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When a poor person’s body was laid to rest in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a good chance it had no rest at all. Rather than settling into an eternal sleep beneath the earth, their bodies were dug up and carried away to the operating theaters of medical schools and colleges. There they were dissected by surgical students learning anatomy and practicing operations they would later perform on living patients. Digging up the dead could ruin a reputation, but there were trades people who specialized in providing cadavers for doctors in training. They went by many names: body snatchers, grave robbers, resurrectionists. Although their efforts may have advanced the understanding of the human body, their work largely targeted the indigent, whose mortal remains were violated when the market demanded it. Changing time  While industrialization transformed the burgeoning populations of Britain’s major cities, medical science was undergoing a metamorphosis of its own. In the

Four men sentenced to death by hanging in Lagos A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping of Mrs Gloria Emole. The convicts, Ifeanyi Maduaka, Victor Chukwunonso, Obinna Nwankwo, and Richard Nwabueze, are said to have committed the offences on the 19 of November 2012 at about 8.30am. They were arraigned on a three count charge bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery and kidnapping on the 13 of July 2013, preferred against them by Lagos State and remanded in prison custody. Dr Babajide Martins, the state Director of Public Prosecution, told the court that they kidnapped the victim who was about to leave her house at 7, Unity Street, Ogudu GRA area of Lagos. According to the prosecutor, the offences committed are contrary to and punishable under Sections 297,285 (2)a and 291 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015. ”The victim was kidnapped on the 19 of November 2012 and was later released on the 22 of November 20

The "last of the last" of the World War II holdouts, Teruo Nakamura refused to believe the war had ended and lived in a tiny hut on Indonesia's Morotai Island until he was discovered in 1974. Many know the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who refused to believe World War II had ended and didn’t surrender until February 1974. While he is frequently referred to as the last World War II holdout, there is another lesser-known soldier who wasn’t discovered until ten months after Onoda. His name was Teruo Nakamura. By the 1970s, World War II had been over for nearly three decades. Young soldiers had returned home, started families, and entered middle age. But on Dec. 18, 1974, news broke that one man had never gotten the memo of the war’s end. Nakamura was discovered on the Indonesian island of Morotai, where he’d been stationed in 1944. After a bloody battle in September of that year, Nakamura had been presumed dead — but he was actually deep in the island’s jungle w

 "Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.  Trenches look like a butcher's bench even though the dead have been removed. There is blood, brains and scraps of flesh everywhere and flies are gathering on them. Whole lines of soldiers are lying in front of the positions, our passages are filled with corpses lying over each other in layers. And still, the heroic, grand impression given by this endless passage of death uplifts and strengthens us survivors. As strange as it may sound, here you become reacquainted with ideals, the total devotion to an ideal right up to the gruesome death in battle." Lt. Ernst Junger, 73rd Infantry Regiment Albrecht von Preussen, Hannoverian 19th D

  The Battle of Hürtgen Forest  was a series of battles fought from September 19 to December 16, 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, a 54 sq mi area about 3.1 mi east of the Belgian–German border. It was the longest battle on German ground during World War II and is the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought. The Germans fiercely defended the area because it served as a staging area for the 1944 winter offensive, the Battle of the Bulge. After several heavy setbacks, the Allies failed to capture the area, and the Germans successfully held the region until they launched their last-ditch offensive into the Ardennes on December 16 and ended the Hürtgen offensive.  The US Army suffered over 33,000 casualties. In the end, Hürtgen Forest was of little strategic value and the fierce battles that took place were overshadowed by the American victory in the Battle of the Bulge.  Thanks for reading leave your though

  A final cigarette... then the hangman's noose: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country's first execution in six years Blindfolded, his hands bound, a condemned prisoner puffs desperately on a final cigarette. Just a few minutes later he and two others are led up a short flight of stairs, nooses are placed around their necks before a trapdoor opens beneath their feet. This is justice Kuwait-style. The Gulf-Arab state hanged three convicted murderers today, the first executions to take place there since 2007, state news agency KUNA reported. Sentenced to death: Three men hang from the scaffolding in Kuwait in the first executions in the country since 2007 Last cigarette: A Saudi man is allowed a final smoke before being led to the gallows One of three men convicted of murder and awaiting execution is seen before being hanged, outside the Central Prison of Kuwait One of three men convicted of murder and awaiting execution is seen before being hanged The three were