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Nikola Tesla’s prediction of a smartphone, Collier’s magazine interview, 1926:
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“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and…
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Ethel Merman (16 January 1908 – 15 February 1984)
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*Born as Ethel Agnes Zimmermann. She devised her screen and stage name by removing the first three letters (Zim) and the last letter from her birth name – Zimmermann.*Merman made her debut as a five year old singer at the Astoria, Long Island Republican Club accompanied by her father. Her…
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Women who were involved with German soldiers during the Second World War were subject to persecution and punishment.
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After liberation in 1945, Norway faced the sensitive issue of women who had relationships with German soldiers, often labeled as tyskertøser (German girls). Many faced public shaming, ostracism, and even imprisonment for “collaboration.” Some had their heads forcibly shaved as a humiliating punishment. Children born from these relationships, stigmatized as…
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The Battle of Tarawa was underway, and amongst the blood, bullets and explosions
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On November 20, 1943, the Battle of Tarawa was underway, and amongst the blood, bullets and explosions, stood U.S. Marine SSgt. William J. Bordelon. As part of the initial assault wave, the enemy fire on the beach was so heavy, that only himself and 3 other Marines managed to get…
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Yesterday Baby Gurl calls dad crying –
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she left her wallet on the bus😳 We’re all upset and she naively asks if she’ll get it back. Not wanting to crush her spirit anymore-I admitted it was highly unlikely. Get home and there is a young man banging on my door, stirring up the babies… ? Can I…
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Slavic mythology
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Slavic peoples had a rich mythology, but it is not studied in much detail for some very valid reasons. There are the fewest written historical sources about it, since the Slavs did not have writing before Christianization. So most of Slavic mythology has been transmitted orally to the present day.…
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This bronze socketed axe
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The bronze socketed axe complete with a charred wooden handle, dates back to 1000–800 BCE and was uncovered in 2016 at Must Farm in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. Now housed at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, the axe comes from Britain’s best-preserved Bronze Age site. The settlement, destroyed by a catastrophic fire, plunged…
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Albert Dyer – a paedophile murderer.
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32 year old Albert Dyer was employed as a school crossing guard in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California. He was convicted of the murders of three young girls who were pupils at the Centinela Elementary school which he worked at. On Saturday 24th of June 1937, 7 year old Madeline Everett,…
