YESTERDAY TODAY JUNE 26, 2025

Today’s Photographs – Enjoy!!!

Image: An Armenian woman is seen kneeling beside her dead child in a field within sight of help and the safety of Aleppo, Syria, during the Armenian Genocide, 1915.

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Image: Two students sharing a rocking chair at Macalester College, Minnesota. 1890s.

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Both images: Mata Hari – The Glamorous First World War Double Agent

An icon of female espionage, Margaretha Zelle, also known as Mata Hari, was initially renowned for her talents as a dancer and courtesan and was a popular figure in Parisian cabarets during the Belle Époque. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Mata Hari was recruited as a spy by the Germans due to her connections within the Parisian elite. One year later, France offered her a job spying on the Germans. She agreed to use her charms to extract information from her clients—this time the Germans. Suspected of counterespionage by the French authorities, Hari was convicted and executed by firing squad at the Château de Vincennes in 1917.

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Image: Brutus – Redemption At Knifepoint

On March 15, 44 BCE, upon arriving at the Roman Senate for a meeting, Julius Caesar was attacked by a group of senators and stabbed twenty-three times. One of these blows was inflicted by his former protégé, Marcus Junius Brutus. A few years earlier, Brutus had opposed Caesar by siding with his rival, Pompey, during one of the Roman Republic’s civil wars. Caesar prevailed in the end but chose to pardon Brutus, offering him a position in the Senate.

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Image: A group of defendants in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch trial, 1924. Adolf Hitler is 4th from the right.

The Munich Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup attempt by Adolf Hitler and his followers in November 1923. The event took place in Munich, Bavaria, and aimed to overthrow the Weimar Republic and establish a nationalist government.

On the evening of November 8, 1923, Hitler and around 2,000 Nazi supporters, including the SA (Sturmabteilung) and other paramilitary groups, gathered at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall. Hitler announced the coup and declared his intention to march on Berlin to seize power1. The next morning, the Nazis marched through the streets of Munich, but they were met by a police cordon at the Feldherrnhalle, a central square in the city. A confrontation ensued, resulting in the deaths of 15 Nazis, four police officers, and one bystander.

Hitler was arrested two days later and charged with treason. He was tried and sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison, where he wrote “Mein Kampf” with the help of fellow prisoner

s. Although the Putsch failed, it brought Hitler national attention and allowed him to use his trial as a platform to spread his ideas. After serving only nine months, Hitler was released and focused on gaining power through legal means, eventually leading to his rise to power in Germany.

The Munich Beer Hall Putsch remains a significant event in the history of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, highlighting the early attempts at revolution and the eventual shift to political strategy.

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Image: Amelia Earhart arrives at East Boston Airport in a Ford Trimotor. July 1920.

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Images: Southside Chicago in 1941.

#Chicago1940s

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Image: British model, Jenny Clare, posing next to her Leyland Mini. London, 1972. 

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Michael Mc Nelis, 8 years old, a newsboy. This boy has just recovered from his second attack of pneumonia. He was found selling newspapers in a big rainstorm today. Philadelphia, Pa., June 12, 1910.

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