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Emily Hobhouse, a young British woman who witnessed conditions in concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, included the following passage...
When Mamie Till-Bradley sees the disfigured body of her son, she orders the funeral director to put a glass top over the remains but to keep the coffi...
Emperor Meiji (1852 - 1912) was also known as Meiji the Great. He ruled Japan from February 3, 1867 to the day he died on July 30, 1912.
Britain needs an effective warning system to alert the country if Spain sends an Armada of ships with invading soldiers aboard.
The Enigma Machine, which Germany used extensively during World War II, has a list of instructions on its inside cover. Have a look, with an English t...
Believing cocaine to have many health benefits, Freud introduced it to his friend, Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow whose disastrous dependency caused Freud ...
Thomas Nickerson wrote a narrative about the whale attack on the Essex. He included drawings in his work. This image depicts one of those drawings.
His story featured in "The Pacific," Eugene Sledge describes the harrowing battle of Okinawa. Finally ending in June of 1945, it is one of the most co...
Eugene Bondurant Sledge describes the horror of the World War II battle at Pelelieu, east of Okinawa.
In June of 2004, Dr.
In October of 1983, when Ronald Reagan was America's President, a disastrous event involving U.S. Marines occurred in Lebanon when a suicide bomber vi...
Not long after the Nazi invasion of Norway in April of 1940, an American journalist, Leland Stowe, wrote an article for TIME magazine about the events...
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