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Who Is N*ked Athena? Meet The Protestor Who Str!pped Down In Front Of Police In Oregon
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That’s one way to distract the cops. As Black Lives Matter and social justice protests continue throughout the US, another one happened on Friday night in Portland, Oregon — but this time, the protest made headlines for a seriously unexpected reason: One of the protestors was completely naked from head to…
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Making Sense of a Rape Photograph: Se.xual Violence as Social Performance on the Eastern Front, 1939-1944
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This article begins with a disturbing image that has a no-less unsettling provenance. It shows a group of fifteen young German soldiers standing in a semicircle, carousing and laughing as one of their comrades emulates a sex act with an unidentified woman who may or may not be dead. The…
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The Public Execution of the President of Liberia William Tolbert and his Cabinet, 1980.
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10 years before Liberia’s President Samuel Doe met his fate – also a gruesome televised torture and murder – then known as Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, he had presided over the public execution of members of the Cabinet he had just overthrown. In 1847, with the support of US President…
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EXPLORING THE LIBERTINE LITERATURE OF ANCIENT ROME: UNCOVERING THE LACK OF GUILT IN ROMAN EROTICA.
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 TҺe BгіtіsҺ Museum’s Lіfe аnd DeаtҺ іn Pomрeіі аnd Heгculаneum exҺіbіtіon dіsрlаys рlenty of eгotіc агt, but to modeгn eyes іt mіsses tҺаt essentіаl nаugҺty element Sex іs а ҺіgҺlіgҺt of tҺe BгіtіsҺ Museum’s exҺіbіtіon Lіfe аnd DeаtҺ іn Pomрeіі аnd Heгculаneum, аs I рoіnt out іn my гevіew. TҺe…
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Mary Turner
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lived c.1899 – May 19, 1918. A nineteen-year-old black woman, lynched in Lowndes County, Georgia. Eight months pregnant, Turner and her child were murdered after she publicly denounced the unlawful extrajudicial killing of her husband, Hazel Turner, by a mob. On the evening of May 16, 1918, 25-year-old white planter…
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“Racism is one of the most sick and twisted manifestations of White/European people’s oppression, exploitation and domination of humanity…
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although not all White/European people are racist, they benefit from it in one way or another and knowingly allow racism to exist…its reach is international in scope and transcends economic, political, social and spiritual belief systems…it is an evil and violent social construct used to justify White/European people’s crimes against…
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According to an old Native American legend, one day there was a big fire in the forest.
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All the animals fled in terror in all directions, because it was a very violent fire. Suddenly, the jaguar saw a hummingbird pass over his head, but in the opposite direction. The hummingbird flew towards the fire! Whatever happened, he wouldn’t stop. Moments later, the jaguar saw him pass again,…
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Al Capone
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Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone Janurary 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old. Capone was born in the borough…
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“Actress Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning home from war, 1945”
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READ TO END It was first published in ‘Life’ Magazine with the caption: “While soldiers hold her up by her famous legs, Marlene Dietrich is kissed by a home-coming GI”. The ship was the Monticello, a converted cruise liner. Her original name was SS Conte Grande and was built in…
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Female warrior was buried with legs wide apart in the ‘riding position’
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Female warrior was buried with legs wide apart in the ‘riding position’ as if on a horse journeying into the afterlife 2,400 years ago Site was discovered at Devitsa V ancient necropolis in Russia’s Voronezh region The horsewoman, aged between 20 and 35, had her tendons cut after death Three…