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This was a fifteen year old boy…. He was caught stealing bread from a store. On trying to escape from the hold of the guard, a shelf of the store was also broken. The judge heard the crime and asked the boy, “Did you really steal something, a loaf of…
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Movie scene depicting the execution of Dutch exotic dancer and spy Mata Hari by a French firing squad on October 15, 1917.Today 105 years ago, on October 15, 1917, the Dutch exotic dancer Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, was executed by the French for espionage. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle…
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The story of Kurunmi is one that draws tears from the eyes of people who feel pity for a man who stood firm for tradition. There was a time in the history of Yoruba where the heir to the throne is killed whenever the king dies. This tradition came about…
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Tell them it all began in Egypt (advanced civilization, science, math, philosophy, religion, architecture). Tell them the first Egyptians were Black, nothing to do with H.ollywood movies. Tell them Christopher Columbus did not discover the A.mericas, that Mansa Musa, the Malian, was the richest man in the world, that the…
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In March 1941 it had been about a year and a half since the outbreak of World War II, but there were still eight months before Pearl Harbor was attacked and the United States entered the fighting. That’s why Collier’s Weekly, one of the most important and widely read weeklies…
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Rigoulot’s story began when he was arrested by the Nazis for striking a guard in a prison camp. He was put into a cell that was considered to be unbreakable, with bars that were made from the strongest steel available. However, Rigoulot managed to bend the bars of his cell…
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A painful photo of a great mathematician – A matriculation topper from Bihar Board in 1961, he went to University of California, Berkeley in 1963 to study Mathematics. got PhD in 1969 (He received PhD on Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector from University of California, Berkeley, in…
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But what if the soldiers still took a step back? Or ten steps back? What would Stalin do about it? Oh yes, absolutely, orders similar to Stalin’s Order No.227 have been issued many many times in history! Here I’m gonna give just one single most relevant and ironic example. A…
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On a summer’s day in 2006, inside an apartment not far from Virginia’s old death chamber, an 82-year-old man handed over a briefcase to an archivist. The bag held four execution recordings so rare, similar tapes from another state had been released just once before in history. When executions take…
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The garrote is a device thatstrangles a person to death. It very common once, is no longer sanctioned by law in any country though training in its use is still carried out in the French Foreign Legion. It was widely employed in 17th and 18th century India as an assassination…