History

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41940270

George Bush’s Department of Defense made a decision in 2001, after 9/11, that it was going to “take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”

https://systemicjustice.org/2016/04/george-stinney-and-the-lessons-of-history-2/

President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958, recruiting scientists to design the first large-scale computer network, which was intended to support the American military during the Cold War. Academics would use the network to communicate with one another via email between several US research universities.

DNA analysis proves Beachy Head woman was light-eyed blonde

#GlobalizeTheIntifada

Interesting site where you can explore snippets of history around the world.

In Hitler’s eyes, the time had come to settle the struggle between the right and the left once and for all.

The court of unstable French king Charles VI devised elaborate entertainment to keep him amused. One was the dance of the wood savages, in which the king himself participated. The highly flamable costumes caught fire and killed the courtier and almost killed the king.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-luther-king-on-israel-s-security

2 km from the Giza complex, it extends over a total area of 500,000 sq.metters with an estimated total of over 100,000 artifacts. Website: https://gem.eg/

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It is one of the most chilling images of the Holocaust: a bespectacled Nazi soldier trains a pistol at the head of a resigned man kneeling in a suit before a pit full of corpses. German troops encircle the scene.

The Internal Security Act of 1950, 64 Stat. 987 (Public Law 81-831), also known as the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, the McCarran Act after its principal sponsor Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nevada), or the Concentration Camp Law, is a United States federal law. Congress enacted it over President Harry Truman's veto. It required Communist organizations to register with the federal government. The 1965 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board saw much of the act's Communist registration requirement abolished. The emergency detention provision was repealed when the Non-Detention Act of 1971 was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. The act's Subversive Activities Control Board, which enforced the law's provision calling for investigations of persons engaging in "subversive activities," would also be abolished in 1972. Provisions ...

86 years ago on September 22, Soviet Union and Nazi Germany troops paraded in Poland to celebrate their joint occupation of Poland.

Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with 309 kills. She is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time.

i got it from here https://www.instagram.com/thehistory.source

https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115130817937007893

Stumbled across this gem produced by the U.S. Army Pictorial Service back when the original Nazi scars were still bleeding.

People have been trying to impact and minimize the horrors of slavery since pretty much the day after the Confederacy was put down. The WPA Slave Narratives - interviews with former enslaved people during the Great Depression - show how disgusting and brutal slavery was. You will find tales of “kind” masters giving a small child an orange or sweet for Christmas, but you will also find violence. You will find rape (always in couched terms).