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was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who went missing in action during the battle of Iwo Jima while serving as a war photographer in World War II. He is best known for filming the second U.S. flag-raising on top of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Genaust operated a…
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A viral video has shown the moment a Woman in Haiti caught her husband red-handed, naked in bed with his mistress he dared to bring home. The woman wouldn’t have it and used a long wooden stick to flog them both mercilessly while the mistress was busy scampering for help…
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Despite often being called the “saber-toothed tiger,” it was not closely related to modern tigers or any living cats. Instead, it belonged to the now-extinct subfamily Machairodontinae. Smilodon roamed the Americas during the Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs, living between 2.5 million and 8,200 years ago. Smilodon was a stocky…
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He was viewed as Hitler’s finest General, admired even by the Allies for his skills as a military leader. But to one captured British soldier, Erwin Rommel was the man who saved his life – and gave him beer and cigarettes.Captain Roy Wooldridge, from the Royal Engineers, has told how he…
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Nelson Mandela once said that to truly know a nation, you must experience its jails. However, today we go beyond nations and venture back through centuries. We will explore the worst prisons in history, from ancient dungeons to modern facilities. Let’s begin with Mamertine Prison. In Ancient Rome, life was…
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Slavery is a Woman:Race, Gender, and Visuality in Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse (1800)By James Smalls Hanging on one wall of the Musée du Louvre, in the company of the gargantuan machines by Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, and others, is an exquisitely crafted and modestly sized painting of…
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The name Mpondo came came from their first King called Mpondo who was a twin to Mpondomise & to Xesibe which they were Kings to their nations that is named after them. The Mpondo nation is like a nation just like the Xhosa & Zulu people but they are officially…
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The group were approached by a smartly dressed man in a black coat who offered Minnie and their friend money to leave and go get sweets, which they did. The man then offered Fanny a half-penny if she would accompany him to ‘The Hollow’, she refused and he picked her…
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This woman was full of crap — and she didn’t mind sharing it in front of horrified diners. A Canadian woman was so incensed that a Tim Hortons employee denied her access to a restroom that she popped a squat, pooped on the floor and flung her dung at him.…
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Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States Army long range penetration special operationsjungle warfare unit, which fought in the Southeast Asian theater of World War II, or China-Burma-India Theater (CBI). The unit became famous for its deep-penetration…