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"Let us remember the deeds of our forebears, for their faith lights our path." -Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts

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On this day, May 5th, 1821, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of Saint Helena at the age of 51.

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Final farewell letters from the miners trapped in the Fraterville Mine, Tennessee, 1902. All 216 miners inside the mine perished.

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CHRIST IS RISEN!!!

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German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, early WWII.

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On this day, March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated.

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German soldiers on the Eastern Front, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1942.

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106-year-old Armenian woman defends her home against Azerbaijani invaders with an AKM, 1990.

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On this day, February 13th, 1945, Dresden, a cultural hub and refugee center, was firebombed for three days straight by "Allied" forces. 1,200 bombers used indiscriminate targeting, resulting in mass civilian deaths. Churchill supported the bloodlust bombings, targeting neighborhoods and hospitals. Approximately 35,000 to 100,000 innocent people (mostly women, children, and the elderly) perished.

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U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Dalton
Gunderson of the 3rd Marine Division checking the area for Viet Cong during Operation Virginia, Vietnam, 1966.

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On this day, February 5, 1971, Apollo 14, the third crewed American mission to land on the Moon.

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The graves of a Roman Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, buried in two separate burial grounds in the Netherlands.

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The Day the Music Died
On this day February 3, 1959, American musicians Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17), and J.P. Richardson (28) were killed in a plane crash along with 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.

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The Nijmegen helmet is an elite Roman cavalry helmet unearthed in the Netherlands in 1915. The helmet dates back to the first or second century AD.

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On this day, January 30, 1945, the German refugee ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and wounded military personnel from East Prussia. It was hit and sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13 of the Red Fleet. An estimated 9,600 German civilians and wounded soldiers were killed, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.

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Space Shuttle Challenger.

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On this day, January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 AM. It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight.

Names of the crew members:
•Dick Scobee, Commander.
•Michael J. Smith, Pilot.
•Ronald McNair, Mission Specialist.
•Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist.
•Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist.
•Gregory Jarvis, Payload Specialist.
•Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist, Teacher.

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On this day, January 24, 1989, American serial killer, Ted Bundy was executed by electric chair.

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Neil Armstrong photographed by Buzz Aldrin shortly after walking on the moon, 1969.

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On this day January 17, 1991, Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm.