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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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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…
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Throughout history Man has shown extraordinary imagination in inventing penalties and sentences for crimes committed by fellow man. The Romans in particular had an almost theatrical quality in the way these punishments were dolled out. One of the worst was reserved for parricide—the killing of a parent— in which the…
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He was ly.nched by a white mob General Lee was ly.nched on January 13, 1904, near Reevesville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. He was an African American man, approximately thirty years old, with a wife named Henrietta and six children named Willie, Curtis, Bertha, Timothy, Nellie, and Lila. At the time…
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Despicable it might be, yet it is a relatively irrelevant incident in India. The latest is the case of Firoz, a 1 2. -year-old boy who is now reportedly suffering from serious psychological trauma after being forced by a Head Constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) to gather the…
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Execution of rebellious tribal leaders in Yemen, 1962. The tribal leaders are being publicly executed in the town square, by sword. This is the moment of execution of one of the condemned. Mode of execution by sword decapitation, of the Toucouleur army of enemy soldiers in Sekou, capital on the…
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Frank had been a typical 40-year-old dad in Kansas. He was proud of what he’d achieved in life, from his successful plumbing business to his comfortable home. His beloved wife, Sarah, had made him the happiest man by giving him a son, Jeremy. Life had been great for their little…
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The Vietnamese people worked for little pay and were treated badly, as peasants. The French erased Vietnam from the map and named it IndoChina. Anyone that claimed they were Vietnamese would be jailed. The Vietnamese people worked for little pay and were treated badly, as peasants. The French even introduced…