LOCALGISTS

Lingchi meaning the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, and also known as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 CE up until the practice ended around the early 1900s. It was also used in Vietnam and Korea. In this form of execution, a…

The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as the Wheel of Catherine or simply the Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. The practice was abolished in Bavaria in 1813 and in the Electorate of Hesse in 1836: the last known execution by…

One the great criticism of Operation Neptune was the failure to take Caen. Often overlooked when Morgan planned Slapstick in 1943,which became Overlord, Caen was always a D day target, that was never changed that is why when Montgomery briefed the Allied commanders on 15th May. It was highlighted Caen…

 This was a mock execution attempting to get the resistance fighter, Georges Blind, to talk. It didn’t work. Georges did not divulge any information.  It’s interesting how they’ve placed him at the corner of the building rather than against the stereotypical flat wall. It must make ricochet injuries to the…

The name Dr. Josef Mengele stands out among the dark stories of the men and women who perpetrated the Holocaust.  The Nazi doctor is most commonly known as the architect of cruel and unnecessary medical experiments, which he performed on concentration camp inmates including twin children.  He was fascinated by…

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…

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…

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…

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…