Haase speaking at funeral of revolutionary victims, Berlin, November 1918. In this photograph, Hugo Haase (1863-1919) is standing on a platform addressing a crowd at the funeral of the victims of the Berlin Revolution of 9 November 1918. Unlike the other photographs of the funeral, the crowd at this point appears almost exclusively male and military. Haase, a co-founder of the Independent Social Democratic Party, was a joint chairman of the Council of People's Commissioners which was set up by the revolution.

Taken from the National Library of Scotland: https://digital.nls.uk/74549648

https://longnow.org/ideas/visualization-of-5000-years-of-war/

If ever. I don't know, are they part of the blackout? I thought they were.

What did the USSR do?

Clarence Darrow was a famous American civil rights attorney of the 19th and 20th century. His most famous case with the "Scopes Monkey Trial", but he was involved in other high profile trials. This case was for a black family that moved into a white neighborhood and were attacked by a white mob. Henry Sweet of the family fired back in self-defense, killing a member of the mob. Partially on Darrow's closing arguments, Henry Sweet was acquitted under self-defense. Charges against the rest of the family were also dropped.

Darrow's speech is well ahead of its time, especially for a white man. He doesn't shy away from things like asking the all white jury to consider its own prejudice. In the hundred years since this speech, many Americans still are resistant to confronting their own prejudices.

Da Vinci's sketches, which were forgotten for decades, show triangles formed by sand-like particles pouring from a jar. These falling grains depicted experiments to show that gravity was a form of acceleration more than 400 years before Einstein did, a new study argues.

“The fact that these parasites were present in sediment from two Iron Age Jerusalem cesspits suggests that dysentery was endemic in the Kingdom of Judah,” said study lead author Dr Piers Mitchell from Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology.

Henry Ford, was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle. His plants operating in Germany not only produced up to 70,000 lorries per year for the Wehrmacht, but also used prison labour to this end, including in Auschwitz.

Charles Horman (1942 - 1973)

Charles Horman, born on this day in 1942, was an American journalist, anti-war activist, and documentary filmmaker who was executed by Chilean fascists in 1973 following the CIA-backed coup against socialist President Salvador Allende.

Horman was born in New York City on May 15th, 1942, graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1960 and Harvard in 1964. He was an active anti-war protester, present at the 1968 DNC protests and producing an award winning documentary titled "Napalm". He also worked as an investigative journalist for publications such as The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor.

In December 1971, Charles and his wife Joyce left the U.S. for Latin America, eventually settling down in Santiago, Chile, where he worked as a freelance writer.

On September 11th, 1973, fascists led by Augusto Pinochet and the CIA ousted democratically elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the following weeks, many prominent left-wing activists, such as Flora Sanhueza, Victor Jara, and Frank Teruggi, were arrested and killed.

Horman himself was arrested on September 16th, seized from his home by Chilean soldiers and taken to the National Stadium, which had been turned into a de facto concentration camp following the coup. There, Horman was executed on September 19th (some sources say 18th), 1973.

Documents declassified by the Clinton administration in 1999 indicate the U.S. knew of Horman's plight but initially obfuscated investigations into his death. They also indicated that it was unlikely Horman would have been killed without the knowledge and permission of the CIA.

In June 2014, a Chilean court ruled that US authorities had played a "fundamental" role in Horman's murder. In January 2015, two former Chilean intelligence officials were sentenced to jail in Chile for the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, another American activist who was also arrested, executed the following day.

Read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Horman

http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/chile/libros/reporter/capII15.html