On April 22, 1945, a victorious U.S. Army destroyed a giant marble swastika that overlooked the Zeppelintribüne, Adolf Hitler’s most powerful pulpit, at the heart of the Advertisements
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Cabaret du Ciel and de l’Enfer – The Cabaret of Heaven and Hell in Paris
A famous cabaret in Montmartre, founded in November 1892 by Antonin Alexander. The Cabaret de L’Enfer was the counterpart to The Cabaret du Ciel, another cabaret which
Jonestown Massacre – The mass suicide-murder in Jonestown
The massacre occurred on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction
The Explosion at Black Tom Island in Jersey City
The explosions which occurred on July 30, 1916, in the New York Harbor, was an act of sabotage by German agents to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were to
The Battle of David and Goliath in the Valley of Elah
A long, shallow valley in Israel, best known as the place described in the Old Testament where the Israelites were encamped when David fought Goliath.
Rainey Bethea – The last person publicly executed in the United States in Owensboro
Bethea, who confessed to the rape and murder of a 70 year-old woman, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky. The crime was infamous
Moving a 7,600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia
In Romania during the Communist Era, grand soviet-style apartment structures were built all over. In 1987 when they were constructing a majestic boulevard in the city of Alba Iulia, they noticed one of the buildings got in the way. The expense of replacing the building was cheaper than demolishing and reconstructing it from scratch. They resolved to […]
Simone Segouin – Τhe woman of resistance in Paris
Also known as Nicole Minet, was young French Résistance fighter during the war. She had come from Chartres to help liberate the capital on August 19, 1944. Simone
