WORLD HISTORY AND LOCAL GIST

  They shot him in cold blood not because he was a Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya or SC. They shot him at point blank range in front of his newly wedded wife not because he spoke Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Oriya or Bengali.  They didn’t care if he was a BJP voter, Congress voter, or SP voter. They did not care if he was a proud Hindu or a communist or a ‘proud secular’ who believed in Aman Ka Tamasha.  They slaughtered this innocent man simply because he was born a Hindu, they were Muslims and for them, he was a Kafir!  At the end of the day, that is the ONLY truth.

Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death!  Bone Pointing ...  A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed. The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out by a Kurdaitcha, or a ritual executioner. The name Kurdaitcha comes from the slippers that the Kurdaitcha wear. These slippers, made of cockatoo or emu feathers and human hair are completely silent when the user walks in them. The Kurdaitcha will use this silence to quickly hunt down the person to be killed if the person has fled. Once the person is caught the Kurdaitcha will go down onto one knee and point the kundela, or killing bone (which will have been charged with a psychic energy in a previous ritual), at the condemned.  At this point the victim is said to be completely frozen in fear. The Kurdaitcha will then chant a curse. Afterwards the Kurdaitcha and fellow hun...

  We immediately started to protest. We said we were forced to, that they couldn't do this to us, they didn't have the right to  Doing it, it was against the Geneva Convention, and we never would. But they laughed at us, you know, they just laughed. They said they could do with us what they wanted. " One of the most heinous  war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in Southeast Asia during World War II was the ruthless sexual exploitation of 200,000 Asian women (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Filipino, Korean and even Japanese) and 200  -300 Dutch and 30 Australian women. During the war the imperial army, worried about the spread of venereal diseases, decided to open a chain of brothels in all the conquered territories in order to avoid this problem (this was an example of what had happened in India in the nineteenth century where the  he British army had opened brothels which had had to close following outcry at home causing a great spread of ...

  WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS AHEAD A Python swallowed a beautiful new born baby and claimed the life of her mother the same day the baby was born.  Tears flow like rivers of water yesterday as the most horrible thing happened in Otitiri community, a Python swallow a new born baby the day she was born. It was reported by Local Undiluted Daily News, the baby was born 12: 23 am on Monday, 2026, while the mother was being taken care of in the bathroom the baby was left alone on the bed in the room. While in the bathroom according to the mother she heard a sound making her to quickly rushed to the room, but it was so unfortunate that on getting there the Python have already swallowed the baby. She scream so loud which drew the attention of her neighborhood who killed the snake and remove the death baby from the snake. The whole community casted the blame on the mother for living the baby alone not in the hand of anyone to take care of as she went to take her bathe, this sad incident ca...

  “More of our men died—so fast that you couldn’t keep track of their numbers,” wrote Tony Acevedo, an American soldier fighting in World War II. “We kept on marching." On this day in 1945, Tony and members of the US Army’s 275th Infantry Regiment were captured by the Germans and held prisoner for 15 weeks. Much of what we know about their experiences is due to a diary Tony secretly kept while in captivity.  A Mexican American who had faced discrimination because of his heritage, Tony nonetheless enlisted at age 17 with his father’s permission after the US government called for volunteers. He became a medic.  After only a few weeks in combat, Tony and the men of his company were forced to surrender to the Germans when they ran out of ammunition and food during the Battle of the Bulge. They faced physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their German captors. Tony was tortured and sexually assaulted.  The soldiers were fed starvation rations and forced to wo...

  Combat stress reaction is an acute reaction that includes a range of behaviors resulting from the stress of battle that decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency.  In World War I, shell shock was considered a psychiatric illness resulting from injury to the nerves during combat. The nature of trench warfare meant that about 10% of the fighting soldiers were killed (compared to 4.5% during World War II) and the total proportion of troops who became casualties (killed or wounded) was about 57%. Whether a person with shell-shock was considered "wounded" or "sick" depended on the circumstances. Soldiers were personally faulted for their mental breakdown rather than their war experience. The large proportion of World War I veterans in the European population meant that the symptoms were common to the culture. In World War II it was determined by the US Army that the time it took for a soldier to experience combat fatigue while fighting on the front lines was...

  He was brought to the place of execution along with 10 other prisoners, five men and five women.  The convicts were on the backs of 11 trucks, bound hand and foot. Pauls was collared with a noose at the center of the central gallows and pushed out of the truck. On one side of him, Gerda Steinhoff, on his other side, an unknown Kapo. It is generally believed that the execution was filmed. Above: on one end of the gallows row, the truck has just pulled away from Jenny Wanda Barkmann — a modish Hamburg lass in her mid-20’s known to Stutthof prisoners as “the Beautiful Specter” for her cruelty. Down the row, one can see that some of the prisoners are already swinging, while others have not yet been dropped. Upon hearing her sentence, Jenny Barkmann retorted, “Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short.” (More about Barkmann, including trial photos, here.) In this closer view of her, just as in the first photo, she is still alive and struggling. Next to her, Ewa P...

The Nazis employed the dehumanizing practice of making people strip naked before being executed or subjected to gas chambers for several interconnected reasons. Firstly, it served to strip victims of their individuality and dignity. By forcing people to remove their clothing, the Nazis aimed to reduce them to mere numbers, degrading their humanity and making it easier for the perpetrators to view them as disposable entities rather than fellow human beings. Secondly, it facilitated the process of disposal and decontamination. Removing clothing reduced the risk of contamination from any potential chemicals or diseases, making it easier for the Nazis to manage the disposal of bodies and minimize the risks to the executioners themselves. Thirdly, it amplified the psychological torment of the victims. Stripping people of their clothing left them exposed, vulnerable, and humiliated, intensifying their emotional suffering before their eventual execution. It was a deliberate tactic aimed at br...

  When the corpses arrive at the autopsy, they arrive with the clothes in which they died and it is the expert's job to undress them to start the necropsy. Many times the deceased arrive with the facial expressions they had at the last moment (fear, tranquility, anger, sadness), sometimes even with tears. Medical examiners give us a scientific explanation as required by their work, but through personal experiences they have had to combine science and their beliefs. Such is a case where under investigation it was possible to find a grave of a professor who had been kidnapped, murdered and buried week ago in a distant place. When he was exhumed, he was still in his uniform and was in a fetal position and his face reflected a deep sadness, the work of undressing him without cutting his clothes (the whole clothes are preserved for analysis) was practically impossible for the experts given cadaverous rigidity. It was when the coroner arrived and said I'm going to tell you h...

  This is a newly freed slave with a blacksmith cutting his shackle off: This photo was taken in 1907 after Slavery was outlawed in most of the known world—but still being practiced as part of the Arab slave trade. The British frigate had intercepted a slaving ship and freed several men. This man was saved off the coast of Oman, just prior to being sent into longer-term slavery—by the skin of his neck. The photo always struck me. It's one of the very rarest photos of someone being freed from slavery—literally.

  It happened in 2014, an Indian named Shyam Lal Yadav saw a bump grow after hitting his head. For years, his barber took care of this matter. Eventually, however, no matter how often it was cut, the growth continued to grow, eventually reaching 10cm in height from the man's head. As the images show, that protuberance had every appearance of a horn. It became too long and too difficult to manage, to the point that the man had no choice but to seek help from a surgeon in hospital. The growth, called a sebaceous horn, is a tumor, often benign, that forms from keratin in the skin and nails. They usually grow on the face, hands, ears and nails. Neurosurgeons at Bhagyoday Tirth Hospital in Sagar removed the "horn" and the man is now recovering from the surgery. Surgeon Vishal Gajbhiye explained, “About 5 years ago, the patient had hit his head, after which a lump started growing. In medical terms, this type of growth is called sebaceous horn (devil's horn). Because the hor...

  On this day in 1945, Americans capture the city of Cologne, Germany. The town had already been shattered by years of aerial raids. Now, as World War II was coming to an end, Germans began to flee before the oncoming American tanks. Yet the commander of one German Panther tank refused to go. Instead, he made a last stand in front of Cologne Cathedral, one of the few buildings to remain mostly intact. The Panther tanks were heavier and tougher than the American Sherman tanks. Indeed, that Panther soon knocked out a pair of M4 Sherman tanks, killing or wounding several of our soldiers. But Americans had another, newer tank: the Pershing. One crew was nearby and swung into action. Its commanding officer hoped to attack the Panther from a side street before the Germans knew what was coming. The move was nearly fatal. Inside the German tank, the crew sensed that something wasn’t right. The tank’s turret was turned so that its muzzle was aimed at the side street. Just then, the Pe...

  Richard Earl Bush of Glasgow, Kentucky, a U.S. Marine Corps master gunnery sergeant, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions in Okinawa on April 16, 1945. Bush enlisted in the USMC in 1942. He served with the Marine Corps Raiders in the Pacific, and while with the Raiders, he was promoted to corporal. On April 16, 1945, Cpl. Bush was serving in the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division. Cpl. Bush led his men in a charge against an enemy stronghold. During the assault, he placed himself on a thrown enemy grenade, absorbing the force of the explosion and saving the lives of his fellow Marines and corpsmen.  In World War II, twenty-seven Marines similarly used their bodies against thrown enemy grenades in order to save their comrades’ lives. Bush was one of four who survived. He lost several fingers and sight in one eye. In the years following the war, Bush worked for the Veterans Administration until 1972 as a counselor helping veterans f...

  The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether. "Blown from a gun" was a punishment often used by colonial powers against locals who believed their body parts must be together to enter the afterlife.  It was reserved as a special punishment when just death wasn't enough. Local feral dogs would usually eat the pieces of the dead that could be found.

  Robert Craig, born in Scotland and raised in Toledo, Ohio, was a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on July 11, 1943, near Favoratta, Sicily. Craig entered the Army in February 1941, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry and served with the 15th Infantry of the 3rd Infantry Division.  On July 11, 1943,  during his service leading troops in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, Craig set out to destroy an Italian Army machine gun nest that had halted the advance of his company,  making his own attempt following the wounding of three other officers who had tried to locate and silence that machine gun emplacement. Craig located the enemy position and killed its three crewmen. As his company advanced, Craig and his platoon encountered the fire of enemy soldiers. Craig ordered his men to withdraw to cover while he drew the enemy fire on himself.  From a kneeling ...

  People were left baffled after a 12-year-old boy was found alive in the middle of moulded blocks in Ondo. The boy was found alive in the middle of the moulded blocks According to Adesonya Stephen who shared the photos, a 12-year-old boy was found mysterious in the middle of moulded blocks in Ondo state yesterday. He was rescued after people heard him singing for 3days before they broke the walls of the building to rescue him. He was very lanky and skinny. Here is how the news was posted on Facebook: "MYSTERY : WONDERS SHALL NEVER END A mysterious event happened at ONDO ODUDUWA STREET, ONDO STATE. A boy of about 12yrs old was found in the middle of moulded laid blocks. It is beyond imagination, it is unexplainable, The boy sang for like 3 days before the people around discover it was a human and began to break the wall."