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Jewish skull collection
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The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by the Nazis to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the “Jewish race” and to emphasize the Jews’ status as (“sub-humans”), in contrast to the German race, which the Nazis considered to be Aryan “superhumans” The collection was to be housed at the Anatomy Institute at the Reich…
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During World War II, millions of people were sent to concentration camps, including women.
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Women in concentration camps were subjected to brutal treatment and often faced more severe conditions than their male counterparts. The conditions in the camps were inhumane, and women were often subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experiments. Women were treated differently in concentration camps than men. They were often…
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January 24, 1943 Wahoo spotted a destroyer with submarines around it. Morton fired three torpedoes on the destroyer, but they missed.
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Wahoo watched as the destroyer headed its way, and at dangerously close range, Wahoo fired another torpedo that broke the enemy ship in half. A few days later, Wahoo encountered another convoy and was credited with sinking Buyo Maru, Fukuei Maru, and an unknown maru. On February 7, Wahoo arrived…
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This Day in History-Jan 26, 1945
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American Lt. Audie Murphy, is wounded in France. Born the son of Texas sharecroppers on June 20, 1924, Murphy served three years of active duty, beginning as a private, rising to the rank of staff sergeant, and finally winning a battlefield commission to 2nd Lieutenant. He was wounded three times,…
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HERO’S
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The smallest artefact can grow into an extremely long trail and important story. This Ulster Volunteer Force lapel badge from 1913 belonged to the husband of the cook for Lord and Lady Smiley of Drumalis in Larne.He farmed a local farm known as Droagh Farm near Larne and he was…
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Preely Coleman, born into slavery, told his life story at age 85 in Tyler, 1935.
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Preely was born in 1852 in New Berry, South Carolina, but he and his mother were sold and taken to Texas when he was only a month old… They settled near Alto, where Preely lived most of his life. Here are his words, preserved thanks to the WPA project:“I’m Preely…
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque.
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Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the…
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Silas Marner
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“Silas Marner,” the classic novel by George Eliot, published in 1861, weaves a tale of betrayal, redemption, and the transformative power of love. Set in the rural English countryside of the 19th century, it tells the story of a reclusive weaver whose life is forever altered by a golden-haired child.…
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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…