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The Nazi Occupation in Poland
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This picture has been taken by a German soldier… a “souvenir”. When the German army invaded Poland in September 1939, the Nazis were determinated to transform Poland into a huge reserve of slave labor ready to be used by the German war industry. In order to reach this goal, the…
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SOLOMON KALUSHI MAHLANGU
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Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, born on 10 July 1956 in Doornkop, Middelburg in what was then known a Eastern Transvaal, was barely 20 years old when Soweto school pupils protested against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. By the end of 1976 many hundreds of youths had been…
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The body of the Soviet pilot Boris Lazarev 55 years after his death
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Founded 55 years after the death of the body of the Soviet pilot Boris Alexandrovich Lazarev. The Hurricane fighter from Sergeant Lazarev from the 760th mixed aviation regiment of the 259th Fighter Division of the 7th Army of the Karelian Front was shot down in the course of an air battle…
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Francesco Lentini – The Three- Legged Man
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Lentini was born in 1889 in Rosolini in the province of Sirocusa, Sicily as one of twelve children. Technically, he was one of 12 and a half children. His twin brother, who consisted of a leg and a set of genitals, was born attached to Francesco’s spine. While he was…
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Meet Josephine Myrtle Corbin, The Four-legged Girl.
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Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born on May 12, 1868, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, with a rare fetal anomaly known as dipygus. Her body was perfectly formed from her head down to her navel, below which it divided into two pelvises, and four lower limbs. Myrtle Corbin was also born with…
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Dear Brandon and WalkAway Friends:
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Hope you don’t mind that I’m checking back in. I grew up in a Republican household with working class parents who’d spent their childhood living through the Great Depression, their teenage years living through the Second World War, then they started fighting the Cold War in their mid-20s. I’m a…
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Masha Bruskina.
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Masha Bruskina was a Russian teenage female partisan. She was a 17 year old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belorussia (Belarus), since the German invasion of Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. Her execution and that of the two men…
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Executions in Berlin’s Plötzensee prison.
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Plötzensee prison in Berlin was designed by architect, Ludwig Alexander Herrmann, and was constructed between 1869 and 1879 to serve as the new state prison. It occupied a plot of 62 acres with a six meter high perimeter wall. Within the walls were five three story prison buildings which were originally designed…
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Hanging
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Until 1858, the procedure of hanging was not regulated by any law or decree. How the hanging was carried out depended solely on local circumstances and decisions made by local officials in charge. No special apparatus (gallows) was used for hangings. The hanging rope would most often be tied to…
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PHOTOS: Dad Who Became An Incubator For His Baby
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105 days ago we were giving 2 options when our baby was born: we could either hold him while he took his last breaths of life or we could try everything to save his life! It took no thinking! We knew he could have been blind, deaf, or handicapped, but…