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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.

16 Fascinating Facts That Have Emerged From The 9/11 Tragedy

September 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

(photo: Michael Foran)

1. Even though almost all planes were grounded during 9/11, there was one non military plane flying after the FAA ordered all planes to land. This one plane was carrying snake anti venom to Florida to save a snake handler’s life after he had gotten bit by a Taipan snake

A couple hours after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Lawrence Van Sertima, a snake handler of 40 years, was about to get his first snake bite. He was handling a Taipan snake, one of the most deadly in the world, when it became uncooperative and bit his thumb. He instantly knew he was in trouble.

Russian Prison Tattoos And Their Meaning

September 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

Text across the knuckles reads NADYA (woman’s name).

The ‘ring’ on the forefinger stands for ‘Rely on no one but yourself’, a ‘patsan’ one of the most privileged inmates VTK. Middle finger ‘the thieves cross’ of a pickpocket. Third finger: ‘I served my time in full’, ‘From start to finish’, ‘Went without parole’, the prisoner served his complete sentence with no remission for working with the system. Little finger ‘The dark life’ the bearer spent a lot of time in a punishment cell. The skull and crossbones, gun, knife and letter ‘K’[iller] denote a murderer.

Historical Photos of Child Labor by Lewis Wickes Hine

September 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

Boys from the Pennsylvania Coal Co, 1912

They Do Things A Bit Differently In South Korea

August 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

South Korea puts traffic lights on the ground so that people who’re looking at their phones can still see the light

Some People Just Really Suck At Gambling On The Stock Market

August 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

21 Alternate Angles of Iconic Images and Events

August 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

The moon in front of the earth, photo taken from 1 million miles away

Pictures And Videos From The Fall Of Afghanistan

August 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

Taliban militant moving towards Kabul

Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts

August 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

When Stalin’s first son was captured, Hitler offered to trade him for Friedrich Paulus, a field marshal who led the 6th army into Stalingrad. When Stalin heard of this, he allegedly said, “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”

The refusal to swap Yakov has been treated as evidence of Stalin’s loveless cruelty but this is unfair. Stalin was a mass murderer but in this case, it is hard to imagine that either Churchill or Roosevelt could have swapped their sons if they had been captured—when thousands of ordinary men were being killed or captured. After the war, a Georgian confidant plucked up the courage to ask Stalin if the Paulus offer was a myth. He “hung his head,” answering “in a sad, piercing voice”: “Not a myth . . . Just think how many sons ended in camps! Who would swap them for Paulus? Were they worse than Yakov? I had to refuse . . . What would they have said of me, our millions of Party fathers, if having forgotten about them, I had agreed to swapping Yakov? No, I had no right . . .”

Then he again showed the struggle between the nervy, angry, tormented man within and the persona he had become: “Otherwise, I’d no longer be ‘Stalin.’ ”

He added: “I so pitied Yasha!”

130 Year Old Pics Show Native Americans Before And After “Forced Assimilation”

August 9, 2021 1 Comment

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918) was an Indian boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1879 by Captain Henry Pratt under the authority of the US federal government, the school was the first off-reservation boarding school, and it became a model for Indian boarding schools in other locations.

It was one of a series of 19th-century efforts by the United States government to assimilate Native American children from 140 tribes into the majority culture.

The goal of total assimilation can be summed up in the school’s slogan:

“To civilize the Indian, get him into civilization. To keep him civilized, let him stay.”