1. Osama Bin Laden was not the first to attack the U.S. in its own territory. The “merit” is the Mexican Pancho Villa, who in 1916 crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the town of Columbia, Texas, where it killed seven people. The raid lasted less than ten hours.
2. The three ships of Columbus were actually two. Pinta and Nina. For the third vessel that participated in the discovery of America was other larger boat. Her name was Maria Galante, but Columbus renamed it Santa Maria.
3. The Witches of Salem were not burned at the stake. However do not think they were pardoned. In fact were hanged, which sentence was the penalty that communities and Calvinist Protestants used to dictate to the cases of witchcraft.
4. Napoleon was not so small. In fact, average 1.68 cm., An acceptable height for his time, and even surpassed by 4 cm, the Duke of Wellington, his arch-enemy English.
5. In Casablanca, Bogart never uttered the phrase: “Play it again, Sam.” In fact, the exact phrase is: “Sam Tap, tap ‘As time goes by.” To end up ruining the myth, the actor who played Sam (Dooley Wilson) just sang, because he could not play the piano. The monitoring was built in the studio.
6. The Vikings did not wear helmets with horns. Was the brainchild of Swedish painter Gustav Malstrom in the illustrations he made in 1820 for the epic poem `s Frithiof Saga. The purpose of these horns was unrealistic portrayal of the fierce warriors of the North and almost demonic beings.
7. Hundred years war actually lasted 116 years, from 1337 to 1453, the year in which the kings of England and France (the countries in conflict) brought an end to hostilities.
8. The Boston Strangler, Albert De Salvo, not strangled their victims. At least, not at all. Only in this way killed the first and the remaining twelve killed by blows or stabs.
9. George Washington was not the first U.S. president. When starting the American Revolution in 1714, a committee of notables elected Peyton Randolph, in an improvised manner, to this office. After his resignation, eight individuals served as president until 1789, the year he finally approved the U.S. Constitution and that the first elections were held for the position, in which Washington was finally elected.
10. Walt Disney could not draw and never drew any of his famous characters. For many years it was said that Mickey Mouse had been created for him, but now know that was exclusively the work of cartoonist Ub Wickers who left Disney to share authorship for you to return a favor.

Chris Brazier succeeds in producing a highly informative tome on World History from the Ancient civilizations through to the present day and the challenges of the twenty – first century.

He succicntly describes the expansion and then the decline of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, plus how they still influence the modern world. Brazier also describes the influence that religions in general, and Christianity alongside Islam in particular have had upon global history.

Important chapters include God and the spirit, Greek and Latin, Wars of the cross, not to mention The Radical 20th century. There is also a useful postscript that deals with the impact of 9/11.

Season 1 Episode 6: Terrorist Threat

By Jecory Hobbs

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

          After the death of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, three illegal Saudi immigrants managed to cross the U.S. border illegally without getting captured by U.S. border patrol officers, coast guards or the air force. The Saudis were planning a terrorist attack in Houston to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden. They entered the country on a large ship from Abbottabad, Pakistan with an arsenal of weapons including improvised explosive devices, landmines, pipe bombs, Molotov Cocktails and barometric bombs. They even brought fertilizer bombs to destroy buildings. The Saudis had also stolen guns used by the Al-Qaeda Army including soviet rifles, rocket propelled grenade RPG- 7’s, Grail SA-7’s and stinger missile Fim92A’s. An email containing a terrorist threat was reported to a law enforcement agency in Houston, Texas when the author sent it to an American by mistake. The email was written in Abbottabad, Pakistan by a Saudi man who wanted the Americans to pay for the death of the Al-Qaeda leader. Border patrol law enforcement was in shock when they found out that ten Saudi men had found a way into the United States illegally. They found out an hour later after rewinding the surveillance tape from the security office.

            The terrorist’s target was the American President, but they knew Washington, DC security was too strong, so they decided to go to Houston first and assimilate the society.

            Recently, at 9:30 AM, the meeting about the Saudi men began at the Houston Police Department as officers entered the conference room. I walked in and sat next to Chad, Drae and another undercover police officer named Charlie. Everyone talked and drank coffee while we waited on the chief. Today the Houston police will search homes in Kashmere Gardens, Houston, to look for the men before they terrorized the city. Search warrants were signed by a judge and given to the Houston Police Department so officers could start their search. The Houston Police Chief entered the conference room with a microphone and the meeting finally began.

            “Good morning, officers. I’m happy to have all of you here this morning. Welcome,” Chief Roman announced.

            “We have a serious problem. Ten Saudis from Abbottabad, Pakistan entered our country illegally with a stash of weapons they brought in on a ship. An email intercepted by police stated that the men were somewhere in Kashmere Gardens and the residents who live there could be in danger right now” he continued.

“We must escort each resident out of the neighborhood and get them to safety.”

            The officers were sitting down, quiet, and worrying about the residents safety and their own. They were thinking about what could happen if they didn’t make it to the neighborhood on time to find the men.

            “We can’t let these guys destroy our city and kill innocent people. We must get there and stop them right away because I believe this terrorist attack could be worse than 9/11!” the chief warned.

            “Here is the plan: First, we will escort the residents to safety, then close down the elementary school nearby, and finally we will look for the terrorists,” he continued.

            “Alright. That’s all I have to say. Now let’s go! We’re headed to Kashmere Gardens. Move it!” he yelled, enraged.

Police officers stormed out of the conference room like raging bulls. Their feet hitting the pavement sounded like a loud stampede. Chad and I walked in the locker room and changed clothes quickly into our police protective gear. Five minutes later, we were finished and leaving the Houston Police Department in my car. I drove at full speed on the highway with my lights and sirens on. I swerved in and out traffic with ten police cars behind me. Drae and his partner, Charlie, were also following us with their sirens on.

We arrived to Kashmere Gardens and every police officer jumped out of their cars with guns. I got out the car with Chad, opened my back trunk, and grabbed our rifles. Only five minutes later, the SWAT team and FBI arrived on Curry Street. Police knocked on doors and helped the residents to safety. We told the citizens that we had a warrant to search their homes. I walked up to the first house on Curry Road and knocked. A man opened the door and I told him what was going on.

“Hello, sir. Police. You have to leave your home right now and get out of this neighborhood because there are terrorists here!” I explained.

“Oh my Lord I have to get out of here right now. I don’t want to die. Why do we have to be escorted out of the neighborhood, sir?” he asked.

“There could be landmines buried in this neighborhood and we’re not sure where they are yet. For your safety, I recommend you leave right now,” I replied.

“Don’t tell me the police are searching our homes because y’all are not coming in my house!” he barked, walking out the house.

“Well, we have a search warrant, so we are allowed to search your home sir. Now get out of here NOW! Move it, move it!” I demanded.

“I don’t have any drugs or weapons in my house, so y’all won’t find anything in there!” he yelled.

“Look here, sir. I don’t have time to argue with you right now. We are here to protect you from the radicals. When you leave, do not step in the grass because there could be landmines!” I warned.

“Okay, sir. Sorry for being so rude.” Turning to the back of the house, he yelled, “Baby, wake up! The police are here and said we need to leave because there are terrorists in the neighborhood!”

Chad and I then searched the resident’s home to make sure that Saudis weren’t hiding there. Chad searched the bedrooms, the bathroom and, the dining room, and I searched the kitchen with a flashlight. Police and the SWAT team escorted a large crowd of people out of the neighborhood and closed down the street. No one was allowed to drive on the street, enter Kashmere Gardens or even stay at home. As we continued to search home after home, the bomb squad arrived and began their search for the bombs. Teachers, staff and students were all escorted from the elementary school by law enforcement officers. Everyone was terrified as police cars surrounded Kashmere gardens.

I drove my car behind people who were walking out of the neighborhood and started talking on my PA system.

“C’mon, let’s go people. Let’s go, let’s go, move it! We are doing this for your safety!” I yelled on the PA system.

“Hey, young lady over there. I don’t know why you’re laughing. This is not a joke! Get out of the grass, get out of the grass, damnit!” I yelled, enraged.

“Don’t yell at me. I’m just kidding! Why I can’t walk in the grass, though?” she asked.

“Let me repeat this again. Do not walk in the grass because there could be  landmines buried underneath! Okay? Now get out of here NOW, damnit!” 

“Okay, okay I’m walking!” she said.

After the police escort, I entered the neighborhood again shaking my head from the crazy woman who thought this was a joke. I got out of my car with my rifle and saw Chad knocking on someone’s door. When there was no answer, we assumed that the terrorists were hiding inside. Five cars exploded into what seemed like a million pieces, creating an enormous fire and law enforcement officers had to run through the neighborhood as fast as they could.

“Oh shit, oh shit! Guys, over here! The Saudis are inside this home! I repeat, they are inside this home! They just blew up five cars!” Chad yelled, with his hand on his heart.

“I’m moving in. Cover me and let’s go!” a SWAT team officer yelled.

I kicked in the door and law enforcement officers ran inside the house. The Saudi were there, just as I suspected and began firing soviet rifles at us. We returned fired as they took cover. The men were screaming religious cries as they fired the guns at the officers. I shot and killed three of them with an enraged scream as I took cover behind a door.

“Get behind something Chad and take cover I just killed three!” I screamed.

 Chad shot and killed two Saudis. Five more Saudis ran out of the house and started throwing molotov cocktails at police officers. During the gun fight there was black smoke in the air and nine police officers were seriously injured. The SWAT team killed two of the suspects and one terrorist tried to escape in a red truck. He didn’t realize, however, that the truck had a pipe bomb inside. As soon as he turned the ignition, the truck exploded.

There were two terrorists left to arrest, and thankfully they surrendered with their hands in the air.

They then put their hands behind their heads and Chad cuffed them tightly. Two SWAT team members stood the suspects up and walked them to a police car in handcuffs, where they slammed the suspects onto the hood and searched them. I was so angry that I could not help myself and ran and tackled one of the suspects in custody. I kicked him in the head three times before other officers pulled me off of him.

“Sons of bitches!” I yelled, enraged.

“Magic, calm down dude. We have them in custody now and we won the gun fight. Nice work, partner!” Chad said, holding his rifle.

“They don’t need to go to prison; they deserve to be dead after what they did! Look at this place, nine officers are hurt and six cars were blown up!” I yelled, still just as enraged.

“Well, at least we destroyed eight of them. Now c’mon, let’s go back inside that house and search it!” Chad added.

“Yes, and we did just save everyone in Kashmere Gardens from those dangerous men,” I agreed, walking in the house.

An onslaught of fire trucks and ambulance trucks began to arrive at the scene. The firemen put out the enormous fire from the blown up cars in the neighborhood and the bomb squad detected all of the landmines. Nine police officers were carried to ambulance trucks on a stretcher and we found  an arsenal of weapons inside the  house. Together we found ten landmines, nine pipe bombs, eight molotov cocktails, seven fertilizer truck bombs, six barometric bombs and various other weapons, which the FBI took in for evidence. The Saudi men will be facing a long sentence in prison. Thank God no one was killed.

“Are you okay, Magic?” Chad asked.

“Yes, I’m okay partner. That was crazy. We managed to stop these bastards from destroying the city!” I replied.

“I pray to God that nothing like this will happen again, because we almost lost our lives in there,” Chad added.

“They would have killed everyone in the neighborhood and millions of people in the city considering all the weapons they had.”

The Saudis failed to get revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden. Thank God the police were able to stop another terrorist attack from happening. If that email had not been reported to the police, it would have happened to the innocent citizens of Houston. We will try our best to prevent further terrorist attacks in the city and the country. Today was a good day for the Houston Police Department.

Drae and his partner, Charlie, talked to us before we left Kashmere Gardens.

“Hey, Magic and Chad, I’m glad you guys are okay. That was pretty dangerous, wasn’t it?” Charlie said.

“Yeah, that was dangerous and I hope nothing like this happens ever again,” I added, sitting in my car.

“That bomb almost blew me up! I’m glad I was able to move out the way before the car exploded,” Chad said.

“Well I wonder what they will do with these criminals? Should they send them back to Pakistan?” Drae asked.

“Hell, naw! They committed a serious crime in America, so they can serve life in an American prison,” I replied.

“Oh alright. Magic and Chad, we will talk to you guys later. Y’all stay safe,” Drae said.

“Y’all do the same. Remember if you have our back, we will have your back,” I shouted, as I started up my car.

After a while, everyone left the neighborhood and people were allowed to return to their homes.

The End: Houston Undercover Cops

Episode 7: The Murder of a Elderly Woman

October 12, 2011

Roughly the entries in this dictionary start from 1900 through to the present day. There are entries for countries, individuals, organisations, as well as specific events. Each entry is well researched and well presented, with longer entries for the major powers, the most important people besides the most significant events such as the First World War and the Second World War.

Over all this a useful resource for anybody who is studying world history. Personally I have found it very useful for writing articles.

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Taon 1898 ay isinigaw
Ni General Emilio Aguinaldo
Ang araw ng kasarinlan
Ng bansang Pilipinas
Mula sa bansang Espanya
‘Di maipaliwanag ang kasiyahan
At kaligayahan na naramdaman
Ng ating mga ninuno
Kasabay ang pagwagayway
Ng makasaysayang bandila
Ang simbolo ng pagkakaisa
Ng mga mamamayang Pilipino
Kapalit ng maraming buhay
Na nalagas sa pakikibaka
Laban sa mga mananakop
At nalibing sa lupang hinirang
Na matagal nang nilapastangan
Ng mga banyagang kastila
Isang makasaysayang araw
Na kailan ma’y ‘di malilimutan
Ng bawat Pilipino sa mundo…
 
Ngunit ang Hunyo 12
Ay ‘di lamang para sa mga Pinoy
Marami rin pangyayaring naganap
At naisulat sa kasaysayan ng panahon
Na kailan ma’y ‘di mabubura
Na higit na bayolinte
At mas madugong kaganapan
Na naging sanhi ng pagkitil
Ng maraming buhay at mga pangarap…
 
Taon 1885, Hunyo 12 sa bansang France
Gumuho ang bubungan ng gusali
Na pinagdadausan ng murder trial
At natabunan ang tatlumpung katao
Sila’y namatay ng walang laban…
 
Taon 1889, Hunyo 12, 88 katao
Ang namatay sa Armagh rail disaster
Sa Northern Ireland , na nagdulot
Ng sobrang lungkot at pighati
Sa mga naiwanang pamilya…
 
Taon 1899, ang tornadong New Richmond
Ang pang walong deadliest tornado
Na sumalanta sa United states
At naging dahilan ng pagkamatay
Ng 117 katao at ikinasugat
Ng dalawang-daang katao…
 
Taon 1943, ang Holocaust
Umaga ng Sabado Hunyo 12
1,180 na Jews ang humarap kay kamatayan
Sila’y isa-isang pinagbabaril
Ng walang pakundangan at awa
At sama-samang inilibing…
 
Taon 1978, Hunyo 12
Si David Berkowitz
Na binansagang “Son of Sam”
Mamamatay-tao ng New York City
Ay nahatulan ng 365 taon na pagkabilanggo
Dahil sa kanyang pagpatay ng anim na beses…
 
Kung maraming yumaon sa petsang ito
Marami rin ang dumating na nagpamalas
Ng kani-kanilang lakas at galing…
 
Taon 1107 Hunyo 12
Ipinanganak si Gaozong
At naging emperor ng China
Umabot ang kanyang edad na otsenta
Namatay siya sa taong 1187…
 
Taon 1875, ipinanganak si Sam De Grasse
At naging Canadian actor
Na hinangaan ng milyon-milyong
Tagahanga dahil sa kanyang galing
Sa pag arte, namatay siya sa taong 1953…
 
Taon 1906 ipinanganak si Sandro Penna
Siya’y isang magaling na Italian poet
Na hinangaan ng marami
Namatay siya sa taong 1977…
 
Taong 1912 Hunyo 12
Si Jameel Jalibi ay ipinanganak
Siya’y isang Pakistani scholar
Manunulat at Urdu linguist
Na ipinagmamalaki ng bansang Pakistan …
 
Ang Hunyo 12 ay pang 163 na araw
Sa Gregorian calendar at pang 164 na araw
Kung leap years, ito rin ay Russia Day
Mula noong 1990 at Lover’s Day ng Brazil
Dia dos Namorados – ang tawag nila…
 
At para sa mga kabataan
Ang Hunyo 12 ay pang Daig-digang Araw
Upang ipagtanggol ang mga menor de edad
Na sapilitang pinagtratrabaho
At supilin ang Child Labor sa mundo!

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The German submarine age began well before the eras of the World Wars, in 1850 with the ill-fated Brandtaucher, a very primitive version of the war-ready subs we know today, a three-man vessel which could dive to a less than impressive depth of ten meters, about sixty feet. The Brandtaucher’s maiden voyage was a failure, due to a miscalculation as to how deep it could go, estimated to be fifty meters, a little more than three hundred feet, and lack of a way to tell if the water pressure on the hull was too intense. The tiny U-Boat collapsed under the pressure, killing the three men inside. The ship was recovered sixteen days later, and is now on display in the German National Marine Museum in Berlin. The idea of a boat that could operate successfully underwater was discarded as rubbish.

In 1903, the Forelle, Germany’s first successfully functional “Unterseeboot”, or “Under-Sea Boat,” was designed, sent on her maiden voyage into the Baltic Sea on a twelve-hour mission, and returned unharmed to the dockyard of Kiel. The design was sold to Russia in the Russo-Japanese war in April of 1904.  The U-1, whose date of design is unknown, was commissioned into the German Navy on December 14th of 1906, the beginnings of the U-Boat Force. The U-1 had a double hull, allowing it to go fairly deep into the sea, ran on a kerosene engine, and held a single torpedo tube. Later, the U-2 was fifty percent larger and held two tubes rather than one.

During the first several weeks of World War one, Germany’s submarines sank three British cruisers, the HMS Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue, all in less than an hour. They were sunk by U-9, the first U-boat to reload its tubes whilst staying submerged. Until then, the British saw U-boats simply as a novelty, not a true threat, as they could only fire once before they had to resurface, exposing them to mortar fire if the ship survived the onslaught.

At the end of the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles restricted the total tonnage of the German fleet and forbade the construction of submarines. However, a submarine design office was set up in Holland and a torpedo research program was started in Sweden. Before the start of World War II, Germany started building U-boats and training crews, labeling these activities as “research” or concealing them, using other covers. By the time the Second World War began, Germany had over sixty-five submarines in its possession, twenty-one of which were already at sea, ready for war.

During the Second World War, a major player in the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted the entirety of the war, were the U-Boats. They were, however not very effective in the beginnings, as the radio transmitters of Germany were weak and easily intercepted by the British. After the German invasion of France, Germany seized control of the powerful radio transmitters, which were closer to the Atlantic for the receipt and transmission of orders and positions to the U-Boats. This made it easier to coordinate attacks, and was less likely to be intercepted by the British.

Critical to Britain’s survival of the war was the food and combat supplies that were being constantly shipped over the Atlantic from America, where there was a large gap in air cover. Germany took advantage of this, and struck at the cargo ships with a unique strategy for taking them down.

The U-Boats patrolled the Atlantic alone, sometimes for several months, until they found a cargo ship, whose position they sent to the radio transmitters in France. Radio operators then relayed the position to all U-Boats in the vicinity. All subs who could get there in a reasonable amount of time, up to three days, then raced to the area to take down the ship, much like how a wolf patrolling the forest alone until he found a herd of moose or elk, howled to the rest of his pack, who came to help him take down the prey. This hunting strategy earned the German U-boat Force the nickname, the Wolf-Pack.

The Wolf-Pack was easily the most terrifying element of World War II.  They kept the Brits in one state, unable to expand because the U-boats were keeping most the much needed supplies from ever reaching Britain. For every ship sunk by a U-boat, another ship had to be built as well as replacement of any cargo lost, in addition to the men aboard who could no longer serve as they were either killed, taken prisoner, or wounded mentally or physically beyond the ability to continue sailing. The percentage of men who survived a sinking ship was low; the number who sailed again was even lower.

The U-Boats were armed with deck-guns, mines, and their favored weapon, the torpedo. They used straight running torpedoes in the beginning, but later used magnetic, which when fired, did not explode until sensors on the torpedo detected a major change in the magnetic field, triggered by the target ship’s hull. The greatest, most efficient way of using the magnetic torpedoes was to fire them directly beneath the keel of the target ship. There, the explosion would send a shock wave through the entire ship, often causing it to break in half. With further improvements in torpedo technology, came the sound-detecting torpedoes. With these, if they missed, the torpedo would change its course to hit the nearest, loudest sound it could find: the propeller.  By the end of World War II, over three thousand ships had been sunk by the Wolf-Pack. Most of these ships were merchant- and cargo-ships, although several of them were British, French, and American cruisers, battleships, and destroyers. 14,119,413 of total tonnage in cargo and ship mass were lost to the U-boats.

The Wolf-Pack’s battle tactics became all but useless when the Brits introduced the convoy system, in which all cargo ships were to be escorted by several battle-ready cruisers and destroyers. British and American pilots were continuously flying between England, Iceland, Greenland and America, offering air cover as well as the escort. The ships made it difficult for the submarines to have enough U-boats in the area to attack and escape unscathed, and the planes’ aerial views could easily locate the submarines and drop bombs or depth charges to rid them of the congregating wolves. The Americans and the Brits also developed sonar which sent a ‘ping’ that returned information on the depth of the sea, allowing them to know if a submarine was in the area.

The effectiveness of the Wolf-Pack was hindered by the capture an Enigma Machine, an encrypting device used to keep the transmissions to and from the U-boats secret from enemy receivers and a codebook found in the captured U-505. This was kept secret from Germany, who did not know that their transmissions were being both intercepted and understood. Later, the liberation of France, and consequential loss of the French radio transmitters, forced many of the U-Boats to retreat to the Norwegian, Danish, and German bases, greatly limiting the range in which their attacks were coordinated. This meant that the Allies knew almost every move the Wolf-Pack made, and in a much smaller area.

Hitler’s greatest mistake was his invasion of Russia. After this, Russia collaborated with the Allied Powers. Germany was now being attacked on three sides: Russia to the East, Britain, France, and America to the West, and by Allied Powers through Africa and Italy. Germany’s cause was now helpless.

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Nazis (Nazi stands for “Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” or “National Socialist German Worker’s Party”), led by Adolf Hitler, came to power on January 30, 1933, when Hindenburg assigned Hitler as a coalition chancellor.

[NOTE: This article was neither written with a prejudiced tone nor to create hard feelings. Rather, it is an educational piece on the facts pertaining to crimes committed by the Nazis. Knowing the cruelty of the Nazis, we should never select a head of the country that commits acts of racism, violence, brutality and discrimination. The Nazi's history teaches us a great lesson that a blind selection of the country's leaders can lead to such acts of suffering and destruction. We should never encourage mass killing, war, torturing, and wicked crimes just for the personal aims of achieving social status, power and wealth. Think that, life in such a horrific condition is a world where you will see violence and discrimination taking place anytime, and you would also see more dying people with your naked eyes everyday! Every April 11 is a day for the remembrance of the Holocaust's victims. Let's pray for the victims and guide the Holocaust survivors to positively walk through the nightmare they may have experienced throughout their life and continue on to healing.]

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Hitler was legally gaining power as a Führer then as Chancellor and Commander in Chief within a year and a half after the death of Hindenburg. He was accused of being the advocator for the beginning of “Holocaust” (originally termed from a Greek word of “holokauston” which means “sacrifice by fire”, and is referred to the Nazi’s planned slaughter as well as Nazi’s persecution to kill/eliminate Jewish people), a murderer of millions of Jews, and a perpetrator for many horrific scenes happening in the death and concentration camps.

Nazi’s death and concentration camps, in fact, were carefully designed at aiming to kill two-thirds of Jewish people living in Nazi’s invading countries, with an estimation of 11 million people (mostly Jews) being killed and about 1.1 million children murdered during the Holocaust. Nazis’ hands are still contaminated with much innocent blood even though some of them had died and become cursed by many for their atrocities against humanity.

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Do not think they were upstanding individuals as they were involved in killing up to 200,000 Jews at the death camps, including transporting Jews from some of the large ghettos (Jews were ordered to move into more specific, areas of big cities called ghettos by the Nazis when World War II began, with the largest ghettos of population attaining 445,000 Jews in Warsaw in March 1941) in Eastern Europe by trains either to a death camp or a concentration camp, ordering Jews into gas chambers to poison them, and lastly dumping their dead bodies into mass graves.

Episodes of Nazi’s Terror: Anti-Jewish Legislations and Persecutions against Jews Were Implemented

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Anti-Jewish legislations were gradually implemented against German Jews with the first action of boycotting all Jewish-run businesses being initiated on April 1, 1933. During the declaration of a boycott upon Jews’ stores, Yellow Stars of David were painted on their windows, which was a tactic aimed at isolating the Jews from other races. The first photo showed members of the SS storm Detachment called Stormtroopers (”Sturmabteilung” in German) were standing in a Jewish shop with their signs stated: “Germans, defend yourself, buy only at German shops!” and “Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German Shops!” The second photo showed another extreme action of boycotting which was imposed on Jewish-run businesses in Germany in April 1943 by the Nazis.

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About 2 years later, that was on September, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were issued to strip German Jews’ citizenships, prohibit extramarital sex and marriages between Germans and Jews, and also to exclude Jews from public life. Additional anti-Jewish laws were announced to exclude the presence of Jews in the parks, and many of them were fired from governmental jobs. The second photo showed a sign written in German and Polish found in a public park in Krakow which read: “Jews: Entry is forbidden”.

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During the night called “Kristallnacht” (or “Night of Broken Glass”), that was the night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazis instigated a pogrom against Jewish people in Germany and Austria. This was a violent night during which the Jews were physically attacked. Among the violence done by Nazis included attacking Jews, breaking the windows of Jewish-run businesses, burning and pillaging synagogues. Besides this, an estimated 30,000 Jews were detained and sent to concentration camps.

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In November 1938, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, the German government forced Jews to wear a yellow badge called “Yellow Star of David” on their clothing. When World War II started in 1939, Reich policy made wearing the yellow stars as mandatory in Poland and Jews were warned with severe punishments, including death by shooting, if they did not wear the yellow badge on their back and front. This policy was mandated just before the Jews were confined in ghettos with an aim to being able to easily target and identify Jews and also to isolate Jews from other races. 

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Nazis implanted hatred against Jews (anti-Semitism) by starting a mass execution against Jews. Jews including a young boy, in naked bodies, were murdered by a Nazi-invading Soviet Union.

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One last Jew found alive, who was about to be shot by one of a Nazi’s army in Ukraine.

Episodes of Nazi’s Terror: Humans Were Treated Like Animals!

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Being one of the one-hundred-fifty prisoners who were attempting to rise and escape from being savagely burnt to death by Nazi SS troops, this victim was found to be rested in his position while facing his horrible death.

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Starting 1934, Nazis used inmates at concentration camps as slave laborers for their personal tasks or camp projects. They were exploited in a horrific way to serve Nazis and were treated like animals by the Nazi guards of the camps. In fact, they were even killed, tortured, enslaved and starved by the Nazis. Also, the inmates were forced to work in harsh conditions with inadequate food and water, and had to endure starvation, and thus, not surprisingly it was found that most of the inmates of the concentration camps could only survive up to 6 weeks.

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Over hundreds of women branded anti-social by Nazis were also used as forced labors or murdered. They were instructed to pull dump cars filled with heavy stones in the camp quarry in 1944.

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The dead bodies were placed on piles of other prisoners’ bodies at the concentration camps. 

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According the world history, the above photos revealed the war crime or atrocity done by the VATICAN ROMA, Nazi and Ustashi.

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At the Buchenwald concentration camp which is located at Weimar in Germany, lots of dead prisoners’ bodies were dumped in a truck as unwanted rubbish.

Episodes of Nazi’s Terror: Nazi’s Mass Killing Plan through Concentration and Extermination Camps

Nazi’s planning of establishing so-called Jews killing centres or “concentration camps” (Konzentrationslager, abbreviated as KL or KZ) throughout the territories it controlled were in fact, branched into various types of camps including labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, transit camps, concentration camps and extermination camps.

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Dachau was the first concentration camp built and was opened March 22, 1933. From 1933 to 1938, most of the inmates detained in the concentration camps were mostly political prisoners who acted or spoke in a way that was against Nazis or/and Hitler, in addition to those who were labelled by Nazis as anti-social, “undesirables” like outspoken communists and journalists or anyone who resisted the Nazis.

After the incidence of the Night of Broken Glass (or Kristallnacht) which occurred in 1938, the persecution against Jews went wild and there were an increased number of Jews sent to concentration camps by trains on a daily basis. But sadly to say, many died before they reached the camps. Under horrifying conditions, many prisoners were confined in rail freight cars, often for days or even weeks, to be transported to the camps with inadequate food or water. On the way, many died by freezing to death in the winter and for being exposed to intense heat and/or dehydration caused death in the summer.

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Even though the European Jews were the largest group of victims of the Holocaust, they were also 250,000 mentally or physically disabled people, about one-half million Gypsies, and 3 million Soviet prisoners-of-war which were victims of Nazi genocide, in addition to Social Democrats, partisans, trade unionists, Polish intelligentsia, homosexuals, undesirable persons and Jehovah’s Witnesses also fell victims of the hate and aggression implemented by the Nazis.

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For prisoner markings, prisoners in most camps were ordered to put on colored badges on their striped clothing according to their status: purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses, yellow for Jews, red triangles for political prisoners and communists, pink for homosexual males, black for anti-social and Gypsies, and green triangles for common criminals.

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Indeed, it was nightmare thinking of the real life in the Nazi concentration camps. To name a few, inmates were ordered to do physically hard work with little food and water causing some of them to die of starvation. Additionally, many handicapped, mentally ill and elderly inmates were gassed to death with diesel engine exhaust. The inmates were also forced to sleep in a wooden bunk cramped with three or more people, even with no mattress or pillow to sleep on. Physical and mental torturing of Jews regardless of their sex was common, even the deaths were also a very common scene seen inside the camps. Rather, these camps were cleverly designed to force inmates to work and later to starve them to death.

Worst still, the establishment of death camps or extermination camps were with the sole purpose to kill large group of prisoners, mostly Jews, more efficiently and quickly. Within the period of the invasion of the Nazis in Europe, they had built six extermination camps, namely, Sobibor, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Chelmno, Belzec, and Treblinka. Of the six camps, Majdanek as well as Auschwitz were functioned as extermination and concentration camps. It was documented that 750,000 to 900,000 people were killed at Treblinka, about 600,000 at Belzec, and 1.1 million to 1.5 million people at Auschwitz.

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Since the establishment of death or extermination camps, over 3 million Jewish people died in these camps, primarily caused by poisonous gas carried out in the gas chambers, and some of them were killed in mass shootings and even by other inhumane means.

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At Majdanek concentration camp which is located in the outskirts of Lublin, also the second largest death camp in Poland after Auschwitz-Birkenau, a pile of human skulls and bones were observed. In 1944, this camp was liberated by the Red Army.

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Rows of dead bodies showed less than half of the bodies of the several hundred starved inmates or were shot by Gestapo men were seen filling the yard of Lager Nordhausen, in Gestapo concentration camps.

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What else made the Nazis so horrible and cruel? Behind the scenario of the camps, Nazi doctors performed medical experiments on inmates who went against their instructions at several numbers of concentration camps. By the end of the war, the extermination camps became horrific medical experiments, including removing muscles, nerves and bones from the prisoners to study regeneration of human body parts causing victims to suffer indescribable pain and permanent disability; shooting inmates with poisonous bullets or secreting poisonous chemicals into prisoners’ food, or injecting Russian prisoners with cyanide and phenol and if the victims did not die during these experiments they were killed to help perform autopsies; and prisoners were also used to expose to a lethal gas used as a weapon during World War I, without the consent of the victims, who suffered excruciating pain, pulmonary edema, permanent disability, mutilation, or in many cases death as a result.

Episodes of Nazi’s Terror: Bone-crushing Machine and Crematoria

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Nazi terror began in August 1944 in Poland when they used a bone-crushing machine to grind prisoners’ bones (mostly Jews) at the Janowska concentration camp (the cruelest death camp) for the purpose of obtaining fertilizer.

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There are a row of five ovens (crematoria) with each oven long enough to place two bodies end to end. There is a small gas chamber room seen in the crematorium building with a hole in the ceiling for the purpose of pouring in the poisonous gas crystals, in which there is a floor drain directly below the hole. Unlike the gas chambers at Majdanek, the gas chambers in the crematorium do not show any blue staining. The ovens burnt the human bodies to a pile of ash, leaving behind concrete proof of the Nazi crimes. Up to 320,000 people were reported to be killed with the ovens at Mauthausen camp. Before liberation, the Nazis set fire on the wooden crematorium building to burn off the bodies of Polish political prisoners brought from the Gestapo prison at the Castles in Lublin, an execution day being done on them just before the Russian soldiers arrived at the camp on July 23, 1944.

Episodes of Nazi’s Terror: Inhumane Torturing Methods of the Gas Chambers

Initially, the first Nazi gas chambers were introduced under a so-called “Aktion T4″ program and were used to eliminate mentally and physically handicapped individuals in Poland and Germany. However, during the holocaust, Nazis used gas chambers as inhumane methods for mass killing of Jews as part of Nazi’s Final Solution (refers to Nazi’s plan to murder the Jews). Trains were used to bring Jews and victims from Nazi-occupied countries straight to the gas chambers which were disguised as shower rooms on a daily basis. At the gas chambers, prisoners were instructed to get in and out of the concrete bathtub filled with disinfectant in the shower room for several seconds. The tiny-blue rock crystals called Zyklon-B pellets, which released a potent poisonous gas when heated, were dropped through the holes of the ceiling in the chamber to kill the victims before their bodies were burnt in the crematoria. The shower room in the gas chamber building at Majdanek was also used as a labor camp, as well as extermination camp for the incoming Jew prisoners who were chosen to be worked at Majdanek.

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The blue stains leaving on the stucco around the window and on the window frame revealed the heavy use of Zyklon-B gas, with the most concentrated blue stains seen at the largest three rooms inside the gas chamber next to the shower showing repeated used of Zyklon-B.

At Belzec concentration camp which was built in March 1942, the prisoners were brought to this camp by trains. Later, they were instructed to enter the chamber disguised as showers in which a poisonous gas of carbon monoxide was pumped into the chamber to kill them. About 500,000 Jews perished in this camp and their bodies were buried in mass graves.

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It was documented that about 1 to 2 million Jews were killed in the largest killing center (or death camp) at Auschwitz-Birkenau, with its motto “work makes one free” seen at the main entrance.

The Holocaust Nightmare Ended

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When Nazis were defeated by Allied Powers in 1945, the Holocaust nightmare ended. Many survivors of the concentration and death camps were liberated. In April 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker while Mussolini was hung by the Italians.

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In the same year of 1945, the liberated inmates took down Nazi signs found from all over the gates to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

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On April 29, 1945, Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the U.S Armies, 816 survivors in 30 abandoned railroad cars started crying and cheering while the armies approached them. The U.S armed forces also found 2,310 corpses in the same railroad cars.

On July 23, 1944, that was the moment when the Majdanek death camp was liberated, Soviet Union announced that the Nazis had murdered 1.7 million persons, but later in November 1945 during which the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal Proceedings were held, the Soviets revised that the Nazi war criminals were at 1.5 million.

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After the liberation, many of the Nazi concentration camps were demolished, however; some of them were kept as permanent memorials.

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Now if scientists are saying this is going to take place of course that means that it has to be for sure! Right? Should we all run to the church and repent? Should we say apologize to everyone we’ve ever hurt? And should we stay with our loved ones in this dire time? Well I call bs. But what do you think? Leave your opinion below whether we should take these announcements serious? Or laugh them off?

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Celtic Empire

The Celts had a reputation as headhunters and were famous for their habit of putting skulls on poles victims in front of their homes. Many Celts were fighting completely naked and famous for their long iron swords.

They were cutting heads of enemies killed in battle and sometimes even hung their horses neck. Embalmed in cedar oil the heads heads caught and kept them carefully in a chest, bragging they are the foreigners and refusing to sell them even if you were given the equivalent, as weight in gold.

Maori civilization

Residents were the first Maori settlers in New Zealand, who arrived a few centuries before the Europeans. Their culture dates from the early modern era. They practiced cannibalism during the war.

In 1809, a European ship was attacked by a group of Maori warriors, in retaliation for the disrespect shown the son of one of the local chiefs. I killed most of those on board the vessel. A few lucky survivors recounted frightened about what they saw.

Mongol Empire

The Mongols were regarded as barbarians and savages. They have dominated Europe and Asia and were famous for the fact that they could ride without being led by one of the greatest military leaders in history, Genghis Khan.

They were very disciplined and skilled in use of the bow and arrows while riding. They were masters of psychological warfare and intimidation of opponents and created the second largest empire in history.

From Vietnam to Hungary, the Mongol Empire was one of the largest in history.

Tribes Press

Apasii were some kind of ninja of America. They used primitive weapons, mostly made of wood and bone. Apasii knives were the biggest fighters in the world ever seen and were skilled in handling axes Tomahawk.

They terrorized the southwestern United States having the habit of victims and scalp.

Empire Vikings

Europe were terrified of their invasions and robberies. They were very combative and used their weapons as imposing stature.

Even their religion was based on the cult of war and believed that when someone died in battle, he will fight on forever. In battle, the Vikings were destroying everything in their path.

Roman Empire

Although the Roman Empire may be the greatest empire that existed, we can not ignore the fact that the Romans did many cruel acts: murder, slaves and prisoners were forced to fight to the death in combat of gladiators.

Among the most cruel Roman emperors Caligula or Nero are counted. At first the Romans were ruled by kings, then the institution called the Romanian republic. With the expansion of Roman power was created the Roman Empire.

With a great military and administrative organization, the Roman Empire became the empire that has endured the longest period in history. From the age of ancient Rome and the Byzantine Empire until the fall of 2214 years have passed.

Aztec Empire

The Aztecs created their theocratic structure after 1300 and offered human sacrifices. Nearly 20,000 people were killed annually to bring offerings to the gods – especially the sun god.

A write to the coronation of King Ahuitzotl says 80,000 prisoners were butchered to please the gods.

Nazi Germany

Although he was “glory” a short, Nazi Germany was a superpower and it provoked the war affected the whole world. At least 4 million people were killed during the Holocaust (6 million, according to British Encyclopedia – No) and Nazi Germany unleashed the most devastating war in human history, World War II.

Nazi Swastika is probably the most hated symbol of the world. Nazi Germany occupied an area of ​​approximately 696,267 square kilometers. Hitler was one of the most influential people and empire that existed was one of the most frightening of history.

Soviet Union

Communism is responsible for millions of deaths, caused more than Nazi Germany, and that only in the Soviet Union. In Stalin’s time were killed between 10 and 60 million people.

Soviet Union was probably one of the greatest enemies of the United States. The vast majority of those who lived in the Stalinist period saw a continuous state of fear and, therefore, the Soviet Union was more frightening than Nazi Germany, the Germans felt a certain level of safety, so long as the Nazi concept supported

History is a record of change and the evolution of ideas. Although the Earth is billions of years old, history is relatively new as it began only 5000 years ago. It was only at the beginning of that time period that the most important discovery of mankind was made. That great achievement was writing, discovered by the people of ancient Mesopotamia, and it has influenced the world in more ways than I care to count. Literacy has now been the key of success for over five millennia. Without writing there would be no history, as history is what has been recorded. Without record, there would be no way to determine the events of the past. Without writing, the lessons taught by history would be unknown or undecipherable, and thus would be forever forgotten. Writing has allowed us to record details of important events in which eye witnesses do not exist. For example, without the uncovering of Archimedes’ The Method, we would have no knowledge of his many brilliant discoveries. With the absence of record, we let our imaginations attempt to solve the puzzles of the past. With writing, there has been 5000 years of recorded change.

Obviously, not everything in the past is recorded. Insignificant events go unrecorded and are lost in time if no one bothers to record them. This is not the only thing that makes recorded history incomplete. When something is recorded, it is often recorded by a single person. If the record of a person is highly opinionated, the history is undoubtedly incomplete. As Napoleon said, “history is a lie agreed upon.” This is true because no information is perfect, and accuracy is often flawed. An example of an incomplete history would be how the great Mayan civilization collapsed and disappeared so quickly. The reason behind the collapse remains a mystery and, to this day, is open to interpretation and discovery. Also, if something is not recorded and is passed down generation by generation purely orally, the historical retelling may change over time. History is by no means complete.

History described in one word is change. Change, for better or for worse, has transformed the world into what it is today. Through the years we have advanced from making stone tools that fit the human hand, to making computer mice with the exact same shape. Certain events in history have influenced the modern world in an irreversible way. 9/11, for example, has changed airport security. However, 9/11 also changed the world in a more tragic way. War has been waged and has ruined the lives of thousands of people. Even more subtle than that, 9/11 changed people’s attitudes towards the Middle East. Since then, ignorance has spread similar to a plague. It’s amazing how an individual’s choices can spark a dramatic chain reaction of change. In various civilizations of the past, leaders often tried to limit change. An example would be the ancient Egyptian civilization, whose leaders attempted to limit change. They kept their culture as limiter of change and had little scientific advancement. These civilizations never lasted, because change is unstoppable, just as time cannot be stopped.

If history only covers the last 5000 years, what are the billions of years before that classified as? This long period of time is known as prehistory, or the era before record. Because prehistory refers to a time without writing, it is especially hard to be accurate when analyzing information. In fact, it is impossible to be completely precise, as there is no reference to check accuracy. Multiple professions deal with the daunting task of studying prehistory, such as anthropology and archaeology. Archaeologists study artifacts and try to decipher their use and place in time. Anthropologists, on the other hand, study man. Both face a challenging task as they try to uncover a time before writing. A prime example on how both occupations operate was shown on the video “The Iceman.” The video showed how both professions worked together to determine what the 5,300 year old body, nicknamed Ötzi, was doing high in the Alps. By examining the body’s clothing and other artifacts, the first hypothesis seemed to be that he was once a shepherd who led his flocks up into the mountains. However, the team set up an experiment to test the hypothesis. By simulating the Iceman’s life, the team determined that he could not be a shepherd, as he was obviously out of his element. This is just one example of how people attempt to discover the unknown in the absence of record.

As discussed before, history is change. But what causes change to take place? One obvious factor of change would be notable people. Certain people in history have sparked change in such ways that our world would be drastically different if they had not existed. People bring about ideas, which in turn creates various innovations and new concepts that are a breakthrough during their respective times. A great example of how important certain people have been to the development of humanity is Abraham Lincoln. As one of the best presidents of The Unites States, Lincoln changed our nation dramatically. Without him, slavery would have flourished and everything would have changed for the worse. Even ideals presented by individuals have changed the course of history in various nations. An example would be Confucius, whose philosophical ideas changed China and other parts of Asia. When studying history, it is obvious that people have caused change.

Trade is also a great factor of change throughout history. Trade creates wealth, and wealth acts as a strong incentive towards change. The exchange of material and ideas causes culture to expand and prosper, which raises living standards for both beneficiaries. By working for each other and trading, ideas combine and new innovations are made. For example, by trading some of the technology originally created in the U.S with Japan, various entertainment innovations have been made. Without trade, these new inventions would be nonexistent. As Matt Ridley, author of the Rational Optimist, outlined in his speech, exchange of ideas is extremely important. Without it, he explains, technology slows and does not advance. In some cases it even regresses. Because of trade, the world has developed and changed over a period of time into a global village.
We often take our education for granted, complaining about school and how some classes are simply useless. However, in no case is this true, especially when it comes to studying history. Various reasons exist as to why we must be historically literate.

To begin with, history is something that must be learned from. We must learn past decisions and what those decisions accomplished. By studying history we learn the logic behind those decisions. An example would be a military order. A decision made by a military leader affects hundreds, if not thousands of lives. If a certain military tactic did not work in the past, a current officer would look back into the past to see what the decision did accomplish, and what to change. Studying the past teaches us many lessons that we can apply to the present. By looking back into the past we learn the reasons behind occurrences and thus can take steps to prevent them from repeating. An example would be studying various statistics. Imagine the following scenario; the suicide rate in the U.S skyrockets. To investigate the reasoning behind the increase, one must look into the past to find evidence. By accomplishing this we can then take steps to not only stop the increase, but stop a future increase as well. Another prime example is the Great Depression. Since that tragic era, we have learned what economic mistakes and flaws caused the Depression, and have now taken monumental steps to prevent any future decline on that scale. As the common saying goes, we must live in the moment. However, in order to be competent, we must not only live in the moment, but also learn from the past.

A second and equally important reason as to why we must study history is to appreciate the past. It is important to know how we came to be and to appreciate the fact that without those series of events, we would not exist. Our history is part of who we are, it is part of our identity, which is why it is important to appreciate how we came to be. Also, it is extremely important that we appreciate past sacrifice. For example, over fifty thousand men pledged their lives to freedom and died during the Battle of Gettysburg. Without their sacrifice the Civil War could have gone a totally different way, and thus our world would be different. Finally, by studying history we automatically appreciate more. With an understanding of history comes an understanding of things such as fine art. In order to fully understand the world, it is important to appreciate history.

The subject of history is just as important as other fields of study such as mathematics and science, if not more important. Having an understanding of history helps us to appreciate and become inspired. We hold past “greats” as role models, and strive to be as great as them. A great example can be found in ancient Rome. It was there that Julius Caesar, one of the greatest rulers of all time, became a role model. After his death, every Roman emperor that succeeded him strived to be like him. By striving for greatness, just as those men and women did in the past, society continues to advance. With a concept of history, we understand change and how it takes place; through trade, politics, and great people. If everyone was historically literate, the world would be a better place.