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Russian serial killer Eduard Seleznev was arrested in March 2018, and was soon found to have killed three people before liquefying their bodies and consuming them. [296] On 30 October 2018, a father and son were arrested in Saltivka, Kharkiv, Ukraine, after being accused of beheading an ex-police officer, aged 45, and consuming his body. [297]
In 1916 she was arrested and spent two years in prison. After the war, she received numerous honors from the governments of France, Belgium and Great Britain, and wrote a memoir entitled I Was a Spy! [114] Gabrielle Petit spied for the British Secret Service in Belgium. She was executed in 1916 and became a Belgian national heroine after the ...
Alvin York. Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. [1] He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least ...
Photo: Imperial War Museums. The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary.
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls (Land Lassies). [1] The Land Army placed women with farms that ...
War in Afghanistan. Iraq War. Fort Devens is a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Due to extensive environmental contamination it was listed as a superfund site in 1989.
American women in World War I. 1917 poster encouraging American women to participate in the war effort. World War I marked the first war in which American women were allowed to enlist in the armed forces. While thousands of women did join branches of the army in an official capacity, receiving veterans status and benefits after the war's close ...
Comfort women. Korean comfort women being questioned by the United States Army after the Siege of Myitkyina, August 14, 1944 [ 1 ] Native name. Japanese: 慰安婦, ianfu. Date. 1932–1945. Location. Asia. Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories ...