#18 - The Amazing Eva Peron & Her Amazing Dead Body

Tell about the misadventures of Argentina's Eva Peron's corpse.

by Sam Green

In 1955, three years after her death, Eva Peron's corpse disappeared following a coup that kicked her husband, ex-Argentinian President Juan Peron, out of office. It was taken in the middle of the night by military officers who staged a coup to kick out Peron's widower. Those who supported Peron thought it was a movement taken to erase their legacy from Argentina, specifically Eva's. After moving around through Buenos Aries for a while, even staying in the Military Intelligence HQ for a while, the body made its way to the Vatican in 1957 with some Italian assistance. There, it was buried under a false name. Her body may have been missing, but she was not forgotten.

In 1970, an ex-military leader and current leader of Argentina, Gen. Pedro Aramburu, was kidnapped and assassinated. This allowed for Juan Peron, who has been exiled in Spain since the coup, to return to Argentina and potentially re-enter government. Upon regaining some power, he set out to find Eva's body, even though he had a new wife, Isabel; when he found it, her body had been beaten up and a finger was missing. In 1973, he returned to Argentina as President, and upon his death a year later, Isabel was given control. In 1974, Domingo Tellechea was chosen to make her body presentable for public viewing, like Lenin's Mausoleum. Accepting the request to restore her body would have put him at risk of suffering at the hands of the officers who originally took her body. Meanwhile, Isabel was erecting a monument taller than the Statue of Liberty to put her body in. Sadly, another coup ended those plans, and she was kicked out of office. In the end, Tellechea left in exile and Eva's body was put in the Peron Mausoleum.

#17 - World War II Maps

Analyze a multitude of maps regarding WWII.

by Sam Green

Map 1: This map shows a global view of a significant part of the world and its territories throughout the time of World War II. Map 2: The map shows a global view of the economic output of both the Allied and the Axis powers. Map 3: Map shows the continent of Europe and its newly divided territories after WWI. Map 4: Map displays the state that Japan created in order to fight China by sending out militaries within the state. Map 5: This map shows the fraction of German speakers in each of the judicial districts in the modern-day Czech Republic in the 1930’s. Map 6: Displays the territorial changes during WWII. Map 7: Map displays Russian routes of armies invading Finland in late 1939. Map 8: Displays the Maginot line constructed by France in order to protect from German invasion. Map 9: Displays routes taken by British as they escape from Dunkirk. Map 10: Map of Hitlers plans to invade Britain, but surprisingly never happened. Map 11: Displays targeted cities that were under bomb plannings within Britain. Map 12: Map showing France split in half displaying the Nazi-friendly zone or the German military zone and the free zone. Map 13: Displays German invasion routes into Russia as Hitler betrays Stalin. Map 14: German invasion routes of Leningrad. Map 15: Overall aerial view of the overview of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan. Map 16: Shows Japan's domain and empire as it expands to the East. Map 17: Japan invaded the Philippines and map displays the death march in Bataan. Map 18: Stalin invades Germany and Hitler suffers a defeat at the battle of Stalingrad. Map 19: Britain invades Northern Africa which is controlled by the Axis powers at the time. Map 20: Displays one of de Gaulles most important contributions to the Allied cause in Africa. Map 21: Invasion routes by the allies invading Italy. Map 22: Displays routes invading Normandy in France. Map 23: Displays territories apart of the allied forces within Europe. Map 24: Displays the military deaths of major powers on a global scale, the soviet unions sacrifice that dwarfed the allies. Map 25: Displays a picture of an aircraft carrier that was a boat that could carry aircrafts. Map 26: Displays British radar scale and its readings. Map 27: Displays the picture of the USA during the Manhattan project, a plan to make nuclear atomic bombs. Map 28: British and Americans had huge advantage, map displays the allied-code breaking advantage. Map 29: Showed the diagram of the German V-2 rocket. Map 30: displays the The Battle of Midway, a turning point in the Pacific War Map 31: Map of a battle between American and Japanese forces in Japan. Map 32: Maps displaying Japanese towns and cities destroyed by American atomic bomb attacks. Map 33: Radar view of atomic bomb devastation on Hiroshima. Map 34: Percentage map of the amount of Jewish victims of World War II. Map 35: Maps showing invasions of Israel by the Jewish into the promised land. Map 36: Displays the Berlin airlift saving West Germany from communist domination. Map 37: War maps of the United States defending South Korea. Map 38: Map of Africa as it becomes liberated from the Europeans losing its colonies. Map 39: Map of Germany displaying US military bases. Map 40: Map of Japan displaying US military bases. Map 41: Map displaying Europe as the European Union grows bigger and stronger. Map 42: Map of countries joining United Nations over time.