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Mongols were the first nation to build an army of soldiers, rather than an army of feudal warriors and mercenaries.
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Mongol soldiers fought as well disciplined formations and did not seek individual glory. They had no superfluous customs (like inviting enemy champions to single duels) or religious rituals to perform before a battle. Their equipment was modest yet effective, they were not burdened by heavy armor, they did not decorate…
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MEN STOP DATING A LIABILITY!
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2. A lady who can’t get you birthday or valentine gift but expect you to bring down the world for her during hers. (liability) Always flashing, complaining and requesting for data and airtime…(liability) (S*x is not a benefit to only men, such a girl is a (liability). Beauty is a…
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Charles Baker was a notable American inventor born into slavery on August 3, 1859, in Savannah, Missouri.
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After losing his mother, Betsy Mackay, when he was just three months old, Baker was raised by his owner’s wife, Sallie Mackay, and his father, Abraham Baker. He was the youngest of five children, including Susie, Peter, Annie, and Ellen, who were all freed following the Civil War. Baker later…
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A skull of a girl was found from Pydna, an ancient Greek port on the Aegaean Sea, north of the holy mountain Olympus, in a district that was called Pieria, during the excavation from 1994 to 1996.
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She lived around 1400 BC and died quite young, as it is seen from her not yet fully developed dentition. For her funeral, she was decorated with a bronze diadem, a bronze bracelet, three finger rings, a necklace, and metal fittings on her belt. Archaeologists gave her the name “sleeping…
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“In the late 40s, there was a rumor that there was a “hermit,” disenchanted and disillusioned with the world, supposedly “out-of-sync” with society, living in California in a cave under one of the L’s in the Hollywood sign.
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No one really cared about this strange man, until one night in 1947, when someone tried to enter backstage at the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles. Nat King Cole was playing there, and the man said he had something for Cole. Of course, the employees didn’t let the strange man…
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Once upon a time, in 16th century Germany, a traveling sword master named Gerhardt von Klugenau challenged a local baker, Herr Hugendorf, to a duel for some petty reason, intending to humiliate the slightly overweight “burgher.”
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Reluctant to tarnish his esteemed reputation among the townspeople, the baker, although in a position to decline the challenge due to his social standing, ultimately chose to accept it rather than be perceived as a coward. On the day of the duel, Herr Hugendorf, followed by his pale and visibly…
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Detained Children Colla3pse In Court As They Appear In Court For Protesting Against End Bad Governanance In Nigeria
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A minor, who is among 76 persons set to be arraigned by the Nigerian Police Force for participating in the recent EndBadGovernance protest that held across the country, on Friday, November 1, collapsed before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The minor who is barely 15 years old was brought…
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Witchcraft executions.
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England and Wales. Writing in 2018, some 400 years later, it is hard to take some of the accusations made against, usually defenceless, poor, elderly women, seriously. I do not therefore propose to offer any judgement about the validity or fairness of the trials or as to why certain areas…
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Harry Allen – hangman
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Period on Home Office List – 1941-1964. Harry Bernard Allen was born on the 5th of November 1911 at 50 Braithwell Street, Denaby in Yorkshire, but brought up in Ashton under Lyne in Lancashire. He was educated at St Anne’s Roman Catholic School in Burlington Street, in that town. His…
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Pearly Queen and Pearly Prince, London, 1926-1927. Cockney ‘Pearly kings’ (originally costermongers – fruit and vegetable sellers), wore suits covered in mother-of-pearl buttons.
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In 1926-1927, the Pearly Queen and Pearly Prince in London were part of the distinctive Cockney tradition of the Pearly Kings and Queens. Originating from costermongers (fruit and vegetable sellers), these community figures wore elaborate suits adorned with hundreds of mother-of-pearl buttons. This unique tradition began in the late 19th…