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As Yellowstone’s tourist season kicks off, so does the number of incidents involving what we call “tourons” — tourists who aren’t quite in tune with the reality of wild North American animals. This season has started off with a bang — literally! Lee Bangbang, a visitor from San Diego, was…
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“The infamous SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, also known as the Dirlewanger Brigade, came into the spotlight in Poland last week The Warsaw Uprising Museum has obtained a list of members of the infamous brigade The infamous SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, also known as the Dirlewanger Brigade, came into the spotlight in Poland last week…
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In 1975, a disabled Vietnam vet named Oliver Sipple saved President Gerald Ford from an assassin. Although Sipple was hailed a hero at first, the tide quickly turned when the media outed him as a gay man. Not only did the exposure of his homosexuality overshadow his heroic act, it…
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After her mother died in the ghetto, 14-year-old Sara moved in with her aunt Cesia. On January 16, 1942, the German authorities began the first wave of deportations of Jews from the ghetto. Cesia and her five children were among this wave of deportees murdered at Chełmno killing center. In…
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On the night of April 28, 1881, just two weeks before he was set to be hanged, the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid was sitting in a jail cell on the top floor of the Mesila, New Mexico courthouse, awaiting his fate. Then he asked the deputy who was watching…
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On January 30, 1925, William Floyd Collins got stuck in a passageway deep inside Kentucky’s Sand Cave, inciting a media spectacle that drew tens of thousands of people to the scene in hopes of seeing him rescued. Floyd Collins was an experienced cave explorer. A participant in what became known…
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Beck Weathers was left for dead and fellow climbers had already called his wife to tell her he was gone — then he somehow made it down the mountain and walked back into camp. On May 11, 1996, Beck Weathers died on Mount Everest. At least, that’s what everyone was…
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“More of our men died—so fast that you couldn’t keep track of their numbers,” wrote Tony Acevedo, an American soldier fighting in World War II. “We kept on marching.” On this day in 1945, Tony and members of the US Army’s 275th Infantry Regiment were captured by the Germans and…
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Creatures the Anunnaki had to kill off to inhabit Ki[Earth]. One tablet least talked of or pondered on is The arrival. When Alalu arrived, The night got there too fast for him and before the sun set, He ventured out. …Picked a few fruits for they were like non he…
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During the Holocaust, one group of killers stood out as more vicious, murderous, and bloodthirsty than all others. The Ustasha of Yugoslavia was a Muslim-Catholic alliance of Nazi killers so beastly that even Nazi officials in Berlin were horrified. The Ustasha and three related crack divisions of Arab-Nazi Waffen SS…