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Where are your valiant warriors and priests? Where are your hunting parties and your feasts? Where is that war-like spirit? And where are those great armies that destroyed our country’s foes? Count Iran as a ruin, as a lair of lions and leopards… Look now and despair.” These words of…
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A man slaughtered a big cow, lit the grill and said to his daughter. “Daughter, call our relatives, friends, and neighbours to eat with us… let us feast!” His daughter took to the street and started shouting. “Please help us put out a fire at my Dad’s house!”. After a…
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It was about the year 1500 and the wife of pig castrator Jacob Nufer was in labor. She had been struggling for the birth of her baby for days now. Thirteen ( I cannot believe that number, but history says so ) midwives had been already called to help and…
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Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, born on December 17, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a prominent figure in the United States Marine Corps during the early 20th century. Known for his extraordinary skills in hand-to-hand combat, Biddle left a lasting legacy as a tough and fearless military officer. During his…
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Today we honor Anarcha Westcott. She was a 17 year enslaved girl who underwent roughly 30 operations without anesthesia for a vesicovaginal fistula ( abnormal connection between va.gina and bladder= urine coming through your v.agina). She healed after this surgery. James Marion Sim (we refuse to refer to him as…
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To help fight this disease, a series of treatments were created, including “pelvic massage”, with the aim of achieving what at the time was called “pelvic paroxysm”, that is, an orgasm. Soon the treatment became popular, and so many women went to the doctor for the treatment that they had…
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People are standing on the melting ice cubes with a noose around their neck. The faster the ice cubes melt, the faster they are going to die. The whole world is standing in the same situation as these people and many of us don’t even realize. The glaciers are melting…
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Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951. During the Korean war Chinese PLA was morphed into People’s Volunteer Army that was made to be distinctly different than the PLA. one interesting engagement I read about was the engagement/ Battle of…
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An Afghan patient came for a medical consultation in my girlfriend’s hospital. His medical file said that he missed a part of his penis — including most of the glans. He needed some sort of reconstructive surgery, because it looked really horrible down there — as if a bomb had…
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The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials. Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher. Hermann Göring was also scheduled to be hanged on that day, but committed suicide…