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An Ode To A Girl Child They can nourish you like a calabash,  Some don't mind spending all their clash.  Many will come and promise not to go,  They only  wants to lick you like a mango.  Men in love with body are ubiquitous,  They'll  call you names such as precious.  Their thrist is to suck your standing Breast,   All the thirst, is to quench their carnal thirst.  They are identified when everything got fall,   When the body's beauty fall like Jerecho's wall,  Like chased tenants by landlord, they will all leave,  For the beauty has faden like a fallen leaf.  Not a saint, but this is a bittersweet advice,  Son's of Adams are hunting the carnal device.  @Sati Reuben (Guru)

Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904 A Congolese man looking at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter who was killed, and allegedly cannibalized, by the members of Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company militia. The photograph is by Alice Seeley Harris, the man’s name is  Nsala . Here is part of her account (from the book “Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris”):  He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom h

JOE GALLOWAYS Joe Galloway-UPI Galloway, who died Aug. 18, was the only civilian to be awarded the medal of valor in the Vietnam War. He later co-authored  We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young .  Originally broadcast in 1992 and 2003. DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. Former war correspondent Joe Galloway, the only civilian awarded a Medal of Valor by the Army for combat action in the Vietnam War, died last week at the age of 79. We're going to listen back to excerpts of two interviews with him. As a 24-year-old UPI correspondent, Galloway was at the first major battle of the Vietnam War. He collaborated on the bestselling book about that battle called "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam." He wrote it with the man who led that campaign, Lieutenant General Harold Moore. The book was also made into a film. Galloway later wrote for U.S. News and World Report and for Kni

The Hidden Holocaust: How King Leopold II Murdered 10 Million Africans. The horrors in the Congo at the hands of Leopold do not elicit the same outrage as compared to the mentioning of evil men like Hitler. King Leopold II The relentless pursuit of profits in the Congo by King Leopold II resulted in one of the worst levels of moral decadence for mankind. The colony in the Congo – the Congo Free State – was personal property for the Belgian king and there was little oversight over what happened there.  King Leopold II committed heinous atrocities in the name of chasing profits and raising the prestige of Belgium. The genocide in the Congo is one of the most forgotten pieces of history, but the damage has been long-lasting. From 1885-1908, the Congo Free State under the personal rule of King Leopold II was living hell. The scramble for Africa by European countries was an intense one, and Belgium, under the monarchical rule of King Leopold II did not want to be left out. Leopold had alway

Belgium's Black Hand Fetish: How Antwerp Hand-Shaped Chocolates Mock Chopped African Hands Belgian hand-shaped chocolates were made to celebrate the fall of a mythical giant who terrorized merchants. In real life, Belgium became the giant terrorizing the Congo and the chocolates have taken on a new meaning. Legend has it in ancient Belgium's City of Antwerp, a giant named Druon Antigon once terrorized merchants who crossed the Scheldt River. He demanded toll fees he had not earned and would punish any disobedience by hacking off the right hands of his unfortunate victims.  Like all good stories, a hero - Silvius Brabo, rose above the tyranny and cut off the giant's hand. To seal the deal, he threw that hand that wrought so much evil into the same river that once was the nerve centre of terrible Antigon's rule. To this day, the city of Antwerp sells hand-shaped chocolates (Antwerpse Handjes) in celebration of Brabo's heroics and the consequent death of the giant'

About 200 rescue workers carefully freed the trapped man ASTONISHING photos show how a man was wedged between mountain rocks in the Cambodian jungle for four days before being rescued. Sum Bora, 28, was wedged between mountain rocks in the Cambodian jungle for four days before being rescued Cops said Sum Bora, 28, slipped into the tiny crevice on Sunday while trying to retrieve his flashlight, which had fallen in the small rocky hollow. The man had been collecting bat droppings in the Chakry mountain jungle in the northwestern province of Battambang when he fell. His worried family began searching when he didn't return after three days, Cambodia's Fresh News reported. Sum’s brother found him and alerted authorities to his location in the mountains. About 200 rescue workers carefully freed the trapped man by destroying bits of the rock that had pinned him in an effort that took about 10 hours, police spokesman Sareth Visen said. The 28-year-old man was freed at about 6pm on Wedn

Vietnam War: The Early Years through rare photographs, 1965-1967 Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, in March of 1965. On May 07, 1954, Viet Minh forces won the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and ended French involvement in Indochina. This victory led to the Geneva Conference where the French and Viet Minh negotiated a ceasefire agreement.  (Note: the other part of this photo collection:  Vietnam War: Escalation and Withdrawal through rare photographs, 1968-1975 ). Under the terms of the Geneva Accords, France agreed to withdraw its troops from Indochina while Vietnam was temporarily divided into North and South Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh and Bao Dai respectively, at the 17th parallel. Civilians were able to move freely between two states for a 300-day period. General elections were to be held within two years, by Jul