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.....But Shaw didn't set out to write a frothy, romantic confection. He wanted to advocate for women's suffrage and the end of Britain's class system. In the play, stuffy professor Henry Higgins sets himself a challenge: to pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower seller, as a duchess.

 

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Do you know what this picture means? On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape the Soviet Union and the communism that brought only suffering and poverty. This power stretched 600 km. The incredible anti-communist movement, too easily erased this event in our recent history.

 

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Benito Mussolini in March 1945.

The dead bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square. The corpses were beaten, shot at, and hit with hammers.

 

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Newly discovered Napoleon hat with DNA previews in Hong Kong
Described by Bonhams as the "first hat to bear the Emperor's DNA", it is on display in Hong Kong before it moves to Paris and then London, where it will be auctioned on Oct. 27.

 

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Helen Hayes, leader in Polio awareness, visited University Hospital Respiratory Centre Aril 1953

Actress Helen Hayes was a leader in polio work since the tragic death of her daughter, Mary MacArthur, from that disease in 1949.

 

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When the United States entered the war in 1917, Walt Disney’s older brothers enlisted, but 16-year-old Walt was denied enlistment because of his age.

Disney was determined to do his part. When a friend learned that the Red Cross Ambulance Corps would accept volunteers as young as 17, Disney used his artistic skills to alter the birth date on his passport application from “1901” to “1900” so that he could go and serve his country.

 

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Mugshot of Bertha Boronda, the Woman Who Was Arrested for Cutting Off Her Husband’s ***** With a Razor in 1907

Bertha and her husband, Frank Boronda, had been married about 6 years when her assault on him took place.

Shortly after midnight on Friday, May 30, 1907, Bertha slashed Frank’s ***** with a razor at their residence. He said the attack by his wife came out of the blue. He and Bertha were chatting and she was in a friendly mood when suddenly she wounded him.

She admitted to the attack on Frank and claimed, in her confident style, it was actually his fault. He’d driven her out of her mind with fear that he was going to desert her and move to Mexico.

Frank recovered from his injuries. Bertha was charged was “mayhem,” a charge applied to someone who “unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body or renders it useless.” She was tried, found guilty and sentenced to five years in San Quentin Prison in 1908.

Bertha was paroled in 1909, after serving less than two years of her sentence.

 

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”The famous Italian diver Enzo Mallorca dove into the sea of Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back.
He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something.
The animal dove and Enzo followed.

At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives. Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an "almost human cry" (describes Enzo).
(A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.)

The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant!

The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.

Enzo Mallorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth." ~ Vangelis.”

 

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The hatched granny, anti-alcohol crusader Carrie Nation, front, with supporters, 1901.

At six-foot tall and 175 pounds, she was a formidable force as she'd walk into bars singing and praying with her hatchet flailing destruction. Sometime she was alone in this effort, at times she was joined by other "home defenders." She was arrested some 30 times for "hatchetations," as she came to call them. She paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets.

 

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In 1954, polio was a terrifying reality. The vaccine began as a large clinical trial of 1.3 million kids around the country. They called themselves Polio Pioneers, the first to try a new vaccine in the hopes of ending a grave threat.

Nine months after the trial ended, the vaccine was declared safe and effective. In 1955, mass inoculation against polio began. 25 years later, domestic polio transmission had all but vanished.

Polio is now a mandated vaccination in all 50 states. The kids you see pictured made this a reality for us all.

 

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In 1954, polio was a terrifying reality. The vaccine began as a large clinical trial of 1.3 million kids around the country. They called themselves Polio Pioneers, the first to try a new vaccine in the hopes of ending a grave threat.

Nine months after the trial ended, the vaccine was declared safe and effective. In 1955, mass inoculation against polio began. 25 years later, domestic polio transmission had all but vanished.

Polio is now a mandated vaccination in all 50 states. The kids you see pictured made this a reality for us all.
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The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together. On the Protestant part of this cemetery J.W.C van Gorcum, colonel of the Dutch Cavalry and militia commissioner in Limburg is buried. His wife, lady J.C.P.H van Aefferden is buried in the Catholic part. They were married in 1842, he was a protestant and didn’t belong to the nobility.

This caused quite a commotion in Roermond. After being married for 38 years the colonel died in 1880 and was buried on the protestant part of the cemetery against the wall. His wife died in 1888 and had decided not to be buried in the family tomb but on the other side of the wall, the closest she could get to her husband. Two clasped hands connect the graves across the wall.

 

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A soup kitchen sponsored by Al Capone during great depression, Chicago, Thanksgiving 1930

America’s most notorious gangster sponsored the charity that served up three hot meals a day to thousands of the unemployed—no questions asked…..

https://www.history.com/news/al-capone-great-depression-soup-kitchen

 

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World’s largest log cabin.
Sequoia House, Ridgefield, Washington, USA, 1938. Built in 1905, burned down in 1960.

 

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An Italian woman inspects a Scottish soldier’s kilt. Rome 1944

 

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Weapons and ammunition found in Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's car after their death in 1934

 

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U-118, a World War I submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England 1919.