September 2022
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A Dutch child for each knee.Private Murray T. Poznac of Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Signal Corps photographer with the First Allied Airborne Army in the Netherlands, holds a little Dutch boy and a little Dutch girl on his knees after Allied forces liberated Nijmegen, the Netherlands, September 20, 1944. American airborne troops and soldiers of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: We all know ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ by Band Aid and we all know ‘We are the World’ by USA for Africa. But the one genuinely great charity song is so often forgotten ‘Stars’ by Hear ‘N’ Aid. These were the people involved in it: Lead VocalsEric Bloom…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: In February 1995, Nick Cave released the album “Murder Ballads”. On the album is one of my all time favourite songs “Where the wild roses grow” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue first performed the song publicly on 4 August 1995 in Cork, Republic of Ireland.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am not a great believer in posting graphic images, but when it comes to the Holocaust there really is not always a way around it. The picture above was taken in Ohrdruf shortly after it was liberated, it is actually one of the least graphic pictures. The Ohrdruf…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: All Holocaust stories are sad, even the stories of survival have elements of sadness in them. Because the survivors will have suffered physical and mental pain, and also coping with the loss of family and friends. I came across a list of household inventory of goods that had belonged…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Les Morts Dansant is a 1984 song by Magnum. from their classic album “On a Storytellers night” The song was initially called “Cannon”, this Tony Clarkin composition is about one of the horrors of war. In World War I, a surprising – some would say disgraceful – number of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: +++contains female nudity+++ The Japanese culture always fascinated me, usually in a scary way, but occasionally in a more pleasant way. Ama pearl divers represent one of Japan’s less-known and yet fascinating cultures. Ama (海女 in Japanese), literally translates to ‘woman of the sea’ and has been recorded as…
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