From Yesterday to Tomorrow: Exploring the Journey of History

Victim of Auschwitz.... Istvanka "Istvan" Reiner was the son of Jewish parents Livia Vermes and Bela Reiner. Bela converted to protestantism and their son Istvan was never circumcised per the Jewish custom since she was no longer Jewish. Regardless, Istvan and his parents were deemed to be Jews and were eventually placed in the Miskolc ghetto (Hungary). It wasn't long until they were sent to the concentration camps at Auschwitz. Once there, Istvan and his mother were separated and he ended up in the care of his grandmother. He wasn't there long when he and his grandmother met the same fate in the gas chamber. 11,000 people from Miskolc were killed in the concentration camps along with Istan. Amazingly, his mother and brother survived the war and migrated to the United States in 1947. Istvan's year of death may have been in 1943. Never Forget! January 27 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by troops from the Soviet Red Army. Some 1.3m people -...

According Hindu religion, sinners are sent to the Various Narakas(Hells) by Yamadharma according to their nature and seriousness of their Sins. There are total 28 Narakas garuda purana. 1.) Kalasutram (Hot as hell) 28 Deadly Punishments Mentioned in Garuda Puran of Hinduism -1 CRIME: Disrespecting, torturing and putting elders & parents in starvation PENALTY: Sinners are made to run around in unbearable heat and drop down exhausted from time to time and are made to undergo similar treatment as they did to their elders. 2.) Sucimukham(Tortured by needles) 28 Deadly Punishments Mentioned in Garuda Puran of Hinduism -2 CRIME: Not doing good and amassing wealth by wrong doings and stealing wealth, not buying PENALTY: Stinging with nails and torturing with hunger and thirst, constantly pricked and pierced by needles. 3.) Ksharakardamam(hanged upside down) 28 Deadly Punishments Mentioned in Garuda Puran of Hinduism -3 CRIME: Insulting good people and involving in bad activities and defam...

THE MURDERS OF JACK THE STRIPPER He walked the streets of London and killed prostitutes. No, he is not the famous Jack the Ripper, but probably an emule of him: he was nicknamed Jack the Stripper. Jack the Stripper is the nickname of a serial killer responsible for the so-called "naked murders" which took place in London in the years 1964 and 1965. The bizarre nickname was clearly given for the methodology very similar to the serial killer that had shocked London in 1888. This killer also attacked street prostitutes, killing between 6 and 8 and of which naked corpses were found around London or in the Thames. The number of victims is not precise, because two of the murders do not correspond to his modus operandi. The confirmed victims were: 1. Hannah Tailford, 30, was found dead on February 2, 1964 at Hammersmith Bridge. She was strangled and when she was found she was missing several teeth. She except for her stockings, she was completely undressed. 2. Irene Lockwood, 26, wa...

Shrek was based on a real human named Maurice Tillet. He was a Russian-born wrestler who primarily competed in France in the 1940s. Maurice had a condition called acromegaly, which caused him to look the way he did. Basically, acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor and symptoms include enlargement of the face, hands and feet. Like Shrek, Maurice was treated like a monster, and was described as "a fierce monstrosity, not a human being, but a stone of brutality". However, he was a man with a huge heart, extremely generous and intelligent. He lived to be 51 years old, exceeding the low life expectancies that doctors gave him. We hope that you have enjoyed reading our blog on the "From Yesterday to Tomorrow: Exploring the Journey of History". If you enjoy this blog please let us know in the comments below. If you are interested in history, we recommend you check out our other blogs here on the "From Yesterday to Tomorrow: Exploring the Journey of History". Tha...

A LETTER TO ALL MEN Dear Men, If you want to make it in life, you don't have to enter every HOLE you see. Some holes are dead traps. Some holes are destiny destroyers, business destroyers and life destroyers. My brother, do not obey your Erection at all times. Most Erections mislead you to wrong direction. Control your erection if you don't want to to have few days on earth with much poverty on you. It is not everything you see under skirt that you should hustle to eat, some skirts contain snakes that will bite you and leave you uncomfortable. Control your sexual urge. Self control and abstinence in most cases pays a lot. A man who can control his sexual urge is a man who can live many years on earth. Men don't know that some of their downfalls are caused by MULTIPLE girlfriends. Not every girl has a good spirit. Some are demons, some has poison in between their legs. We hope that you have enjoyed reading our blog on the "From Yesterday to Tomorrow: Exploring the Journ...

THE NEW MEXICO PENITENTIARY RIOT, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON FEBRUARY 2 AND FEBRUARY 3, 1980 The New Mexico Penitentiary Riot, which took place on February 2 and February 3, 1980 in the state's maximum security prison south of Santa Fe, was one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional system: 33 inmates died and more than 200 inmates were treated for injuries. None of the 12 guards taken hostage were killed but seven were treated for injuries caused by repeated beatings and rapes. This location was used by Adam Sandler’s movie The Longest Yard and the water tower still bears the fictional name, Allenville. (Note: it has also been used for other movies and is used for storing movie props today) These are the areas that are considered to be the most haunted in New Mexico. The accounts start in 1981 and have continued into the present day. They have been seen by corrections officers as well as members of the New Mexico National Guard. The most active areas...

The massacre of the Isenschnibbe Farm: the fanaticism of the People and the scapegoat of the SS Where there is a crime, sooner or later, there is always also a scapegoat. The ideal scapegoat is never innocent, because this mystification would not mislead anyone. The ideal scapegoat is ugly, dirty and bad. It is the personification of evil according to the mentality of his time. Once upon a time, the ideal scapegoats were the "monsters", deformed people with a repulsive appearance. The well-known pathologist Pierluigi Baima Bollone, in "The last days of Jesus" explains that much of what we know about the effects of the crucifixion we learned from the examination of the remains of a young Jew, found in 1968 inside one ossuaries found in a 1st century tomb in Giv'at ha-Mivtar, near Jerusalem.  An Aramaic inscription tells us that they belonged to a certain Yhvhnn, i.e. John. John died crucified in the same period narrated by the synoptic Gospels. While alive, Giova...

Hiram Thompson - for wife murder. The Thompson family lived at No. 11 Brandiforth Street, Bamber Bridge near Preston in Lancashire.  They comprised 52 year old Hiram, his wife, 49 year old Ellen, two daughters, 17 year old Ellen, Priscilla and her husband and son John.  Hiram was a heavy drinker and there were frequent quarrels between him and his wife over the amount of money he spent on drink.  Sadly, these often led to Ellen being physically assaulted. On the morning of Tuesday the 25th of April 1922, the family rose as usual and daughters Ellen and Priscilla got ready for work.  When they returned home for lunch their mother was fine and their father had gone to the pub, where he consumed four pints. The girls returned to work by 1 p.m.  When Ellen got home at 5.45 p.m., she found her mother dead in the kitchen.  Ellen senior had her throat cut and had been battered around the head.  The police were immediately called.  Thompson was missing an...

Scary Holes With Deadly Pasts Catawba Murder Hole ------------------------------ Locals have passed down plenty of legends about this cave. In one story, a farmer killed a traveling tinkerer in order to steal his wares. He dumped the man’s body back into his cart, then drove the horse and buggy over the edge of the Murder Hole. Another legend tells of a young couple whose families disapproved of their relationship, so they killed themselves by driving a cart into the Hole.However, one death that certainly isn’t a legend is that of David Spencer. Back in 1958, Spencer was part of the Virginia Tech cave club. He was around 7.5 meters (25 ft) into the hole when his rope snapped and he plummeted into the depths. Investigators found that cleaning fluid had spilled onto his rope when it was in storage, which had weakened the fibers.Nobody has died in the Catawba Murder Hole since that tragic accident, but dozens have still found ways to get trapped there. Marian McConnell and her husband bou...

Another Unknown Soldier of the Great War identified. On 10 May, Corporal Frederick ‘Percy’ Bousfield was confirmed as the Canadian soldier buried in a previously unknown grave in Ypres, Belgium.  Bousfield, who died in June 1916, had been commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial along with 55,000 other empire troops who had no known grave in the Ypres Salient.   Thanks to remarkable archival work, Bousfield’s grave could be conclusively confirmed.  Yet what is most remarkable about this story, is how often remains are still discovered on the Western Front, with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission alerted almost daily to these finds.  Why is this the case?  Back in September 1921, the secretary of state for war, Laming Worthington-Evans, officially ended the search for the Western Front’s missing, citing that the battlefields had been searched at least six times. Yet British exhumation parties were still discovering 600 bodies per week. Worthington-Evans’ ...

Memorial to the ‘Johnnies and the Mehmets’ that lie side by side on Gallipoli  The Australian Turkish Friendship Memorial is located in the leafy gardens in Kings Domain in Melbourne, Australia. It was built to mark the Anzac Day centennial anniversary, and celebrate the shared values between the two nations. As striking as the memorial is, it’s the words on its base that are most evocative. It reads, ‘Those heroes that shed their blood.’  It’s an excerpt from Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s longer passage that reassured the grieved: ‘you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace.’ Atatürk, who came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman Turkish victory on Gallipoli, reassures the grieved that their loved ones are ‘lying in the soil of a friendly country.’ He finishes with the comforting reassurance:  ‘After having lost their lives on this land they have become...

The controversy surrounding Norman Lindsay’s shocking 1918 recruitment posters  Throughout the Great War, Australia had to rely on volunteers to replenish its divisions on the Western Front.  With enlistments drying up in 1918, a desperate Australian government turned to artist Norman Lindsay to produce six recruitment posters.  In early October 1918, aiming to surprise and shock, the posters were distributed at night, one design at a time.  In this poster, Lindsay suggested that an invading German army could threaten Australia. It plays on visceral themes of marauding ape-like Germans wearing spiked helmets threatening a homestead with a husband unable to protect his vulnerable wife.  Was Lindsay - who is better known for classics such as ‘The Magic Pudding - really a Machiavellian artist who cravenly preyed on peoples’ primal fears?  Lindsay had been deeply affected by the war. In 1916, his younger brother, Reg, died on the Somme. His death deeply affecte...