February 2017

  • The evil of Japan during WWII

    Many people forget that the Japanese war crimes were as bad if not worse then those committed by the Nazi’s albeit it on a marginal lesser scale. Beside the crimes and experiment committed by Unit 731 there were a great number of other atrocities, including cannibalism. UNIT 731-Japanese WWII Experiments   In “The Knights of Bushido”,

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  • It is amazing and in a way disturbing but this girl was born literally minutes away from where I was born and yet I was not aware of her existence or had even heard of her until now. 1944 Just a few seconds… that’s how long this girl stared into the camera on 19 May

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  • Action of 9 February 1945

      The Action of 9 February 1945 refers to the sinking of the U-boat U-864 in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast during the Second World War by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Venturer. This action is the first and so far only incident of its kind in history where one submarine has intentionally sunk another

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  • Starting off with probably the best known band from the low countries”Golden Earring”. Their name change was very subtle, they were formed in 1961 as the “Golden Earrings” they dropped the S in 1969. The next name change is a bit less subtle but still subtle enough “the Cranberries” started off as “the Cranberry Saw

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  • Born in 1917 at Torbeyevo, Mikhail was the thirteenth child born to the family of a Mordovian peasant. In 1938 he graduated from a School of River Navigation (Речной Техникум) and worked as the captain of a small ship on the Volga. That same year he was conscripted into the Red Army and began education

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  • A Brief History of The Super Bowl

    Originally posted on irregularhistory: Super Bowl Sunday! The Superbowl is the highest level of professional American football, a championship help by the NFL. The first Super Bowl was played January 15th 1967. The first Super Bowl was played as part of a merging agreement between the NFL and the AFL. The first Super Bowl was…

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  • Immigration Act of 1917-USA

    The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was the most sweeping immigration act the United States had passed until that time. It was the first bill aimed at restricting, as opposed to regulating, immigrants and marked a turn toward nativism. The law

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  •   Reinhard Kopps (29 September 1914 Hamburg – 11 September 2001 Bariloche, Argentina) was an SS Officer for the Nazi Party during World War II. Following the defeat of Germany in World War II, he helped Nazis escape to Argentina, finally fleeing there himself. Under the assumed name of Juan Maler, Kopps was hiding in

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  • The Four Chaplains, also sometimes referred to as the “Immortal Chaplains” or the “Dorchester Chaplains”, were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other civilian and military personnel as the troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up

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  • When we think of stealth bombers we think of reasonably recent bombers like the F-117-Nighthawk (1981) or B2-Spirit (1989) bombers.   But in fact it was the Horten brothers who designed the first stealth fighters/bombers in 1942. The Horten Ho 229 is generally known by a few unique names. The plane was called the H.IX,

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