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This powerful photograph by Bill Brandt, taken in 1937, features a stark yet intimate scene of a coal miner being bathed at home in Chester-Le-Street, Durham, England.
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In the image, a young woman, dressed in a simple apron, gently tends to the miner, who is hunched over in a large basin. His body is covered in grime, a testament to the demanding nature of his work in the coal mines.The setting is a modest, working-class interior, with…
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Coral Saber. Germany, circa 1560. The coral saber is a pure art collection piece with no particular practical function; it was certainly never actually used as a weapon.
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The blade is formed by human art, the handle by the power of nature, so that here the work of man and nature are ideally combined. The key to the object’s meaning is provided by the material coral and its mythical connection with the figure of Jupiter’s son Perseus. In…
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Masaharu Homma
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April 3rd 1946Been found guilty of war crimes related to the treatment of prisoners of War Japanese General Homma Masaharu was executed. Masaharu had been the Japanese Commander that had ordered the American prisoners captured in the Philippines to undergo what became known as the Bataan Death March. Masaharu Homma (Honma…
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Hitoshi Imamura
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Hitoshi Imamura was a Japanese general who, at the end of World War II, was prosecuted for war crimes committed by soldiers under his command against Allied prisoners in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, a relatively mild punishment compared to other…
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Four Russian soldiers have been arrested and charged with the torture and murder of Russell Bentley, a 64-year-old U.S. citizen who fought alongside pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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Bentley, originally from Dallas, Texas, joined pro-Russian separatists in 2014 to fight against Ukrainian forces and became a Russian citizen in 2021. He went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was later found dead. The Russian Investigative Committee, responsible for probing major crimes, identified the suspects…
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BRUTAL MILITARY TRAINING IN JAPANESE ARMED FORCES AND WAR CRIMES
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If the influence of deeply rooted negative racial beliefs is added to the brutality involved in sending soldiers destined to kill each other on a massive scale, the frame of conventions and rules of warfare is far more likely to be intentionally broken. on both sides.In the 1930s Japanese soldiers…
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It happened today in Hungarian history:
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4 December 1536: Czeczey Lénárd took Kassa (Kaschau, Kosice) Kassa was a key city of the Kingdom of Hungary, and after the Battle of Mohács, its German burghers opened its gates before the troops of Hans Katzianer, the general of King Habsburg Ferdinand. During the sad years of the Dual…
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![“[Charles Evans] Hughes waged a lackluster campaign [in 1916] — TR called him ‘Wilson with whiskers’ — but he remained the overwhelming favorite.](https://wohistorynlocalgist.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1000209921-150x150.jpg)
“[Charles Evans] Hughes waged a lackluster campaign [in 1916] — TR called him ‘Wilson with whiskers’ — but he remained the overwhelming favorite.
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New York bookmakers quoted the final odds at 5 to 3. On election night, FDR attended a large dinner given by Henry Morgenthau, Sr., for party bigwigs at New York’s Biltmore Hotel. . . . [The] politicians hoped against hope the bookies had it wrong. Gloom settled in quickly. Early…
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“When Congress declared war on April 6, 1917, the United States was a second-class military power.
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The Army, relegated to showing the flag in Latin America and pursuing Mexican banditti, consisted of 108,399 men, a third of whom were on garrison duty in Panama, Hawaii, and the Philippines. The various state militias, recently formed into a National Guard, added but another 200,000, and there was no…
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Vietnam War History: The Battle of Loc Ninh
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On this day, November 9, in 1967, the fierce ten-day battle for the Loc Ninh Special Forces Camp came to an end. Just miles from the Cambodian border, the camp was a strategic stronghold in South Vietnam, defended by U.S. Army Special Forces and South Vietnamese irregular forces. On October…