Revival History

  During World War II, millions of people were sent to concentration camps, including women. Women in concentration camps were subjected to bru**tal treatment and often faced more severe conditions than their male counterparts. The conditions in the camps were inhumane, and women were often subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experiments. Women were treated differently in concentration camps than men. They were often separated from their families, forced to perform hard labor, and subjected to se**xual abuse.

 On this day in 1946, a hero receives the Medal of Honor. Richard O’Kane has been called “America’s undersea ace of aces .” He was a legend of World War II and commander of USS Tang.  During that submarine’s five war patrols, O’Kane is officially credited with sinking 24 enemy ships. He believed 33 to be a more accurate number. Tang’s final engagement came during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, near the Philippines. Tang’s crew was then scanning nearby waters for enemy activity. Late on October 23, 1944, a convoy of about 10 enemy ships was spotted near the Taiwan Strait. The enemy vessels were loaded with supplies, meant to reinforce the Japanese at Leyte Gulf.  The convoy was zigzagging, but O’Kane had the enemy vessels in his sights. He surfaced and fired four torpedoes, aimed at three different ships, before the Japanese realized he was there. Explosions rocked the water, but O’Kane had a new problem: An enemy transport was plowing toward him, apparently intent on ramming Tang. “It was t

 This Purim photo (ca. 1905) was miraculously recovered after World War II from an abandoned warehouse in Amsterdam. Years earlier, Emma Erlanger had tried to send a trunk — including two albums of family photographs — to her daughter, Anneliese, who had fled to England on a Kindertransport. Unfortunately, the trunk never arrived. It was found after the war by a relative, empty but for the two photo albums.   Pictured are Samuel Frankenheimer (left), Max Regensburger (middle), and Leo Frankenheimer (right) in their hometown of Ichenhausen, Bavaria. The boys are costumed in traditional German dress called “Tracht,” which has a complicated history as a symbol of German nationalism and regional culture. Samuel appears to be dressed in women’s wear, a common feature of Purim costumes.     Collection of Anne Lisa Erlanger Rotenberg in memory of her beloved parents, Siegfried and Emma Erlanger, and sister Inge Erlanger, 1991.F.779

 March 21, 1945 Holocaust: "For many of those on the death marches, the distance they were from the Red Army could be calculated only by the sound of distant artillery fire, as their German guards drove them further and further away from the front line.  When the Red Army drew too near, the marchers would be put in trains. Aliza Besser, one of the two hundred survivors of the thousand Jewish women who had marched on foot from the camp at Neusalz to Flossenberg, was among those who were sent on the next stage of their horrendous journey, by sealed cattle truck, they knew not where.  On March 21, after three days and nights in the train, she noted:  > It's almost a week already that we are in the trucks. No water. They die of thirst. Lips are parched. Every other day they give a few cups of water, occasionally they bring a bucket of water which is intended for seventy people. There's nothing with which to take the water. There are only a few cups in every truck, and every

 By the end of World War I, the total number of casualties exceeded 40 million , with more than 20 million dead and 20 million wounded. And many soldiers met their ends in the trenches. Aside from the constant onslaught of machine-gun fire, soldiers were also exposed to numerous diseases in the trenches, including cholera, typhoid fever, and "trench foot" — which caused dead tissue to spread across a soldier's foot after he'd been in a wet trench for too long. The unsanitary conditions of makeshift kitchens and toilets only quickened the spread of illness. And the troops who survived enemy attacks and avoided getting sick were forced to endure rats, lice, and the trauma of seeing their friends' corpses rot without any way to properly bury them.

 Millie and Christine McKoy were born enslaved and conjoined twins in 1851 . They were s0ld when they were only 10 months. Before passing through several hands and eventually gaining their freedom, they traveled across the U.S., Canada, and Britain as "sideshow frèaks." Often referred to as the "Two-headed Nightingales" thanks to their singing abilities, they were treated as objects of curiosity, inspection, and exploitation from the moment of their birth to their retirement from public life. Always impeccably dressed in surviving photos, their lives laid at the intersection of fashion, slavery, and disability studies...

 Man crucified with real nails while playing Jesus on Good Friday — it's his 35th time PULSE MIX   Passion rituals have been practiced in the Philippines for decades. Ruben Enaje nailed to the cross  Ruben Enaje, a carpenter and sign painter from the Philippine province of Pampanga, submitted to crucifixion for the 35th time on Good Friday. The tradition of crucifixion on Good Friday has a long history in the Philippines. It all started in the 1950s, when a local playwright wrote a play about the last days of Jesus. The performance of this play led to the first crucifixion in 1962, which over time turned into an annual tradition attracting both believers and tourists. This year, in the village of San Pedro Cutud, 10 penitents submitted to crucifixion. This event attracted approximately one hundred observers. There are other devotees like Ruben Enaje  Enaje, despite his advanced age, decided to continue this practice even though he was considering ending it. He was motivated by the

 On November 25, 1988, a Japanese high school student named Junko Furuta was abducted by four teenage boys. She was then subjected to 44 days of almost unimaginable torture. Not only was Furuta beaten and raped by her four kidnappers, but she was also brutalized by dozens of other men and boys who were invited to the home where she was being held prisoner. Her captors then murdered her in a vicious rage after she beat them in a game of mahjong.  While Furuta's body was found shortly after her death, and the boys were soon arrested, her captors received shockingly light sentences for their brutal crimes. All four of them were eventually freed from prison — after which three of them went on to re-offend. It's believed that they got off easy due to their alleged connections to the Yakuza, a powerful organized crime syndicate in Japan. And to this day, many in the country feel that true justice has not been served.

 In 1984, when Elisabeth Fritzl was 18 years old, her father Josef locked her in a secret lair that he'd built in the basement of their home in Austria. There, he began repeatedly raping her for the next 24 years, causing her to give birth to seven children: Kerstin, Stefan, Lisa, Monika, Alexander, Michael, and Felix. One died shortly after birth, and three others remained in captivity with Elisabeth. But Josef took the other three to live upstairs with him and his wife.  Every time Josef brought a child upstairs, he told Elisabeth's mother — who was allegedly unaware that the lair existed — that their daughter had run off and joined a cult. He also said that Elisabeth had left the babies on the doorstep with a note saying she wanted her children to be raised by their grandparents. Finally, in 2008, Elisabeth seized a chance to escape when her oldest daughter fell ill and she convinced Josef to take her to the hospital. 

 As a young boy, Jason Vukovich was sexually and physically abused by his stepfather. So, when he grew up, he decided to get revenge — by tracking down known sex offenders across Alaska and attacking them with a hammer. As Vukovich put it: "When I was a little kid in my house, if some tatted-up guy would have kicked the door in and beat up the guy that was molesting me, I would have said, 'Yeah! Woo!... Thank God.' Because nobody cared."  Soon, Vukovich became famous as the "Alaskan Avenger" — but he also got himself locked up. After attacking three sex offenders in 2016, he was arrested on the spot near the house of the last man he targeted. Vukovich was later sentenced to 28 years in prison for his actions. And while some campaigned for his release — hailing him as a hero — he remains behind bars.

  How Islam treats the women Women's bodies have always been part of the terrain of conflict In ancient India, women enjoyed equal status with men in major fields of life and received the same education and rights as men. Many tribes and communities, like the Nairs in Kerala and the Khasis and Garos in Meghalaya, were even matrilineal, where women held sway. Even in patriarchal Hindu societies, women in ancient India were powerful and widely respected. However, during the medieval period, the status of women went down considerably after the Islamic invasions. The latter brought regressive changes to Hindu society. Jauhar became a prevalent custom among the Hindus, chiefly the Rajputs. It was performed when the women faced Islamic invaders to avoid being tortured, enslaved, and losing their honour. After every conquest by Bin Qasim, and Mahmud Ghaznawi till the attack of Abdali, ordinary women were regularly incarcerated and sold in Central Asian slave markets, while royal and other

 On September 30, 1999, a Japanese lab technician named Hisashi Ouchi suffered the worst radiation burns in history after an accidental explosion of a uranium solution. Then, he was kept alive against his will for three harrowing months as doctors unsuccessfully tried to save him. As the radiation worked its way through Ouchi's body, his skin began to melt off, and his eyes started to weep blood. Even worse, the experimental treatments that the doctors tried were clearly not working. Ouchi cried, "I can't take it anymore. I am not a guinea pig." But although he begged for death, doctors kept him alive for 83 days at the insistence of his family. At one point, they resuscitated Ouchi three times in one hour after he had three heart attacks. It was only when he suffered his last cardiac arrest due to multi-organ failure that his torture finally ended.

 Just before the start of the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 , one particular runner caught the attention of the Australian media: a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young. He had shown up before the race wearing overalls and work boots, telling journalists that he had trained in his large rubber boots and had spent much of his childhood chasing after sheep, sometimes for days without rest.  Soon after the race began, Cliff Young fell behind the other runners and seemed on track to finish dead last. But after getting just two hours of sleep the first night, Young got back up and started running — and didn't stop. While the other runners stopped each night to sleep, Young kept moving continuously at his slow pace for five days straight. "I'm just an old tortoise," he said. "I have to keep going to stay in front." In the end, Young won the race in record time, smashing the previous mark by two whole days and leaving the entire world st

 British soldiers from the Northumberland Fusiliers posing for a photograph following the Actions of St. Eloi Craters, March 27, 1916. This photograph was taken today 108 years ago following a smaller engagement known as the Actions of St. Eloi Craters in Flanders.  . In the British-initiated action, the British blew up several mines under the German lines at St. Eloi on March 27, 1916, before attacking the German positions, which the Germans had taken in an attack of their own on March 14, which had formed the total of 17 St. Eloi Craters.  . The British captured all but two craters in their attack on March 27. German counter-attacks were repulsed and on March 30, a renewed British attack captured those last two craters as well well. . The Canadian Corps then took over the newly captured craters, which by now were in a deplorable state. A German counter-attack on April 6 recaptured the craters, and deteriorating weather forced the Canadians to cancel an attack of their own to recaptur

 Unraveling the Story Behind the "Spanish" Flu 🤔 When we think of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the term "Spanish Flu" often comes to mind. But here's a historical twist that might surprise you: despite its name, the pandemic didn't actually originate in Spain. During the tumultuous times of World War I, various countries were grappling with the effects of the pandemic, but many were reluctant to openly discuss it. Spain, however, took a different approach. They were neutral in the war and had no censorship in place, allowing them to openly report on the outbreak. This led to a misconception that the flu had originated in Spain. In reality, the origins of the virus remain debated and uncertain. The pandemic's early cases have been linked to military camps and other crowded places, which were common during wartime. As the virus spread, it mutated into a highly contagious and deadly strain, resulting in a global health crisis. The misnomer "Spanish Fl

 Staying in France’s Medieval period this week, let’s look at the Black Death. Because I don’t know about you, but if I think when thinking  Medieval ages the plague always comes to mind. Especially given recent history. So let’s start with – what actually was the Black Death? It was in fact a bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis*) pandemic that occurred in Europe, Asia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of 75–200 million people, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. The term 'Black Death' was not commonly used until the 15th century, and was coined in Denmark. It came into use in French, la mort noire, a full century or more later. The Black Death of the Middle Ages was actually the plagues second time around. The first plague pandemic was known as the Plague of Justinian, which took place in 541-542. The Plague wasn’t just limited to the Middle Ages, though that was when it was at its most severe. It cont

 In 1832, a cholera epidemic swept through the Town of York killing an estimated 400 people out of a population of 5000 within a single year. York's General Hospital was overflowing with patients with care being administered in fever sheds. Initial cases were first reported in Bengal, India, and it soon was being unconsciously spread internationally via immigration and commerce travel, eventually finding its way to York from Ireland and England. At the time, it was believed that all diseases were spread through “miasma” or the inhalation of “bad air.” The ruling elite believed that lower income residents and immigrants were the cause and aimed to clean the foul air by burning tar, forcefully removing people from the already filthy and sewage filled streets, and denying many the right to a proper burial. Instead, most were buried in mass graves with the most notable pit being located behind St. James Church. The chaos of the epidemic is captured in this 1832 painting by Joseph Léga

 In 1890, Minnie Smith was born. She was a Black teacher and administrator. Minnie Beatrice Smith graduated from Howard University in 1912 when only 1/3 of 1% of African Americans and 5% of whites of eligible age attended college. She taught at the Mott School while attending college. When hearing plans of twenty-two members desiring to cede from Alpha Kappa Alpha to form a new sorority, Nellie Quander contacted graduate members, including Smith, to stop the proposals. As a result, Smith, Quander, Norma Boyd, Julia Evangeline Brooks, Nellie Pratt Russell, and Ethel Jones Mowbray incorporated Alpha Kappa Alpha on January 29, 1913. The dissenters formed another sorority entitled Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Smith served as the secretary of the incorporating committee and Supreme Basileus of Alpha Kappa Alpha while Quander was studying mentally disabled children in Delaware. In 1919, Smith was a victim of the flu pandemic. She contracted Spanish influenza and died shortly after contracting

 ROMAN EGYPT Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt. It was bordered by the provinces of Crete and Cyrenaica to the west and Judaea, later Arabia Petraea, to the East. Egypt was conquered by Roman forces in 30 BC and became a province of the new Roman Empire upon its formation in 27 BC. Egypt came to serve as a major producer of grain for the empire and had a highly developed urban economy. It was by far the wealthiest Roman province outside of Italy. The population of Roman Egypt is unknown, although estimates vary from 4 to 8 million. Alexandria, its capital, was the largest port and second largest city of the Roman Empire. Three Roman legions garrisoned Egypt in the early Roman imperial period, with the garrison later reduced to two, alongside auxilia formations of the Roman army. The major town of each nome (administrative region) was known as a metropolis and granted additional privileges. Th

Family of Skeletons, Spain 18th century Oil on linen by José López Enguídanos (1751-1812), Inventory no: 0078, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. This image strikingly portrays a family of skeletons, standing against a dark backdrop, which seems to bring forth the concept of "Vanitas" from early modern art. This genre symbolizes the fragility and transience of life and serves as a reminder of mortality.  The robust interconnectedness of the bones in the skulls, which often remained as the only physical testimony to a once-living being, is particularly evident here. Such images serve not only as a reflection on the brevity of existence but also on the profound belief that the skeletons were more than mere bones; they were the vessels of the soul. Usually, however, to be represented were single skeletons, not families, as in this case. Probably the subject portrays only two skeletons, mother and sun, mirrored. This haunting depiction is a powerful representa

 “👀 MADAME DIMANCHE 👀 👀 Madame Dimanche, also known as 'Widow Sunday', was a French woman living in Paris, in the early 19th century. At the age of 76, she began to grow a 24.9cm horn from her forehead. Fortunately for her, it was successfully removed by a French surgeon. 👀 According to the medical reports, Dimanche’s horn started off as a small wart above her right eyebrow, and then just kept on growing. Madame Dimanche died seven years, after the horn's removal. 👀 The Mütter Museum, acquired the wax model of Madame Dimanche's face, which was sculpted from life. It shows the face of an elderly woman, with a large horn protruding from the top of her forehead, and hanging down in front of her face. 👀 'Cornu cutaneum' growths, or 'cutaneuous horns', look similar to animal horns, but they have a different composition. They are compacted keratin protrusions of lesions, that most often occur on areas of the body commonly exposed to the sun, like the fac

 16-year-old-boys-eyes-plucked-out A 16-Year-Old Boy identified as Uzairu Salisu, has had his eyes plucked out by his employer in the Dutsen Jira area of Yelwa area in Bauchi state on Thursday, June 23. A Statement released by the spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakili, says the incident was reported to the police by the village head. Preliminary investigation reveals that the victim's name is Uzairu Salisu 'M' of kwanan Gulmammu Jahun Quarters. The victim stated that One Ibrahim of Rafin Zurfi whom he knows for some time lured him to the Bush for a menial job on his farm, The suspect Ibrahim used a cable wire to strangulate the victim and remove his two eyes.'' Wakili said that the victim is currently in the Abubakar Tafawabalewa Teaching Hospital Bauchi (ATBUTH) receiving medical attention while efforts are being made to arrest the suspect.

 WILL OTHERS LADIES LEARN FROM THIS BIG LESSON? A Nigerian lady who boast about dating a yahoo boy in her recent post seen lifeless, traced to being used by a yahoo boy.  Priscilla, in her recent post boasted about dating yahoo boys, narrating how dating yahoo boys had helped her in many ways. Today, she has been used by same boys she boldly boasted of dating.  She's bcuz of Money and IPhone 14 Promax, now those Yahoo guys will continue to Cash out More, ladies please be careful. ALL THAT GLITTER IS NOT GOLD.

MY BELLE O, MY HEAD O!!!  Do you still remember this Yoruba Actor called JAGUA? Chief James Afolabi Afolayan MON, MFR popularly known as Jagua was born 4th July 1946 in Iludun-Oro kwara state Nigeria. He managed on his own to finish secondary education but his journey into entertainment started when he was just 8years old in his paternal hometown Iludun-Oro where he formed the Iludun-Oro Jolly Mambo. It was a singing group. The young Afolabi then go about adding spice to social gatherings by singing.. Yes he was a singer and a great dancer too. He did this for some years until he met the doyen of Nigeria theatre, the iconic Hubert Ogunde. James Afolabi learnt that Chief Ogunde and his group will be performing in Esie so he made plans to be there,saved up some money from selling bush meat so he could make it to the show. On getting there he was intrigued by Chief Ogunde's musical rendition and decided he was going to move to Lagos to have chief train him in music. James Afolabi whos

 The Garamantes were an ancient civilization that inhabited the region of present-day Libya. Contrary to popular belief, recent research and archaeological findings suggest that the Garamantes were of African descent, specifically black Africans. This revelation challenges the traditional Eurocentric views of ancient Europe and sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the continent's history. The "black Africans" that most likely been in the Roman Empire would have been the Garamantes

 A girl missed her periød 2 months ago , her mom took her to the clinic for prēgnancy test of which it was positive. Embārrassed, her mom said, who is the pig that got you prēgnant?  The girl picked up her phone and made a call. An hour later, a young handsome man drove in Ferrari to the girls house.  Good evening, the man greeted... Your daughter told me the prøblem in the house. I can't marry for now because of my family issues, but I promise I will take care of her for the rest of her life, and if she gives birth to a girl, I promised to buy her a mansion, 2 jeeps and 1million dollars. If it's a boy, I 'll buy her houses in a country side, 5 jeeps, 2 big factories and 5 million dollars in her account. If it's twins, I 'll do anything she asked. But if there's miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?  The girl father silently pat the young man on his shoulder and said , my son, if there is mīscarriage, you'll sleep with her again.

 Throughout the world, throughout what we know of history, something called “God” has been used to support the denial , the condemnation, and the mutilation of female sexuality. Of the female sex, ourselves. Today, in parts of Africa – predominantly among African Muslims, but also among African Christians and Jews4, and some tribal beliefs – young girls are still subjected to clitoridectomy. This surgery, often performed by older women with broken glass or knives, excises the clitoris, severing the nerves of orgasm; the operation is intended to force the girl to concentrate on her vagina as a reproductive vessel.  Infibulation, a more thorough operation, removes the labia minora and much of the labia majora; the girl is then closed up with thorns or required to lie with her legs tied together until her entire vaginal orifice is fused shut, with a straw inserted to allow passage of urine and menstrual blood.  On the wedding night the young woman is slit open by a midwife or her husband;

 SOMALIA: Queen Arawelo or Arraweelo (Somali: Caraweelo) (came to power AD 15) was a proto-Somali queen (Proto-Somalis were the ancient people and ancestors of Somalis who lived in present-day Somalia, portrayed in some accounts as the first feminist ruler in history. Her name was Ebla Awad, but everybody knew her as “Queen Arraweelo.” She is thought to have come to power around AD 15 after a long war between Somali clans. Ralph E. Drake-Brockman was one of the first Western researchers to publish an account of Arawelo, in his 1912 book British Somaliland he states: “The legend says that thousands of years ago there lived in what is now the tract of country occupied by the Habr Toljaala tribe, a great black queen called Arawailo, who was greatly feared by her people owing to her eccentricities. Arawailo lived at a place called Murihi, so the story goes, for little save a huge mound of stones, under which she is said to lie buried, now marks the capital of her ancient kingdom. Towards

 But these are only biological facts. These are only biological realities. As we know, facts and realities can be, and are, systematically ignored in the service of established ideologies. Throughout the world today virtually all religious, cultural, economic and political institutions stand, where they were built centuries ago, on the solid foundation of an erroneous concept. A concept that assumes the psychic passivity, the creative inferiority, and the sexual secondariness of women. This enshrined concept states that men exist to create the human world, while women exist to reproduce humans. Period. If we argue that data exists – not solely biological, but archaeological, mythological, anthropological, and historical data – which refutes the universality of this erroneous concept, we are told to shut up; because something called “God” supports the erroneous concept, and that’s all that matters. That’s the final word. Throughout the world, throughout what we know of history, somethi

 History of Body Piercing  community previously published an article on the history of body modification, researching another article ... I found the story a bit wider. Nose First Recordings Nose piercing was first recorded in the Middle East approximately 4,000 years ago. It is mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 24:22. Abraham requested his oldest servant to find a wife for his son Isaac, and the servant found Rebekah. O­ne of the gifts the servant gave her was a “golden earring.”  The original Hebrew word used was shanf, which also translates as “nose-ring.” The practice of nose piercing is still followed among the nomadic Berber and Beja tribes of Africa, and the Bedouins of the Middle East. The size of the ring denotes the wealth of the family. It is given by the husband to his wife at the marriage, and it is her security if she is divorced. Nose piercing was brought to India in the 16th century from the Middle East by the Moghul emperors. In India, a stud (Phul) or a ring (Nath) is