THE FALL OF SINGAPORE THEY BEHEADED ENEMY SOLDIERS, BURNED PRISONERS ALIVE, INVADED HOSPITAL KILLING THE PATIENTS WHERE THEY LAY IN THEIR BED'S PLUS THE NURSES AND DOCTORS,

the fall of Singapore they beheaded enemy soldiers, burned prisoners alive, invaded hospital killing the patients where they lay in their beds plus the nurses and doctors,

their Australian and British POW were worked and often bashed to death when they were forced to build the Burma-Thailand Railway, they say say one death for every sleeper laid.

Singapore, city of silk shirts, colonial grandeur, Singapore Slings at The Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, peanut shells, Change Alley, merchant shipping and the infamous Merlion, not to mention the best chicken satay anywhere in the world.

Nowadays the city is a melting pot of cultures, a haven for ex-pats and a centre of tourism.

However, there is a lot more to this ex-British colony than its culinary expertise, financial finesse and adventurous nautical history.

This tiny sovereign island nation was the scene of the largest surrender of British-led forces ever recorded in history.

 Singapore is a sovereign island nation, sandwiched between Malaysia and Indonesia in South-East Asia.

At the time, it was considered by the British as their Gibraltar in the Far East, assumed to be just as impregnable and certainly as valuable as it’s European counterpart.

Singapore was, and indeed remains, the gateway to the rest of Asia. If you control Singapore, then you control a huge proportion of the Far East.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the British forces stationed in Singapore epitomized the British military idea of officers and gentlemen. The atmosphere was very much one of colonial sociability.

The Raffles Hotel was as synonymous with military life for many officers as the heat, tin hats and khaki uniform and not forgetting the ever-present Japanese threat.

However, as prevalent as this threat may have been, there was an air almost of lethargy among the colonial forces stationed there at the time.

An attack was expected, but victory for the British forces was considered a foregone conclusion.

Singapore was designed as a formidable fortress and thought impregnable. This arrogance was to contribute to the eventual downfall of the British forces.

When the Japanese did attack, it was indicative of their military prowess in the region at the time.

Their soldiers were ruthless, brutal and fearless, and the attack happened with a speed and savagery that took the British forces completely by surprise.

Encouraged not to take prisoners, simply to execute those in their path, the Japanese swept through Singapore with the force of a tsunami, leaving shock and destruction in their wake.

OVER THE COURSE OF TWO DAYS, 33, 771 JEWS WERE MURDERED IN THE BABI YAR RAVINE, LOCATED ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF KIEV, THE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE (USSR). A WEEK AFTER

 Over the course of two days, 33,771 Jews were murdered in the Babi Yar ravine, located on the outskirts of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine (USSR). A week after

In the summer of 1941, following Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, Germans and their allies and collaborators began mass shootings of Jewish men, women, and children in territory seized from Soviet forces.

These murders were part of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. 

Generally, the large-scale massacres are better known. This is because of the high number of victims, and the fact that the large-scale mass shootings were perpetrated close to bigger towns or cities. 

Among the largest mass shootings conducted soon after German forces entered the Soviet Union were the massacres at Kamenets-Podolsk (Kamianets-Podils’kyi) and Babi Yar (Babyn Yar).

On August 26-28, 1941, German SS and police units, supported by Ukranian auxiliaries, murdered 23,600 Jews at Kamenets-Podolsk in occupied Ukraine.

Then, on September 29-30, 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries murdered a large portion of the Jewish population who remained in Kiev (Kyiv) at Babi Yar.

At the time, Babi Yar was a ravine located just outside the city. According to Einsatzgruppen reports, 33,771 Jews were massacred during this two-day period.

After the massacre, the ravine at Babi Yar became a killing site where Germans murdered tens of thousands of people, mostly non-Jews, between 1941 and 1943. It is estimated that some 100,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar.

As with Babi Yar, the Germans established killing sites near other cities where they repeatedly carried out massacres.

Tens of thousands of people, most of them Jews, were murdered at each of these killing sites.

The most infamous of these sites were Fort IX in Kovno (Kaunas), the Rumbula and Bikernieki Forests in Riga, Ponary near Vilna (Vilnius), and Maly Trostenets near Minsk. At these killing sites, Germans and local collaborators murdered tens of thousands of local Jews.

They also deported tens of thousands of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from central Europe to these killing sites in 1941 and 1942. 

As many as 2 million Jews -- almost one third of the Holocaust victims -- were murdered in mass shootings.

A MAN CONVICTED OF RAPING AND MURDERING A 3 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS EXECUTED IN SANA'A ON MONDAY IN FRONT OF HUNDREDS OF ONLOOKERS, THE FIRST PUBLIC EXECUTION THERE SINCE 2009

 A man convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl was executed in Sanaa on Monday in front of hundreds of onlookers, the first public execution there since 2009.

"Security was very tight, because authorities were fearing a revenge attack by armed men from the Bani Matar tribe to which the girl's family belong," said Reuters photographer Khaled Abdullah, who witnessed the scene.

The police van transporting Muhammad al-Maghrabi, 41, to Sanaa's Tahrir Square was escorted by five police patrol vehicles. 

The execution drew a large number of onlookers, some perched up telegraph poles and many watching from rooftops.

The crowd started to shout "Allah is the greatest" when Maghrabi arrived.

"The man was escorted from the van to the middle of the square, and then the place turned to a complete chaos and I fought for a position to take pictures," Abdullah said.

"He tried to talk to the executioner, a police officer who was calmly smoking a cigarette as he stood next to him before pointing his AK-47 to his back from a very close distance.

"Soon he fired around four shots, and people realized that it was done, they rushed to the place and tried to take the body, but the police were able to take the body to the van and drove through the crowd out of the square."

Yahya al-Matari, the father of the murder victim, Rana al-Matari, told reporters after the execution he was satisfied.

"This is the first day in my life," he said. "I am relieved now."

Yemen has been devastated by more than two years of civil war between its Saudi-backed government and Houthi fighters who seized parts of the country in 2014 and 2015.

A MAN IN INDIA WAS STABBED IN THE NECK WITH A 150 YEAR OLD TRIDENT-YET APPARENTLY FELT NO PAIN.

 A man in India was stabbed in the neck with a 150-year-old trident — yet apparently felt no pain.

Bhaskar Ram, 33, was impaled by the ancient 1½-foot weapon during a fight with two men at his workplace in Kalyani on Nov. 28.

After being rushed to the hospital, Ram told the doctors he felt no pain. Pictures and video show an oddly calm Ram with the trident sticking out of his neck.

Ram was transferred to a hospital in West Bengal in order to receive specialized treatment for his injury, according to SWNS.

Graphic photo and video shows the weapon had entered the right side of his neck and went all the way through to the left.

The medical staff at Kolkata NRS Medical College in West Bengal allegedly had to wake up Dr. Pranabashish Banerjee at 3 a.m. so he could preform emergency surgery to remove the trident from Ram’s neck.

While the trident went straight through Ram’s neck, it somehow did not sever any veins or arteries. According to the doctor, only traces of blood were found outside Ram’s mouth

.“None of the vital structures were injured as the rod had miraculously missed the vital organs that included the carotid, internal jugular vein, trachea, esophagus, larynx, vertebra and the spinal cord,” Banerjee said.

Ram has recovered from the bizarre attack extremely well, according to the doctor.

SAALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM' IS ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFYING AND ABSURD FIRMS EVER MADE. THE STORY OF LORD MANNSY WORST FANTASIES AND HOW HE BRUTALLY EXPLOITS 18 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN.

 Saalo, or the 120 Days of Sodom' is one of the most horrifying and absurd films ever made.the story of Lord Mann's worst fantasies and how he brutally exploits 18 young men and women.

The film focuses on four wealthy, corrupt Italian libertines in the time of the fascist Republic of Salò (1943–1945).

The libertines kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism, genital torture and psychological torture.

The film explores themes of political corruption, consumerism, authoritarianism, nihilism, morality, capitalism, totalitarianism, sadism, sexuality, and fascism. The story is in four segments, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy:

the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood. The film also contains frequent references to and several discussions of Friedrich Nietzsche's 1887 book On the Genealogy of Morality, 

Ezra Pound's poem The Cantos, and Marcel Proust's novel sequence In Search of Lost Time.

Premiering at the Paris Film Festival on 23 November 1975, the film had a brief theatrical run in Italy before being banned in January 1976, and was released in the United States the following year on 3 October 1977.

Because it depicts youths subjected to graphic violence, torture, sexual abuse, and murder, the film was controversial upon its release and has remained banned in many countries.

The confluence of thematic content in the film—ranging from the political and socio-historical, to psychological and sexual—has led to much critical discussion.

It has been both praised and decried by various film historians and critics and was named the 65th-scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006.[4]

TODAY 109 YEARS AGO ILLUSTRATION OF A BRITISH SOLDIER LAYING IN A FIELD OF POPPIES BY @JENBETTON

 Today 109 years ago Illustration of a British soldier laying in a field of poppies by @jenbetton.

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust conceal'd;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,A body of England's, breathing English air.Wash'd by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

• The Soldier was written while Brooke was on leave at Christmas, 1914; it was the final sonnet in a collection of five that he entitled "1914" - his reflections on the outbreak of war. They were first published in the magazine New Numbers in January 1915.

Rupert Brooke never experienced front-line combat, but was sailing for Gallipoli with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force when he contracted blood poisoning from a mosquito bite.

He died on April 23 1915 (St George's Day), aged 27, and was buried on the island of Skyros, in an olive grove chosen by his friend William Denis Browne (who was killed at Gallipoli two months later). Recalling Brooke's death, Browne had written:I sat with Rupert.

At four o'clock he became weaker, and at 4.46 he died, with the sun shining all round his cabin, and the cool sea-breeze blowing through the door and the shaded windows.

No one could have wished for a quieter or a calmer end than in that lovely bay, shielded by the mountains and fragrant with sage and thyme."

Nineteen days before Brooke's death, on Easter Sunday, Dean William Ralph Inge had read The Soldier from the pulpit of St Paul's as part of his sermon.

That sonnet was published in the Times the next day to great acclaim - as, shortly after, was Winston Churchill's obituary of Brooke.

THE ROMANTIIZATION OF THE DEAD FEMALE BODY IN VICTORIAN

 The romantilization of the dead female body in victorian

The appearance of an important biography of Poe in France and the preparation of still another in America, the publication of his most widely-read poem with illustrations by Doré, and the prospective unveiling of a memorial tablet to his honor,

seem to furnish a fit occasion for inviting attention to a striking but hitherto unnoted characteristic of his poetry.

In fact, with the exception of a comparatively few closeted minds, the attention of the world has thus far been riveted upon the overwhelming sorrows of Poe's lot,

the mysterious inequalities of his moods, and the phenominal aspects of his career, rather than devoted to the critical examination of his works.

The retributive swing of the human mind, also, naturally bore it first to the rescue of his name and character both from the innumerable legends that grew up around them during his lifetime, and from the blunders and the malignity that overwhelmed them immediately after his death.

Thus, criticism, especially in America, has not yet spent its powers upon his literary remains, and thus it seems possible that a brief examination of his poems may serve to exhibit them in a novel and interesting light.

There are poets who claim all hours and all seasons for their own; but an almost constitutional concomitant of the poetry of Poe is night.

Of the more than forty pieces that comprise his poetical works a fifth are wholly night scenes, and in the composition of three-fourths the shadow of night fell athwart his mind and supplied it with its favorite imagery.

The remaining poems, with the exception of three, do not contain the element of time at all. Two of these mentioned as exceptions were written in his youth, before he had elaborated his views of the “Poetic Principle,” or his imagination had assumed its final cast.

Thus, among his later poems that contain the element of time, there is only one—“The Haunted Palace”—that may be called a day-scene; and when it is remembered that this poem is designed to describe the overthrow and ruin of a beautiful mind,

so that all the imagery introduced throughout merely expresses the contrast between reason and madness, even it will scarcely be regarded as a solitary exception.

Leaving it out of consideration, therefore, we may say that all his most beautiful poems, having any relation to time, belong wholly to the night, and from it draw their elements of power and pathos.

These, by general consent, are “The Raven”—the night of dying embers and ghostly shadows, of mournful memories and broken hopes; “Lenore”—the night of the bell-tolling for the saintly soul that floats on the Stygian river;

“Helen”—the night of the full-orbed moon and silvery, silken veil of light, of the upturned faces of a thousand roses, of beauty, clad in white, reclining upon a bed of violets; “Ulalume”—the night of sober,

ashen skies and crisp, sere leaves in the lonesome October, of dim lakes and ghoul-haunted woodland; “The Bells”—the night of the icy air through which the stars that oversprinkle all the heavens seem to twinkle with crystalline delight;

“Annabel Lee”—the night of the wind blowing out of a cloud, chilling and killing his beautiful bride in the Kingdom by the Sea; “The Conqueror Worm”—the gala knight in his lonesome latter years with its angel throng bedight in veils and drowned in tears; and “The Sleeper”—the night of the mystic moon,

exhaling from her golden rim an opiate vapor that drips upon the mountain top and steals drowsily and musically into the Universal Valley—the night of nodding rosemary and lolling water-lily—of fog-wrapped ruin and slumber-steeped lake.