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In war, there are winners and losers. Sometimes an army is defeated because they simply faced a larger and more powerful foe. Other times they lose because of some bizarre set of circumstances no one could have foreseen, or because they were simply outwitted by a cunning adversary. Sometimes an army is even dealt a [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12:01 am
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In today’s world, photojournalism isn’t something that is heard or spoken of much anymore. With the Internet providing us with places such as YouTube, DeviantArt, and other online sources created just for sharing amateur photography, it’s really no surprise that photojournalism is slowly becoming a dying form of art as well as media. However, those [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, People, Photos · Tagged Associated Press, combat photographer, David Burnett, David Seymour, DeviantArt, Documentary photography, Dorothea Lange, Eastman Kodak Company, Eddie Adams, fashion photographer, first foreign photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henry Luce, Joseph Stalin, Lucien Vogel, Martin Munkácsi, Museum of Modern Art, news photographer, Philip Jones Griffiths, photographer, photography, Photojournalism, photojournalist, Photojournalists, Robert Capa, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank
There’s no doubt that the Second World War was the greatest conflict in modern history and the one event that continues to impact our world to this day. Consider how the world would look today had it not been fought, or had Japan and Germany won? And, even more intriguing, what if B had happened [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 12:49 am
Filed under History, People, Politics · Tagged adolf hitler, Air Marshal, Antisemitism, ANZIO, Army, Axis powers, Bataan Peninsula, battle, Battle of France, Battle of Stalingrad, Beer Hall Putsch, Chancellors of Germany, Code names, commander, Communism, Douglas MacArthur, fighting, General, Germany, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Kursk, leader, Marshall Von Paulus, military, Operation Barbarossa, PEARL HARBOR, Philippines, Roosevelt, Stalin, the Philippines, Volga River, War, world war ii
A feud, or vendetta, is an extended argument between two groups of people, usually started as the result of an insult, violence, or even murder. Today the term is more popularly associated with celebrities and sports rivalries, but historical blood feuds were fairly commonplace, and there were even rules and laws—like dueling—that were set up [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:05 am
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Throughout the history of mankind there have been some rulers that use fear and terror to gain control of their people. They rule with an iron fist and an unrelenting thirst for power and recognition. Unfortunately for society there was too many for them all to fit on the list, so here’s the worst of [...]
Posted by Loni Perry on Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9:00 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged Adolph HItler, atilla the hun, benito mussolini, Evil, evil rulers, evil villains, Hitler, idi amin, ivan the terrible, Joseph Stalin, kings, leopold II, mao zedong, Queen Ranavalona, rulers, Vlad Dracula