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    THE HERETICS FORK

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    Torture has been a brutal reality for many unfortunate people. But the most unsettling fact about torture’s brutality isn’t its existence, but the way people have injected a perverted sense of creativity (and even pleasure) into the creation of devices designed to inflict pain. This is  a Heretics Fork This…

  • In Honor Of our hero Carlos Hathcock, How He Make The impossible Mission Possible During WWII

    In Honor Of our hero Carlos Hathcock, How He Make The impossible Mission Possible During WWII

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    Carlos Hathcock was a highly skilled American sniper who served in the Vietnam War. He was credited with 93 confirmed kills during his time in Vietnam and was known for his patience, accuracy, and bravery.  One of Hathcock’s most legendary feats occurred when he volunteered for a mission to take…

  • 11 Insanely Brutal Methods Of Execution Used In The Past 

    11 Insanely Brutal Methods Of Execution Used In The Past 

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    The story 11 Insanely Brutal Methods Of Execution Used In The Past appeared first on StoryPick. Since earlier times, different cultures have been using different methods of execution, some humane and some grotesquely inhumane. However, methods of execution have always been a subject of debate. Nowadays, the most commonly adopted…

  • Have you Head of the Legend Of Olympic Pregnant Allyson Felix

    Have you Head of the Legend Of Olympic Pregnant Allyson Felix

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    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…

  • 150 Years From Now.

    150 Years From Now.

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    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,…

  • He had a hundred names, but he chose his last and most prominent, Ho Chi Minh— the Bringer of Light.

    He had a hundred names, but he chose his last and most prominent, Ho Chi Minh— the Bringer of Light.

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    “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…

  • THE AGONY

    THE AGONY

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    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…

  • Lebanon: Syrian refugees subjected to same shocking torture techniques used in Assad’s jails 

    Lebanon: Syrian refugees subjected to same shocking torture techniques used in Assad’s jails 

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    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…

  • Your heart is a wonderful, powerful, sacred fool

    Your heart is a wonderful, powerful, sacred fool

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    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…

  • Joseph Wedlake and George White – a double hanging at Taunton.

    Joseph Wedlake and George White – a double hanging at Taunton.

    December 10, 2024

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    David

    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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