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He had a hundred names, but he chose his last and most prominent, Ho Chi Minh— the Bringer of Light.
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“Freedom for my people, independence for my country, that’s all I want, all I understand.” On this day, in 1890, one of the giants of the 20th century entered the world. The Light Bringer. The father of the people. The deliverer of Vietnamese Independence. One of the greatest human beings…
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Famous Mysteries of the Sea, involves Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of the infamous Aaron Burr, and her disappearance during The War of 1812.
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Theodosia had been married to the governor of South Carolina at the time. She boarded the schooner Patriot to make a quick run up to New York to visit dad, and neither she nor the Patriot was ever seen again. Years later, at a dinner party in London, a US…
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January 14, 1945 Holocaust Diary of Tamara Lazerson:
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“Boredom and cold; it is bleak outside and in my heart. Vitas left for someplace afar, and I do not know where. Uncle and aunt are somewhere in a desolate land, and I am here alone, a stranger. O God, what a burden it is to be solitary among aliens,…
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What was the most terrible execution method used during the Spanish Inquisition?
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During the era of the Spanish Inquisition, which spanned from the late 15th to the early 19th century, heretics who were convicted of religious crimes faced severe punishments, including execution. One method employed for executing heretics was garroting. This form of execution involved the condemned individual being tightly bound to…
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How Did Joan Of Arc Die? Inside Her Grisly Demise While Being Burned At The Stake
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After leading France from the brink of defeat during the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc was captured and put on trial for heresy by the English — then burned at the stake. Joan of Arc didn’t set out to become a martyr. But as the teenage French warrior faced…
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Ki11ing someone’s Soul …
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Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death! Bone Pointing … A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed. The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out…
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‘Shell Shock’
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Captain John Harris was completely exhausted when he collapsed on 24 July 1916. At Pozières, his battalion had suffered under one of the heaviest bombardments of the war. Harris recalled seeing descending shells in their last 40 feet of flight. ‘The only thing to do was grin and bear it.’ …
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Lieutenant Bill Heptinstall’s M4 Sherman from New Zealand’s 20th Armoured Regiment, lays knocked out down the side of a road next the Tiger I tank that destroyed it.
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The Tiger has been self-destroyed and abandoned by its crew, possibly leaving it there as a road block. Florence, Italy. August 4th, 1944. From the 13th of June to the 13th of July 1944, the New Zealand 20th Armoured Regiment was given a rest period in the Liri Valley, after…
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On May 11, 1943, 12,500 U.S. soldiers landed on the northern and southern ends of Attu Island. For over two weeks, battles raged over the tiny island.
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There were few large-scale engagements; as in the rest of the Pacific Theater, the Japanese preferred to employ “small group” tactics, using the rough terrain of Attu to their advantage and lying motionless for hours in foxholes until they could pin down American units with sniper fire. As they moved…
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During World War I, the youngest soldier was a 7-year-old boy, Momchilo Gavriku.
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The youngest soldier ever who was officially a soldier and fighting in a unit was the 7-year old Momčilo Gavrić. He was born in 1907. near Loznica, Serbia. At the beginning of the war, in August, 1914., Austro-Hungarian soldiers of the 42nd Croatian Home Guard Infantry Division maimed and hanged…