7 heart-rending photos with an amazing story behind them (9 pics)

Some photographs can tell stories, and each of them they are waiting for their listener. Factrum has collected seven photos ready to tell you, what events led to their birth.

New Hope





In 1922, scientists entered a ward with children dying of type I diabetes - many of them were already in a comatose diabetic ketoacidosis - and introduced them a new drug - insulin. When they did an injection to the last of the little patients, the first one had already come to his senses. One after another, all the children woke up from the coma. A day that for many of them could be the last, became a day of joy and new hope for the whole world.

"Harlem Hell Fighters"



In the photograph, one member of the 369th US Infantry Regiment is holding a puppy he rescued in 1918 during the First World War. Harlem The Hellfighters were a regiment of black soldiers who fought in part of the French army, because US law prohibited blacks from serving and fight with the whites. The French took the Harlem hell fighters with open arms and did not separate them from the rest of the soldiers.

During the First World War, these guys fought on the front lines in 191 days longer than any other American unit and suffered the largest losses among the American regiments - about 1,500 people. Despite the high death toll, the Harlem Hellfighters never once yielded to the enemy neither a trench nor a meter of land; none of them became prisoners of war. The 369th was one of the most successful regiments of the First World War.



Upon returning home, the children were given a welcome parade in New York, however, the celebration did not last long. The summer of 1919 entered history of the United States under the name "Red Summer" because of the largest number cases of the worst violence against blacks since the Civil War war.

Harlem hell fighters who dreamed of returning home to the place where they will feel safe, where their deeds will be rewarded their due, and they themselves will finally begin to be treated as equals - very quickly realized that nothing had changed for them.

super centenarian



Kane Tanaka at age 20

She was 11 years old when the First World War began; 36 when the Second World War began; 46 when she was diagnosed with cancer pancreas, which she was able to defeat; 116 when it started the Covid-19 pandemic, which she successfully survived. Super-long-liver Kane Tanaka, recognized as the oldest person in world, in 2022 it will be 119 years old.



Kane Tanaka at the age of 119

Hachiko



On the photo - the last photo of Hachiko, a dog of the Akita Inu breed, owned by Professor Hidesaburo Ueno, who taught at the Tokyo Imperial University in the early 1920s. Everyday Ueno came with Hachiko to the station and boarded a commuter train to to get to work. Having finished the business, the professor went back and Arrived promptly at 3:00 pm. And faithful Hachiko was waiting for him at the station. waited calmly and patiently. But one day, Ueno never returned to the station - to working with him had a stroke. The professor died, and the faithful dog about it did not recognize.

For nine years, Hachiko came to the station every day and waited for his owner - until his death in 1935. His devotion won the hearts of the people. There is a monument to Hachiko at Shibuya Station in Tokyo, and in 2015, his memory was honored at the University of Tokyo - there a statue of Hachiko was erected in honor of the 80th anniversary of his death.

Free Angela Davis!



In the photo, the legendary black communist Angela Davis leaves courtroom by a free man. The 1972 court considered the incident, occurred during another trial, in 1970, when, as a result of A shootout broke out in the courtroom, killing four people. Davis tried to blame for this incident, but she did not admit her guilt. By all over the world people supported it: there were about three hundred different associations that set themselves the goal of defending the freedom of Angela Davis. John Lennon actively participated in this campaign and dedicated a song to Davis "Angela".

Angela had a team of experienced lawyers, but she herself wished make a speech in your defense. The defense denied the prosecution's version and, in Finally, on June 4, the jury, among whom there was not a single black, delivered a verdict of not guilty on allnktam accusations.

"Liar!"



In a photograph taken in the 1920s, deceived in the best of feelings little patient of the "Painless Dentist" (that's what the sign on the doors) takes out the insult, making the inscription "Liar" ("liar", "liar") on the wall.

The original virtue of man



On May 25, 1895, the famous English writer Oscar Wilde imprisoned on charges of "lewd behavior". For this the wording hid the real accusation - in homosexual relationships - but the law directly forbidding them did not exist at that time.

Although many potential witnesses refused to testify against Wilde, he was convicted, and in sentencing the judge stated:

“This is the worst case I have ever considered. You'll get the maximum penalty the law allows. In my opinion this the law is not at all suitable for such cases. You will go to jail and serve a full two years in it, working for the good of society and your own fix."

Prison life undermined the already poor health of the writer and, in ultimately contributed to his premature death at age 46. AT his essay "The Soul of Man under Socialism", where Wilde expounded his political ideas, he wrote: "Disobedience in the eyes of any man familiar with history, is the original human virtue.