Some experiments with severed heads
Antoine Joseph Wiertz: Guillotined Head (1855). Musée Antoine Wiertz, Brussels. Early on the morning of 18 February 1848, two men and a woman walked into the square in front of the Porte de Hal, in...
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Riflemen Andrew and Grigg (center)—British troops from London—during the Christmas Truce with Saxons of the 104th and 106th Regiments of the Imperial German Army. Even at the distance of a century, no...
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Cher Ami, an American veteran of the First World War, was credited with carrying the message that saved 200 men of the “Lost Battalion” during the Battle of the Argonne in 1918–despite losing a leg...
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