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Among the many episodes of horrific brutality during the Civil War, the Great Hanging at Gainesville stands out as one of the worst.
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There was considerable Unionist sentiment in North Texas following that state’s secession and widespread objection to the Confederate Conscription Act that went into effect in April 1862. Opposition to the draft led to rumors of a Unionist plot to seize state arsenals. In response to the rumors, Texas militia entered…
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Maj Gen William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.
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He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Sherman…
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Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma.
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It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. The Torah and Talmud prescribe stoning as punishment for a number of offenses. Over the centuries, Rabbinic Judaism developed a number of procedural constraints which made these laws practically unenforceable. Although stoning is not mentioned…
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The Brutal Killing Of Czar Nicholas Ii Of Russia And His House Hold By Revolutionist
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Starting on the night of July 16, 1918, and continuing into the next morning, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and their servants were brutally killed by the revolutionary Bolsheviks. For months beforehand, the Romanov family had been held…
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The hero of Marcel Aymé’s short story Le Passe-Muraille (The Walker through Walls)
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There’s a sculpture in the Paris catacombs created by artist Jean Marais in 1989, the sculpture known as Le Passe-Muraille portrays Dutilleul, hero of Marcel Aymé’s short story Le Passe-Muraille (The Walker through Walls) In 1943, Dutilleul discovered his ability to pass through walls, used it for mischief and crime,…
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South Carolina is bringing back firing squad.
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Three people are currently awaiting the death penalty in South Carolina. After the state passed a new law, those people will be forced to choose how they are executed. In addition to lethal injection and execution, the new law adds firing squads to the list of acceptable methods. While that…
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Jewish woman, some holding children in their arms, wait in line before they are ex3cuted by the Ukrainian police.
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This horrifying story begins with the Mizocz Ghetto of World War II, set up in occupied Poland by the German Nazi army to gather the local Jews there. The Jews in the area had settled there since the 18th century. It is estimated that at that time there were about…
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REAL COMBAT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRENCH SOLDIERS GOING OVER-THE-TOP AT MESNIL-LES-HURLUS DURING THE SECOND BATTLE OF…..
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The photographed French soldiers were all from the 65th Infantry Regiment; Colonel Xavier Desgrées du Loû holding the flag, with his nephew Yves Desgrées du Loû and a Lieutenant Lerbet behind him. All men were killed in the attack that ensued. The soldier on the left, Captain de Corta, was…
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In 1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman’s door in Reevesville, South Carolina.
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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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An avowed atheist and free speech advocate, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet and playwright who married Mary Godwin in 1815, the famed author of “Frankenstein.”
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On this day in 1822, Percey boarded his new boat in the Mediterranean Sea, only to be hit by a violent storm during which he was thrown overboard and killed. A month later, his body was cremated in front of friends and family on a beach in Italy. For reasons…