A Brief History On June 11, 1964, World War II veteran Walter Seifert went on a rampage at a Catholic elementary school outside of Cologne, Germany earning him a place on the list of history’s most evil people. He did not have a gun, but he did have a home-made flamethrower, a mace and a lance! Digging Deeper Seifert served in an anti-aircraft unit during World War II and became a policeman after the war. After he was found to have tuberculosis, Seifert was released from his job and began an odyssey through the government bureaucracy in an attempt to…
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Major Dan
Major Daniel Zar is a retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He served during the Cold War and has traveled to many countries around the world. Prior to his military service, he graduated from Cleveland State University, having majored in sociology. Following his military service, he worked as a police officer eventually earning the rank of captain prior to his retirement.
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A Brief History On June 10, 2016, 22 year old internet singing sensation Christina Grimmie was shot to death at an autograph signing after a concert in Orlando, Florida. The beautiful Grimmie rode her beautiful voice to third place on the 6th season of the television singing contest, The Voice. Digging Deeper A 27 year old Florida man, James Loibl, shot the singer 3 times before being tackled by Grimmie’s brother. Loibl then shot and killed himself during the struggle, his motives unknown at the time of this article. Grimmie had won a variety of music industry awards and had…
A Brief History On June 10, 1942, and again on June 10, 1944, the German army committed atrocities in Czechoslovakia (Lidice), France (Oradour-sur-Glane), and Greece (Distomo, Boeotia) in separate incidents. Slaughtering or massacring innocent civilians or prisoners of war was a sadly not uncommon practice of one of history’s most brutal regimes. Here we list 10 such examples of how rotten the Nazis really were, and thus why there should be no romanticizing about their “glory days.” Indeed, with good reason, multiple Nazis appear on the list of most evil people in history due to their many atrocities. Most of…
A Brief History On June 10, 1990, in an incredible tale of survival and an equally improbable freak accident, a British Airways pilot was sucked out of the windscreen of his jetliner and lived to tell about it. Digging Deeper Flight 5390 from Birmingham had taken off and was heading for Malaga, Spain (a beautiful resort town on the Spanish Costa del Sol) when the unthinkable happened. Without warning, the left panel of the windscreen blew off the plane and the captain was suddenly sucked out through the missing panel. Captain Lancaster had taken the jet to over 17,000 feet…
A Brief History On June 9, 1856, 500 Mormons left Iowa and headed for Salt Lake City, Utah. So eager to leave the religious persecution behind them, they started their trek on foot pulling 2 wheeled handcarts! Digging Deeper If you are familiar with the stories of Mormons walking to Utah and pulling handcarts, you might not know that only about 10 percent of the Latter Day Saints (what Mormons actually are called, or LDS) that traveled to Utah before 1868 made the trip on foot with handcarts. The other 90 percent had horse, mule, or oxen drawn wagons. Although…