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Guns, Macks and Fagins In 1912, Herman “Beanie” Rosenthal, a Jewish gangster and casino owner, threatened to go to the police and tell about police lieutenant Charlie Becker’s involvement in organized crime.   Rosenthal was soon gunned down by three Jewish and one Italian killer, “Lefty” Louis Rosenberg, “Whitey Louis” (Jacob Seidenshner), “Gyp the Blood” (Harry Horowitz) and “Dago” Frank Cirofici.   Because they did it in front of a zillion witnesses in front of the Metropole Hotel, the Becker-Rosenthal case became a national sensation and shocked Jews around the city into realizing there were Jewish gangsters who were also murderers.  (By the way, all four killers AND Becker were executed at Sing Sing in the electric chair.) Rabbi Judah Magnes of Temple Emanu-El got together with the Mayor and Police Department and hired private detective Abe Shoenfeld to infiltrate and identify the Jewish gangs.  Here is his report on the denizens of Segal’s Cafe at 76 Second Avenue, the headquarter

The lost girl, 1874Blanche Monnier was a Parisian socialite who was known for her beauty. In France, she is referred to as "La Séquestrée de Poitiers" which means "The Confined Woman of Poitiers". The reason as to why she got this title is tragic, and it all began with a love story that never had a happy ending. Monnier was from a wealthy and respected family from Poitiers. When she was 25, she fell in deeply in love with a "penniless lawyer".This upset her mother, Louise Monnier, who wanted Blanche to marry a man of wealth and notoriety. However, Blanche refused to give up on her lover, so her mother trapped her in a room upstairs in their mansion and padlocked her to a bed. Blanche would remain on this bed for the next 26 years. During her time in this room, Louise and Blache's brother, Marcel, would pretend that she had ran off and disappeared. The family had a good reputation, as they donated to charities, and were considered to be intelligent an

The pain of Saigon I’d like to write something great but after visiting Saigon, words can’t even describe how HARD this was for me. I started to take pictures and after a few, I just COULDN’T as it was absolutely gut wrenching. The ones I do have are just too terrible to post. Over the past couple of days, we visited the Vietnam War Remnants museum and the Cu chi tunnels where the Vietcong operated. Unfortunately, being a communist country, only one side of this war is allowed to be spoken of publicly without significant retribution and it’s heartbreaking.  was sickening to see senior US government officials at the sites making our soldiers do things unimaginable-things they DON’T tell us in the history books. It was sickening to actually SEE the types of traps/torture devices that were being used on our soldiers.  And do you know how communism gained ground in the first place? The government kept promising the people more and more until one day they called in the “favor” by force.

A young woman (Age 18) who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki , August 1945 The young woman in the photo was testifying about the result of the atomic  bombs where behind her you can see the smokey scene of the ruins of Hiroshima. There was an air raid siren that very morning, and the young woman had stayed in the shelter after the “all clear”  was given. And so she survive the initial blast, which came about 15 minutes after “all clear” had been sounded in the city. According to “Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun”, a Japanese local newspaper, dated 1978.8.9. She survived from nuclear bomb fallen at Nagasaki. She was 18 when the priceless smiling photo was taken. However, as it was documented, later she had battled leukemia since 1960. She got divorced and died alone when she was 51 years old.

During World War II, millions of people were sent to concentration camps, including women. Women in concentration camps were subjected to brutal treatment and often faced more severe conditions than their male counterparts. The conditions in the camps were inhumane, and women were often subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experiments.Women were treated differently in concentration camps than men. They were often separated from their families, forced to perform hard labor, and subjected to sexual abuse. Women who were pregnant were also subjected to harsh conditions and medical experimentation. Many women were killed, either as part of the genocide or because they were deemed too weak to continue working. One of the most notorious concentration camps where women were held was Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, women were subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experimentation. Many were killed in gas chambers or through other forms of execution. The camp was design

Mrs wilson had never flown before so she was perplexed when she arrived at the airport unsure of where to go as a result the elderly lady took a glance around and decided to join a group of passengers rushing to board the plane she figured they understood what to do in a scenario like this checking in at the airport felt extraordinary and almost mythological to a woman who grew Up in one of the state’s small villages the elderly woman hid the key to her house and her shoe as she normally does to avoid losing it but she had no idea how the metal detectors in the door frames would react despite the fact that mrs wilson dressed up for the journey the way she looked caused other passengers to shun her mistaking her for a beggar or a woman from a low-income household that’s why the woman at the check-in Counter was taken aback when she saw the old lady had purchased a business class ticket mrs wilson on the other hand nearly missed her flight because she was following individuals who were t

The high speed transport USS Horace A. Bass APD-124 can be seen alongside in some of the pictures.One of the first questions asked of the Nagato’s Captain & crew was the whereabouts of Nagato’s sister-ship Mutsu.  On June 8, 1943, Mutsu had sunk in the Hashirajima fleet anchorage when the magazine of her No. 3 turret exploded.Mutsu's sinking was declared a state secret, surviving crew were sent to locations away from Japan and sworn to secrecy, US Navy Intelligence did not learn of Mutsu’s sinking until after the war. The visible damage on Nagato came from an air raid on July 18, 1945 by USN aircraft from TF38, Nagato was hit by two 500 lb bombs, one of which scored a direct hit on the pilot house & compass bridge, killing Captain Otsuka, the XO, & several others. Afterwards Nagato was disarmed and her ballast tanks were flooded to give the impression she had sank at her moorings, the visible battle damage was also left unrepaired, adding to the impression of a derelict

After McDonald’s employees fought back against disruptive customers in a wild video, the company was quick to condemn their behavior for being “not in accordance” with their policies, but the company also added that there was more to the story. Does it make a difference? You decide. A McDonald’s employee was working their shift at the franchise’s Wynyard Train Station store in Sydney’s Central Business District when a wild scuffle led to food and drinks being hurled back and forth over the counter in Australia. The incident was captured on video and widely shared online after the employee was caught throwing a drink in a customer’s face as the wild food fight broke out, IBT reported. Of course, McDonald’s Australia acknowledged the incident, which took place at approximately 1 am on a Thursday, saying the behavior seen in the video is “not in accordance” with their policies, which don’t support employees retaliating against unruly customers. However, they also added that there was more

For us the Hürtgen was one of the most costly, most unproductive, and most ill-advised battles that our army has ever fought." – Lieutenant General James Gavin In the longest continuous battle in U.S. Army history, American soldiers of the U.S. First Army fought tooth and nail against entrenched German defenders in the densely wooded terrain of the Hurtgen Forest as the Western Front descended into the harsh winter of 1944.  After the Allied offensives of summer 1944 liberated France, a massive combined Allied force stood near the border of Germany, ready to begin the Rhineland Campaign against the vaunted German defenses of the Siegfried Line (or “Westwall”) along the Rhine River.  The American effort to capture the Hurtgen Forest was initially intended to shore up the Allied right flank as they prepared to attack the urban centers north of it.  The Germans understood that the Hurtgen Forest controlled access to the vital dams across the Roer River, which could be used to flood t

As the Patriot defense of the State of Georgia fell apart in December 78 and Jan. 79, refugees ahead of the British Army spilled by the hundreds into neighboring South Carolina.  The Georgia Backcountry was all the Patriot's had left. As the British pushed an oath to the King on the remaining population, Lieut. James Ingram made a defiant statement that should make all Georgians and Patriots alike proud.  It should be remembered in Georgia History because it was the epitome of the American defiance. Col. Ingram declared the American Standard and challenged Georgia citizens with making an Oath to the American Cause. This, right in the face of the King's Standard at the most critical time.  This defined the two opposing sides quite clearly for all to see and threw a gauntlet clearly on the ground.  This, in Burke County and this when the Georgians needed the rallying call in Georgia's darkest hour.  British General Prevost could not overlook such a rebellious statement.   The

50 years later, the wife and children discover the shocking truth. The story I’m going to tell you today took place 63 years ago because that’s when a loving family man and husband and father and successful businessman Douglas Grinstead left home and disappeared without a trace. It’s hard to imagine that for many years his family mourned him, and it was only decades later that they learned the shocking truth. Now the faithful wife and daughters will have to take the rap for the sins of the head of the family and live with this for the rest of their lives. When Douglas, granted owner of a lucrative ritual agency, kissed his wife. Barbara hugged his daughters and went for a couple of weeks in the Woods to Hunt. Also, if you have not done so already, please subscribe to our channel and click that notification Bell to get inspired by these real-life stories every day. Now back to the story. It was worth noting that his wife and daughters let him go at ease as Douglas was a skilled Hunter a

Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis who became only the second woman executed by Virginia, when she was put to death in 2010, at the age of 41. Teresa had first met Julian, a widower, in the Spring of 2000 at the Dan River Inc. fabric factory where they both worked. By June of that year, they were married and Teresa moved into Julian’s trailer on five acres of land in Keeling, in rural Pittsylvania County, Virginia.Julian’s son, Jason, had died in an accident in December 2001 and his father had received his life insurance payout, a sum in excess of $200,000, which he placed in an account that was only accessible by him. In August 2002, Julian's son Charles was required to report for National Guard duty so Julian made a will and took out a $250,000 life insurance policy on him. Both only named Teresa as the secondary beneficiary. In other words, she would get nothing if Julian died and was survived by Charles. Sometime in the Fall of 2002 Teresa met Matthew Shallenberger in Walmart. She and Sh

This woman felt severe headache nurse looks closer and runs to the doctor what started out as a bout of headaches for this texas mother of two turned out to be something far more serious than she had anticipated after suffering from severe headaches for more than a year yadira brustro of garland texas was diagnosed with tapeworm eggs growing inside her brain which she later discovered to be the Root of her misery beyond the excruciating headaches rostro also suffered from frequent vision abnormalities which progressed to the point where she was unable to see well in any direction at all as a result of a surgical procedure performed at the methodist dallas medical center in early september a total of eight tapeworm eggs were removed from rostro’s brain during the procedure According to richard mayrat a neurosurgeon at methodist dallas medical center they had a transparent sac surrounding them and looked a little bit like eggs it also has a little tapeworm living inside of it says the au

William Henry Hollins Hollins was tried at the Old Bailey by the First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Baron Graham on the 14th of September 1814. William Henry Hollins, alias Henry William Hollins, aged 45, was indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Pilcher in Lower Grosvenor Street in London on the 4th of July 1814.  He had called at the home of George Cartwright on several previous occasions asking to speak to Elizabeth who was a servant there.   Around 10 p.m. on Monday the 4th, Mr. Cartwright heard a pistol shot and went into the hallway to find Elizabeth being supported by his other servant, William Martin.   in evidence Martin testified that he had let Hollins in and called Elizabeth downstairs and she went outside with Hollins, leaving the front door open.   Hollins was detained at the scene by watchman Samuel Long and offered no resistance.   Long was close by and heard the shot so immediately ran to assist. Elizabeth succumbed to her wound on the following Sunday.   The post-