PHOTOS WITH SHOCKING STORIES

I do not know of the other African countries, but with the exception of South Africa, isn't it funny how we have preserved (somewhat) places of historical importance associated with colonialism but virtually erased all those involved with the periods of active fight for independence? We have castles, colonial mansions, etc now turned into museums or hotels but still well preserved with their accompanying history. We have parks and places that the colonialists had fun well preserved. But when it comes to where their discomfort was put into practise, we have none. South Africa at least has the Robben Island Museum et al to showcase where their heroes suffered. Here in Kenya, despite the Mau Mau war of independence being one of the major shocks for the British Empire, we have erased all traces of the detention camps. We have no official programme to tour the war sites. The camps where the freedom fighters were in, were erased. The jails too. One of the central figures in the fight, De...

On this day in 2020, a hero passes away. Lt. Jack ReVelle is best known for his efforts to disarm two Mark 39 thermonuclear bοmbs that were inadvertently dropped on North Carolina in 1961. At the time, an American B-52 bοmber had been attempting an emergency landing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Instead, its wing sheared off, and the bοmbs separated from the crashing plane. (See Wednesday’s story.)  ReVelle was put in charge of cleaning up the mess. He was then only 25 years old.' The young Air Force wеapons disposal specialist had been in Dayton when the crash occurred, but he and his team quickly boarded a plane. He arrived in North Carolina to discover one bοmb relatively stable already. Its parachute had opened, bringing the huge bοmb gently to the ground. “I could see it from the Jeep,” ReVelle later explained, “not more than 100 yards from the road. There it was, the first of the two wеapons, this huge monolith, about the size of a large propane tank, standing on its nos...

This is Sojourner Truth.⁣ ⁣ In 1826, she managed to escape with her daughter and secure their freedom. Two years later, she took her former enslaver to court to get back her son. She won the case, making her the first Black woman to win against a white man in a court of law. Truth later went on to become an abolitionist and women's rights activist.⁣ ⁣ She is probably best remembered for her famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman," which was later altered for publication by a white woman named Frances Gage who rewrote it in a stereotypical "southern Black slave dialect". ⁣ ⁣ Here's an excerpt of the original version:⁣ ⁣ "I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman's rights. [sic] I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much t...