January 17, 2025
Tag: Edith Cavell
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Edith Cavell: a Postcard Caused Her Murder
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It seems that the stories of war live forever. One such story is the tragic death of Edith Cavell who died in October 1915 by a German firing squad. The story is related to us by at least three sets of postcards. Read on ….
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July 13, 2022 2 Comments
In 1909, a male and female kidnapping team took Billy Whitla out of school and demanded a $10,000 reward. It’s good that most criminals aren’t smart people. It makes them easy to capture; they were arrested only miles away the next day. The boy was returned to his family, but the story still has a sad ending.