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The world’s largest aircraft prepares to take off.
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Airlander 10, a spectacularly huge, helium-pumped aircraft, is unveiled fully assembled for the first time, in a giant aviation hangar near London.The Airlander 10 is a hybrid airship, achieving lift, and thereby flight, via both aerostatic and aerodynamic forces. Unlike most airship designs, it does not have a circular cross-section,…
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Unbelievable! Edward Mordake Has A FACE at the Back of His Head
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Edward Mordake (variously Mordrake) is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend who was, according to the legend, born in the 19th century, heir to an English peerage, and had a face at the back of his head. An account described Mordake’s figure as one with remarkable grace and with…
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The Unbelievable King Edward VII Love Chair
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King Edward VII (nicknamed Bertie), had a custom made ‘siege d’amour’ (or love chair), kept at the famous Le Chabanais brothel in Paris. It was built to allow him to have sex with two or more people all at the same time. The chair was the ultimate symbol of Bertie’s…
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Tina Turner: From Captivity to Queen
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From the dusty fields of Nutbush, Tennessee, to the glittering stages of global arenas, Tina Turner’s journey was nothing short of extraordinary. Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, her early life was marked by poverty and hardship. But it was her tumultuous marriage to Ike Turner that would truly shape…
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An emaciated female Jewish survivor of a death march lies in an American military field hospital in Volary, Czechoslovakia.
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Pictured is twenty-six year old Elizabeth Klein. The Helmbrechts death march was one of hundreds of forced marches that occurred near the end of the war. As Allied troops closed in on Germany from all sides, the prisoners in concentration camps and slave labor commandos were evacuated to camps further…
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Mass R-p- in Europe by Allied soldiers after World War 2
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The greatest crimes against women and Europeans in history, was the mass rape of the European women after the Liberal-Communist victory in 1945. It would be easy for you to toss this newsletter aside and pickup more pleasant or amusing reading The rapists were mainly Soviet and US soldiers. They…
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He simply was too much ahead of his time.
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On May 30, 1832 a duel took place in Paris in which a young man — barely twenty years old — was lethally wounded. Much later, he turned out to be one of the greatest mathematical minds in history. Although it was clear during his lifetime that he had “some”…
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The unbelievable Agabbadòra Hammer
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“In Sardinia, the use of the “femina agabbadòra hammer” was a women’s practice. Whenever an elderly man or woman of a given family was dying and in great pain, the family would call for the Accabadòra or Lady of the Good Death. She would usually be a widow dressed entirely…
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Einstein’s letter to Curie when she was facing relentless attacks on her personal life, saying that she “tarnished the good name” of her late husband, Pierre Curie.
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She was denied a seat in the French Academy of Sciences in January 1911 for reasons that probably included gender and religion.Prague, 23 November 1911Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie:Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.But I am so enraged by the base manner in…
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The really cool black stone.
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Back in 1786, a French botanist named André Michaux was wandering around Baghdad when he stumbled upon this really cool black stone near the Taq Kasra ruins. It had some pretty odd carvings and writing on it, and Michaux was totally fascinated. He ended up keeping it with him for…