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Have you Head of the Legend Of Olympic Pregnant Allyson Felix
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When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike was prepared to cut the terms of Felix’s endorsement by as much as 70% due to the pregnancy, and told her to “know your place and just run.” 🤯 Amid all of this, she was forced to have an emergency c-section seven months into…
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150 Years From Now.
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150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive. 70 percent to 100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY. If we go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872,…
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He had a hundred names, but he chose his last and most prominent, Ho Chi Minh— the Bringer of Light.
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“Freedom for my people, independence for my country, that’s all I want, all I understand.” On this day, in 1890, one of the giants of the 20th century entered the world. The Light Bringer. The father of the people. The deliverer of Vietnamese Independence. One of the greatest human beings…
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THE AGONY
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Please what have we done? don’t do this to my sister,she is the only one I have;I said while crying! Out of fear, Ella undressed herself before my very eyes and the man forced himself into her.. While having an affair with my sister,I couldn’t hold myself so I quickly…
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Lebanon: Syrian refugees subjected to same shocking torture techniques used in Assad’s jails
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Interrogators using ‘same horrors employed in Syrian prisons’ against refugees expressing political opposition to Syrian government In some cases trials of those detained delayed for up to two years ‘This report offers a snapshot of the Lebanese authorities’ cruel, abusive and discriminatory treatment of Syrian refugees’ – Marie Forestier The…
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Your heart is a wonderful, powerful, sacred fool
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The fool is a great rebel, able to thwart convention and tell the truth without restraint! Your heart is a wonderful, powerful, sacred fool.. It cares not for the right way to do things, nor for what the mind says is real and not real! It lives according to an…
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Joseph Wedlake and George White – a double hanging at Taunton.
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May 1883 was a busy month for William Marwood with nine executions to perform and shuttling back and forth between England, Scotland and Ireland to carry them out. On the 7th he hanged Thomas Garry at Lincoln followed the next day by Patrick Carey at Chester. He was in Dublin…
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Famous Mysteries of the Sea, involves Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of the infamous Aaron Burr, and her disappearance during The War of 1812.
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Theodosia had been married to the governor of South Carolina at the time. She boarded the schooner Patriot to make a quick run up to New York to visit dad, and neither she nor the Patriot was ever seen again. Years later, at a dinner party in London, a US…
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In 1908, Houdini stood at the edge of the Harvard Bridge—commonly referred to as the Mass. Ave. Bridge—and was shackled by a Boston patrolman.
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His hands were handcuffed behind his back and chained to a collar around his neck. According to a Boston Globe article chronicling the feat, a signal was tooted from a towboat, and Houdini went overboard into the chilly waters below. “There is always the possibility that I will be unable…
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“One day if I return to my life, I will look back on this night and I’ll see you, Nadine. In whose arms I rested. The arms that I feel grow thinner daily under the striped uniforms. Nadine, will there ever be a life for us?”
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Nelly Mousset-Vos wrote those words about Nadine Hwang. The women met and fell in love in the most unlikely of places. They were imprisoned at Ravensbrück concentration camp, likely because they were deemed Nazi political opponents. Amidst their bleak surroundings— starvation, crowding, and illness—they found hope in each other. In…