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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…
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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…