Quest’anno l’hackmeeting si fa a Palermo dal 26 al 28 settembre. Il posto si chiama Ask 191 e la gente è sempre la stessa e di sicuro se ne aggiungerà ancora. (via Femminismo a Sud)
[…] After driving into town and sending a money order to one of his employees, he [Ruby] walked the short distance to the nearby police headquarters. There is some evidence it was on a whim, […] when he shot and fatally wounded the 24-year-old Oswald on Sunday, November 24, 1963, at 11:21 am CST, while authorities were preparing to transfer him by car from police headquarters to the nearby county jail. Stepping out from a crowd of reporters and photographers, Ruby fired a snub-nosed Colt Cobra .38 into Oswald’s abdomen. When Ruby was arrested immediately after the shooting, he told several witnesses that his killing of Oswald would show the world that “Jews have guts,” that he helped the city of Dallas “redeem” itself in the eyes of the public, and that Oswald’s death would spare Jacqueline Kennedy the ordeal of appearing at Oswald’s trial. […] Later, however, he claimed he shot Oswald on the spur of the moment when the opportunity presented itself, without considering any reason for doing so. (via Photos that Changed the World)
From 1936 to 1939 Robert Capa photographed the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. Historians eventually succeeded in identifying the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García and proved it authentic. This is the best-known picture of the Spanish civil war. (via Photos that Changed the World)
Ice Storm hits Geneva
Switzerland, January 27th 2005, After a conjunction of intense cold (-8 to -12 degrees Centigrade), plus very strong winds, blowing at over 100 kmh (70 mph) the waves got so harsh that they passed over the dikes and the droplets immediatly froze everything they touched (via Photos that Changed the World)