History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Many people view Halloween as a festival centered on the eerie and frightening, where people dress up in scary costumes to give others a good scare. What I find even more curious is the tradition of “trick-or-treating.” On any other day, we warn our children not to take candy from strangers, but on October 31,
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Margraten, the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands. The US 30th Infantry Division liberated this site on 13 September 1944, and 8301 American military are buried here. The cemetery site has a rich historical background, lying near the famous Cologne-Boulogne highway built by the Romans and used
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Roger Godfrin is the only survivor of a massacre during which Nazi troops locked 643 citizens (including 500 women and children) inside a church and set fire to it on 10 June 1944 in Oradour sur Glane, France. About 20 people decided to make themselves scarce when the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich arrived.
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As of April 29, 1942, Jews in the Netherlands were required to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing. This was to single them out as different from the rest of society. Although the only difference between the Jews and the rest of the Dutch population was their religion. Other then that they
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This blog will be confusing to some people because it will be about Pink Floyd and yet it won’t be. I will not be talking about Pink Floyd but rather about Pink and Floyd. Pinkney “Pink” Anderson was an American blues singer and guitarist. Anderson was born in Laurens, South Carolina, on February 12,1900 and
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 stand as one of the most infamous episodes in early American history. Rooted in fear, religious extremism, and social tensions, these trials led to the execution of twenty individuals and the imprisonment of many more in colonial Massachusetts. Although often remembered as a tragic example of mass hysteria, the
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Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, its destruction was nearly
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+++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES+++++ It’s one of the lesser known facts of history but in 1937, two Japanese officers named Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda held a contest over who was the first to succeed in killing a 100 people with his sword (Magoroku) Mukai and Noda were both two young second lieutenants in the Katagiri Regiment’s Toyama Battalion and
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One of the reasons why so many died during the holocaust is because ‘good’ people, decided to look the other way. The Red Cross knew what was happening and decided to do very little. I know some people will say”It was war time, what could they do?” And I understand that question and appreciate the
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A little known Minneapolis-based funk group formed in December 1975 called ’94 East’ lost two of its former members in 2016. Both of them were iconic in the 80s but one of them became a megastar, where the other one died homeless. The two were Prince and Colonel Abrams(picture above) Colonel Abrams(which was his real name),
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