Sky burial (“bird-scattered”) is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures and corvids. Comparable excarnation practices are part of Zoroastrian burial rites where deceased are exposed to the elements and scavenger birds on stone structures called Dakhma. Sky burials are endemic…

In Uganda if you want to marry a lady after everyone is seated they will ask your elder sister to go and have a test of the person who wants to get married to her younger sister to see how the man does in bed and to still confirm it…

When the Duke had rode off from the scene of the battle early morning on the 6th of July 1685 a price had already been placed on his head of £5000 pounds. After reaching the relative safety of Downside, a few hours rest was achieved at the ‘safe’ house of…

It’s the Untold story of how a Mexican mechanic saved Ferrari. In 1950, the Pan American Race emerged. One of the most demanding endurance races in history that tested the best cars and the most experienced and daring drivers of the time. Umberto Maglioli in his Ferrari 375 Plus was…

Terry joined the Army in June 1942 and was assigned to the 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. On March 6th, 1945, he was appointed the executive officer of Company H, 382nd Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. His unit invaded Okinawa on April 1st, and he was promoted to company commander…

Lingchi meaning the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, and also known as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 CE up until the practice ended around the early 1900s. It was also used in Vietnam and Korea. In this form of execution, a…

The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as the Wheel of Catherine or simply the Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. The practice was abolished in Bavaria in 1813 and in the Electorate of Hesse in 1836: the last known execution by…

One the great criticism of Operation Neptune was the failure to take Caen. Often overlooked when Morgan planned Slapstick in 1943,which became Overlord, Caen was always a D day target, that was never changed that is why when Montgomery briefed the Allied commanders on 15th May. It was highlighted Caen…

 This was a mock execution attempting to get the resistance fighter, Georges Blind, to talk. It didn’t work. Georges did not divulge any information.  It’s interesting how they’ve placed him at the corner of the building rather than against the stereotypical flat wall. It must make ricochet injuries to the…