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We hope you enjoy your Fourth of July, but maybe not this much (resharing for the holiday)…
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After a Pe Ell Fourth of July parade (year not known), a woman identified as “Crazy Mary,” as she was remembered, and Anna Damitz sit on the porch while Clancy Damitz threatens to bury Troy Conn and another man who have passed out in the yard after festivities. The unknown…
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The Battle of Kostiuchnówka (July 4th – 6th, 1916) was a major battle on the Eastern Front between the Polish Legions and the Russian army.
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The village of Kostiuchnówka, located in the Volhynia region close to the front line that had been established in 1915, was filled with Polish legionnaires. The Polish section of the front line was about ten kilometers long. Polish positions reached far behind the front line. The “Piłsudski’s Redoubt” was a…
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At the horrific battle of Ap Nha Mat on 5 December 1965, Sergeant Oliver Fugere and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, fought off a Viet Cong force four times greater than their own.
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Over a six-hour period, Sgt Fugere directed his platoon in the fight, personally slayed numerous VC, and assisted in the evacuation of his wounded. When the platoon ran out of ammo, he made trip after trip stealing weapons off the dead Vietnamese for his soldiers to use. When snipers wreaked…
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The Romanticization of the Dead Female Body in Victorian and Contemporary Culture
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In “The Philosophy of Composition,” Edgar Allan Poe writes the infamous line: “the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world” (548). This problematic contention, which equates female death with poetic inspiration, is one of the hallmarks of the arts during the Victorian…
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The Voice of a Fallen Comrade!
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By Dr. Ben Guarken Chiman JUBA, South Sudan When I am gone: please pick up my gun if you can, Reload it and point it forward, be like a lion, be like an Eagle. Free Wau, free Malakal, free Jebel Boma, free Tonj, and free Torit. But be smart, negotiate…
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Respect to Joseph Lee Galloway ‘He is the only civilian to receive a medal from the U.S. Army for valor during the Vietnam War’
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“Joseph Lee Galloway was an American news correspondent and columnist. He is the only civilian to receive a medal from the U.S. Army for valor during the Vietnam War—a Bronze Star with Combat V for rescuing wounded soldiers under fire in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965. A veteran…
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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…