DRAMATIC HISTORY PICTURES

World War One Images (Life)(LARGE IMAGES)

2011-04-17T00:33:00.000-07:00

Below is a montage of large pictures from World War One.

Stunning Large Color Images From The VIETNAM WAR (Life): Part 2 (LARGE COLOR PICTURES)

2011-04-15T02:19:00.000-07:00

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Stunning Large Color Images From The VIETNAM WAR (Life): Part 1 (LARGE COLOR PICTURES)

2011-04-15T02:05:00.002-07:00

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World War Two In Cartoons By DAVID LOW

2011-03-23T02:01:00.000-07:00

The unpredictable moods of Hitler. November 1939 November 25, 1939. Hitler always had his eyes on the east October 21, 1939. Low foresaw that war would break out between Russia and Germany sooner or later Norway attacked by Germany. As Hitler's armies move through Belgium in 1940, the dead Germans of 1914-18 seem to advise it to stop In October 1941, the German army had reached the

World War Two In Cartoons By ILLINGWORTH

2011-03-22T06:46:00.000-07:00

The following are cartoons by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, the great British cartoonist, about the Second World War The League Of Nations was in despair. As France and Britain were dealing with German aggression, Russia was picking on little Finland Churchill warns that staying neutral is not going save little nations from Nazi aggression. Same point As Chamberlain and France look at a

Many Faces Of Men Of The Wehrmacht

2010-06-15T06:55:00.000-07:00

Capital Punishment The World Over

2010-02-14T04:11:00.000-08:00

Capital punishment is a very complex issue. Simplistic folks say a person guilty of big crimes deserves to die; that they are a danger to society if left alive. But things are not so simple. That is why the debate rages on throughout the world on the issue. All countries are guilty of executing in the most brutal and inhuman manner. Even the United States. The United States has public

Obama's eighteen months Afghanistan deadline is absurd

2009-12-08T21:46:00.000-08:00

The world cannot just shake hands with Afghanistan and say byeObama was facing three conflicting pulls on Afghanistan. One was the military; McChrystal wanted more troops. Second was the increasing public opinion in the US. People are tired of the war which is going on for eight years with no improvement in the situation. The body count is rising all the time. Folks are worried about employment

Why is India weak?

2009-12-02T22:22:00.000-08:00

The other day Chinese soldiers shooed away workers who were building a road on the Indian side of the border. Now China has openly said it does not want India building roads so close to the border. Hello! Excuse me! The Indians are free to do whatever they want to do on their land. Did the Chinese ask India's permission when they build the Lhasa railway? And Tibet is not their land. It was

Afghanistan will show us what Obama actually is. All gas or a man of steel?

2009-12-02T21:24:00.000-08:00

Obama's speech in Cairo brought tears to our eyes. But what is the situation in the Middle east today? The same. Netanyahu told the Americans to take a walk when nudged to roll back Jewish settlements. And the Obama administration has meekly capitulated. Obama could not withstand the might of the Jewish lobby.He could not stand up to what he believes. It hardly seems likely that the Palestine

The man who almost assassinated Adolph Hitler: Claus von Stauffenberg

2009-09-12T01:26:00.000-07:00

The family man: Claus Stauffenberg with wife Nina Baronesse von Lerchenfeld, Baroness von Lerchenfel. They married in 1933. Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 20 July 1944) was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler (Operation Valkyries) and remove

Pictorial history of the Eastern (Russian) Front: Second World War

2009-09-11T23:17:00.000-07:00

Hitler at a German victory military parade at Warsaw on October 5, 1939. Occupation of Poland gave Hitler a road into Russia. Barbarossa came almost two years later in June 1941. The assault on Russia began on June 22, 1941. Some German generals had misgivings about the date. They felt it had begun a month too late. They knew about the harsh Russian winter which had defeated Napoleon's armies

The 'Hindenburg' airship disaster, 1937

2009-09-08T07:53:00.000-07:00

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on March 14, 1899. Given the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the term zeppelin in casual use came to refer to all rigid

MOST DRAMATIC WAR PICTURES!

2009-09-06T00:06:00.000-07:00

This post is a montage. Different wars are the background. The common thread through all the pictures is that they are all dramatic. US soldiers die in sniper fire in Iraq U.S. Soldier Shot by Iraqi Sniper FIRST WORLD WAR: A trench is hit a second time and the remaining German soldier flies in the air to his death An American soldier casts a side ward glance at a fallen comrade, a

Living with Swine Flu all over the world!

2009-08-22T06:49:00.000-07:00

Living with Swine Flu in Malaysia: A teacher and students wear face masks as a precaution to the swine flu pandemic during an examination at a Kuala Lumpur school. He hates it! So do we all! The cure? Tamiflu capsules made by Roche Much awaited: A vial of an experimental H1N1 swine flu vaccine during early trials with medical volunteers at the University of Maryland in Baltimore A woman wears a

North Korea: The bad boy of world politics

2009-06-09T23:21:00.000-07:00

North Korea is proving to be as big a headache as Libya's Mohammed Gaddafi once was. It has continued testing its missiles. It has tested nukes. Worse still, it is ready to sell the nuke technology to any nation willing to pay for it. It sold missile technology to Pakistan and some say to Iran.It recently conducted a missile test in which the missile went soaring over Japan giving that country

The fall of General Motors

2009-06-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

Alfred Sloan was no genius like Henry Ford, but the organisational structure (Needs of customers first. Professional managers report to the head office with strict financial controls) that he gave to General Motors in 1920 was emulated by all companies throughout the world.It worked well for a few decades but it started to fail and proved inflexible and ineffective when the world economic

George Soros' take on the global economic crisis

2009-06-09T05:33:00.000-07:00

George Soros is a hedge fund manager par excellence, a legendary speculator and a philanthropist. He was lousy in Maths and hated it when at the London School of Economics. He retired but returned to the markets after he lost some money in the sub-prime triggered market crash, and made another $2 billion.His remedy for the present economic ills? Regulation. No more laissez faire.According to him

Bermuda Triangle involved in Air France flight 447 disappearance?

2009-06-03T22:51:00.000-07:00

The Brazilian air force has detected some debris of the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing else has been found yet. Only when the ships reach the area can one hope of detecting the debris of the plane in the ocean bottom.For the passengers and crew of the flight it was a horrible end. A storm was raging in the area then. Some say it was struck by lightning. But to die

Attacks on Indian students: Xenophobic and racist Australia?

2009-06-02T23:11:00.000-07:00

ATTACKS ON INDIAN STUDENTS The image of Australia as a student's paradise has taking a severe beating with the recent reported attacks on Indian students. Other things apart, Australia cannot afford to let the attacks continue. Indians constitute half of the foreign students in the country. The Australian international education business is estimated to be at 15 billion dollars.No wonder the Rudd

Taliban attack on ISI Lahore office: Beware, the ISI still helps the Islamist groups!

2009-05-28T00:11:00.000-07:00

Pakistan has been bestowed the dubious distinction of having the second largest number of terror deaths (after Iraq). The Lahore blast near the ISI office on May 27, 2009, was one more grim statistics of the saga of terror in Pakistan. Last year some 2,300 people died in terrorist attacks in the country, according to America's National Counter-terrorism Centre. The blast was so powerful that it

Taliban in Pakistan: US wages of sin

2009-05-21T23:02:00.000-07:00

Pakistani President Zardari rightly said a few days back that the Taliban was a US and Pakistani creation. In 1979 when the Soviets occupied Afghanistan, the US and the CIA threw in everything they had into Pakistan and armed all those willing the Soviets army. The Taliban was one of them. The ISI forged close links with it, links which exist till this day.As Stratfor says Pakistan is doing a

Indians want results: Congress won because it delivered

2009-05-18T00:58:00.000-07:00

Many political commentators say that the Indian voter is darned smart and he votes for the country as a whole. Meaning he takes a pan-Indian view when voting.The truth is far from that. The voters have voted for leaders who have delivered. The NREG scheme and farmer loans write-off went well with the voters.The Congress played its cards well. Rahul is turning out to be a great strategist. He

Sri Lanka will have to treat Tamils as equals and with respect

2009-05-17T23:49:00.000-07:00

The LTTE (or the leaders who are alive) has accepted defeat. The Sri Lankans are in a euphoria. But the LTTE alone did not represent the Lankan Tamils. Far from it. There is a big Tamil population around the world that will not forget the way Sri Lankan army went about finishing off the LTTE not caring a damn about the Tamil civilians.The Tamil population has suffered greatly. Both the LTTE and

The human side of LTTE supremo Prabhakaran

2009-05-14T23:35:00.000-07:00

Vellupillai Prabhakaran might be the supremo of the most ruthless terror organisation in the world that invented suicide bombing, but he was human too. He is seen here with his eldest son Charles Anthony. Groomed as the successor? Might have been the dictator of Eelam one day if things had gone differently.Prabhakaran with his wife Mathivathani and his son Balachandran The dutiful son and the