RARE HISTORICAL VIDS

Last Picture of Emma (12) and Daniel (38) Brown. On the same day after the picture was taken, Emma shot her father in the abdomen before shooting herself in the head.  Daniel survived - Emma died two days later in the hospital. The seventh grade student had plotted to kill her entire family and pets, along with another 12-year-old girl from Lufkin, Texas, though it is unclear how they met. Emma Brown, 12, shot her father, Daniel Brown, 38, in the abdomen at their home in Poolville, Texas, around 30 miles from Fort Worth on September 20, 2022. Emma shot herself in the head and died in hospital two days later.  Exclusive pictures obtained  show the father, who survived, and daughter smiling as they posed with a rifle and handguns together before the horror incident. The seventh grade student had plotted to kill her entire family and pets, along with another 12-year-old girl from Lufkin, Texas, though it is unclear how they met.  Parker County District Attorney's...

 An unauthorized photo of Stalin: the moment he was informed that the Germans were about to take Kiev, 1941 An unauthorized photo of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that the German armies had advanced in Kyiv (August 1941). What you see here is a man who up until a few weeks before had absolute confidence in Plan A, and who now has no Plan B. The picture was taken by Komsomolskaya Pravda’s editor-in-chief. The photographer secretly defied orders to destroy it as it was deemed not to show Stalin in a positive light. Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union, was the greatest military operation of World War II. It deployed thousands of aircraft, tanks, artillery guns, and more than six million soldiers. Furthermore, it brought two of probably the most totalitarian regimes in history against one another. However, in the first few weeks of the operation, it didn’t look like the clash of two giants. The German a...

In 2013, a Florida man, Jeff Bush, was sleeping in his bedroom when a large sinkhole opened up directly underneath his bed, swallowing him and his entire bedroom. His brother heard him scream, but was unable to see or reach him in time. Bush’s body was never recovered. The sinkhole that swallowed Jeff Bush was not a random occurrence, but a geological phenomenon common in Florida due to its porous limestone base. This porous carbonate rock stores and helps move groundwater. When the dirt, clay, or sand on top becomes too heavy for the limestone roof, it can collapse and form a sinkhole. These sinkholes can be triggered naturally or by outside events such as heavy rainfall or pumping groundwater used for crop irrigation. In the case of the Seffner sinkhole, it was about 20 feet wide and possibly 30 feet deep2. The sinkhole started in the bedroom and expanded outward, taking the house with it as it opened up2. The sinkhole was so dangerous that ...

  Joe Arridy didn’t have a last meal wish. Maybe he didn’t quite get what that meant. He was just 23, with an IQ of 46. He understood the simple joys of eating, playing, and the world of trains – things you could see, smell, and live. But things like God, justice, and evil were like elusive dreams to him. The doctors called him an “imbecile,” a term for someone who thinks like a child between four and six. When the police pressured him into confessing to a gruesome murder he didn’t commit, his short life met a tragic end. This is the heartbreaking story of Joe Arridy, one of those instances when justice went awry. Joe Arridy was born in 1915 in Pueblo, Colorado, the oldest child of Mary and Henry Arridy, who had recently moved from Syria. They were first cousins and didn’t speak English. For the first five years of his life, Joe didn’t talk. After going to elementary school for just one year, his principal told his parents to keep him at home, saying he could not ...

A stranded Dutch warship evaded the enemy by disguising itself as an island, 1942 . HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen blending with the environment. 1942. In February 1942, in the midst of World War II, the Japanese fleet completely wrecked a combined Dutch-American-Australian-British fleet at the Battle of the Java Sea. This defeat led to the Japanese occupation of the entire Netherlands East Indies. Only four Dutch warships were left in the Dutch East Indies and seeing that there’s no way they’ll be able to take down the Japanese fleet by themselves, they decided to try to escape to Australia. There was just one problem: the seas were full of Japanese warships and the skies were swarming with Japanese planes. The chances of sailing through 1,000 miles of hostile ocean to safety were not looking good. Sure enough, all but one of the ships were sunk within days. HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen was the last Dutch warship standing after the Japanese swept the rest of the Dutch fleet. The slow-moving ...

Parade of German prisoners of war in the streets of Moscow, 1944 Parade of 57,000 German prisoners of war in the streets of Moscow. Under escort 1944. In the summer of 1944 the Soviet Union launched Operation Bagration, a large-scale, complex offensive against the Nazi invaders in Belarus, Poland and the Baltic republics. This vital Soviet offensive was launched just after Allied troops had landed in Normandy, and it is symptomatic of the lack of public knowledge about the war in the East that whilst almost everyone has heard of D-Day, few people other than specialist historians know much about Operation Bagration. Operation Bagration (named after a Georgian prince in the war against Napoleon 130 years earlier) was not just one of the largest military offensives of the war, it was one of the most sophisticated. On 19 June 1944, Red Army partisan units, operating behind German lines, attacked transport and other Wehrmacht supply lines; two days later the Soviet...

Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904. The photograph was taken by Alice Seeley Harris, the man’s name is  Nsala . Here is part of her account (from the book “Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris”):  He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had o...