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SgtMaj Edward P. Grealish served three tours in Vietnam with honor and commitment during his years in the United States Marine Corps. Like many veterans of the Vietnam era, his service carried lasting consequences that continued affecting health and family long after returning home from war. According to his family, SgtMaj Grealish passed away following cancer connected to Agent Orange exposure. For many Vietnam veterans, exposure to herbicides during the war later became associated with serious long-term illnesses that impacted thousands of service members and their loved ones across generations. Beyond rank and uniform, Edward Grealish is remembered by family as a father, Marine, and veteran whose life and service mattered deeply to those around him. Today, we honor his memory and extend gratitude for the sacrifices carried not only during military service, but throughout the years that followed afterward. Awards Bronze Star with Combat "V" for valor, Three awards of the Purple Heart Medal Two awards of the Navy Achievement Medal Three awards of the Presidential Unit Citation Eight awards of the Marine Corps Good Conduct, along with many other unit awards

Most people walk past the Félix Potin building on Rue de Rennes without realizing how radical it was when it opened in 1904. At a time when Paris was obsessed with carved stone façades, architect Paul Auscher used molded concrete decorated with Art Nouveau details instead. More than a century later, the turret still looks surprisingly modern compared to many neighboring buildings in Saint Germain. The Félix Potin building was originally created for one of France’s biggest grocery chains, which feels funny when you look at how elaborate it is. Today we expect supermarkets to sit inside boring boxy buildings, but back then major stores wanted architecture that made people stop in the street. And this one definitely did. The concrete exterior is what makes the building stand out. Concrete was still relatively experimental in Paris architecture at the start of the 20th century, especially for decorative façades like this. The molded floral details, curved windows, and rounded turret gave the whole thing a softer look that fit perfectly into the Art Nouveau movement happening across Europe at the time. Rue de Rennes itself is usually busy, noisy, and full of people shopping or rushing somewhere else, so it is easy to miss details overhead. That happens constantly in Paris. Some of the city’s best architecture is several stories above eye level. If you stop for thirty seconds and actually look up here, you notice how much effort went into a building that was basically a grocery store. The area around Saint Germain is packed with famous cafés and expensive boutiques now, but buildings like this remind you that Paris was also experimenting heavily with modern materials and design during the early 1900s. It was not all Haussmann stone façades and postcard views. 📍 Rue de Rennes, 6th Arrondissement, Paris

An antique Art Nouveau glass vase made by Johann Loetz Witwe.

This is what old Cologne looked like before the war. Lost forever. The city lost 91 of its 150 churches in bombing raids between 1940 and 1945. Thankfully the great Kölner Dom survived, but countless Romanesque churches were obliterated. 90% of the central areas were levelled. In one incendiary bombing campaign in May 1942, over 15,000 buildings were destroyed in 90 minutes. What wasn't hit by a direct blast was consumed in the fire. Most of the city was later built back in brutalist concrete, and with density too low such that it completely erased the charm of the medieval town.

28th May, 2009 Lance Corporal Kieron Hill, aged just 20 from Nottingham, and of 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters) was killed by an explosion whilst on operations near Garmsir, Helmand Province, Afghanistan Lest we Forget this brave young man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

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"Maayan was in a huge puddle of blood" Maayan Idan (18) was killed by Hamas on October 7th in front of her parents, a horror her mother Gali recounted to BBC News. First, a gang of terrorists came to their house during the 10/7 invasion of Israel, per BBC. "There's no lock on the door and the kids are screaming and there's crazy chaos inside the room. It's dark, but then Maayan understood," Gali said. She continued recounting that horrific day. "They're screaming 'we don't shoot', and then they shot. My hudband Tsachi yelled 'who's been hit, who's been hit?' And it was Maayan. She fell next to him, and then Hamas were able to open the door. There were screams, and they turned on the light." "Maayan was in a huge puddle of blood. I checked her and realised she'd been hit in the head, and she was critically wounded. They yelled to us to get out of the mamad. We just told the kids 'don't look', and I led them out." Maayan's dad also witnessed the shooting. "He saw his daughter die, he saw her getting shot in the head and die next to him. His daughter that had just celebrated her 18th birthday. The house is full of balloons, and congratulations, and… and blood." Maayan did not make it. She was only 18💔

There really is no other city on earth like Venice.

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28 May 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Simone Kastenbaum, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 31 August 1942 in a transport from Drancy. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.

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This photograph, taken on May 20, 1948, shows Three Affiliated Tribes chairman George Gillette wiping away tears as U.S. Interior Secretary Julius Albert Krug signs the Garrison Dam Agreement. The agreement authorized the flooding of 156,000 acres of valuable land belonging to the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples. Surrounded by tribal leaders and government officials, Gillette spoke of the painful loss, saying they were giving up the best part of their reservation and that the future looked uncertain. The most haunting photos ever taken: bit.ly/46yA996

Remembering the legend Lieutenant Colonel H Jones VC OBE Killed in action on 28th May, 1982 during The Battle of Goose Green Lest we forget "H" and the brave men who fell and were injured too at Goose Green 🇬🇧🙏

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Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, boulevard Saint-Martin. 1911. Paris 10e

Francine Christophe was only a child when the world began trying to erase her.... Born in Paris in 1933 to a French-Jewish family, she was still young when her father, a French army officer, was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a POW camp. Somehow, from behind barbed wire, he managed to smuggle a coded warning to his wife: leave Paris immediately. It likely saved their lives. But safety never came. Francine and her mother were arrested in 1942 while trying to escape to the free zone. Because her father was officially a prisoner of war, they were temporarily spared the immediate fate suffered by so many other Jewish families. Even so, they were shuffled through internment camps, including Drancy, before finally being deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. And this is why her name matters. Not because she led armies. Not because she held political power. But because, inside one of the cruelest places human beings ever created, she made a choice that reminds us what humanity actually looks like. Francine’s mother had managed to save two tiny pieces of chocolate for her daughter. In a concentration camp, chocolate was not a treat. It was survival. It was calories. Hope. Strength. Nearby was a pregnant prisoner in labor, starving and fading. Francine gave her the chocolate. That woman found enough strength to deliver her baby girl. Both mother and child survived. Think about that for a moment. A child imprisoned in a death camp gave away one of the only comforts she had left to save someone else. Years later, Francine met the little girl who had been born that day. History often teaches us about war through generals, borders, and battles. But people like Francine Christophe force us to confront something deeper: even in places designed to destroy compassion, human beings still found ways to protect each other. That is why we should know her name. Because survival is remarkable. But kindness under those conditions feels almost unimaginable. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

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La Samaritaine in Paris, France, is a famous department store known for its beautiful Art Nouveau architecture. It was founded in 1870 by Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jaÿ.

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