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His death is still shrouded in mystery. However, the story of this great emperor’s death is still being passed on unceasingly. The story goes that he realized that death was coming and that he would not be able to return to his homeland in time. He told his officers: “I…
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Bodo League massacre was a massacre committed by the South Korean government in 1950. South Korea’s then president Syngman Rhee ordered the execution of suspected communists (people related to either the Bodo League or the South Korean Workers Party). An estimated 100,000+ South Koreans were killed and US, Australian, and…
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The Freedomite movement consists of a split-off of the Doukhobors, a community of Spiritual Christians began a mass migration from Russia to Canada in 1898. The Freedomite movement first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary Districts of British Columbia. Freedomites began to divide from Doukhobors in 1902 in Saskatchewan, Canada, self-named as “God’s people” and Svobodniki (Russian:…
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The Semiramis Hotel attack in Damascus. On Sunday the 26th of September 1976 four Palestinian guerrillas from “The Black June” terror group opposed to Syria’s intervention in Lebanon, seized a hotel and 90 hostages at the Hotel Semiramis in downtown Damascus. The government reported that the leader of the guerrillas…
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Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a “doctress”. In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. In 2004, she was voted the greatest black Briton in a survey conducted in 2003 by the black heritage website Every Generation .…
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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. – The year is 1944 and George Kielak fights in the Polish army during the Warsaw Uprising. For 63 days he and his comrades fight to liberate World War II Warsaw, Poland, from Nazi Germany occupation. “In the Polish army, I carried ammunition and messages…
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Between the 17th and 19th centuries, wife-selling was a weird custom with a practical purpose. George Wray tied a halter around his wife’s waist and headed to the nearest market. He wasn’t there to buy anything—he was there to sell his wife. Onlookers shouted as he auctioned her off to…
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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…
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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…
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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…