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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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Who Is N*ked Athena? Meet The Protestor Who Str!pped Down In Front Of Police In Oregon
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That’s one way to distract the cops. As Black Lives Matter and social justice protests continue throughout the US, another one happened on Friday night in Portland, Oregon — but this time, the protest made headlines for a seriously unexpected reason: One of the protestors was completely naked from head to…
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Making Sense of a Rape Photograph: Se.xual Violence as Social Performance on the Eastern Front, 1939-1944
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This article begins with a disturbing image that has a no-less unsettling provenance. It shows a group of fifteen young German soldiers standing in a semicircle, carousing and laughing as one of their comrades emulates a sex act with an unidentified woman who may or may not be dead. The…
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“Actress Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning home from war, 1945”
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READ TO END It was first published in ‘Life’ Magazine with the caption: “While soldiers hold her up by her famous legs, Marlene Dietrich is kissed by a home-coming GI”. The ship was the Monticello, a converted cruise liner. Her original name was SS Conte Grande and was built in…
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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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Did you know Mega-musical star Josephine Baker, was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air Force!
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In France, she found fame and freedom after fleeing racism in America. At the height of her career, she led a double life. She became a spy informing on the Nazis. Did you know Mega-musical star Josephine Baker, was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air…
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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,…