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Billy the Kid Escaped from Jail April 28, 1881–world history and facts
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On the night of April 28, 1881, just two weeks before he was set to be hanged, the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid was sitting in a jail cell on the top floor of the Mesila, New Mexico courthouse, awaiting his fate. Then he asked the deputy who was watching…
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The Agonizing Death Of Floyd Collins, The Cave Explorer Who Was Trapped Underground For 17 Days Before He Finally Perished
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On January 30, 1925, William Floyd Collins got stuck in a passageway deep inside Kentucky’s Sand Cave, inciting a media spectacle that drew tens of thousands of people to the scene in hopes of seeing him rescued. Floyd Collins was an experienced cave explorer. A participant in what became known…
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Inside The Incredible Mount Everest Survival Story Of Beck Weathers
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Beck Weathers was left for dead and fellow climbers had already called his wife to tell her he was gone — then he somehow made it down the mountain and walked back into camp. On May 11, 1996, Beck Weathers died on Mount Everest. At least, that’s what everyone was…
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More of our men died–world history and facts
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“More of our men died—so fast that you couldn’t keep track of their numbers,” wrote Tony Acevedo, an American soldier fighting in World War II. “We kept on marching.” On this day in 1945, Tony and members of the US Army’s 275th Infantry Regiment were captured by the Germans and…
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CAMBRIAN ERA OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC.
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Creatures the Anunnaki had to kill off to inhabit Ki[Earth]. One tablet least talked of or pondered on is The arrival. When Alalu arrived, The night got there too fast for him and before the sun set, He ventured out. …Picked a few fruits for they were like non he…
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The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Ki11ers
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During the Holocaust, one group of killers stood out as more vicious, murderous, and bloodthirsty than all others. The Ustasha of Yugoslavia was a Muslim-Catholic alliance of Nazi killers so beastly that even Nazi officials in Berlin were horrified. The Ustasha and three related crack divisions of Arab-Nazi Waffen SS…
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Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
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The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took place on 1 July 1945. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with a small number of Netherlands East Indies KNIL troops, made an amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, a few miles north of Balikpapan. The…
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They Shall not Grow Old is the most authentic presentation of life in the trenches I have seen.
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Jackson’s use of recorded interviews with vetetans alongside computer enhanced archival footage of the War forces the viewer to witness the horror faced by those men. Shrapnel, bullets, explosions, mud, maggots, and rats were a part of daily life. It showed the War for what if was, a senselessv conflict…
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Crazy Moment In Middle Age
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Let’s be real for a moment: the Middle Ages were a wild time, especially when it came to medicine. I mean, we’re talking about a period where if you had hemorrhoids, you weren’t just handed some soothing cream and sent on your way. Oh no, you were in for a…
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To all medical staff whether civilian and or military my deepest respect to all professionals.
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This 2015 iconic photo was taken by a paramedic in front of a hospital in California. It shows an ER doctor who stepped outside to cry for a moment after losing a 19-year-old patient. Minutes later, he walked back inside with his head held high, and continued on to his…