November 2017
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There you are having your minding your own and before you know it there is a MiG 21 parked in your living room. This is what happened to some inhabitants of the Plattenbau” building, Cottbus, East Germany. On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, 33, wass on a training mission with his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21
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The World War II Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial Margraten is a war cemetery which lies in the village of Margraten 10 km (6 mi) east of Maastricht, in the most southern part of the Netherlands. If you have never been there it is a well worth place visting. 8.301 brave men are buried there and there are another 2,000 or so memorials
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: “The silicon chip inside her head got switched to overload” is the opening line from the Irish new wave/punk band Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Monday” The song was based on true events. On this day 38 years ago 16 year old Brenda Spencer went on a killing…
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I am going to keep this one simple. This is a blog about babies killed while they were still in diapers. What danger did they pose? These are picture of babies killed by the Nazi regime. I don’t have a name for the baby above, only the age. 1. Frederika Madeleine van Coeverdan murdered in
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world Dr. Gene Shoemaker died
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Talk shows used to be entertaining but they have turned into a bench marking tool the bring out the worst in society when you look at some titles of the Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle show It’s no wonder that it would come to the stage where someone would get killed. Jonathan Schmitz was 24
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This guest book belonged to the parents of sixteen-year-old Carla Hustinx from the city of Maastricht. Their home was a regular place to stay for singers, movie stars, athletes and comedians that came to entertain American soldiers after the south of the Netherlands was liberated in September 1944. A…
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Substances we now know to be highly addictive and even lethal weren’t always seen that way. In the late 19th and early 20th century heroin was seen as a cough medicine and coca cola’s secret ingredient was cocaine.(Have a coke and a smile) Cigarettes were recommended for pregnant women. Even arsenic was used in confectionery
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Before I go into the blog I have to warn you that this blog contains an image of an adult nature. So if you are offended by it, get over it. U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Magee fell out of a burning plane at 22,000 feet without a parachute. And he lived. Magee
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