THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

Noah Percy Collins - “The Abertridwr murder” “Because she refused to kiss me!”. 21 year old Noah Percy Collins was a collier at Abertridwr, and lodged with the  Lawrence family at 5 Aberfawr Terrace, Abertridwr. Mr. Lawrence was away at sea at the time of the murder.  His wife took in lodgers and Collins shared a room with a Mr. Donovan and the Lawrence’s son. Collins had fallen for 19 year old Ann Dorothy Lawrence, who went by the name of Dorothy, but she was not interested in him. At about six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of August Dorothy had got up to prepare her brother's breakfast, and was alone in the kitchen. Around 7.15 a.m. screams were heard by the mother, who was in her bedroom. Mrs. Lawrence rushed downstairs, and on her way heard Dorothy shout, “Oh, Ma!”  In the kitchen she found Dorothy, lying on her back on the floor in a pool of blood.  Her throat had been cut and she had been stabbed four times, with three wounds to the back and one to her che...

On 10 January 1915, the 11th AIF Battalion participated in an extraordinary event.  The West Australians posed for a photograph at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The officers positioned themselves in the front rows and the ranks higher up upon the stone ledges.  The desert’s dry atmosphere helped the photographer capture an image of remarkable sharpness. Yet despite its sharpness, it’s impossible to discern any single individual.   That’s why in ‘The Nameless Names’ I have purposely drawn out one person’s story.  Kneeling on one knee, shirtsleeves rolled up and wearing a weathered slouch hat, Lieutenant Mordaunt Reid gazes intently toward the camera (eighth from the left; second row).  His pale-blue eyes offset a face tanned by the desert sun. Unlike the stern-faced officers surrounding him, Mordaunt flashed a grin.  And why was Mordaunt smiling?  Perhaps he revelled in the unique setting — 704 soldiers from a land 7,000 miles away, assembled on a t...

Paul Alexander is one of the last people living in an iron lung after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. He has been using the iron lung for over 70 years and has become an advocate for polio awareness and the importance of vaccines. The iron lung, also known as a negative pressure ventilator, is a large horizontal cylinder designed to stimulate breathing in patients who have lost control of their respiratory muscles. The patient's head is exposed outside the cylinder, while the body is sealed inside. Air pressure inside the cylinder is cycled to facilitate inhalation and exhalation. In the mid-20th century, iron lungs were widely used to treat patients with polio, a highly contagious viral disease that can cause paralysis and respiratory failure. However, with the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s and 1960s, the incidence of polio decreased dramatically, and the use of iron lungs became less common. Today, there are only a handful of people in the world who...

The Lost Light Horsemen’s Graves  The graves of two Light Horsemen, Sergeant Louis Brook, a 25-year-old grazier from Gilgandra, and 19-year-old Trooper Clarence Radburn, a farmer from Forbes.  Bedouins killed both men in the advance to Damascus in late September.  Reverend Donald Dow oversaw the burials in a peaceful wadi, while comrades congregated around the graves, their heads bowed in respect.    The horses standing next to the graves is testimony to the close relationship between the Light Horsemen and their mounts.  Despite detailed notes and maps on the location of the graves, the grave registration units were unable to find them in 1922.  Base Records wrote to the men’s families that same year, stating, ‘I regret to advise you notwithstanding the most exhaustive enquiries the overseas authorities have failed to locate the final resting places of the late soldiers.’  Brook and Radburn are commemorated on Panels 58 and 59 at the Jerusalem Me...

Austro-Hungarian refugees Since the spring of 1915, the Austro-Hungarian Empire found itself struggling on three different fronts: Russia, Serbia and Italy. So most of the border regions were absorbed by the so called "war zone". In addition, between 1914 and 1915, large portions of the Habsburg territory were invaded. This provoked the escape of 360,000 Jews from the eastern regions (1914, 1915 and 1916), followed by the evacuation of 130,000 Poles from Galicia (1914-1915), 300,000 Ruthenians from Galicia and Bucovina (1914 and 1916), 145,000 Italians from the Litoral and South Tyrol (1915), at least 70 000 Slovenians and 7 000 Croats from the Coast (1915) and 90 000 Bosnians (1914). It is estimated that by mid-1915, 1.1 million people had sought refuge in the central regions of the Empire.  The vast majority of the evacuees had concentrated in the five central regions of the Austrian half of the Empire (Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Styria). In some cases,...

The “Love Story” of Anna Nicole Smith and husband J. Howard Marshall II.  In 1994, Anna Nicole Smith, then a 26-year-old model and actress, married 89-year-old billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. They met three years earlier when Smith was working as a stripper in Houston, and their relationship blossomed over time. Despite the significant age difference and Smith’s rising fame, she claimed to have genuinely loved Marshall.  Their marriage was met with intense media scrutiny, speculations about her motivations, and public fascination. Marshall passed away just over a year later, leading to a protracted legal battle over his estate between Smith and Marshall’s family.  The controversy and litigation surrounding their relationship continued until Smith’s death in 2007.

Mass Rape in Europe by Allied soldiers after World War 2 (Part 1) The greatest crimes against women and Europeans in history, was the mass rape of the European women after the Liberal-Communist victory in 1945. It would be easy for you to toss this newsletter aside and pickup more pleasant or amusing reading The rapists were mainly Soviet and US soldiers. They were permitted and encouraged by official “Allied” policies which incited hatred against those of European nationalities which were  in fight against Communism. In Vienna,Austria alone, they raped 100,000 women, not once but many times, including girls not yet in their teens, and aged women. By official policy, the Allies created conditions in which the only German mothers who could keep their young children alive were those who themselves or whose sisters became mistresses of the occupying troops. According to testimony given in the United States Senate on July 17, 1945, when the colonial French troops under Eisenhower’s...

XII The Hanged Man The energy of the Hanged Man is still with us at this point in the Wheel of the Year, shortly to give way to the transformative powers of XII Death. In the Hanged Man we see a naked man, almost a greenman, hanging by one slender ankle from a tree. There are also fruits and mistletoe on this tree.  This, coupled with his ritualistic bonds, makes me feel that this is a sacred sacrificial act. Behind him stands a golden field of wheat with a scythe lying amongst the cut stubble.  There are meadow flowers and blackberries. Why is he hanging upside down - perhaps to get a different perspective on life? Certainly this is one of the messages from this card. Because he is hanging upside down, his flaccid penis looks erect, showing us that in surrender, we can find potency. Sometimes we just need to stop raging against the machine and go with the flow.  Sometimes we can lose the battle, but still win the war. How has the Hanged Man been showing up in yo...

Graphic photos: Alleged rapist has his manhood cut off in South Africa In recent times, Xenophobic attacks are not the only vice that has plagued South Africa, the African country has also been witnessing a consistent assault on female residents as many rapist cases have been recorded. Just yesterday, its president, Cyril Framphosa, took to his Twitter handle to state, “…and to MEN we say you have an important role to play in speaking out against gender-based violence, actively playing a role in transforming your own and other men’s attitudes towards women based on their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual identity.” And now, a picture of a man who’s manhood was chopped off under the claim that he was a rapist has emerged online. Sharing the very graphic image, a South African Twitter user, with username “Yesu Naya Ka Thixo” wrote, “ He raped a five-year-old and they did this to him. Retweet and show these rapists the consequence.”

Suspected Thief Killed And Hanged . An unidentified man suspected to be a thief, was beaten to death and tied to a tree on the Tema-Afienya road Friday. The naked body of the middle-aged man, revealed bruises, raising suspicion that he was heavily dragged on the ground before being tied to the tree. He had his penis tied with a wire from a mini-advert billboard, while his knees were tied against a bicycle suspected to belong to him. His ankles and wrists were firmly tied to the tree as well. The murdered man smelt of petrol with blood stains on his nose, mouth and right ear, which was almost falling off. This raised further suspicion among onlookers that his killers had attempted to burn him alive. At the time graphic.com.gh arrived at the scene of the incident, curious residents and passers-by had gathered wondering who could have been behind the incident. Several road users had also slowed down to either catch a glimpse or take photographs of the lifeless body. The situati...

In Iran, prisoners report of tortures: «They forced us to rape each other while the guards were filming» We spoke to several protesters who had just been released from Iranian prisons, and experienced tortures by guards: «They deprived us of our dignity», one said. «They pushed us to think about suicide», another one reported The voice message comes in Persian. It is four minutes of metallic, monotonous voice. Flowing words alternating with long silences and sighs. We get it translated. «Good morning, I am Ali (fictitious name, ed.), I am 42 years old and a taxi driver». We have been trying to talk to him for a week. We know he just got out of jail, and we know he is one of the few willing to talk about what he has suffered, seen and heard. «I was arrested in front of Isfahan University (in central Iran, ed.) in late October. I was supporting students in the protests against dictator Khamenei». Guards put him into a car and took him to a secret detention center. In addition to pr...

Nearly 4,000 African Americans Were Lynched In One 73-Year Period, Study Finds Data gathered by the Equal Justice Initiative between the 1870s and 1950s reveals that the number is much higher than had been previously reported. The Equal Justice Initiative released a study Tuesday highlighting documented lynchings of African Americans at the hands of white southerners. The first anti-lynching bill was passed in 1922, but the racial violence continued long after that. The report reveals that between 1877 and 1950, 3,959 African Americans were lynched — 700 more incidents than had ever been calculated before, the Equality Justice Initiative (EJI) found. Researchers looked specifically at the "most active lynching states": Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The Alabama-based organization poured through local newspaper archives and court records and interviewed scores of l...

Victims of Death Eisenhower had posters put up all over Germany containing grisly scenes of work camp conditions with captions saying, “You Are Guilty Of THIS!” and “German Culture 1945!” The concept of German culture itself as “enemy” was a carry-over from World War One anti-German propaganda. The women of defeated Germany, while already suffering enormously physically and mentally, were now subjected to an intense psychological propaganda campaign and forced to view traumatic staged exhibits of German “war crimes” as part of the “re-education” policy put in place by the Allies. Women, although not enemy soldiers, were subjected to degradation, humiliation and abuse by both Soviet and Allied occupiers, especially in German areas slated to be turned over to the communists. During “re-education,” the foreign dead found in work camps at the end of the war were used as “learning tools” and German civilians (usually over 10 years old) were not only forced to view the dead in camps but in...

“Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm forward. Kill! You gallant soldiers of the Red army.” Ilya Ehrenburg Ilya Ehrenburg’s vicious propaganda machine had widely disseminated false reports of Nazi rape in Russia to ensure that the Red Army stormed into Germany with no pity. It worked. They committed the largest mass rape in history, with the girls and women of East Prussia bearing the first brunt of their brutality. Here, most females were gang raped and then murdered. “Tot den Deutschen Okkupaten!” (Death to the German Occupants) the victorious Soviet soldier cried, and regardless of age, German women and girls were taken without mercy. Thousands of women shuddered as the words “Frau komm!” grunted from the invading army, for it not only meant they were about to be violated, it might also mean tor...