THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

Two soldiers of the Japanese army bet each other to kill 100 Chinese people in the shortest possible time Before the massacre, the Japanese army dropped pamphlets asking Chinese armies to surrender although everything was under their control but when Chinese armies refused it is then they exhibited the real fear of death in the eyes of people. The massacre was so brutal that it is said two soldiers of the Japanese army bet each other to kill 100 Chinese people in the shortest possible time and it is not when they were down if they would forget the counting during the killings they would increase the number by 50 surprisingly all this was not a part of the army operations it was a fraction of their fun during all this war period. They burnt thousands of people near the Yangtze river buried people alive and cut them into pieces it is very difficult to portray the scenario, imagine body parts flowing into the river and the whole river changed its colour from blue to complete blood red thi...

Rapes of Nanking 1937–38 History has witnessed many ghastly and terrible events throughout the globe. Rapes of Nanking are those black pages of history which no one wants to go over. I am talking about the unfortunate incident which happened in the Second Sino Japanese war where the country like China was not as powerful as it is now and Japan was not as peaceful country as it seems to be now. Have you ever heard the phrase “Once bitten, Shy twice” this phrase completely fits on as China has already undergone a lots of pain. Pick any awful incident of the past you will see common victims around the world i.e Women and children. The city of Nanking was founded in the 8th century B.C and is located in the eastern part of China along the Yangtze River. It had been capital for early Chinese dynasties until 1949 when Beijing finally became the capital of China. Japan and China were never friends they have continuously fought with each other over territories and power. Japan during tha...

This is a diorama of a decomposed German soldier next to his machine gun and personal items. Artist: Dilip Sarkar Mbe. He wrote the following about this model. "As an historian I have been heavily involved with the identification of 'missing' Second World War dead for many years. That millions remain missing, however, is little-known - as are the varying policies and levels of enthusiasm reflected by various governments. I work especially closely with the Royal Netherlands Army Recovery & Identification Unit, which processes around 40 cases annually. A few years ago, a 19 - year old panzer grenadier was recovered from the sandy soil between Arnhem and Nijmegen.  This diorama, based upon the vintage Airfix 1/6 scale skeleton and Dragon Action figures bits, was for a magazine article raising awareness of the issue, and inspired by the discovery of Gunther - whose mortal remains I saw laid out in the lab. So, not your typical diorama, I guess, but hopefully thought provok...

Today We Remember John Lincoln In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem ran away from his  home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not  interested in signing on a 9 year old  boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn’t  enlisting infants,” and turned him down. Clem tried the 22nd Michigan  Regiment next, and its commander told him the same.  Determined, Clem  tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was  allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed  camp duties and received a soldier’s pay of $13 a month, a sum collected  and donated by the regiment’s officers. The next April, at  Shiloh, Clem’s drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a  minor news item as “Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer”. A year later,  at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front  and wield...

There are some crimes so unimaginable that searching for the graphic details online would leave even the most hardened true crime fan shaken.  When we imagine the suffering of the victims, it’s difficult to understand how these sadistic killers went through with it. The stomach-churning details of these horrific murders are worse than any horror film. The Murder of Sylvia Likens... The brutal and cruel murder of Slyvia Likens still disturbs Indiana more than fifty years later. In 1965, police officers found the body of 16-year-old Likens laid on a filthy mattress; she was covered in more than 150 burns and cuts. It was clear at first that the young girl had starved to death as she was little more than skin and bone. Later, it was found that she died of a brain hemorrhage and malnutrition. Mother-of-seven Gertrude Baniszewski was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Likens’ parents had paid Baniszewski $20-a-week to care of her and their other daughter Jenny. Instead, Bani...

German drawing titled "The Unknown Soldier - Anyone who has experienced war loves peace". Today 105 years ago, on September 28, 1918, British Private Henry Tandey allegedly spared the life German Gefreiter Adolf H*tler on the battlefield at Marcoing. Although it's most likely just a myth, as this post will shine a light upon, if true, this event may be one of the biggest "What if's?" in history. Here's how the story goes: On September 28, 1918, British Private Henry Tandey, serving with the 5th Battalion, 62nd (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment, participated in an attack near the village of Marcoing near Cambrai, as a follow-up to the Battle of the Canal du Nord. Attacking across the St. Quentin Canal at Marcoing, Tandey and a Lewis Gun squad established a bridge, killed a German machine-gun team and took 37 German prisoners in a bayonet charge. At one point during this event Tandey stood in front of a line of wounded German soldiers, having...

The most incredible historical fact about King Edward  VII King Edward VII, had a special chair made for digging in... When Edward VII was still a young prince devoid of any responsibility for the crown, he travelled far from the British capital in search of leisure and pleasure. On one of his visits to Paris, he approached Le Chabanais, one of the best-known brothels in Paris. It was located relatively close to the Louvre Museum. Edward VII was assigned his own room whenever he frequented the brothel. The prince's main problem was his overweight. To overcome the physical impediment, the cabinetmaker Louis Soubrier made what he called "the chair of love". The chair was made in such a way that the future king could act without getting too tired. Also, the shape of the chair suggests that it was made so that the man could lie with two women at once.

Juan Ortiz was a Spanish sailor who was held captive and enslaved by Native Americans in Florida for eleven years, from 1528 until he was rescued by the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1539.  Two differing accounts of Ortiz's eleven years as a captive tell of Ortiz being sentenced to death by a Native American chief two or three times, being saved each time by the intervention of the chief's daughter (and possibly other female relatives), and eventually escaping to a neighbouring chiefdom, whose chief sheltered him. 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 In 1528, Juan Ortiz was on a ship searching Tampa Bay for any trace of the Narváez expedition, which had landed the previous year. Some people enticed Ortiz and one or more companions on shore with what the Spanish mistook for a message from Narváez. (The fate of the Narváez expedition would not be known to the Spanish for another eight years until Alvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca and three other survivors arrived at a Spanish outpost in northwestern New S...

The weaponisation of rape We hear and see a lot about the bravery of the Ukrainian people and so we should. We comfort ourselves with stories of the demoralisation of Russian soldiers. They are, apparently, mutinous, clueless and running out of supplies of both food and fuel. They have been sold a lie that they are liberators . No matter, they are doing what modern or indeed very old-fashioned warmongers do: they destroy the morale of a people not just by razing cities to the ground but by raping and torturing women, in the presence of their husbands; in the presence of their children. Reports have been coming in since the beginning of March about gang rapes, often of old women who are then murdered or who take their own lives afterwards. Maria Mezentseva, a Ukrainian MP, raised a recent case in Boravry, a suburb of Kyiv, where a women was raped in front of her child after her husband was shot in front of them. Ukraine, she said, would “not be silent “ about such crimes. In the Wo...

WARNING - Pictures of human remains Disabled Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium tank on the beach at Guadalcanal - December 1942 On February 1, 1943, LIFE magazine published a photograph taken by Ralph Morse during the Guadalcanal campaign showing a severed head that US personnel had supposedly propped up on a disabled Japanese tank. LIFE received letters of protest from people "in disbelief that US personnel were capable of such brutality toward the enemy."  The editors responded that "war is unpleasant, cruel, and inhuman. And it is more dangerous to forget this than to be shocked by reminders."  From a Time Magazine interview with Morse: “The Army had taken over from the Marines,” Morse said setting the scene on Guadalcanal in late 1942, “and I was traveling with a group of soldiers on patrol. In the forests on those islands, you had to walk in a single line.  The brush was so damn thick that if you didn’t keep your eye on the shoes of the guy in front of you, you we...

Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as a topic itself. They were taken inside the epicenter of the horror, from which no other visual material exists. They were taken clandestinely at the height of the Final Solution in 1944 by one of the so-called  Sonderkommando  – Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities by removing the Nazis' victims from the gas chambers and destroying the corpses through fire or mass burial. One of the photographs shows a group of naked women; the others show the cremation of corpses. Poland, Women naked, before their execution If we agree that photography not only reflects reality, but also interprets it, than we need to take a closer look at the photograph...

Dozens killed in China hailstorm Forty people killed after a hailstorm and torrential rain swept through Gansu province, officials say. Heavy downpours have caused sharp rises in river water levels and damage to roads and properties [AFP] Forty people have been killed after a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, the local government has said. Eighteen others remain missing in Min county in Gansu province, while 87 have been sent to hospital, the county government said in a statement on its website on Sunday. Officials said 29,300 people had been evacuated after rain and hail battered the county for just one hour late on Thursday afternoon. It has "wreaked havoc" on all of the county's 18 townships and affected more than two-thirds of its 450,000 residents, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported. "Roads were blocked, houses collapsed, farmland was destroyed, and the power supply and telecommun...

"My children—they would have hated me, if I had done nothing."—Preben Munch-Nielsen Eighty years ago today, a German diplomat secretly warned the Danish resistance that the Nazis were planning to deport the Danish Jews.  Days later, Preben Munch-Nielsen, then a teenager, began to help rescue his Jewish fellow citizens. Preben had previously been involved in some minor resistance, distributing illegal newspapers meant to counter Nazi propaganda. But now his efforts would take on a riskier form.  Preben’s job was to meet groups of Jews, many fleeing from Copenhagen after learning of the Nazi plot. He would take them from the local train station near the seaside village of Snegerstein and find them temporary places to stay. Neighbors were willing to help, he said. “When more refugees came than expected, we just went to the next door, and it was never denied,” Preben remembered. While the Danes did not fully comprehend the risks to the Jews they were helping, he said they had hea...

Rubin Stacey, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, surrounded by onlookers, including girls, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Rubin Stacy, 37 was a homeless tenant farmer who knocked on a white woman's door (Marion Jones) – she screamed, and he was arrested.  As he was being led to jail by six deputies, a mob of about 100 overpowered them – ran their car off the road, and lynched him in sight of Marion's house, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Marion claimed she offered him a drink of water, but he tried to assault her with a knife, which she later recanted. A photo of the lynching was sent to President F.D.  Roosevelt to persuade him to support the Costigan-Wagner Act which would bring federal prosecution to any law enforcement officers who failed to exercise their responsibilities during a lynching incident.  - Roosevelt refused to support the bill claiming he would lose Southern votes in the next election.

‘What did Daddy do in the Great War?’  This is undoubtedly a question little Gertie asked her mother, Gertrude, after the war.  Gertie’s probing would have met stony silence. After all, a British army firing squad had executed her father, Private Harry Farr, at dawn on 18 October 1916.  Even though Farr had suffered from shell shock and was hospitalised for five months, he was still sentenced to death for cowardice after refusing to return to his battalion. ‘I cannot stand it,’ he lamented.  Facing the firing squad, a defiant Farr refused to wear a blindfold.  Farr’s family also became unwitting victims, carrying the stigma of the ‘coward’ label, suffering deep shame, as well as experiencing financial hardship after his execution. When Gertrude visited the post office in 1916, she was told: 'We don't give pensions to the widows of cowards.' She and her children were left destitute. Harry’s father, who keenly felt the family’s shame would never speak his son’s na...

John Lee - "The man they could not hang". One of hangman James Berry’s most famous (non) jobs was the strange case of John Lee at 8.00 a.m. on Monday the 23rd of February 1885 at Exeter prison. All the normal preparations were made on the gallows, set up in the coach house, but when Berry operated the lever, nothing happened.  Berry and the two warders holding Lee, stamped on the trap doors but to no avail, and Lee was then taken back to his cell whilst the release mechanism was tested. It worked perfectly.  The process was now repeated but with the same result and yet again the trap worked perfectly after Lee was removed. After the third unsuccessful attempt at 8.10 a.m., the governor stayed the hanging and the Under Sheriff travelled to London where he briefed the Home Office.  As a result Lee was reprieved later that same day by the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt and the official document sent by train late that night.  The governor immediately conveyed the ...

I WEPT AFTER READING THIS JUDGE'S SENTENCE ON A 15 YEAR OLD BOY... This was a fifteen year old boy.... He was caught stealing bread from a store. On trying to escape from the hold of the guard, a shelf of the store was also broken. The judge heard the crime and asked the boy, “Did you really steal something, a loaf of bread and cheese?” The boy responded by looking down.;- “Yes.” Judge: - “Why?” Boy: - “I needed it.” Judge: - “Couldn't you have bought?” Boy: - “There was no money.” Judge: - “Take it from the family.” Boy: - “There is only a mother in the house. Sick and unemployed. Judge: - “You don't do anything?” Boy: - “Used to wash a car. When I took a day off to take care of my mother, I was fired.” Judge: - “Don’t you ask someone for help?” Boy: - “Had left the house since morning, went to about fifty (50) people, but no help; so, I decided to take this step at the very end.” When the arguments ended, the judge began to pronounce the verdict; “The theft and especially...