Holocaust victim

 There’s something I want you to know. People had been calling here, saying I was old and ugly… that I embarrassed Elvis, that I shouldn’t be seen in public. When Elvis found out, he was so angry.” Her eyes shone as she smiled faintly. “Do you know what that boy did? He took one of his finest cars, came to get me, and drove me all over town. Then he walked with me up and down the streets of Memphis, his arm around me the whole time — just to show the world how much I meant to him.” That moment, remembered by Minnie Mae — or “Dodger,” as the family affectionately called her — revealed the truest part of Elvis Presley’s nature. To the public, he was a legend, but to her, he was simply the boy she had helped raise, still tender-hearted beneath all the fame. Dodger had always been a quiet presence at Graceland, and Elvis never left the house without stopping by her room first to kiss her goodnight or tell her he loved her. In her later years, when her health began to fade, Elvis’s devo...

 You’d be surprised by how long a corrupt system can survive. The final half century of the Qing dynasty in China was the Empress Dowager Cixi. And she was fabulously corrupt. Ruling from 1861 to 1908, she was also fabulously wasteful. But her corrupt officials found creative ways to work around this…For instance, each meal, Cixi wanted a thousand different dishes prepared. A massive banquet, which she would then largely ignore, choosing only among a few select dishes. Most pots would remain closed. So her palace eunuchs began preparing only those dishes afresh each meal, and leaving the others rotting in their pots for a week before throwing them out. Still hugely wasteful, but somehow less so… which allowed them to pocket more of the state budget for themselves.

 In 1939, Lina Medina made history at the extraordinary age of just 5 years and 7 months when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 2.7 kg (6.0 lb). Born in Peru, her case is one of the most perplexing instances of precocious puberty ever recorded, where a child's body matures at an astonishingly rapid rate. Despite the shock and disbelief surrounding her pregnancy, Lina’s story highlighted the rare medical condition of early puberty, raising questions about human development and biology. Lina's pregnancy was discovered after her parents noticed her rapidly growing belly and took her to a doctor. After thorough medical examinations, it was confirmed that she was pregnant, and due to her young age and small body size, she delivered the baby via caesarean section. The birth itself was a medical miracle, with both mother and baby surviving the ordeal. However, the situation remained surrounded by mystery, as the identity of the father was never determined, and there were n...

.    I Shrunk the Kids" in Camas, Washington, but he wasn't there for the movie. He quickly spotted an unattended 6-year-old heading to the restroom after the light went down. Dodd threw the child over his shoulder and tried to walk out of the building. The boy screamed so hard, he dropped him and ran to his car, which broke down just two blocks away. The boyfriend of the child's mother caught up with him and held him down until the police arrived.Not only had Dodd attempted to kid*nap the young boy in the theater, but he was also responsible for the recent r*ape and murder of three other young boys in the area. He said that over the past 15 years, he had molested at least 175 children. He had written about these crimes in a scary diary that had gruesome drawings and details about a deal he thought he had made with Satan. At trial, even Dodd asked for his own execution, and in 1993, he became the first American to be hanged in nearly 30 years. His final words before execut...

 Blood oozed through the soil at grave sites. You could see the pits move, some of them were still alive': The secrets of Ukraine's shameful 'Holocaust of Bullets' killing centre where 1.6million Jews were executed. Seventy years on from the end of the Second World War the full, shocking scale of the Nazi-inspired Holocaust in Ukraine is finally being revealed - thanks to pioneering work by a French Catholic priest to research the truth of the industrial-scale killing. Around 2,000 mass graves of Jewish victims have been located where men, women and children were shot and buried by the Germans and their collaborators. But there maybe up to 6,000 more sites to uncover, with victims of this 'Holocaust of bullets' - so called because unlike in Poland and Germany where gas chambers were used as the means of slaughter - here most were summarily shot and buried nearby... Continue reading  

 Like many entertainers, Danny Thomas had a tough start in show business. Newly married and with a baby on the way he found jobs were hard to come by. Deeply religious he made a promise to St. Jude Thaddeus, Patron Saint of Lost Causes, ‘’Show me my way in life and I will build you a shrine.’’ Whether his prayer was answered by the saint, or it would have happened anyway, soon he was a star on radio and television. He felt empathy for cancer-stricken children and raised funds to build a hospital where they would be treated for free. ‘’No child should die in the dawn of life,’’ was his motto. Many stars from all areas of show business gave their time to help and in 1962 he was able to open the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. The picture is from a fundraising event in 1957, Shower of Stars. These events, organised by Danny, raised the necessary funds. Turning up to help for this one are Lou Costello, Elvis Presley, and Jane Russell.

  He told the child that winning the Oscar was what mattered, not owning it. After Clark passed away, the child returned the Oscar to his family. Before making Gone with the Wind (1939), Clark was already good friends with Hattie McDaniel. He wanted her to play the role of "Mammy," but it was her powerful performance, when she showed up fully dressed and nailed the part, that got her the role. When it was time for the premiere on December 15, 1939, producer David O. Selznick tried to bring Hattie along. But MGM advised against it due to Georgia’s strict segregation laws, which wouldn’t allow her to attend the same event as white people. Clark was so upset by this that he told MGM he wouldn’t go unless they let Hattie attend too. In the end, Hattie convinced him to go without her. Clark was also the head of the actors’ division of the Hollywood Victory Committee. In January 1942, he sent his wife, Carole Lombard, on a tour to her home state of Indiana, where she sold $2 millio...

  Summers felt endless under the heavy heat, and winters chilled the bones with damp air rolling off the river. Life was built around the soil — plowing, tending cotton, feeding animals, and doing whatever was needed to keep the family going. Elijah had a quiet curiosity that set him apart. When chores were done, he drifted toward the riverbanks and cypress-filled swamps, studying birds, turtles, and whatever else crossed his path. His father often joked that Elijah understood the land better than most grown men. One warm spring afternoon, dark clouds gathered without warning. Heavy rain poured down, and the Delta’s river swelled at a terrifying speed. Before the adults realized the danger, the rising water swept through the fields and rushed toward the Carter home. Elijah’s little sister and two young cousins had been playing in the yard and were suddenly stranded on a small rise just inches from being swept away. Shouts echoed across the farm, but the current was already too stro...

 I believe that the worst element of the mass war, the World War 2, is located in such an unlikely location that not many know about its existence Jasenovac in Croatia.Although the world is accustomed with the Nazi concentration camps, the Ustaša who was a fascistic movement and controlled Croatia also had their own evil camps. They mostly attacked Serbs, but also killed a great number of Jews and Roma. What was particularly cruel about Jasenovac was the mode of killing which was very sadistic. Ustaša did not use gas much, they used to make their victims die a slow and painful death. They used the rudest tools, hammers, axes, or wooden sticks, and made the savagery intimate and close. Other victims were pushed into huge ovens as long as they could breathe and chained and burned as a means of self-amusement. In some instances a special knife was employed in making short cuts to throats. Such atrocious methods scared even German Nazis. Their description of Jasenovac indicated the wor...

 In my opinion, the key motives why the elder Nazis used to state their innocence in court hearings were quite straightforward: they needed to live and they still needed their pernicious convictions. To start with, they were aware that they would have died by telling the truth. And had they said, Yes, we did the horrible murders, the court would have hanged them. And they decided to make plea instead, not guilty. They attempted to put all the blame on leaders who had already passed away such as Hitler or Himmler. Carrying the blame of the dead was easier, right? They would tell me, I was but a little being, or I only did what I was told to do. They insisted that they were just being truthful that they were unaware of the most heinous things going on in the camps. Second, their minds still were dysfunctional with the toxic Nazi ideology. They had long been conditioned that the people they murdered, particularly the Jewish people were dangerous enemies. Due to such an attitude they f...

 The facts that you are reading are all true. It is an actual historical fact though hard to believe. Following the World War 2, many of the Germany women who worked as guards in the Nazi concentration camps, who were referred to as Aufseherinnen, were tried and subsequently executed.They were not even brought to trial at the notorious Nuremberg Trials. In its place, smaller courts were maintained by the Allied powers - Britain, the United States and the Polish government in the vicinity of the crime scenes, like in Auschwitz and in Bergen-Belsen. The best evidence was the eyewitnesses of the camps who did not hesitate to give testimony to the judges and juries and described the atrocities. The guards had not just gone by the order. They were sadistic, they tortured prisoners, beat them mercilessly, and even personally choose them to hang in the gas chambers. The case was made, the worst of the guards were found guilty of war crimes and murder and hung to death. Irma Grese was the ...

 When people asked how he had managed to survive the Holocaust, he would share a story that revealed both courage and compassion. It began on a train bound for Auschwitz, where he and countless others were packed into freezing wagons without food, water, or coats. Snow fell outside, and death loomed in the bitter cold. Among the prisoners was an elderly man who trembled uncontrollably in the night. Anton, though frozen himself, used his hands to rub warmth into the man’s arms, face, and legs. He spoke to him, encouraged him, and held him close until morning. When daylight broke, Anton made a heartbreaking discovery: everyone else in the wagon had perished in the cold. Only he and the old man were still alive—kept alive by the warmth they had shared. Reflecting on this moment, Anton would explain the lesson he carried all his life: “The secret of survival is to warm the hearts of others. When you give warmth, you receive warmth. When you help someone live, you too will live.” It was...

 During the German occupation in Klikowa, now part of the city of Tarnów, a tragedy occurred that shocked the local community. The origins of this crime are connected to Operation Reinhardt, a German operation launched in 1942 aimed at exterminating the Jewish population in the General Government (GG). In Tarnów, the first displacement operations, combined with mass executions, took place in June of that year. However, beforehand, Jews, on German orders, had to register and have their work cards stamped. Survivor Blanka Goldman recalled after the war: "On June 9, 1942, street announcements suddenly appeared about the gradual, planned relocation of Jews to other towns for work. It was noted that stamps were required for this purpose, and that those Jews assigned to work in Tarnów would remain there, while the rest would be resettled." It is estimated that as many as 40,000 Jews may have been living in the city at the time. Ultimately, approximately 8,000 people were deported f...

  Born in Windsor, England, on February 25, 1885, Alice of Battenberg, Princess of Greece, was one of Queen Victoria's many great-grandchildren. Her father was Prince Louis Alexander Battenberg and her mother was Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt. Although Alice was congenitally deaf, she learned to read lips and speak English, German and, after her engagement, Greek. On the occasion of the coronation of Edward VII, Alice meets and falls in love with Andrew of Greece, younger brother of King Constantine I and son of George I of Greece, and the two get married in 1903: they will have five children. Alice's husband is commander of a Greek army corps in the ill-fated war against Turkey, which ends catastrophically in 1922. Held responsible of the military defeat, Prince Andrew is arrested and tried. Foreign pressure saved his life, but he and his family were exiled when the Greek monarchy was overthrown in 1923. It was in 1929 that the first signs of psychological imbalance beg...

 The right and straight forward response is: there was no way a SS soldier could be a person considered as a full Jew by the Nazi government. This was almost impossible.The most powerful unit in the Nazi was the SS (Schutzstaffel). The holocaust was done by the main group. There were very strict rules of joining the SS. New SS men had to demonstrate their Aryan race even several generations ago. They were taught great racist notions. The SS was supposed to destroy Jewish individuals, which was the most significant job. Therefore, a Jew to enlist in SS was a complete contradiction. This is why it did not happen. However, there is one exception that is very small and complicated. This man was Emil Maurice. He was also a close and early friend of Adolf Hitler. He also assisted in the formation of SS (SS number 2) and he was the driver of Hitler. SS head, Himmler, discovered that Maurice had a great-grandfather who was a Jew. Himmler would have liked to chuck Maurice out. But Hitler re...

 The answer to this is yes, though, how it occurred was near impossible. The gas chambers created by the Nazis were meant to be highly effective. They killed by the millions and that was all they did. The only chance anyone who went in had was a zero chance. But at least one person witnessed a miracle a woman Gena Turgel.Her initial jail was Auschwitz-Birkenau. Women, including herself, were trapped onto a room, naked. The cold stone floor was as they shivered waiting the deadly gas. It never came. It may have failed at that moment and Gena was permitted to walk out of the chamber. She even did not know how near she was to death. One of the other prisoners informs her, You were in a gas chamber! Gena afterwards replied that she only thought, it must not have worked, the chamber. Gena Turgel also survived other horrors. She suffered a death march and was in Bergen -Belsen. She lived fully until 2018. Her lifelong experience shows that even the most effective evil systems cannot work...

  Because it was nearly impossible. I have personally met one person who escaped a transport: my grandfather's best friend jumped off the truck that was taking him from the Fossoli transit camp to the station whence he would be put on a train to some camp (probably Dachau), and he jumped off the truck to rejoin his partisan brigade. But he was a bit of an exception. Most of those who tried weren’t able to pull it off, and most were even unable to try.The train cars weren’t open. People were crammed in small cargo cars, whose doors were locked. These cars had only a couple tiny windows with metal nets or barbed wire strewn across. Lacking tools it was nearly impossible to unlock the train car from the inside, cut the barbed wire from the windows, or break through a thick wooden wall or floor to gain an exit. Also, if the guards found that a car was being manumitted, they would proceed to just kill everyone inside, while the car was so packed that people didn’t usually have space to ...

 Born in Hungary in 1925, Flora was just 14 years old when she and her family were sent to Nazi concentration camps. She and her brother, Larry, were the only ones to survive. In 1946, Flora married Jechiel Witz and the two moved to Israel and started a family. In August 1949, she gave birth to Gene Simmons, (b. Chaim Witz) in Haifa. By 1958, Flora had divorced Jechiel and moved with Gene to Queens, New York. Simmons has always been close with his mother; she always supported her son on his path to success as frontman for KISS, the rock band he co-founded in the early 1970’s. Flora passed away in December 2018 at the age of 93. "My mother told me why she had survived. When she was a 12-year-old girl, she came to a hairdresser and learned how to cut hair. The SS commander's wife needed someone to do her hair. She asked several girls: 'Do you speak German?' The girls raised their hands and said 'Yes'. Whoever raised their hand was sent to the gas chamber. My moth...

 This is a hard yet important question as to what became of the prisoners after they were ultimately released out of the Nazi camps. Their revenge over the SS guards was carried out in two phases, the immediate, physical revenge and the long term justice mission.As the soldiers of the Allies came into sight, the pent-up anger of the survivors broke out. They assaulted the guards left at the camps like Dachau. There are pictures of photographers being whipped by their students with shovels at the hands of people they had spent years torturing. There were also cases when the American soldiers would close their eyes or even give SS guards to the inmates knowing what will occur. During this period of freedom, the survivors were in need of direct revenge rather than food and rest. Nevertheless, the most long-lasting revenge was in the courts. Numerous SS guards attempted to run away in another military uniform or changed their names, yet the survivors were tracking them. The survivors r...

 Yvette Stevens aka Chaka Khan was born into a artistic, bohemian household in Chicago, Illinois. She was the eldest of five children born to Charles Stevens & Sandra Coleman. Raised in the Hyde Park area (an island in the middle of Chicago's south side housing projects). She attributes her grandmother for her love of jazz as a child. Later on as a pre-teen became a fan of rhythm and blues, at age eleven formed a girl group, The Crystalettes, which included her sister Taka. In the late 1960's Stevens attended several civil rights rallies with her father's secind wife Connie, a strong support er of the movement, and joined the Black Panther Party after befriending fellow member, activist and fellow Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967. While a member of The BPP, she was given a name change to Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi by a African Shaman. In 1969, she left the panthers and dropped out of high school. She began performing with small groups around the Chicago area,...

 in Lynchburg, Virginia, the daughter of T. Parker Smith and Clara Alexander Smith. Her father was an educator, and founded a business college in Richmond. Her mother was also an educator. She graduated from Howard Academy in 1917, earned a bachelor's degree at Howard University in 1922, and was the only woman in the 1925 graduating class of the Howard University College of Medicine. She was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Kearse was the first African American woman physician in Union County, New Jersey when she began to practice there in 1938. She joined the staff of a Newark hospital during World War II. She held a patent on a "pocket calendar device with punch means" for tracking one's menstrual cycle. She retired from medical practice in 1966. In 1964, and Vera Brantley McMillon began collecting and sharing oral histories of African-American life in New Jersey, to mark the state's tercentenary; their work culminated in the publication of Negroes of...

 He wasn’t just training his muscles, but even his bones, his tendons and his skin. He wanted to turn himself into a man of steel. He did so by dedicating up to eight hours a day to physical conditioning and training. This included pounding buckets of gravel and hitting rocks and wooden planks.As the above photo shows, Lee’s training left him with severely calloused knuckles and thickened bones. The general idea was that all parts of his body should be rock hard and powerful, whether inside or outside the body. His fingers alone were so strong that he could effortlessly pierce through a coke can, back when the walls of soda cans were far thicker than they are today; Bruce Lee’s fingers and hands were quite literally weapons, honed by hours upon hours of hitting hard objects mercilessly. He spent a lot of time developing crazy grip strength, too — he was able to crush walnuts between his fingers like it was nothing. While never heavier than 160 pounds at his heaviest and standing on...

 Jimi Hendrix's childhood wasn't the easiest for a child to have. At the time, he didn’t have much in the way of clothing, regular food etc. His father - Al Hendrix - was very strict on Jimi and his younger siblings. Al struggled to find regular work but could do only menial jobs, as his formal education was poor. By trade, he was a gardener but that was during the spring and summer months. Lucille - Jimi's mother - was rarely a part of his life and passed away when he was still an enfant or so. She became a forbidden subject in the Hendrix household. Being a shy person by nature, Jimi used to imagine himself lost in a world of science fiction. His formal education wasn't very good and left Seattle upon being expelled from school.

 In 1973, a 20-year-old man murdered and mutilated his friends' three young children. No motive has ever been established and he has never expressed regret. Now, 45 years after being jailed, David McGreavy is due to walk the streets again. It was a crime that would destroy a family, horrify the nation and - with its gruesome details - continue to provoke furious reaction in Worcester. Yet it has largely stayed below the radar of the British public. As far as Clive and Elsie Ralph were concerned, Friday 13 April 1973 had been unfolding like any ordinary day. Mr Ralph was a lorry driver, Mrs Ralph was a barmaid and they lived on Gillam Street in Worcester with their children Dawn, Paul and Samantha, aged four, two and nine months. Their lodger, Mr Ralph's friend David McGreavy, was helpful to have around, as Mr Ralph's job meant he was often away from home and Mrs Ralph sometimes worked evening shifts. McGreavy was good with the children and seemed to enjoy looking after them...

  This screen grab taken from Iraqi national television station Al-iraqia shows the moments leading up to the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006. Al-iraqia/Getty Images CNN  —  On the morning of the start of Eid al-Adha on December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged to death for committing crimes against humanity. It’s a day that will forever be entrenched in the memory of Iraqis who watched their ruthless leader walk towards the gallows and have a noose tightened around his neck. Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by a US-led coalition in 2003, was accused by an Iraqi court of committing numerous massacres during his rule. These included the 1982 slaughter of Shias in the town of Dujail and the 1988 Halabja massacre, in which he used chemical weapons against a Kurdish town that dared to rise against him. Families of victims celebrated his death, while other Iraqis felt deeply saddened by the jarring foot...

  A baby girl entered the world as property. Her mother, Hannah, was enslaved. Her father was almost certainly the white man who owned them both. By law, this child had no rights. No future. No voice. Anna Julia Cooper was about to shatter every expectation. When emancipation came in 1865, seven-year-old Anna tasted freedom for the first time. And immediately, she knew what she wanted: education. At age 10, she enrolled in St. Augustine's Normal School to train as a teacher. She absorbed everything they offered. Then she hit a wall. Advanced courses? Only for male students. Women could learn enough to teach children or support husbands. Nothing more. Anna thought that was absurd. She demanded access. They refused. She pushed harder. Finally, they relented—and she outperformed every male student in the school. At 23, she enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio, one of the only institutions admitting both women and Black students. By 1884, she'd earned a bachelor's degree in math...

 Charles Hamilton Houston, born in Washington, D.C. in 1895, enrolled in Amherst College in Massachusetts at the age of 16, and was the only Black student in his class. Earning his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in 1915, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After returning home to teach at Howard University for two years, Houston served in the then-segregated U.S. Army as an officer, including time in France during World War I. Houston would later recall of his service, in a series of essays written in 1940 in the lead up to the United States’ entry into World War II: “The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans […] convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. My battleground was America, not France.” He concluded, “I made up [my mind] that I would never get caught again without knowing something about my rights; that if luck was with me and I got through this war, I would study law and use my time fighting for men who c...

 One day, when Richard was still a child, his father came home with blue and white tiles and arranged them in sequences, one blue and one white, or two white and one blue, two blue and one white, trying to teach the boy to recognize visual rhythms, a basic form of mathematics. They often explored together natural wonders such as barnacle formations on the beach, and they enjoyed poring over entries in the Encyclopedia Britannica on the most diverse subjects. Once, after drawing Richard’s attention to the fact that a certain bird was going around preening its feathers, Melville asked him why he thought birds behaved that way. "Well, maybe they mess up their feathers when they fly and then preen them to put them back together," Richard replied. His father then suggested a simple way to test this hypothesis: if it were correct, you would expect birds that had just landed to preen their feathers much more than birds that had been walking on the ground for a long time. So, by obse...

 Marie started acting on Broadway in the late 1880s. Later, she moved into movies and starred in the very first full-length comedy film in 1914. She became well-known for her funny, expressive face and her great improv skills, which made her a natural in comedy. She acted alongside Marion Davies in The Patsy and was also friends with newspaper giant William Randolph Hearst and his partner. In the 1920s, Marie’s career began to slow down. But screenwriter Frances Marion believed in her and helped bring her back to the big screen. That comeback, in her 60s, led to some of the biggest roles of her life. In fact, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for Min and Bill. Sadly, at the peak of her return to fame, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She passed away in 1934 at the age of 65. Marie once said, “By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but...

 “On April 25, 1959, a white mob in Mississippi killed a Black man named Mack Charles Parker. Mr. Parker had been accused of raping a white woman but emphatically denied the accusations. Statements from those in the community suggested that the woman fabricated the rape claims to hide her consensual affair with a white man in a nearby town, and police officers garnered no conclusive evidence implicating Mr. Parker. Nevertheless, local white men formed a mob intent on killing Mr. Parker before he could stand trial. Days after Mr. Parker was transferred from the Hinds County Jail in Jackson to the Pearl River County Jail, a mob seized him from his cell, beat him, and dragged him outside. Bleeding profusely, Mr. Parker begged for his life, but the mob drove to the Bogalusa Bridge, pulled him from the car, and shot him. The mob then put chains around Mr. Parker's body and threw him into the Pearl River; his body was found more than a week later. Despite an FBI investigation that identi...

 "Ain't No Sunshine" at age 31 while working at a factory, making toilet seats for airplanes. Using his own money, he would record demo tapes and play at various clubs at night. When he debuted with "Ain't No Sunshine", he refused to quit his day job, believing that the music business was a fickle industry. Fortunately for him, the song turned out to be a massive hit. When it went gold, the record company gave him a gold toilet as a gift, marking the start of his new career. In 1985, at age 47, Bill Withers decided to walk away from it all. He felt that the record companies he worked with were constantly trying to exert more and more control over how he should sound if he wanted to sell more albums. He felt pigeonholed and no longer wanted to be part of the music business. In 2015, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He claimed to have no regrets and provided the following reflection on his later life: "I've always been serious that...

 Jawaharlal Nehru believed that Indians did not have the ability or experience to manage the country’s army, and therefore, the head of the Indian Army should be a foreigner. Since Indians had only served in lower ranks in the British Army, he appointed an English general, Rob Lockhart, as the first head of the Indian Army after independence. At the end of 1948, Rob Lockhart resigned because he wanted to return to England, leaving the position of army chief vacant. To appoint a new English army chief, Nehru called a cabinet meeting, which included some Indian officers of lieutenant rank. Nehru began speaking: “Since Indians do not have experience managing the army, among these names, which foreign general do you think is suitable? Give your opinion.” At this, Colonel Nathu Singh Rathore stood up and said to Nehru: "If Indians do not have experience being a Prime Minister, should you also have been replaced? Why appoint a foreigner for this post? Which country in the world makes a ...

  Photograph of Minnie Riperton with her daughter actress Maya Rudolph and her son Marc Rudolph. Minnie Julia Riperton Rudolph (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her four octave D3 to F♯7 coloratura soprano range. She is also widely known for her use of the whistle register and has been referred to by the media as the "Queen of the Whistle Register." Minnie Riperton grew up in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. As a child, she studied music, drama and dance at Chicago's Lincoln Center. The youngest of eight children in a musical family, she embraced the arts early. Although she began with ballet and modern dance, her parents recognized her vocal and musical abilities and encouraged her to pursue music and voice. At Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Center, she received operatic vocal training from Marion Jeffery. She practiced breathing and phrasing, with par...

  They started working at 4 AM and made between $9 to $15 a week. Sophie would shuck six pots of oysters each day. Her mother, who also worked with her, said, “She doesn’t go to school. She works all the time.” Photographer Lewis Hine captured the harsh working conditions that many children faced. These kids often worked as soon as they could walk and were paid based on how many buckets of oysters they could shuck each day. Mr. Hine wrote about one photograph, saying, "All but the smallest babies work. They start at 3:30 AM and work until 5 PM.” He traveled about 50,000 miles each year, taking pictures of children working in coal mines and factories from Chicago to Florida. These photos helped raise awareness and anger about child labor, making more people aware of how serious the problem was in America.

 The factory in Grand Rapids still smelled of smoke from the fire that had nearly destroyed it five years earlier. Five children waited at home. Creditors circled. Board members whispered: Sell. A woman can’t run this. Anna Bissell, forty-two, once a teacher, now a saleswoman and leader, heard every word. She had buried her husband at dawn. By noon, she walked into the boardroom and sat at the head of the table. No speech. No tears. Just a calm, steady voice: “We begin again.” She had already saved the company once. In 1884, fire had burned their factory to the ground. Banks laughed at the idea of lending to a woman. Anna didn’t waver. She used her reputation, her success, and her determination to rebuild. Three weeks later, the machines were running again. Now, widowhood was just another fire she would walk through. Born Anna Sutherland in 1846 in Nova Scotia, she started teaching at sixteen — smart, driven, unwilling to accept limits. At nineteen, she married Melville and followe...

  Harriet Tubman was around twelve years old, enslaved, when a fellow enslaved man attempted to run away. After being found and brought back, Harriet and a few others were instructed to help tie him up to be whipped. She refused, and when the man attempted to run again, she blocked the doorway to help him escape. An overseer threw a two-pound weight at the man but hit Harriet instead, fracturing her skull. Throughout her life, she suffered from severe headaches and narcolepsy from this incident. A petite woman of only about five feet, Harriet was strong-willed and courageous, and as she grew older, she became determined to escape to the North. Upon learning in 1849 that she would be sold, Harriet, now in her mid-20s, decided the time was right. One night, she, along with two of her brothers, ran away. Her brothers soon turned back, and for the rest of her journey, Harriet was alone without friends. She walked at night, hid during the day, didn't know who to trust, where to eat, at ...