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  • Katherine Campbell and Martha Lang were hanged and later set ablaze in Scotland for witchcraft. 

    Katherine Campbell and Martha Lang were hanged and later set ablaze in Scotland for witchcraft. 

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    The girl who had accused Campbell of stealing milk was the victim of their curse, which was their crime. The truth is that the girl developed an unidentified sickness following this incident, which caused her to experience extreme hysterics or catatonic states. During her visits, ash, coal, chicken bones, and…

  • Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants.

    Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants.

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    Daesh k!lled 200 children in mass execution. A video, circulated online by anti-ISIS activists, shows 200 Syrian children being lined up and gunned by Daesh militants. A new footage, revealed to be filmed last year, appears to show Daesh terror militants gunning down 200 Syrian children in a savage mass…

  •  THE CURIOUS SURRENDER OF WILHELM DEGE. THE LAST GERMAN SOLDIER TO SURRENDER.

     THE CURIOUS SURRENDER OF WILHELM DEGE. THE LAST GERMAN SOLDIER TO SURRENDER.

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    The surrender of Wilhelm Dege’s command is a little curious story to be told.  At the time of Germany surrender, Dege and his command weren’t informed about it at all.  It was only months later, on 3 September 1945, that a small Norwegian boat, the Blasel, appeared off the Rijpfjord…

  •  Persecution of Buddhists

     Persecution of Buddhists

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution TV. Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution because of their adherence to the Buddhist practice, including unwarranted arrests, imprisonment, beating, torture, and/or execution. The term also may be used in reference to the confiscation or destruction of property, temples, monasteries, centers of learning, meditation…

  • It cannot be bought, bottled or measured. But courage, like that displayed by my late father on D-Day, is THE greatest of all human virtues

    It cannot be bought, bottled or measured. But courage, like that displayed by my late father on D-Day, is THE greatest of all human virtues

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    Nelson Mandela, who became the first black president of South Africa after spending 27 years in prison, once said: ‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that…

  • Heroic pilot who sacrificed his life to save comrades at the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago

    Heroic pilot who sacrificed his life to save comrades at the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    Flight Lieutenant David Lord and his fellow airmen undertook the mission of helping British and Allied soldiers who were being cut off by the enemy. By the afternoon of September 19, 1944, the situation for many Allied troops had become increasingly desperate. The Battle of Arnhem, part of an audacious…

  • Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster in 1983, saw the word “LAUNCH” flash across the Soviet Union’s attack early warning system.

    Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster in 1983, saw the word “LAUNCH” flash across the Soviet Union’s attack early warning system.

    December 19, 2024

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    David

    His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union. Petrov had to make a decision: should he report an incoming American strike, or should he hold off, confident that what they were seeing…

  • This is a random one, but I still laugh thinking about it…the power of xray

    This is a random one, but I still laugh thinking about it…the power of xray

    December 18, 2024

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    David

    So I have a close friend ‘Rudy’ who used to surf all the time in Manhattan Beach, CA. One day he sends me a text and says “bro I took a bad spill on the surf yesterday and really messed up my hip. Do you know any orthopedic surgeons that…

  • This is the craziest my girlfriend have ever witnessed while she was in the waiting area of a hospital’s emergency room

    This is the craziest my girlfriend have ever witnessed while she was in the waiting area of a hospital’s emergency room

    December 18, 2024

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    David

    It wasn’t me waiting, but my girlfriend who happened to be in the ER of her hospital when Weird Woman came in once again. Weird Woman was (in)famous in the emergency room: she was a frequent flyer because every now and then she felt the compulsion of inserting objects in…

  • On this day in 1966, SSG Hilliard Carter (A/2-327) earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Vietnam. Full citation:

    On this day in 1966, SSG Hilliard Carter (A/2-327) earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Vietnam. Full citation:

    December 18, 2024

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    David

    The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Hilliard Carter, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company A, 2d Battalion, 327th Parachute…

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