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todaysdocument: April 8 is Holocaust Remembrance...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:53:48 -0400

April 8 is Holocaust Remembrance Day:

Liberated prisoners in the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, Austria, give rousing welcome to Cavalrymen of the 11th Armored Division. The banner across the wall was made by Spanish Loyalist prisoners., 05/06/1945

The theme of this year’s remembrance day is Never Again: Heeding the Warning Signs.

via US National Archives on Facebook

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anutopicworld: ready to jump.

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:07:32 -0400

anutopicworld:

ready to jump.

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audreycoco: Harper’s Bazaar January 1957

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:52:02 -0400

audreycoco:

Harper’s Bazaar January 1957

fromaravenswritingdesk: My grandmother looking all adorable...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:51:27 -0400

fromaravenswritingdesk:

My grandmother looking all adorable with a cat.

m3zzaluna: unknown photographer, paris, 1928

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:51:13 -0400

m3zzaluna:

unknown photographer, paris, 1928

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stangefruitandwildthing: Geraldine Hoff Doyle, was a 17 years...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:47:36 -0400

stangefruitandwildthing:

Geraldine Hoff Doyle, was a 17 years (in 1942) while she was working at the American Broach & Machine Co. when a photographer snapped a pic of her on the job.

That image used by J. Howard Miller for the “We Can Do It!” poster, released during World War II.

essentialsublimeabsurd: La Galana, guerrillera de La...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:54:27 -0400

essentialsublimeabsurd:

La Galana, guerrillera de La Mancha

Peninsular War hero, Juana Galan

In 1820, 20 year old Juana Galan, working as a barmaid in Valdepenas, Spain, was not expecting a surge of French soldiers to come storming through her town. But on June 6 of that year, that is exactly what happened. At that time, most of the men folk were off fighting the Emperor Napoleon’s forces elsewhere in the nation. Juana, unfazed by the nasty French riflemen, began organizing the Women in her locality to form a trap for the approaching army.

When the army arrived, Juana and her friends were ready. They dumped boiling water and oil on the French troops, which by all accounts left a lasting impression on the invaders. Then Juana, armed with only a batan, beat back the heavily armed French cavalry with her squad of daring Women, almost none of whom were armed with guns.

The French retreated, giving up on capturing not just Juana’s town but the entire province of La Mancha, leading to ultimate Spanish victory. Today, La Dama Galana is revered in Spain as a national hero and a symbol of resistance, strength, patriotism, feminism and hitting silly males with a stick.

burnedshoes: Unknown photographer, early 1980s, Pablo Emilio...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:53:08 -0400

burnedshoes:

Unknown photographer, early 1980s, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (aka Pablo Escobar)

(Files from El Espectadors archives, photographed by James Mollison)

#1: Pablo and his wife, Victoria Henao

“He began stealing tombstones, then he became a car thief, then an assassin, then a smuggler and then a drug smuggler, then he became a representative of the chamber – a politician …the worst of all.” (El Chino, Pablo’s friend)

#2: One of the 11,000 confiscated guns held by Medellin police

“We offered prices. US$2,500 for a dead policeman, and up to $250,000 for a general. Pablo Escobar gave the order to hand out the guns that were hidden in the comunas. We gave out mini-Uzis, mini-Atlantas, R-165 rifles, .556s, and Barreta pistols. They gave out more than 2,500 guns. Pablo Escobar always thought big.” (Popeye, Pablo’s hit man)

itsjohnsen: A five-year-old Anne Frank stands on the steps of...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:50:57 -0400

itsjohnsen:

A five-year-old Anne Frank stands on the steps of her father’s office. Amsterdam, 1934.
Otto Frank

a-cross-turned-dagger: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (Paul...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:50:46 -0400

a-cross-turned-dagger:

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (Paul Delaroche, 1833)

Lady Jane Grey, ‘the queen for nine days,’ the ‘traitor-heroine,’ was only seventeen when she was executed for high treason. The Third Succession Law of 1544 had made her eligible for taking the English throne but Mary soon won over the support of the English people and Lady Jane Grey and her husband were locked in the Tower of London before being sentenced to death. Her executioner asked for forgiveness which she granted and said: “I pray you dispatch me quickly.” Referring to her head, she asked, “Will you take it off before I lay me down?”, and the axeman answered: “No, madam.” She then blindfolded herself. Jane then failed to find the block with her hands, and cried, “What shall I do? Where is it?” She cried out “Lord! Into thy hands I commend my spirit!” before being beheaded.

annielaurie: Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s son.

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:49:45 -0400

annielaurie:

Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s son.

collective-history: Polish children imprisoned in Auschwitz...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:49:26 -0400

collective-history:

Polish children imprisoned in Auschwitz look out from behind the barbed wire fence. (July 1944)

Photograph from the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

womenatwar: A WAAF tractor driver with a train of full bomb...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:48:46 -0400

womenatwar:

A WAAF tractor driver with a train of full bomb trolleys, RAF Mildenhall 1942

norma-bara: Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:47:55 -0400

norma-bara:

Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI.

Margaretha Geertruida ”Margreet“ Zelle, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I

thestuartkings: An iron ‘scold’s bridle’ or ‘brank’. Early 17th...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:47:26 -0400

thestuartkings:

An iron ‘scold’s bridle’ or ‘brank’. Early 17th century

A scold’s bridle, sometimes called “the branks”, as well as “brank’s bridle” was a punishment device used primarily on women, as a form of torture and public humiliation. It was an iron muzzle in an iron framework that enclosed the head. The bridle-bit (or curb-plate) was about 2 inches long and 1 inch broad, projected into the mouth and pressed down on top of the tongue. The “curb-plate” was frequently studded with spikes, so that if the tongue moved, it inflicted pain and made speaking impossible. Wives that were seen as witches, shrews and scolds, were forced to wear a brank’s bridle, which had been locked on the head of the woman and sometimes had a ring and chain attached to it so her husband could parade her around town and the town’s people could scold her and treat her with contempt; at times smearing excrement on her and beating her, sometimes to death.