christmas

In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War which depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and...

Died yesterday in Mexico and won't be able to ring in the New Year, four days left and young guys keep on dying around the world!!! :Christmas Tree:

The body of Ghandi al-Sahmarani, also known as Abu Ramez, leader of the Islamist group Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of Damascus), is seen at the morgue in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port of Sidon on December 25, 2010, after he was found...

Handsome 23-year-old Russian TV star Andrey Kadetov was stabbed eleven times in Saint Petersburg on Christmas day and died from his injures yesterday, Russian media report. The young man has been taken to the morgue where he spent Christmas naked on a table, very likely with mouth and eyes...

I had a horrible Christmas this year, not that previous ones were any better but this one was particularly fucked-up. As I already posted in another thread we exchanged our Christmas presents and everyone liked what they got...but exactly at midnight a thunderstorm struck, with gale force winds...

This is in Brazil, almost can't tell as his room is surprisingly tidy! Shot in Dec 2008, just days before Christmas.

A drunk father stabbed his 21-year-old son three times with a screwdriver in the head yesterday, on Christmas eve. Paramedics couldn't do much and the guy croaked before reaching hospital. The media didn't want to announce the news on Christmas, by it's a small country and the story got posted...