"Italian Diver Enzo Maiorca While Diving Into Siracusa Sea Felt Something Patting Him On The Back. He Turned Around And Saw A Dolphin, Which He Understood That He Did Not Want To Play But Express Something"
"The dolphin dived and Enzo followed. At a depth of twelve meters trapped in a net there was another dolphin. After managing with his daughter to release it, as the two dolphins emerged they emitted an almost human cry (this is how Maiorca described it).
Dolphins can be held under water for up to ten minutes then drowned. The trapped dolphin was a female who soon gave birth.
The male surrounded them and standing in front of Enzo touched his cheek (like a kiss), a gesture of gratitude. Enzo finished his speech by saying:
′′ Until man learns to respect and communicate with the animal world, he will never be able to know his true role on this Earth. ′′"
"Bob Fletcher, A Man Who Took Care Of The Farms Of Three Japanese American Families While They Were Interned During World War 2"
"By keeping their farms running and paying their taxes and mortgages, he ensured the families didn't lose everything. He was even shot at for supporting them."
"On Sept 5th 1942, United States Navy Messman Charles Jackson French Successfully Swam Through The Night For 6-8 Hours Pulling A Raft Of 15 Wounded Soldiers With A Rope Around His Waist In Shark Infested Waters"
"French was the first black swimmer to receive the Navy medal of heroism in 1943."
"In 1962, A 37-Year-Old Man From England Named Brendon Grimshaw Suddenly Quit His Job And Bought A Small Island In The Seychelles For About $10,000"
"The island was called Moyenne and, at the time of purchase, had been abandoned for 50 years.
Everyone thought the man was crazy. Brendon eventually moved to the island permanently as its sole inhabitant.
While most people tend to buy islands for luxury, Brendon had a broader vision. He wanted to restore the island to its raw beauty, creating a natural paradise completely uncontaminated by man and tourism.
For the next 40 years, Brendon lived alone on the island; he managed to plant 16,000 trees by hand, built 5 km of nature trails and attracted around 2,000 new birds to the island.
Brendon had transformed a desert land into an island of incredible beauty, Moyenne was so beautiful that Brendon was offered 50 million dollars by a Saudi prince, but he turned it down.
Since Brendon died in 2012, the island has been owned by the Moyenne Island Foundation and is now a national park available to all thanks to his efforts."
"Zinaida Portnova, Known For Having Taken The Lives Of More Than 100 N**is By Poisoning Their Food At Just 16 Years Of Age"
"She was captured by the Gestapo and while being interrogated, she disarmed the N**i detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she ex**uted 2 more N**is."
"Harriet Tubman, A Tiny Little Woman , Aged 90, Of Less Than 5 Feet Tall, This Brave Soul Rescued Seventy People From Slavery. In This Final Photograph Taken Of Tubman, She’s Frail, And In Near-Constant Pain"
"When she was a young woman and still a s***e herself, her master had forced Harriet Tubman to help tie up a runaway s***e who had been recaptured. She flat-out refused, at great personal risk.
When the man ran away once more, she stood in the doorway, holding on to the doorframe and refusing to move an inch… an overseer threw a heavy piece of metal at her head, which damaged her skull and brain. For her entire life, she suffered severe headaches and could barely sleep.
And there she sits. Every bit the Queen she was. Her body is broken, mangled, aged. Her head in pain, tortured by never ending migrained. But she survived slavery. Helped many others survive it, too. And made it to old age in spite of it all."
"Dolly Parton Was Born In A One-Bedroom Cabin In Rural Tennessee. Her Dad Was A Sharecropper Who Couldn't Read"
"As the family grew, the older children got more responsibilities and Parton the fourth of 12 children had to look after her younger siblings. Today, she spends her millions on those in need."
"A 67-Year-Old Woman Has Planted More Than 2 Million Trees In The Dessert In North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region In The Past 12 Years To Fulfill Her Son's Dying Wish"
"Before he died, a Chinese student Yang told his mother that he wanted to return home from his studies in Japan and plant an entire forest.
He was worried about the environmental problem of his country and wanted to change something there. Because they lived in a desert-dominated part of China that was not accessible by car, "Inner Mongolia" seemed to him the ideal ground for afforestation and the realization of his dream.
Unfortunately, he soon died in a car accident. His mother Yi Jiefang gave herself the task of fulfilling her son’s wish, so for 20 years she continuously planted trees in the desert in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.
Through planting trees, she wanted to plant the seeds of hope for those who have experienced the loss of a child. In order to afforest, she sold her house in Shanghai and some other material things, and her son's insurance policy also helped her buy a lot of seeds and accessories for work. She said that she could not take the money with her, but that the trees would still remain, and together with her husband, she founded an entire organization that aims to green China as much as possible."
"When She Was Just 19 Years Old, Civil Rights Activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Was Sent To Death Row For Two Months — For Joining The Famous Freedom Rides Across The Jim Crow South"
"In 1961, she and a group of Freedom Riders were arrested in Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" and held at a maximum security prison. There, Mulholland sat on death row before she was ultimately released. But despite the harrowing experience, she refused to abandon the civil rights movement. Months later, she became the first white student to enroll in the historically Black Tougaloo College. While there, she met Martin Luther King Jr. and participated in sit-ins at segregated diners, where she endured abuse from countless white supremacists and segregationists.
Though Mulholland is now 79 years old, she has remained active in modern civil rights causes as much as she can. "I'm not marching anymore," she said. "My knees have been operated on too much. But I can make signs. I can offer to put people up in my house.""
"In 2011, A Brazilian Fisherman Rescued An Oil-Covered Penguin And Nursed It Back To Health. Since Then, The Penguin Swims 5,000 Miles Each Year To Visit Him, Spending The Rest Of The Time Mating In Argentina"
"George, Jack Russell Terrier Who Saved Five Kids From A Vicious Attack By Two Savage Dogs"
"Peter Mutabazi's Journey From A Tough Childhood In Uganda To Becoming A Devoted Foster Dad In USA Is Inspiring. After Adopting Tony A 13-Year-Old Abandoned At A Hospital, Peter Built A Loving Home And Now Advocates For Foster Children Everywhere Showing The World The Power Of Compassion"
"Nicholas Bostic, A 25-Year-Old Pizza Delivery Man From Lafayette, Indiana, Ran Into A Burning House To Rescue 4 Children, Who Told Him There Is One More Inside. He Ran Back Inside Found The Six-Year-Old Girl, Jumped Out Of A Window And Carried Her To A Cop, Who Captured The Moment On His Bodycam"
"Frank Sinatra Was A Fervent Anti-Racist And An Early Activist. He Refused To Stay At Hotels And Play At Clubs That Did Not Admit Black People"
"His band would also provide equal pay and treatment for black musicians. It was through his relentless and tireless efforts that Las Vegas quickly became integrated.
In an interview in 2016, Frank Sinatra, Jr. had this to say about his father: "In the days when Las Vegas began to become popular, the black performers could play in showrooms, but they couldn't stay in the hotel. And it was Frank Sinatra who went to the board of directors, who had rather shady pasts, and he said, 'Are you guys going to come into the twentieth century, or aren't you?'... Somebody said 'Well, we have white people, we have black people." Sinatra, the story goes, said to them, 'The money is green. How about that?' And they began to look at each other, and the wheels were turning, and because of Sammy (Davis), Las Vegas became integrated."
"Iqbal Masih, Sold Into Bonded Labor At Age Four, Worked Long Hours Weaving Carpets For Almost No Pay. After Escaping At Ten, He Helped Free 3,000 Children And Spoke Globally Against Child Labor. Tragically, He Was K****d At Age 12, But His Legacy Endures"
"This Midwife At Auschwitz Delivered 3,000 Babies In Unfathomable Conditions Stanislawa Leszczyńska Was Instructed To M**der Babies, But Refused"
"Most of the babies died or were k****d, but the ones with blue eyes were taken away. Only about 30 of the newborns delivered by her survived Auschwitz.
"In the Auschwitz camp, I also acted as a midwife, because many women in the arriving transports of prisoners were pregnant. I worked there day and night without a replacement, in the most terrible conditions. The maternity ward was generally infected, full of vermin, dirt, and infectious diseases.
There was a lack of water, which I had to fetch myself, and bringing one bucket of water to wash the mother and the newborn took about twenty minutes."
She is a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic church."
"Jonathan Goldsmith, Aka The Most Interesting Man In The World From The Dos Equis Commercials, Has Been An Advocate For Landmine Victim Support, Has Assisted The Effort To Prevent And Cure Cancer In Dogs, Save The Siberian Tiger, And End Child S*x Trafficking In Cambodia"
"Carl Braden Was Arrested And Sentenced To 15 Years In Jail Because He Had The Audacity To Purchase A Home For A Black Veteran In The 1950s Who Wanted The Home But The Real Estate Agent Didn’t Sell To Negroes"
"He bought the home and then resold it to the Negro veteran.
The veteran and young family moved in and their house was attacked., shot at and bombed. The veteran had a young wife and a two year old child."
"Douglas Brent Was An American Navy Petty Officer Who Was Taken Captive During The Vietnam War, He Was Considered Dumb By His Captors And They Gave Him The Nickname "The Stupid". He Acted Like An I******e, Refusing To Speak, Instead He Continuously Hummed A Song"
"Throughout his imprisonment, he remained in a similar state, to the extent that the Vietnamese captors believed he had some form of cognitive impairment.
Upon his return to the United States after his release, Bent recited the names of about 256 fellow POWs who were being searched for by the US military.
Remarkably, Bent had memorized the names by associating them with the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," which he had used previously to hum during his captivity."
"That's Interesting"
"In 1925, a deadly diphtheria outbreak affected the lives of 10,000 + in Nome, Alaska. With the weather to harsh to fly in the anti-toxin. Togo the Husky lead the sledge dog team that delivered the serum, traversing 674 Miles at 12 years old."
"As A Black Woman Growing Up In Nova Scotia In The 1910s And 1920s, Viola Desmond Faced Her Fair Share Of Discrimination. Denied Entry To Many Beauty Schools, Desmond Studied Instead In Montreal And New York City, And Later Opened Up Her Own School So That Black Women Could Become Beauticians"
"Throughout Wwii The N**is Lived In Terror Of The Night Witches, An All-Female Flying Squad That Dropped A Whopping 23 Tons Of Bombs On The German Forces Invading Their Homeland"
"Consisting of young women aged just 17 to 26, they overcame extraordinary misogyny to fly some 30,000 deadly missions."
"In 2014, 3-Year-Old Karina Chikitova Survived 11 Days In The Siberian Wilderness With The Help Of Her Dog, Naida. She Foraged For Berries, Drank From A River, And Stayed Warm By Cuddling With Naida. The Dog Eventually Guided Rescuers To Her Location After She'd Gone Missing"
"The faithful dog had remained by her side for nine days, kept her warm, and ensured the hungry wildlife never got close to Karina.
Karina was reunited with her companion when she was released from the hospital.
Instead of warmly greeting Naida, Karina scolded the dog for leaving her alone, demanding to know why her companion would leave her in the wilderness all by herself.
However, as time went by, Karina was able to understand that the dog essentially saved her life."
"In 1973, An Elderly Janitor Died In A Hospice. His Name Was Henry Darger. A Kindly Old Man, He Mostly Kept To Himself. No One Knew Him As Anything Else Than Just, The Janitor. The Landlord Of Darger Had To Clean Out The Old Man’s Room, When He Passed"
"It was only then, upon cleaning the room out, that they discovered paintings. Drawings. Etchings. Writings, endless pages and papers… Darger literally created thousands of pieces of art.
A novel spanning nearly 15,000 pages. He had been incredibly productive, for well over sixty years. And most remarkable of all? He had never told a soul. He lived and died in Chicago, Illinois, and for his entire life, he kept his art a secret to the world.
Henry Darger lived for 81 years. Each day after he clocked out at work, he went home to create art at night. Hours upon hours of writing, revising, drawing, etching. He left no family and the landlord became a multi-millionaire selling the works. Darger is now one of the world’s most famous “outsider artists”. And died never knowing it."
"A Violinist Played For 45 Minutes In The New York Subway. A Handful Of People Stopped, A Couple Clapped, And The Violinist Raised About $30 In Tips. No One Knew This, But The Violinist Was Joshua Bell, One Of The Best Musicians In The World"
"In The Spring Of 1908, Three Women Entered The Longchamp Racecourse In Paris Leaving Everyone Speechless"
"The elite society event was known for showcasing the latest creations to the public, but no one had ever seen fashion like this before.
Dressed in blue, white and tan creations, according to the newspapers, spectators called the three women a "monstrosity", accused them of being half-naked and showing revolting cleavage. It was these three dresses, however, that forever changed fashion that day and launched the twentieth-century silhouette.
The creator was Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix, a young Parisian designer who had taken over her mother's historic fashion house and was starting to gain popularity in turn-of-the-century Paris for her corseted dresses featuring minimal boning and thicker material. elastic.
Long before Lycra or Spanx came along, she soon began making dresses made of stretch silk jersey, which outlined the hips and thighs and slimmed the figure. To present her creations to society, she hired three beautiful models and chose the Parisian runways of 1908 as her catwalk."
"In 1948, Tony Signorini Walked On Florida Beaches At Night Wearing 30 Lb. Three-Toed Lead Shoes. People Believed The Footprints Were From A 15 Feet Tall Penguin, Thought To Be Extinct. He Kept Up The Prank For Ten Years And Revealed The Hoax 40 Years Later"
"This 600-Year-Old Painting Is One Of The Most Mysterious In History"
"This 600-year-old painting is one of the most mysterious in history. That mirror at the back is just 3 inches wide — yet it reflects the entire room in immense detail.
Look closer at it and you'll realize nothing is as it seems…
Jan van Eyck's masterpiece is an ordinary portrait: Italian merchant Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, Costanza."
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True. But, thankfully they were defeated in our last Presidential election.
They were defeated in Germany yesterday too, by a huge margin. Maybe there won't be anymore arrests of peaceful Christians speaking ill of child murdering islamics. But, I won't hold my breath.
are you on drugs? your last presidential election ensured that the facists are now in power.
or are you refusing to belive what your own eyes actually see?
You conveniently don't know what "fascist" means. But, you leftists aren't known for being very intelligent.
They keep trying to redefine terms and history to fit their agenda.
must be all that free speech!
No. We use Nazi as a descriptive, it's about par with "stupid" and "ugly". I thought the blocking was due to European standards (all the people who refuse to believe in the Holocaust).
I think that's what they call "free" speech.
You mean censorship? That's the opposite of "free speech".
Izi, we're big kids, we can handle the truth!