Showing posts with the label history
21 janvier 1793 : Louis XVI meurt guillotiné
20 January 1942: The Wannsee Conference or the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"
New book features Kansas man who executed Nazi war criminals
Why Europe's wars of religion put 40,000 'witches' to a terrible death
A Travelling Executioner
Indonesian museum removes Nazi-themed exhibit after outrage
Roland Freisler – Hitler’s Screaming Nazi Judge
The mystery of disgraced CIA spymaster James Angleton’s “retirement”
Soon after legendary spymaster and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton’s intelligence career supposedly ended with his forced retirement in December 1974 …
The Execution Dock in London was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers & mutineers
The JFK Document Dump Could Be a Fiasco
The federal government’s long campaign to try to choke off rampant conspiracy theories about the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy is threatening to end this month in massive c…
16 October 1793, The Day Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, Was Guillotined
Why Friday the 13th Spelled Doom for the Knights Templar
Founded around 1118 as a monastic military order devoted to the protection of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land following the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the Knights Te…
Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens
If journalism resigns itself to being a “first draft of history,” Ken Burns’ popular PBS documentaries, written by Lynn Novick, have increasingly aspired to—and achieved—a coveted status as popular h…
The Killing of History
One of the most hyped “events” of American television, “The Vietnam War,” has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War…
UK: Tory MP and Daily Mail launch sickening attack on memorial for executed gay men
'The Vietnam War': Inside Ken Burns' 18-Hour Doc on the Era-Defining Conflict
A decade in the making, The Vietnam War, a 10-episode, 18-hour, 360-degree documentary, which premieres on September 17th, isn't just a corrective to the fact that generations have grown up being…