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This is a shocking image and I apologize in advance for sharing it, but here’s one that truly got to me… in Belarus, 1918, after WWI had already ended, the brave Russian officer Rosinski was captured by the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks tortured the captain, likely to get information out of the man,…
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In the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust, the Nazi’s experimented on thousands of men, women and children. Their major target populations included Romani, Sinti, ethnic Poles, Soviet POWs, disabled Germans, and Jews from across Europe. At Auschwitz and other camps, under the direction of…
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Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a punishment for and warning against crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft. The best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where the…
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The ISIS video of a Jordanian pilot being burned to death prompted denunciations over this unique form of savagery. How unique is it really? The latest ISIS atrocity – releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive – prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery.…
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“But it’s generally not known in the world that in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren’t any Nuremberg trials. There weren’t any high public figures who…
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The 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was more than a systematic ethnic purge. It also was a desperate effort to save a once-great empire. As the world prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of what is widely known as the Armenian Genocide, most historians agree that the massacre…
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The Extraordinary – ( Freddy Jackson Ghost) This is the story of Freddy Jackson Ghost. This intriguing story of a photo, taken in 1919, was first published in 1975 by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R.A.F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard’s squadron, which had served in…
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ByTruth PressPublished Splashed across placards, chanted by protesters and graffitied on walls: it was the slogan of 2020. ‘I can’t breathe’. A routine police encounter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25 that year had resulted in the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man. White police officer Derek Chauvin,…
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Thesseus is wearing a classic mycenean kilt and boots , while he was a bronze dagger in his right hand . The other piece of art shows Thesseus departing Athens and going to crete . The ship is a classic mycenean/mioan ship . The famous Black sails from the myth…
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LIFE With Mike the Headless Chicken: Photos of a Famously Tough Fowl No, it’s not the latest eye-popping item from the always entertaining Weekly World News. Instead, it’s an actual headline from the October 22, 1945, issue of LIFE magazine, above an article about … well, a headless chicken: “Beheaded…