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In 1956, an extraordinary event took place in Venice, Italy, when the famous canals of the city were drained and cleaned for the first time in centuries.
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This remarkable undertaking was known as the “Svolte di Popolazio,” or the People’s Revolution, and it was a massive civic project aimed at improving the sanitation and infrastructure of Venice’s historic waterways. Over the centuries, the canals of Venice had accumulated layers of silt, debris, and waste, leading to unsanitary…
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In 1896, Thomas Edison, the great inventor of the electric bulb, was working on a car design when he learned that a young man in his company had created an experimental car.
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Edison met this young man, Henry Ford, at a company party in New York and was thoroughly impressed by his gasoline-powered car idea. Edison, who had been considering electricity as a power source, enthusiastically encouraged Ford, saying, “Young man, that’s the thing! You have it! I think you are on…
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A great woman erased from history by idiots.
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The branding of the syrup was a tribute to this woman’s gifts and talents. Now future generations will not even know this beautiful woman existed. What a shame. The world knew her as “Aunt Jemima”, but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story.…
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Many of the old world bells were destroyed, buried, & replaced to hide the importance of acoustic resonance
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We’re told they had to melt them down to create ammunition for our fabricated wars What we weren’t told was these bells emanated a particular energy/frequency/vibration used to disseminate & broadcast aethereal healing energy from these temples & cathedrals Remember no architectural element of antiquity was just decoration. Everything held…
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She gave birth in my car
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This morning, on my way to work, I saw a pregnant woman standing by the roadside. She looked like she was in a lot of pain—she was in labor. She had probably been waiting a long time for a taxi, but no one wanted to stop for her. A few…
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Archaeologists discover a medieval skeleton with his boots still on in London – England :
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Archaeologists excavating a site along with the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a massive pipeline nicknamed London’s “super sewer”—have revealed the skeleton of a Medieval man who literally died with his boots on. “It’s extremely rare to discover any boots from the late 15th century, let alone a skeleton still wearing them,”…
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1918: The Flu Pandemic
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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of…
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Man with 14 inch TAIL Indian worshipped as a reincarnation of a monkey god.
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Alipurduar, West Bengal, Feb 9, 2014: A man with a 14.5-inch hairy tail growing from his back has been hailed as a god by villagers in West Bengal. Chandre Oraon, 35, was born with a patch of hair on his lower back and has refused to have it cut, leading to…
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HER NAME IS POETRY AND IS ETERNITY.
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She was called Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of a merchant who bought her. At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that wasn’t her own. No one believed she was the author. At twenty…
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The atomic bombing of Nagasaki
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In 1945, in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a 10-year-old Japanese boy stood in attention at a cremation site, carrying his deceased baby brother on his back. The boy, barefoot and expressionless, stood in silence as he brought his sibling for cremation. Joe O’Donnell, the American photojournalist…