen…
