Around 80 Caribbean women joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), including Sonia Thompson from Kingston, Jamaica. The majority travel to Britain to enlist.
Eleonore Prochaska (1785-1813) disguised as a man by the name of August Renz and joined the Lützow Free Corps in 1813. Serving first as a drummer and then as infantryman in the fight against Napoleon, she was heavily wounded in the battle of the Göhrde near Lüneburg. This was also when field surgeons discovered her true identy. Prochaska succumbed to her wounds three weeks later.
North Korea. The image is from a military parade in North Korea for 65th anniversary of Workers' Party in 2010. The parade, however, was probably less about showing off the country's military might than about introducing the heir to the North Korean people and building up his image as the next leader, according to Baek Seung-joo, a North Korea analyst at South Korea's Korea Institute for Defence Analyses.
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