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Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants.
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Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants. A new footage, revealed to be filmed last year, appears to show Daesh terror militants gunning down 200 Syrian children in a savage mass…
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THE CURIOUS SURRENDER OF WILHELM DEGE. THE LAST GERMAN SOLDIER TO SURRENDER.
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The surrender of Wilhelm Dege’s command is a little curious story to be told. At the time of Germany surrender, Dege and his command weren’t informed about it at all. It was only months later, on 3 September 1945, that a small Norwegian boat, the Blasel, appeared off the Rijpfjord…
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Persecution of Buddhists
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Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution TV. Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution because of their adherence to the Buddhist practice, including unwarranted arrests, imprisonment, beating, torture, and/or execution. The term also may be used in reference to the confiscation or destruction of property, temples, monasteries, centers of learning, meditation…
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It cannot be bought, bottled or measured. But courage, like that displayed by my late father on D-Day, is THE greatest of all human virtues
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Nelson Mandela, who became the first black president of South Africa after spending 27 years in prison, once said: ‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that…
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Heroic pilot who sacrificed his life to save comrades at the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago
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Flight Lieutenant David Lord and his fellow airmen undertook the mission of helping British and Allied soldiers who were being cut off by the enemy. By the afternoon of September 19, 1944, the situation for many Allied troops had become increasingly desperate. The Battle of Arnhem, part of an audacious…
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Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster in 1983, saw the word “LAUNCH” flash across the Soviet Union’s attack early warning system.
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His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union. Petrov had to make a decision: should he report an incoming American strike, or should he hold off, confident that what they were seeing…
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This is a random one, but I still laugh thinking about it…the power of xray
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So I have a close friend ‘Rudy’ who used to surf all the time in Manhattan Beach, CA. One day he sends me a text and says “bro I took a bad spill on the surf yesterday and really messed up my hip. Do you know any orthopedic surgeons that…
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On this day in 1966, SSG Hilliard Carter (A/2-327) earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Vietnam. Full citation:
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The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Hilliard Carter, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company A, 2d Battalion, 327th Parachute…
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This is a photo of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola (Nazi occupied Poland), 1943.
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This is a photo of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola (Nazi occupied Poland), 1943.Here is an excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times in 2006 about how Lazowski risked the Nazi death penalty in order to carry out…
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Remembering the Heroes We Lost: Technical Sergeant Lawrence J Gettings of Iowa
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“Technical Sergeant, Lawrence J Gettings, of Ottumwa, Iowa, heats a can of rations and takes time out for a rest during the fighting southeast of Bastogne, Belgium on January 7, 1945. Technical Sergeant Gettings served with the 320th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Division, E Company” – US Signal…