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A Monkey Bite Altered The Trajectory Of The Greco-Turkish War
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Alexander I of Greece only ruled for three years, but between 1917 and 1920, he was generally considered to be an inexperienced puppet. His father, Constantine I, had been removed from the throne by Allied powers who sought to control Greece during WWI. With Alexander as king, Eleftherios Venizelos essentially ran the…
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Had Hitler Died On The WWI Battlefield, WWII Could Have Been Much Different – Or Not Happened
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One “what-if” scenario about Adolf Hitler revolves around whether his acceptance into art school would have changed history – he was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1907. According to reports, his sample drawings were “unsatisfactory” with “too many heads.” The world will never know what would have happened…
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A Wrong Turn Led To The Death Of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand And Sparked WWI
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was a key event in the leadup to WWI, one often considered to have started it all. In truth, tension among European powers was intense by the time Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, visited Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The demise of both…
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The conflict in the Asia/Pacific theatre during World War II garnered many unsung heroes.
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On a national level, one such hero was the Commonwealth nation of Australia. While it is undoubtedly true that most Australians are keenly aware of the great efforts put forth by their countrymen during the war, much of the rest of the world is not so well informed. To remedy…
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Martha Ballard was a midwife, healer, and diarist who lived in colonial Maine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries–
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Her diary, which covers a period of 27 years, provides a rare and valuable window into the daily life, medical practices, and social customs of the time. Martha Ballard was born in 1735 and lived in Hallowell, Maine, which was a remote frontier town at the time. Despite the lack…
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THINGS THAT CAUSE REGRET AT OLD AGE.
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When younger, we make various choice’s without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they’re older. Beyond Horizon
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Japanese war crimes – Unit 731, Cannibalism, torture, chemical weapons, murdering of PoWs and civilians and other atrocities
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Japanese war crimes occurred in many Asian and Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. These incidents have also been described as an Asian Holocaust and Japanese war atrocities. R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the…
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God Bless You PFC Tracy and your families!
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RIP PFC Jacob Tracy ! your service and your life will always be remembered and appreciated by myself, as well as all my other Brothers and Sisters in arms! You truly made the ultimate sacrifice that will always be appreciated and remembered by all of us !May your family as…
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We Honor Travis W. Atkins: Thank You For Your Service
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101st Airborne’s Medal of Honor Recipient that sacrificed his life by throwing himself on a suicide bomber to save his men. Travis W. Atkins was born on Dec. 9, 1975, in Great Falls, Montana. Atkins enlisted on Nov. 9, 2000, and attended basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He…
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Walter Marsh – who preferred death.
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At 8.00 a.m. on Thursday the 27th of December 1906, 39 year old Walter Marsh was hanged within the coach house of Derby’s Vernon Street Gaol by Henry Pierrepoint, assisted by John Ellis. Marsh had asked that no petitions for a reprieve be collected as he feared life in prison…