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A Kamikaze Pilot’s Last Letter To His Mother

October 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

I trust that you are doing well.

Our name is the Kamikaze Shichishō Unit. Today half of the unit made crash dives against the enemy fleet in the decisive battle off Okinawa. Our sorties also will be decided in two or three days. Surprisingly, they may be on Buddha’s birthday. I am stretched out on the floor of a makeshift officers’ barracks in a school at Kanoya Base. Since there are no electric lights, we built a fire, and I am writing this with its light.

Fascinating Photos Collected From History

October 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

Ty Cobb sliding into home, 1920

Fascinating Photos Collected From History

September 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov playing an exhibition game at the XVIII Komsomol Congress, in 1978.

Confessions of A Slave Ship Doctor From 1788

September 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

Dr. Alexander Falconbridge served as the surgeon aboard a number of slave ships that plied their trade between the West African coast and the Caribbean in the late 1700s.

He described his experiences in a popular book published in 1788. He became active in the Anti-Slavery Society and was appointed Governor of a colony established for freed slaves on the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone. His service was brief as he died in 1788 shortly after his appointment.

We join his story as he describes the process through which the native African looses his freedom:

What Was It Like To Be In Hiroshima Survivor On August 6, 1945?

September 15, 2021 3 Comments

“The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, reflecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors opening to the south.

Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was sprawled on the living room floor exhausted because I had just spent a sleepless night on duty as an air warden in my hospital.

Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled me – and then another. So well does one recall little things that I remember vividly how a stone lantern in the garden became brilliantly lit and I debated whether this light was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks from a passing trolley.

Historical Photos of Child Labor by Lewis Wickes Hine

September 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

Boys from the Pennsylvania Coal Co, 1912

A Look Into The Past…At The Way Things Used To Be

August 3, 2021 Leave a Comment

A Party in 1966

18 NSFW Historical Facts They Don’t Teach You In School

July 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

1. Former president Lyndon B. Johnson was so fond of his presidential penis that he would often wave it around in public

It was a way to establish a kind of macho dominance over the people he was speaking to. And, more importantly, it let him show off his penis. While standing at the urinal, he would sometimes swing around to continue the conversation he was having, his genitals hanging free. Once he even pointed it out to a lawmaker standing next to him and asked, “You ever seen anything this big?” Johnson then continued speaking about some upcoming legislation as he swung his penis around in his hand.

5 of the Worst Executions in History

June 24, 2021 Leave a Comment

Alcaide Melec

Alcaide Melec was a Moroccan governor under emperor Moulay Ishmael in the early 18th century. In addition to being charged with being one of the chief rebels in a rebellion incited by one of the emperor’s sons, the empress was angry over his beheading of one of her cousins. The emperor sought out a carpenter to administer his idea of a just punishment – sawing Alcaide Melec in half.

Fascinating Photos From The Past

May 27, 2021 Leave a Comment