Browsing: December 16

A Brief History On December 16, 1938, world famous dictator and villain Adolf Hitler directed his Nazi German Empire (Reich) to issue a new medal, one only for mothers of German ethnicity living within Germany or later within other areas incorporated into the Reich.  Digging Deeper In order to qualify for the award, the mother had to have given birth to at least 4 children and to have exhibited probity and exemplary behavior.  (Probity is having a strong sense of morality, honesty and decency.)  The medal was known as the Cross of Honour of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in German)…

A Brief History Today, we celebrate our 100th post by going back to December 16, 1838 when the Ncome River in South Africa became the Blood River at what is known as The Battle of Blood River where the river ran red with blood! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find the Boers, colonists of Dutch extraction, trying to settle land long owned by the Zulu Kingdom in what is now South Africa. The Zulu people were tall and physically imposing, living in large numbers with a warrior culture among their men and boys, and led by King Dingane.  The Boers,…