Tom Hiddleston as Loki Laufeyson in Thor: Ragnarok
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“She sees his interaction with her dragons and it’s an attractive quality for her.”
You’d think a girl would learn…
Neuroimaging.
The Lake Bodom Murders
Lake Bodom is a lake in Finland, located on the suburbs of Espoo. It’s approximately three kilometres in length and on kilometre in width. In the early morning hours of 5 June, 1960, it was the scene of a brutal triple murder of young campers. Maila Irmeli Bjorklund and Anja Tuulikki Maki were both 15-years-old. Accompanying the two friends on their camping trip were their boyfriends, Seppo Antero Boisman and Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, both 18-years-old. They pitched their tent close to the lake and spent the evening fishing.
Between 4AM and 6AM, Maila, Anja, and Seppo, were all stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Nils was the sole survivor of the attack, sustaining a concussion, fractures to the jaw, bruises to the face, and stab wounds. Nils would later say he had no recollection of the attack due to shock. An investigation revealed that the killer never entered the tent and instead, attacked the teenagers from the outside of the tent. Several items belonging to the teenagers were stolen, including a wallet, some clothing, and Nils shoes. Due to the bloody footprints found outside, it was evident that the killer had been wearing Nils shoes when he fled the scene. Approximately 500 metres from the crime scene, some of these items, including the shoes, were discovered discarded and partially hidden. Nils’ girlfriend, Maila, sustained the most vicious injuries - her underwear had been removed and she had been stabbed multiple times post-mortem. Several young boys who were birdwatching would come forward to claim they saw a blonde man walking away from the collapsed tent at approximately 6AM.
Over the course of the investigation there have been several suspects. One of the prime suspects was Karl Valdemar Gyllstrom, a kiosk vendor at Lake Bodom. He was known for his aggressive behaviour towards campers and shortly before his death, he confessed to his neighbour that he had killed the teenagers. In 1969, however, Karl coincidentally drowned in Lake Bodom - it’s unknown if it was intentional or accidental. His wife provided an alibi for Karl for the night of the murder, saying he was fast asleep at home but shortly before she passed away, she claimed that this alibi was fictional and that he had threatened to kill her if she did not cover for him. Another prime suspect throughout the investigation was Hans Assman, an alleged KGB spy. The day after the murders, he checked himself into the Helsinki Surgical Hospital. He was said to be extremely dishevelled, with black fingernails, and something red staining his clothing. The doctors who saw him that afternoon were adamant that the red staining was blood. Hans had blonde hair which he sloppily chopped off after a description of the attacker, as given by the birdwatchers witnesses, was released in the media. His clothing was said to match the description of the clothing given by the same witnesses. Nevertheless, he was never brought in for questioning but several books have been written about him and he has been linked to several others unsolved murders in Finland. In fact, a man who looked strikingly similar to Hans was photographed at the funeral of the victims.
The case went cold until 2004, when Nils Gustafsson, the sole survivor, was arrested on suspicion of murdering his friends. The reason Nils was arrested was because of DNA testing that had been carried out on his discarded shoes. Nils defence contended that the shoes must have been stolen from him and worn by the killer but the prosecution argued that Nils was the killer and had thrown away his shoes afterwards in an attempt to conceal his guilt. The prosecution claimed that Nils wanted to have sex with one of the girls and killed them all in a fit of rage. Ultimately, the court agreed with the defence. They believed that the eyewitnesses that spotted a blonde man leaving the crime scene were credible and it was unlikely that he could have inflicted his own wounds himself. He was acquitted of all charges and the case still remains unsolved.
One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it. And the Others smelled the hot blood in him and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds…
The tale of the Last hero told by Old Nan to Bran Stark
31-year-old Joan Risch lived in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with her husband, Martin, and their two children. On 24 October, 1961, Martin went on a business trip to New York, leaving his wife at home with their children. The morning was an uneventful one, with Joan running her regular errands before putting 2-year-old David, her son, down for a nap. As David was napping, Joan sent her 4-year-old daughter, Lillian, over to a neighbour’s house to play with their son, Douglas. What took place next is shrouded in mystery.
Later in the day, Lillian arrived back home before showing up at the neighbour’s house once again, wailing that her mother had disappeared and that there was “red paint all over the kitchen.” An investigation revealed that the paint the little girl described was actually blood. Investigators concluded that the blood was from a superficial wound. The phone had been ripped from the wall and beside it lay the phone book, open at the emergency phone numbers page, although no calls had made. Nothing appeared to be out of place and nothing had been stolen, ruling out robbery. Drops of blood led to then David’s nursery, where he remained untouched, and then the blood led to the kitchen and then out to the car. An attempt had been made to mop some of the blood up.
Authorities immediately thought that an abduction had taken place but some eyewitness statements complicated this theory. Douglas’ claimed that they had seen Joan earlier in the day. She looked dazed and confused and was running outside her house, wearing a dark trench coat. The neighbour also said it appeared as though she was carrying something red as she ran towards the garage. She confessed that she had assumed that she was chasing one of her children. Several motorists also reported seeing a woman that matched Joan’s description, walking near a highway construction site, with what appeared to be blood on her legs. Even more bizarrely, instigators discovered that Joan had check out numerous library books in the run up to her disappearance; all of these books were about murders and disappearances. One book was, suspiciously, about a woman who faked her own disappearance; leaving behind her own blood to make it more believable.
Many people theorise that Joan, bored with her marital life after abandoning her publishing career in New York City, staged her own disappearance. If this is true or not, Joan has never been found and nobody has been charged with her disappearance.
Red Army sodliers enjoying some classical music played by a Russian tank driver. Shot in Breslau (now Polish town named Wroclaw)
Soviet soldiers moving up a canon to the attack position during a battle
American bomber flying over a site on fire
Soviet and American soldiers and officers meet over Elba river in Germany in the final days of WW2
This is the highest award of the former USSR - a medal “Gold Star” also known as “Hero of the Soviet Union”. Only 12,800 were ever awarded. This one was awarded to Alexander Matveev, an ace pilot, in 1943. He was only 22 years old when he became a Hero. Based on wikipedia, Matveen died in 1982. I don’t know how his star came to the market, most likely it was sold by his relatives in 90’s (a common story for most Soviet awards). The box with red velvet is also an original one. Large and small diplomas that usually came with the Star, unfortunately, are missing.
Another one from my good friend@collector86. Give him a follow. Lots of interesting historical stuff coming soon.
My soul made love
to your soul.
Long before
our bodies met.
to your soul.
Long before
our bodies met.
(via thelovejournals)
(Source: thelovejournals)