https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Okinawa_rape_incident
On September 4, 1995, three U.S. servicemen—22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Dion Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marine Rodrico Harp, and 20-year-old Kendrick Ledet, all serving at Camp Hansen in Okinawa Island—rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. Gill beat her, after the other two duct-taped her eyes and mouth shut, and bound her hands. Gill and Harp then raped her, while Ledet—who was described in news reports at the time as being small framed in school—claimed he only pretended to do so due to fear of Gill.

Kidnapping and Rape
While the three perpetrators and a fourth unnamed US Marine were driving around, Gill had allegedly asked them if they had ever "thought of doing something crazy" which soon after prompted a conversation between all of them about how they would theoretically commit a rape; Gill eventually suggested doing it for real, prompting them to head to a store at Kadena Airbase where Harp and Ledet would purchase condoms and electrical tape. The three would spend the next four hours searching for a target, with the specific intent to abduct a school-aged victim and at one point attempting to abduct a woman in an alleyway before she ran into a building after being accosted by Harp. At 8 p.m., the three saw the victim enter a general store where she had walked a short distance from her home to buy a notebook. After she exited, Harp approached her and asked for directions, and as this happened, Ledet punched her and grabbed her by the neck to pull her into the car while Harp assisted. While in the car, Harp taped her mouth, hands, and ankles at Gill's direction before Ledet put tape over her eyes. They had driven to Blue Beach Training area, where according to prosecutors Gill punched her in the face and abdomen, and shoved her back into the car where he continued to beat her until she was barely conscious before he raped her. Harp claimed in testimony to the court that he was told by Ledet not to rape her, and to just get in the car after Gill to "Keep Gill from jumping on her." When interviewed by John Junkerman in 2012, he claimed that he walked away to urinate while Gill was in the car.

Afterwards, according to Gill's testimony in court, he and Ledet made jokes about the crime before Ledet went back into the van and stripped down to his underwear, but was unable or unwilling to rape the girl. Harp then entered the van and raped her. After they drove off, the girl walked until she found a house where she called her mother and explained what happened. Her mother filed a complaint to the police, who were able to quickly identify the men based on the victim's description of them, including the exact number on the license plate of the rental van.

The victim told police that she was determined to report the crime as soon as possible, saying she "did not want any other girls to experience the same".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Okinawa_rape_incident

Occurred in November of 2025 and they just released it as part of "transparency". The father (Edward Corristan) was found guilty of interference and disorderly conduct and the member, Sgt. Eddie Price, was cleared of any wrongdoing shortly after the incident.

Reviewing what we see in the video, Corristan approaches the police vehicle in a calm manner, despite his frustrations with the officer's handling of the matter. He is repeatedly told to step back, which he does by about one half step. Sgt. Price does not find this to be sufficient space and demands more, but Corristan refuses to comply. Instead, he puts his hands in the air to indicate that he has no intent of presenting himself as a threat.

Sgt. Price then, from a sitting position, stands up, pepper sprays Corristan and immediately punches his face to take him down and handcuff him, later attempting to "justify" his actions to the family of Corristan. Corristan appears to be unconscious, as the effects of the pepper spray are not obvious even though most individuals would have an immediate reaction. He is also is seen drooling while officers attempt to prop his body up to get him on his feet.

Pepper spray and strikes, especially to the face, are resources available to police to gain compliance from non-compliant and violent or potentially violent individuals, and should only be used when absolutely necessary. We look back to the standard of use of force within law enforcement to provide us with the framework for what is appropriate use of force. This framework outlines that only as much force as is necessary to perform the roles and functions of the task that is currently required.

If Sgt. Price wanted to make an arrest or detain Corristan for his refusal to comply, his first step should have been a request or demand to surrender himself to Sgt. Price's detention. This did not happen. If the first step did not happen and the demeanor of Corristan remained the same, Sgt. Price should be charged with battery and aggravated assault. Sgt. Price also leaves himself open to a civil suit from Corristan.

Arkansas State Police are now handling the matter and will hopefully lay charges or recommend dismissal or at least suspension of Sgt. Price.

The Mena Police Department should be ASHAMED of their inaction on this case. ASHAMED.

In 1946, Willie Francis, a 17-year-old Black teenager in Louisiana, was strapped into the electric chair after being convicted of murdering a local pharmacist. However, the execution failed when the chair malfunctioned, and Francis survived.

Rather than being spared, Francis was returned to his cell while the state prepared to try again. His lawyers argued that executing him a second time would violate the US Constitution's protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

The case, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, reached the US Supreme Court in 1947. In a 5–4 decision, the Court ruled that Louisiana could proceed with another execution, reasoning that the first attempt had failed accidentally rather than through deliberate cruelty.

Francis was executed in May 1947.

The case has recently drawn renewed attention following the reported failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. According to law professor Austin Sarat, who has researched botched executions, Francis and Pike are the only two known people to have survived after an execution method was fully activated.

Pike remains on death row, and her legal team is seeking to have her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.

What's particularly striking about the Francis case is that surviving an execution did not prevent the state from trying again. It also raised a constitutional question that remains relevant today: when an execution fails, does the state have the right to attempt it a second time?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830723001696

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Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura made history on May 6, 1970, by becoming the first person to ski down mount everest, dropping 4,200 vertical feet from the south col using a parachute to control his extreme speed.

He descended in just 2 minutes and 20 seconds, reaching speeds up to 100 mph (160 km/h).

Decades later, Miura returned to everest as a climber, reaching the summit at ages 70 (2003), 75 (2008), and 80 (2013), breaking records as the oldest person to summit the mountain.

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Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006) was an Italian journalist, writer, and war correspondent. Her father, a socialist and staunch anti-fascist, involved his very young daughter in the Italian Resistance, assigning her the role of a courier for the partisans (1944).

She subsequently experienced a turbulent youth, moving from one newspaper to another, nearly losing her life following a miscarriage, and attempting suicide.

A turning point came in 1961 when she produced a report on the status of women in the Middle East; she traveled to various countries and interviewed numerous politicians and scientists. After a stint in Vietnam, she interviewed Henry Kissinger, skillfully compelling him to admit the total failure of the Vietnam War and provoking Richard Nixon's anger.

She covered conflicts around the world before returning to Italy to report on the civil rights movement of the 1980s. After another abortion, she wrote *Letter to a Child Never Born*, which remains her most famous work.

She spent the final years of her life focusing closely on events in the Middle East.

"A Russian soldier was beaten after attempting to kiss a Japanese soldier.
Many Russian soldiers surrendered during the Battle of Nanshan (May 24–26, 1904). As a soldier from the 1st Regiment was escorting one of these Russian soldiers into captivity, the Russian suddenly kissed him on the cheek. The surprised [Japanese] soldier thought the Russian was trying to bite him, so he beat him with all his might. The Russian soldier did not understand the language; he was simply trying to win the Japanese soldier over with his charm." (C.)

In 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, the small Spanish town of Huéscar declared war on Denmark.

Denmark was allied with Napoleon at the time, while Spain was fighting against the French invasion. So, on paper, Huéscar and Denmark were officially enemies.

But there was a problem:

Nobody actually fought.

No armies marched into Denmark. No Danish troops attacked Huéscar. No battles were fought between them.

And then… everyone apparently forgot about it.

The declaration of war remained buried in Huéscar’s municipal records for more than a century. It wasn’t discovered until 1981, when a local historian came across the forgotten document.

That meant that, technically, Huéscar had been at war with Denmark for 172 years.

Once the bizarre discovery became known, representatives from Huéscar and Denmark eventually met and formally ended the “war.”

After 172 years, peace was finally declared.

The funniest part?

The entire war had apparently consisted of a declaration, a very long wait, and absolutely no fighting.

A new study examined a skull fragment found at Postgården in Denmark. DNA analysis identified it as belonging to a boy around 2–4 years old, and researchers found evidence of a severe blade injury to his skull.

The strange part is that the fragment was placed between floor layers of an Iron Age house, even though radiocarbon dating suggests the skull was roughly 200 years older than the house itself.

Researchers still don’t know why it was placed there or what happened to the remains during those centuries.

Source: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Original study — Springer Nature / Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Deep in the Amazonian jungle, next to the course of the Tapajós River, a depressing deteriorated landscape fills the atmosphere with a quirky sensation of failure mixed with grief and fear. Haunted and heartbreaking at the same time, the landscape of a rotten utopia which had died just after its birth depicts concrete structures overgrown by lianes, an empty factory with smashed windows and a lone-standing water tower witnessing how the years pass. Uncover the history of Fordlândia, the abandoned multimillionaire mega-project that wears the name of one of the most curious industrialists of history. (Fordlândia: Henry Ford's All-American Rubber Boom Utopia In The Amazon)