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The hero of Marcel Aymé’s short story Le Passe-Muraille (The Walker through Walls)
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There’s a sculpture in the Paris catacombs created by artist Jean Marais in 1989, the sculpture known as Le Passe-Muraille portrays Dutilleul, hero of Marcel Aymé’s short story Le Passe-Muraille (The Walker through Walls) In 1943, Dutilleul discovered his ability to pass through walls, used it for mischief and crime,…
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South Carolina is bringing back firing squad.
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Three people are currently awaiting the death penalty in South Carolina. After the state passed a new law, those people will be forced to choose how they are executed. In addition to lethal injection and execution, the new law adds firing squads to the list of acceptable methods. While that…
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Jewish woman, some holding children in their arms, wait in line before they are ex3cuted by the Ukrainian police.
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This horrifying story begins with the Mizocz Ghetto of World War II, set up in occupied Poland by the German Nazi army to gather the local Jews there. The Jews in the area had settled there since the 18th century. It is estimated that at that time there were about…
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REAL COMBAT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRENCH SOLDIERS GOING OVER-THE-TOP AT MESNIL-LES-HURLUS DURING THE SECOND BATTLE OF…..
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The photographed French soldiers were all from the 65th Infantry Regiment; Colonel Xavier Desgrées du Loû holding the flag, with his nephew Yves Desgrées du Loû and a Lieutenant Lerbet behind him. All men were killed in the attack that ensued. The soldier on the left, Captain de Corta, was…
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In 1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman’s door in Reevesville, South Carolina.
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He was ly.nched by a white mob General Lee was ly.nched on January 13, 1904, near Reevesville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. He was an African American man, approximately thirty years old, with a wife named Henrietta and six children named Willie, Curtis, Bertha, Timothy, Nellie, and Lila. At the time…
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An avowed atheist and free speech advocate, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet and playwright who married Mary Godwin in 1815, the famed author of “Frankenstein.”
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On this day in 1822, Percey boarded his new boat in the Mediterranean Sea, only to be hit by a violent storm during which he was thrown overboard and killed. A month later, his body was cremated in front of friends and family on a beach in Italy. For reasons…
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EXECUTION IN IRAN
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Although officially outlawed since 1981, human rights groups claim a number of people are still being stoned to death in Iran. This is likely due to the murky nature of Iran’s Sharia-based legal system where judges are only given vague punishment guidelines. This includes ordering judges to simply to execute…
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THE TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF THE JOSEF SCHULZ AND THE PARTISANS
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This event had taken place on the 20th of July 1941. As the German troops were pushing towards the Soviet union their main stop before crossing the borders were the Yugoslavian partisans fighting against fascism. Most of the partisan members did not flee towards the Soviet Union as they wanted…
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Karl Gebhardt was a respected surgeon and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS.
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During World War II, the Nazi doctor worked at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where he had unfettered access to prisoners to use as subjects in experimentation. Gebhardt exploited the opportunity, performing needless and painful tests. At one point, he attempted to transplant limbs from camp victims to German soldiers wounded…
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THE TERRIBLE STORY OF THE MAN THAT COULD NOT BE HANGED
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John ‘Babbacombe’ Lee famously dubbed the man they could not hang’ was accused of the murder of Miss Emma Anne Whitehead Keyse. In the early hours of November 15 1884 in the hamlet of Babbacombe, Devon, Emma Keyse was discovered brutally murdered. Her throat was slit, she had three wounds…