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A well nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child

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A well nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during a food distribution at Medecines Sans Frontieres feeding center at Ajiep, southern Sudan, 1998. Tom Stoddart captured this moment by camera in 1998. The photograph was taken in Sudan, specifically at Aijep, Bahr el Ghazal. In the city, it was taken at the Medecins San Frontieres, which is a feeding center at Aijep.  The photograph was taken for general news stories. The main issue of concern in this photograph is the famine in Sudan. In the beginning of 1998, about 250,000 people died during the famine in south-western Sudan As you look at this picture, you tend to notice the boy’s look of malnourishment, but you do not exactly understand what he is doing in this picture till you read the caption. The caption to this photograph explains that a well fed Sudanese man steals corn from a famished boy during a food distribution He decided to take pictures of the 1998 famine because at the time, the famine was not being
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Vera Salvequart – for war crimes.

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Vera Salvequart – for war crimes. 28 year old Vera Salvequart had not been an SS guard, but rather a prisoner herself in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was born on the 26th of November 1919 in Czechoslovakia of Czech and German parents and had trained as a nurse.  According to her she served 10 months in Flossenberg for refusing to reveal to the Gestapo the identity of her Jewish boyfriend in 1941 and then two years commencing in 1942 for a similar offence, being released in April 1944.  She was sent to Ravensbrück on the 6th of December 1944 after being arrested for helping five detained officers escape. Here she became a Kapo and worked as a nurse in the camp's hospital wing. In February 1945, she was said to have administered poison in the form of a sleeping powder to some 50 of the patients, of whom 12 died. Salvequart was among 16 members of the staff who were arrested and were tried between the 5th of December 1946 and the 3rd of February 1947 by a British military court
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After giving care for a scalp wound, a Japanese baby is cared for by men a medical unit of the 27th Infantry Division. 🪖

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📸 After giving care for a scalp wound, a Japanese baby is cared for by men a medical unit of the 27th Infantry Division. 🪖 The baby was discovered by a tank crew during the fighting below Mt. Tapotchau on Saipan in July of 1944. 🗻 Saipan 15 June 1944 Two 4th Division US Marines take cover in a shell hole on Saipan, June 1944 . On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign, U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base from which the U.S. could launch its new long-range B-29 bombers directly at Japan’s home islands.  Facing fierce Japanese resistance, Americans poured from their landing crafts to establish a beachhead, battle Japanese soldiers inland and force the Japanese army to retreat north.  Fighting became especially brutal and prolonged around Mount Tapotchau, Saipan’s highest peak, and Marines gave battle sites in the area names such as “Death Valley” and “Purple Heart Ridge.” When the U.
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How others saw English people 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 during medieval 🏰 times .

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How others saw English people 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 during medieval 🏰 times . The English were pronounced by other nations to be guilty of the sin of pride; that was their most prominent characteristic.  The fourteenth-century French chronicler Jean Froissart described 'the great haughtiness of the English, who are affable to no other nation than their own'. A German knight, Nicholas von Poppelau, visited the country in 1484 and complained that the English think they are the wisest people in the world' and that the world does not exist apart from England'.  Fifteen years later a Venetian traveller stated that the English are great lovers of themselves and of everything belonging to them'. Whenever they see a handsome stranger, they say that 'he looks like an Englishman' Other nations were sure that the English had tails.  The Greeks of Sicily, who were obliged to entertain the presence of English crusaders in 1190, referred to them as "the tailed Englishmen&#
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The Conspiracy of 1741

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On this day March 30th, in African American Our story  In 1741, the New York Conspiracy is affirmed.  Also called the Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a purported plot by Black slaves and poor whites in the (then) British colony of New York. Occurring in March and April of that year, it was a revolt to level New York City with a series of fires. Historians disagree as to whether such a plot existed and if there was one, its scale. During the court cases, the prosecution kept changing the grounds of the accusation, ending with linking the insurrection to a "Popish" plot by Spaniards and other Catholics.  At the time, Manhattan had the second-largest slave population of any city in the Thirteen Colonies after Charleston, South Carolina. Rumors of a conspiracy arose against a background of economic competition between poor whites and Black slaves; a severe winter; war between Britain and Spain, with heightened anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish f
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Rubin Stacey, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, surrounded by onlookers, including girls, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Rubin Stacey, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, surrounded by onlookers, including girls, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.   Jul. 19, 1935 Rubin Stacy, 37 was a homeless tenant farmer who knocked on a white woman's door (Marion Jones) – she screamed, and he was arrested.  As he was being led to jail by six deputies, a mob of about 100 overpowered them – ran their car off the road, and lynched him in sight of Marion's house, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Marion claimed she offered him a drink of water, but he tried to assault her with a knife, which she later recanted. A photo of the lynching was sent to President F.D.  Roosevelt to persuade him to support the Costigan-Wagner Act which would bring federal prosecution to any law enforcement officers who failed to exercise their responsibilities during a lynching incident.  - Roosevelt refused to support the bill claiming he would lose Southern votes in the next election.
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Russian soldiers standing over the remains of Armenians burned by Ottoman forces in the Anatolian village of Sheikhalan, 1915.

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Russian soldiers standing over the remains of Armenians burned by Ottoman forces in the Anatolian village of Sheikhalan, 1915. Colourised by @color_by_klimbim.  The following is excerpts of Danish-German soldier Heinrich Jessen's diary entry from June 1916, who served in a machine-gun battalion in the Middle East. Translated by myself Note: This is a purely historical post on a Danish-German soldier's eyewitness account. Please do not report, even if you disagree with the eyewitness account 🙏   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  "There are many prisoners here, they're Englishmen and Indians from Kut-al-Amara some 300 km south of Baghdad, and they're on their way to "Konia". Some 13,000 - 14,000 prisoners were taken down there, they sell anything they posses for some Turkish money so they can buy something to eat. Their caretaking is moderate, I sure wouldn't wish to be a prisoner in Turkish captivity. When one sees this cruelty, indeed it's almost indescribable what
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