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Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched around the globe, from India … Continue reading WW1’s Togoland Campaign →
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus deyiremeda, from Wiki Commons In 2009, researcher Yohanne Haille-Selassie, working at a place called Burtele in the Waranso-Mille region of Ethiopia (not far from where Lucy had been found in Hadar), made a puzzling discovery. In sediments dated to around 3.4 million years, … Continue reading A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda →
Ferdinand Magellan is usually given credit for making the first circumnavigation of the globe, but in fact he was killed halfway through the trip and never made it. . Juan Sebastian Elcano, photo from Wiki Commons When the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set sail for the Far East in September 1519, he had only the … Continue reading The First Trip Around the World →
The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most interesting work came during the Cold War. USS Croaker in 1944 The Gato-class was a very successful design, especially in the Pacific. During the Second World War, the Navy submarine fleet, consisting mostly of 77 Gato subs, were credited … Continue reading Museum Ship USS Croaker →
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These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of Philadelphia) Frank Rizzo (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991), the self-proclaimed … Continue reading "Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia" The post Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia appeared first on Flashbak.
In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I, hundreds of thousands of troops traveled towards Greece’s heartland in search of vengeance for a disastrous defeat ten years prior. As their customs demanded, the Athenians sought counsel at Delphi, where the Pythian oracle told them that […]
