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Warning: Sensitive photo upcoming. Scroll past if you don’t like seeing pictures of famine victims.

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Victims of the Mount Lebanon Famine, Ottoman Era.
After the overthrow of the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid the Second by the Young Turk organization, the Ottomans adopted a policy of “Turkification” which aimed at forcibly Turkifying the non-Turkish citizens of the Ottoman Empire. The Young Turks, influenced by their Nazi German allies, designated the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian populations of the Empire for extermination. (The infamous Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides).
The Maronites of Lebanon, however, they decided to exterminate by means of a famine: throughout World War 2, the Ottomans banned the import of grain into Mount Lebanon and siezed farmers’ lands for the Ottoman Army, resulting in a famine that killed one third of the Maronite population.
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Thanks for the photo @Salibi .

It would be inappropriate to give it a “like” .

But it’s good of you to make us remember these evil events .
 
Inside St Luke’s Church, which is better known as ‘The Bombed Out Church’ at the top of Bold Street, Liverpool .

The church was hit by an incendiary device dropped by the German Luftwaffe during their bombing campaign of May 1941.

It was decided that the Bombed Out Church was to remain standing, serving as a memorial to 4,000 people killed in the blitz on Liverpool .

My mum used to tell me that when they looked to the west during WW2 and saw the night sky glowing red they knew that Liverpool was having it hard .

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The monastery of Saint Anthony of Qozhaya in Kadisha Valley, the spiritual center of the Maronite Church.

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The heart of Christian Lebanon: the town of Becharré, the birthplace of Lebanese writer, poet, and sculptor Gebran Khalil Gebran, with the Cathedral of Mar Saba to the right.
 
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Old photos of the Pyramids at Giza

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Roman Forum, 1880

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Colosseum, 1870s

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Arch of Titus, Rome (circa 1860-1881)

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Mugshot of young Josef Stalin by Tsarist police
 
Outdoor confessionals

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Nine Kings in one photo ,1910 at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII .

Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians.
Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

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Notre Dame du Liban- Our Lady of Lebanon.

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Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, photo by Paul Saad.
 
Prisoners wearing pink triangles on their uniforms because they were gay are marched outdoors by Nazi guards at the Sachsenhausen

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Most Rev. Thomas James Conaty, Bishop of the Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, photo from 1899. Bishop Conaty was born in Kilnaleck, County Cavan, Ireland, in 1847, and died in California in 1915. I post his photo here on St. Patrick’s Day to express gratitude for the great number of Irish priests and religious sisters who left their homeland to serve in America, and especially in Los Angeles, my home.

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Galway , Ireland .

The Claddagh, Co. Galway city, 1901

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Street vendors, The Quays, Galway city, 1902

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Cattle market, Galway city, 1901

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The head of the Statue of Liberty on display at the Paris World’s Fair, 1878.

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Bride On Her Way To Wedding, Fuzhou Fujian China [c1911-1913]

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Group Photograph of Bhutia People of Darjeeling – 1860’s

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From an African safari album of 1920s

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