H e never gave up his principles and even when he was shot or when he was beaten, it only strengthened his resolve to help the workers and the minorities and people who don't have a voice in our society." In the mid-1900s, American labor leader and civil rights activist Walter Reuther never faltered when fighting for his beliefs — even when the opposition tried to kill him. As a young activist handing out union pamphlets at a Ford plant in 1937, Reuther was beaten bloody by a dozen company thugs. Rather than scaring Reuther off, the incident only strengthened his resolve. Two years later, in the middle of a massive battle between Reuther's United Automobile Workers union and Ford, masked gunmen tried to abduct Reuther at a benefit he was hosting. And in 1948, he survived a violent attack when a would-be assassin fired a double-barrel shotgun right through his kitchen window.  It was just by luck that Reuther took the shot largely in his right arm and shoulder. As he lay on...

  I n 1996 She Was Rejected Because They Believed , Women Not Physiologically Able To Run A Marathon 11 July 2022 “When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.”  Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin.  When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runner...

  A ccording to the London Gazette: "In March 1939, prior to the outbreak of World War II, Paddy Mayne had joined the Territorial Army in Newtownards Ireland. After training with the Queen's University Officer Training Corps, he received a commission in the 5th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery." "In April 1940 he transferred to the Royal Ulster Rifles. Following Churchill's call to form a "butcher and bolt" raiding force following Dunkirk, Mayne volunteered for the newly formed 11 (Scottish) Commando. He first saw action in June 1941 as a Lieutenant with 11 Commando, successfully leading his men during the Litani River operation in Lebanon against the Vichy French Forces.  It was after this particularly brutal and confused action, in which 130 officers and men, around a third of the strike force, were wounded or killed, that Mayne reacted violently against what he believed was the ineptitude of his Commanding Officer, whom he considered inex...

  J ohn Broadus Watson, founder of the behaviorist school, in an experiment with babies. Years 20-30 of the 20th century. In the image it seems that he is experiencing the palmar reflex, a primitive instinct in which, before a gentle stimulus on the palm, the baby closes his fingers and squeezes. This reflex is lost within a few months of life. Watson was severely criticized for experimenting on infants. There is speculation as to whether he created lifelong traumas in some of them. He published books telling parents not to spoil their children with displays of affection. He carried this advice into his personal life, raising his children according to his theories. He ended up an alcoholic and his two sons attempted suicide, one of them succeeded Fact of what happen to children in NAZI concentration camp during the holocaust During the Holocaust, children were especially vulnerable to death under the Nazi regime. According to estimations, 16.5  million children, nearly al...

UK's oldest shoe found on Kent beach by Ramsgate man is 3,000-years-old, dating back to Bronze Age A Bronze Age relic found on a Kent beach is believed to be the oldest shoe ever found in the UK. The artefact, which has been dated at 3,000-years-old, was discovered on a foreshore in the north of the county by professional archaeologist Steve Tomlinson. The shoe as it was found on a foreshore in North Kent. Picture: Steve Tomlinson The shoe after cleaning. Picture: Steve Tomlinson Mr Tomlinson, who lives in Ramsgate, found the child's shoe in September last year, and was "in deep shock" when he heard how old it was. He recalled: "We had been out for three hours scouring the shoreline, when I came across what looked like a very old shoe like piece of leather washed up on the mud. "I picked it up and I immediately thought it looks like the sole of an old little shoe." The leather was sent to the SUERC carbon dating unit in East Kilbride, Scotland, to find ...

How did the Japanese government suppress resistance and dissent in Korea? The period of Japanese rule in Korea lasted from 1910 to 1945 and was characterized by the exploitation and oppression of the Korean people. The Japanese colonial government was determined to maintain control over the Korean peninsula and suppress any form of resistance or dissent. As a result, Korean revolutionaries who sought to overthrow Japanese rule were treated harshly and often executed by Japanese soldiers. The executions were a part of the broader effort by the Japanese government to maintain control over the Korean people and stamp out any form of dissent. This was accomplished through a combination of tactics, including censorship, propaganda, and violence. The executions were used as a warning to others who might consider opposing Japanese rule, and they were a powerful tool in maintaining the stability of the colonial government. The legacy of the executions and other forms of repression during...

Community members rescue abandoned horse! The REAL TRUE STORY!!🖤UPDATE Pics A horse abandoned out in a rural area of Stanislaus County has likely never experienced much love or care, but a group of strangers brought together by his plight are working to show him a better life. The details of this horse’s life are unknown, except that he was severely neglected. But the story of his rescue began Monday night. Fortunately, Cesar Garcia and his son were out in the area doing some night fishing. The father and son were getting ready to head in when they heard a vehicle coming along the side trail by the riverbank. Garcia wrote on Facebook that he could see it was a dark colored truck pulling a single horse trailer. It was followed by a gray minivan. Garcia wrote that he could hear the horse was making a commotion, but didn’t think too much of it until he laid eyes upon him. There on the ground was a skeletal horse with open wounds and in an obvious state of distress. Whoev...

Edward Devlin & Alfred Burns - a miscarriage of justice?   B eatrice Alice Rimmer was 54 year old widow who lived alone at 7 Cranborne Road opposite Sefton General Hospital, on Smithdown Road in Liverpool and who was reputed to keep money in her house. Beatrice had visited her son on the Sunday afternoon and was seen returning to her home that evening.  On Monday, August the 20th, 1951, her next door neighbour, Jack Grossman, alerted Alice’s son Thomas to the suspicious scene outside his mothers front door. There was a bottle of milk on the doorstep, delivered around 6a.m., but it was now long after midday.   Alice, as she was known, had not been seen all morning and Mr. Grossman had become concerned about her welfare.  Thomas couldn’t get any reply but looking through the letterbox could see his mother lying in a pool of blood. At the back of the house a window had been broken.  Alice had been attacked with a cosh and had 15 separate wounds which indic...

Everyone Where Worried Seeing What Is In This Child Belly This baby’s belly kept growing non-stop. Then, the doctors delivered the alarming news to her parents. Steve Tenney, a U.S. Army veteran and 18-year member of the Keene Police Department, hadn’t seen a doctor in at least a decade. Savedstitch or two, he had never been seriously ill and never spent a night in the hospital. At 40 years old, he was the epitome of good health. He kept in shape and helped coach middle school football at his almamater, Monadnock Regional High. Yet, on September 8th, after a week-long battery of physical and psychological tests that declared him perfectly healthy, surgeons at the Leahy Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, removed his perfectly functioning liver. They sliced off about 20 percent of the organ, returned it to his body, and stitched him up. “I woke up that afternoon and felt like a truck had run over me,” Tenney said earlier this week. Tenney and his liver saved the li...

The Angels of Los Banos: Lieutenant Junior Grade Mary Rose Harrington of the US Navy Nursing Corps     F ollowing her 1934 graduation from St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, in Sioux City, Iowa, Mary Rose Harrington entered the US Navy Nurse Corps on January 11, 1937. Harrington reported to Manila, Philippines, on February 10, 1941. Mary Rose was taken as a Prisoner of War when Japanese forces seized the islands on January 6, 1942. Initially, Lieutenant Junior Grade Harrington was interned with other US civilians at a Catholic school that had been converted into a prison facility. Later, she was held at the Los Banos Internment Facility, about 30 miles southeast of Manila. Mary was one of 11 nurses that were imprisoned at the Los Banos facility. During this time she, along with the others, worked endlessly to care for the injured and sick. By 1944, the Japanese military had reduced the food ration to less than 1000 calories a day per prisoner. The "Angels of Los...

Boy dig up the ground thinking he found a boat but not knowing what beneath   H e was the one who had found it, so in his mind, he got to open the hatch first. Metal screeched against metal as the top came off and revealed the long-forgotten contents. Everyone crowded around and shook their heads in disbelief. Then, without warning, someone grabbed him and pulled him away. ” Casper looked at the left path, then the right one. The right one was well-worn and popular with hikers. They might have been covered with years of growth, but it clearly wasn’t like any shape he’d seen before. During his many wanderings, he nudged it with his boot. Then something else caught his eye. A rope was there, a sunken boat. He scraped away the mud and tried to pull it. It wouldn’t budge. It was already an odd situation, but now he had to tell someone. He ran home and dragged his confused parents out. It wasn’t long until others in the village got word, and a large crowd gathered. The men gathered arou...

 How were B-52s expected to get through Soviet air defenses to their targets?     I have some expertise in this dating from the 1980s and, quite frankly, the B-52s would have had no trouble at all from Soviet defenses except in the most extreme cases. That may sound like a bold statement, but it was quite true. First and foremost, the B-52s would have arrived hours after the war began, and hours after ICBMs and SLBMs had ravaged the Soviet defenses. Many of the missile strikes were designed specifically to blow holes in the Soviet defenses, taking out SAM battalions, interceptor airfields, and air defense command posts. Others would have done damage by generating electromagnetic pulses, blinding radars and frying computers. Then, there’s the fact that PVO (Soviet national air defense) couldn’t be everywhere at once. In fact, much of Soviet territory would have gone virtually undefended because of the vast expanses. Soviet air defenses were well mapped out, and the bomber...

Boy Dies, Comes Back, Says Jesus Gave Him a Message for the World When a young boy died in a car crash, he says he went to heaven. After being resuscitated, he came back with a message he says Jesus gave him to share with the world — and he wants everyone to hear it before it’s too late. Landon Whitley was in the backseat, riding home from church with his mom and dad, on October 19, 1997, when tragedy struck. “I didn’t see what he was yelling at. I didn’t see the ambulance coming, but I remember him yelling. That was the last thing I heard from him,” Julie Kemp, Landon’s mom recalled, according to Fox News. The “he” she is referring to was her husband Andy, and the ambulance she speaks of broadsided their car in an intersection. Landon was just 8 years old when the ambulance, returning to its station, T-boned his family’s car at an intersection. His dad died instantly. Rescuers stabilized Julie but didn’t realize Landon was also in the car. “They couldn’t see his body because of the da...