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Atlantis captured her 13th victim since leaving Germany eight months earlier:
SS Automedon, a British merchantman.
Upon learning that the
Automedon was to be sunk once the boarding party returned, a passenger from the
Automedon, Mrs Violet Ferguson, pleaded with the captain to retrieve her luggage first. Kapitan Rogge relented and the boarding party were informed.
The SS Automedon of the Blue Funnel Line. Photo courtesy of www.wrecksite.eu
Second Officer Donald Stewart had kept the German boarding party from discovering the strongroom but, when Leutnant Ulrich Mohr asked he be shown to the room where the luggage was kept, Stewart was crestfallen. Stored in the same room were 125 British mailbags.
A 1936 Coup Attempt in Japan Holds Lessons for the US
The February 26 Incident in Japan may prove a prescient parallel to the insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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February 22, 2021
Rebel troops returning to their barracks after the failed 2/26 coup in Japan.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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Plenty of people have compared the January 6, 2021 attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to the beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution in summer 1966. Donald Trump’s order to “fight like hell” and Mao Zedong’s exhortation to his supporters to “bombard the headquarters” seem eerily aligned, and the violent tribalism of both the Trumpist Capitol invaders and China’s Red Guards is undeniable.
Russia s most infamous traitors
Andrey Vlasov in 1943. Getty Images Of all theVlasov. Through his efforts, tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war started fighting on the side of the Nazis against their Motherland. Russian traitors in history, perhaps, the greatest damage was done by collaborator Andrey
1. Ivan Mazepa
Portrait of Ivan Mazepa. Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum
Ivan Mazepa was one of the few people who enjoyed Peter the Great s unconditional trust. As hetman (ruler) of Left-bank Ukraine, which was then part of Russia, he faithfully served the Russian monarch for many years, and for which he received the highest state award - the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle – from the hands of the tsar himself.
Controversial Rising Sun Design Removed From Street Fighter II s Re-Release
Capcom Arcade Stadiumcame to Switch yesterday, and people are already finding new secrets and updates in the various arcade games within.
In the latest discovery, Twitter user @pomegd (h/t Kotaku) noticed that part of the E. Honda bathhouse stage has been removed for the re-release of Street Fighter II: the Rising Sun which previously had been painted on the tiled wall.
The wall before, and after.
The Rising Sun flag has been around for centuries, but eventually became known as the flag of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, and therefore as a symbol of imperialism. As a result, it is a controversial image across many parts of East Asia, in countries like South Korea, which was under Japanese rule until the end of the Second World War.