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Yesterday was the 66th anniversary of the murder of 14 year old Emmett Till in Mississippi. He was dragged from his home, tortured and murdered for allegedly whistling at a White woman, who has since recanted some of what she said. What was done to that boy was so horrendous that I will not post the photo of how he looked afterward but if you think you can stomach seeing it, here's the link with more photos. He was literally unrecognizable. Tragic, horrible, disgusting!! Of course the men who did it were acquitted. 🤬https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Emmett+Till+Funeral&mmreqh=1W6Qkmq9sAxvj8TNun2aCuMFHLBgqps7AdYKvkXCw1c=&form=IDINTS&first=1&tsc=ImageBasicHover



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October 9th marked the 32nd day of straight bombing raids against the United Kingdom. The night time raid of October 9th raid infamously struck the iconic St Paul’s Cathedral but luckily the bomb did not detonate. Photographers stationed in London were amazed at the total destruction wrought by German bombers yet their pictures were routinely blocked by the censors who were anxious not to cause a panic. Fred Morley wanting to get some sort of record of the devastation out to the world thought of a situation that the censors would approve. He first found a back drop of firefighters struggling to contain a fire then he borrowed a milkman’s outfit and a craft of bottles. He then got his assistant to pose among the ruins of a city street while the firefighters fought in the background. The photo pushed forward the idea of the stoic British continuing on with their normal lives. The censors felt the same way and it was published the very next day
 

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I love this photo, it shows a class system in England that Australians reject. It's called "Toffs and Toughs"

A group of local boys look on with curiosity and amusement at Harrow schoolboys Peter Wagner (left) and Thomas Dyson in their formal uniform at the Eton vs Harrow cricket match on 9 July 1937 at the Lord’s cricket ground, London. (Photo by Jimmy Sime/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Yesterday was the 66th anniversary of the murder of 14 year old Emmett Till in Mississippi. He was dragged from his home, tortured and murdered for allegedly whistling at a White woman, who has since recanted some of what she said. What was done to that boy was so horrendous that I will not post the photo of how he looked afterward but if you think you can stomach seeing it, here's the link with more photos. He was literally unrecognizable. Tragic, horrible, disgusting!! Of course the men who did it were acquitted. 🤬https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Emmett+Till+Funeral&mmreqh=1W6Qkmq9sAxvj8TNun2aCuMFHLBgqps7AdYKvkXCw1c=&form=IDINTS&first=1&tsc=ImageBasicHover



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So senseless, horrific and disgusting. And the woman he supposedly "whistled at" recanted her testimony at one time. This breaks my heart. His mother was such a beautiful, eloquent woman who wisely chose to go with an open casket to show what had happened to her son and gain sympathy for her cause.

 
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So senseless, horrific and disgusting. And the woman he supposedly "whistled at" recanted her testimony at one time. This breaks my heart. His mother was such a beautiful, eloquent woman who wisely chose to go with an open casket to show what had happened to her son and gain sympathy for her cause.

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Thank you for your comment and for posting this video but I won't watch it at this time. So much stuff going on to depress one. Today I'm choosing respite from those things.
 
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A bullet-riddled and bayonet-pierced portrait of Mussolini in Sicily, 1943, somewhere around the city of Messina. The Allies landed in Sicily in July, capturing the island with little resistance.
 
Place - Derwent River - Hobart - Tasmania
Year - 1975, January
Event - Bulk Carrier, Lake Illawarra runs into the Tasman Bridge spanning the Derwent River.
Resulting events - 120 meters of the bridge fell into the river. 7 crew members died. 4 cars fell into the river with 5 passengers dying.
The ship sank and is still at the bottom of the river.


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The repaired Tasman Bridge was opened in October 1977
 
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Leo Tolstoy, 17 years old, 1845 Russia

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909.

He is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878),
 
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One of the most interesting & strangest hippie communes of the 1970s was the Source Family

The Source Restaurant– it was very possibly the world’s first health food restaurant, established in 1969. Source served organic vegan food from its establishment on Los Angeles’s iconic Sunset Strip. Even though some may think the restaurant was before its time at its peak Source raked in $300,000 a year……https://filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/the-source-family/

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It’s been said that Yod had fourteen wives in the cult, but his only legal marriage was to Robin Popper, who gave him a daughter named Tau. Robin has been quoted saying that Yod was, “A dirty old man on a lust trip”. Overall, despite having fourteen wives, only three children are attributed as being his. Though, almost every picture of the Source Family cult includes multiple pregnant women.
 
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Paula Hitler, also known as Paula Wolff and Paula Hitler-Wolff, (26 January 1896 – 1 June 1960) was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl.

In February 1959, she agreed to be interviewed by Peter Morley, a British documentary producer for Associated-Rediffusion, an ITV channel. The conversation was the only filmed interview she ever gave and was broadcast as part of a programme called Tyranny: The Years of Adolf Hitler. She talked mostly about Hitler's childhood and refused to be drawn on political questions

Paula died on 1 June 1960 in Schönau near Berchtesgaden, at the age of 64, the last surviving member of Hitler's immediate family.
 


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