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150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive.
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70 percent to 100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY. If we go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872, none of those that carried the world on their heads then are alive today.…
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In the year 1882, a seemingly ordinary photograph was taken, capturing the innocence and curiosity of a young child named Albert Einstein.
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Little did the world know at that time that this unassuming three-year-old boy would go on to reshape the very fabric of our understanding of the universe. Born on March 14, 1879, in the German city of Ulm, young Albert Einstein exhibited early signs of an inquisitive mind. The photograph…
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Punishment in Nazi concentration camps
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Punishment in Nazi concentration camps was brutal and inhumane, designed to break the spirit and will of the prisoners. The Nazis employed various methods to enforce discipline and maintain control over the inmates. One of the most common forms of punishment was physical abuse. Prisoners who violated camp rules or…
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Remembering Walter J. Marm, Jr., a retired US Army Officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War.
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On 14 November 1965, he was a platoon leader of 2nd Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). On that day, during the Battle of La Drang, 1st Lt. Marm demonstrated indomitable courage during a combat operation, his company was moving through the valley to…
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This photo, taken on December 8, 1943, in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, shows PFC Homer J. Finley Jr., (U.S. Marine Corps) and his four-legged comrade “Jack”, a Belgian Shepherd of the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon.
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Together, Homer and Jack landed on Bougainville and bravely fought against a relentless enemy. During that short period, they always looked after each other, which created a special bond between them, but Homer was then assigned to other duties, and the two Marines were separated.Jack was later wounded by a…
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Today we pay tribute to Tommy Norris, Michael Thornton, their families
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“I lost an eye and part of my head and brain and had some other bodily injuries. I have another eye. You just go on.” From April 10-13, 1972, Thomas “Tommy” Norris, a 28-year old native of Jacksonville, Florida, who was an Eagle Scout and had joined the Navy in…
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On This Day 21-FEB 2008, We Remember a Fallen Hero
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Drew W. Weaver was born 5-JUL 1987. He lived in St. Charles Missouri and attended St. Charles West High School graduating in 2005. Drew and his best friend, Marine Corporal Ryan Hanson, joined the Marines together right after high school and went through basic training together. Ryan literally was by…
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Pascoe & Whitty – Britain’s penultimate hangings.
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Russell Pascoe, aged 24 and 22 year old Dennis John Whitty were jointly convicted of the murder of 64 year old William Garfield Rowe in the doorway of his house at Nanjarrow Farm at Constantine near Falmouth in Cornwall at around 11 p.m. on Wednesday the 14th of August 1963.Pascoe…
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Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet.
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Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet. Inspired to create a repertory ballet company with dancers drawn from the School, she also founded The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet and nurtured some of the world’s most renowned…
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The Dancer Doomed as a Spy
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In the early hours of 15 October 1917, a guard entered Mata Hari’s prison cell and awoke her. Her time had come. She arose, donned her black stockings, high heels and a velvet cloak lined with fur. ‘I am ready,’ she announced. The guards whisked her off to the outskirts…