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WW2: Join the COGS… Children formed their own COG salvage gangs… They scavenged for salvage for the war effort and earnt badges for it…
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Poster – Look What’s Happening To Our Salvage – Join The ‘COGS’ Children were encouraged to help the war effort by collecting metal, paper and rags for recycling. On this poster, soap cartons have been used in the manufacture of artillery shells. Children could earn the red Junior Salvage Steward…
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The Battle of Tarawa was underway, and amongst the blood, bullets and explosions
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On November 20, 1943, the Battle of Tarawa was underway, and amongst the blood, bullets and explosions, stood U.S. Marine SSgt. William J. Bordelon. As part of the initial assault wave, the enemy fire on the beach was so heavy, that only himself and 3 other Marines managed to get…
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Harry Allen – hangman
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Period on Home Office List – 1941-1964. Harry Bernard Allen was born on the 5th of November 1911 at 50 Braithwell Street, Denaby in Yorkshire, but brought up in Ashton under Lyne in Lancashire. He was educated at St Anne’s Roman Catholic School in Burlington Street, in that town. His…
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Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
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The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took place on 1 July 1945. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with a small number of Netherlands East Indies KNIL troops, made an amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, a few miles north of Balikpapan. The…
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I wanted to take off my skin’: Ukrainian women recount rape by Russian soldiers
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The three Russian soldiers arrived at Victoria’s house claiming they needed to seize her cell phone. But they weren’t looking for phones. Victoria, a 42-year-old Ukrainian woman, told ABC News she and another woman, a neighbor, were raped by two of the Russian soldiers occupying her village near Kyiv in…
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The only h*ad of the dodo
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The only h*ad of the dodo The only head of the dodo, which went extinct 315 years ago, is in the Natural History Museum in London, where it is considered an invaluable piece of natural history. This specimen offers a unique perspective on the wildlife of its original habitat, the…
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The skeletons of five people with elongated skulls have been dug up in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, sparking rumours of an “alien” grave.
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The remains date from slightly less than 2000 years ago and are believed to be from the ancient Sarmatian culture.A mother was found buried with a baby lying on her chest, with three more skeletons found under them in the grave.All had distinctive deformed skulls, and previous similar discoveries have…
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From the excavation of Mycenae, the great enemy of Troy, in 1876.
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The Lion Gate has just been cleared. Bottom right of the photograph you see the excavator of Troy and Mycenae, Heinrich Schliemann with his seated Greek wife, Sophia Schliemann. Top right of the photo it’s Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Schliemann’s assistant, successor and Germany’s finest architect then. A few days later, excavating…
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Cyclops.
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The legend tells that there were one-eyedgiants that scared humans. Yes, they did exist. It was another of the failed experiments of the annunakis, they manipulated the DNA of the homo habilis, tried to give it size, strength and intelligence. They managed to measure almost three meters, they were able…
