These haunting Korean War pictures lay bare this devastating conflict about which so many Americans know so little. A Korean girl walks past an M-26 Tank.U.S. Navy A soldier comforts his fellow infantryman. In the background a corpsman fills out casualty tags.Wikimedia Commons U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul, circa late September 1950.Wikimedia Commons A girl sits alone on the streets of Inchon following an offensive attack against North Korean forces in the city. Read More...
Reality TV shows are notorious for pushing people to the brink — and sometimes to murder.Reality television draws numerous critics and massive ratings due to its razor-sharp focus on eliciting conflict. When all-out conflict is the reality TV producer’s ultimate goal, what’s at stake for the show’s “actors?” What happens when production takes things too far and that conflict bleeds into real life?
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Bridget Bishop: The First Woman Hanged During The Salem Witch Trials Public Domain“Execution of Bridget Bishop at Salem, 1692.” Illustration by Joseph Boggs Beale. Circa 1885.
Even before the Salem witch trials, many suspected that Bridget Bishop was a witch. Her second husband Thomas Oliver had even claimed as much, saying, “She was a bad wife… she sat up all night with the devil.”
It didn’t help Bishop’s case that Oliver — and her first husband — had died. Read More...
