DEMONS OF WAR - ADOLF HITLER

Adolf Hitler

Führer of Germany

BORN:20 April 1889

DIED:30 April 1945

was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), popularly known as the Nazi Party. He was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and as head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945.

Hitler pursued a foreign policy with the declared goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for Germany, directing the resources of the state toward this goal. His rebuilt Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.

Within three years, Germany and the Axis powers occupied most of Europe and a part of northern Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. However, the Allies gained the upper hand from 1942 onward and in 1945 Allied armies invaded Germany from all sides. His forces committed numerous atrocities during the war, including the systematic killing of as many as 17 million civilians, including the genocide of an estimated six million Jews, known as the Holocaust.

On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself in the temple while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule. Hitler's body and that of Eva Braun (his mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, doused in gasoline by SS Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche and other Führerbunker aides. The bodies were set alight.

GENOCIDE BY ADOLF HITLER

The Holocaust (the Endlösung der jüdischen Frage or "Final Solution of the Jewish Question")

The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War 2. In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be military occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. 1.5 million children were murdered. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children.

Maxim: The 11 Hottest Pregnant Women, Ever

What a great idea it was to make these nominations… I think Maxim did an amazing job at that.

The ones who made it to the list are:

1. Jessica Alba
2. Halle Berry
3. Christina Aguilera
4. Heidi Klum
5. Bryce Howard Dallas
6. Brooke Burke
7. Gwen Stefani
8. Angelina Jolie
9. Naomi Watts
10. Jaime Pressly, and
11. Monica Bellucci

All looking fabulous while pregnant!

Do pregnant women look more beautiful?

Do pregnant women look more beautiful?

My answer: YES, I believe that pregnant women are some of the most beautiful people, coz they possess a glow of happiness that is kinda contagious to others around them. They are usually smiling in a very content way, and look very innocent and mostly very photogenic! There is something about them that cannot be explained in words, in my opinion they are simply gorgeous and attractive.

Some answers from the WORLD WIDE WEB:

• A woman aspires for a child. On being pregnant, she rejoices internally and becomes more beautiful
• Women are more complete when they are pregnant. Hence, they look good.
• It's the complete cycle the true woman who is pregnant who deserves respect and care, her body pumps the hormones and craves for nourishment and utilizes all that is needed and she is happy because she is pregnant that make her more beautiful her smile and happiness.
• Yes, because a girl turns in to a woman/mother
• There’s something very alluring and sexy about pregnant women
• I had lunch today with a very pregnant friend of mine. She was looking absolutely marvelous, and very attractive.
• It’s not something I've ever really thought about too much, one way or the other. I don’t find a woman any less attractive if she's pregnant, or wildly more attractive. Wow, an issue I'm on the fence about, that’s a first :D

THE CHIMERA

I personally love mythology and mythological creatures, I am captivated by it and it kindles my imagination. Among the vast array of creatures, I love one savage beast the most – the CHIMERA.

In Greek mythology, the Chimera (Greek Χίμαιρα (Chímaira); Latin Chimaera) was a monstrous fire-breathing creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of multiple animals: upon the body of a lioness with a tail that terminated in a snake's head, the head of a goat arose on her back at the center of her spine. The Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra: "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire".

"She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay" The Chimera was defeated by Bellerophon, with the help of Pegasus (a winged horse), at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. Since Pegasus could fly, Bellerophon shot the Chimera from the air, safe from her heads and breath and brought peace to Lycia.

DARK ANGEL

Speaking of dark angels! My favourite yet –JESSICA ALBA, she was the protagonist in Dark Angel, an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television program created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee.

Alba portrayed an unforgettable female superhero in Max Guevera. As a genetically enhanced super soldier Max divides her life between evading her secret government Manticore creators, looking for other 'transgenic' fugitives and supporting the cyber social activist 'Eyes Only' in his efforts to protect the innocent and expose corruption.

Max is an intriguing female hero who never in two seasons of Dark Angel uses a gun. It is Max's ability to use her body as a weapon which significantly contributes to her status as superhero (the sexiest I’ve ever seen).

The power of Max Guevera is essential in the consideration of superheroes. She is proof not only that "girls kick ass" but significantly, that they can do it on their own terms and without guns.

VALKYRIES

Valkyries were originally sinister spirits of slaughter, corpse goddesses, dark angels of death who soared over battlefields like birds of prey, meeting out fate in the name of ODIN. Chosen heroes were gathered up and borne away to Vahalla, the heavenly abode of Odin’s ghostly army. Represented by the carrion-eating raven, the Valkyrie is related to the Celtic warrior-goddess, the Morrigan, who likewise may assume the form of the raven.

The name in Old Norse, valkyrja, means literally, "chooser of the slain."

Valkyries made an on-screen appearance in the movie MAX PAYNE starring MARK WAHLBERG, adapted from the hit video game of the same name.

FULGURITES - PRODUCTS OF LIGHTNING

What does happen when lightning strikes the ground? It transforms the soil it hits into something unique and artistic!! The end result - Fulgurites

Fulgurite is scientific Latin for "lightning stone." Fulgurites are made when lightning strikes the ground. When a bolt strikes the ground, it vaporizes a thin wormhole and melts the zone around it, creating an instant froth of natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartzose sand, or silica, or soil. These fulgurites can be up to several centimeters in diameter, and meters long, but they're quite fragile. Their color varies depending on the composition of the sand they formed in, ranging from black or tan to green or a translucent white. The interior is normally very smooth or lined with fine bubbles; the exterior is generally coated with rough sand particles and is porous. They are rootlike in appearance and often show branching or small holes. This process occurs over a period of around one second, and leaves evidence of the lightning path and its dispersion over the surface.

Finding one is quite rare!

AURORA BOREALIS

Has anyone ever witnessed these dancing fluorescent ribbons that light up the night sky? Well, I can’t blame you if you haven’t, coz it aint visible from where we Indians live! it is only visible in the sky from the Northern Hemisphere, the chance of visibility increasing with proximity to the North Magnetic Pole, which is currently in the arctic islands of northern Canada.

The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree people call this phenomenon the "Dance of the Spirits." The aurora was named after the Roman goddess of dawn, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas by Pierre Gassendi in 1621. It was long thought to be produced by sunlight reflected from polar snow and ice, or refracted light much like rainbows. But in reality, the phenomenon of aurora is an interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind. The Earth is constantly immersed in the solar wind, a rarefied flow of hot plasma emitted by the Sun in all directions.

The aurora may last 10-15 minutes, twisting and turning in patterns called "rayed bands", then whirling into a giant green corona in which rays appear to flare in all directions from a central point, and finally fade away.

I’ve been fascinated bout these amazing lights since I was a little kid! I do hope I witness it someday

THE MINI GUN II

IN THE MOVIES:

1. Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Bill Duke carried it (connected with truck batteries) in Predator (1987).  
   
2. The T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) uses it to fire at police cruisers in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
3. Neo (Keanu Reeves) fought Agent Smith with an M134 mounted in a helicopter in The Matrix (1999).

THE MINI GUN

THE MINIGUN:

The most Bad-Ass machine gun that i've ever come across, it packs a mean punch and makes swiss cheese out of anything that gets in its way.

It is a 7.62 mm, multi-barrel machine gun with a high rate of fire (over 3,000 rounds per minute), employing Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source. In popular culture, the term "minigun" has come to refer to any externally-powered Gatling gun of rifle caliber.

HISTORY:

The original Gatling gun was a field weapon, which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose (no links or belt) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper. The Gatling gun's innovation lay neither in the rotating mechanism nor the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating; rather, the innovation was the gravity feed reloading mechanism, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.

The ancestor to the modern minigun was made in the 1860s. The Gatling gun (1861) was one of the most well known rapid-fire weapons to be used by the Union forces of the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, the Gatling gun was not the first true machine gun. While it allowed for a high volume of fire, it used an external force to reload and fire the gun, and as a result, was not truly an automatic weapon. Richard J. Gatling replaced the hand cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. 

Orion

Orion is a constellation, and it is my favorite one. It is often referred to as The Hunter, one of the largest and perhaps the best-known and most conspicuous in the sky. Its brilliant stars are found on the celestial equator and are visible throughout the world. In the northern hemisphere Orion is visible in the evening from November to April

According to the most common contemporary imagery: Orion is standing next to the river Eridanus with his two hunting dogs Canis Major and Canis Minor, fighting Taurus the bull, which happens to be my sun sign (April 21 - May 21).

Mythology:

In one version, Artemis, the goddess of hunt and the moon fell in love with him. She was so entranced by him, she forgot her divinely duty of illuminating the night sky. Her twin brother Apollo, seeing Orion swimming in the sea, dared his sister to strike what only appeared to be a spot on the waves. Not knowing it was Orion; Artemis shot an arrow and killed him. Later, when she found out what she did, she placed his body among the stars. The grief she felt explains why the moon looks so sad at night.

In a different ending of this myth, Apollo's jealousy led him to summon a giant scorpion, which the mighty hunter Orion could not defeat, and he was killed by its poisonous sting. This explains the seasonal alternation of the appearance of the constellations of Orion (October to April) and Scorpius (April to October), which do not appear in the sky together.

P.S: The reason why Orion is so darn famous is coz... if you look closely, you can notice two sets of stars (of 3) almost aligned in a straight line. It’s better off if you see the real thing at night. And remember, the hunter will disappear for a period of 6 months, starting from the end of this month. So start stargazing before he disappears into the final frontier, until he returns by November.

Life… as it is

Have you ever pondered back to the times when you were young? and everything was just plain fun and innocent? life filled with fun and joy, school, street cricket, loafing around, good night kisses, blanket being tucked properly in by gentle warm loving hands… rather than lies, betrayal, hatred and depression... How I missed those times, when life was cool and cheerful, rather than now... where it’s filled with greed, selfishness, jealousy, rage and anger... I hated this kind of life and yet I willingly walked onto that path of misery... I didn’t wanna hate anyone, I didn’t wanna despise anyone, I didn’t wanna loose anyone and most of all I never did wanted to be sad and depressed… 

DARTH VADER

Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, was the scourge of the Jedi, a master of the dark side of the Force, and one of the Emperor's most trusted servants. Seduced by the dark side of the Force. His boundless abilities fueled a sense of pride that hastened his fall.When it came time to make the fateful decision, he agreed to follow Sidious' teachings and knelt before the dark master.

Dark warrior, star pilot, statesman, enforcer, saber master, leader - all words that could be used to describe the Dark Lord of the Sith.

The beginning

Hey Y'all, the name's Krupa... and this is my attempt to make my mark on the vast frontier known to man as the WORLD WIDE WEB. I will be posting my thoughts and views on how I see the world, and what I see in it, which means apart from a minor part of my past, present and future you will find a lot ‘bout mythology, history, paleontology, graphic novels, animation, action figures, random art, cult movies, movie reviews, love, sexuality, friendship, and probably much more.

You’re probably wondering why this blog is called THE DARK LORD; well it’s obvious that I admire DARTH VADER, the dark lord himself of STAR WARS. 

Well finally I would like to say: 

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE!*

*-The gate of Hell bears an inscription: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" as it is written in The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321 (refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy)