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“In December 1913, the Mona Lisa was displayed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
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The museum’s director, Giovanni Poggi, was photographed examining this famous painting. The Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911 by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian carpenter who hid it for two years. After being recovered in Italy, the masterpiece was briefly displayed at the Uffizi before being…
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In 1977, a miner’s bulldozer unearthed an extraordinary find in the Siberian permafrost—the well-preserved carcass of a baby mammoth.
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Two men carefully lifted the frozen remains, revealing an astonishing glimpse into a world that existed tens of thousands of years ago. This baby mammoth, later named “Dima” after a nearby stream, had lived and died approximately 40,000 years ago during the Ice Age. At just 6 to 8 months…
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1781: Tupac Amaru II, Incan insurgent
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Tupac Amaru Shakur is a native name, Lesane Parish Crooks aka Makaveli was named after a native leader. Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s Mother, named her son Lesane Crooks after Tupac Amaru II. In 1781, the last name in Incan rebellion met a horrible end in the ancient Incan capital of Cusco.…
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An Unsolved Mystery From World War II.
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On December 16, 1944 the Battle of the Bulge, or Operation Herbstnebel (Autumn Mist), began. It remains the largest battle the U.S. Army has participated in outside of the U.S. Civil War, and hundreds of books have been penned about it. But it is a German commando operation during the Nazi offensive that…
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German soldier demonstrating how to throw a hand-grenade, 1916.
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The Stielhandgranate (Stalk hand-grenade) was the standard German hand grenade in the First World War. When the First World War broke out, the Germans only had the Kugelhandgranate (Ball hand-grenade), which was deemed too heavy for use in the German Infantry and not suited for mass production. In 1915, the…
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Did you know? Men can get erection after death.
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Yes!! It is called Termina lerection or angel lust and, happens some moments after death. It is attributed to pressure on the cerebellum created by the noose. It occurs mostly in men who die by hanging. Or when a sexual sensation act is performed on the body of the dead…
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Graphic monochrome images from a liberated Denmark show how kidnap squads hunted down and abused women who had slept with Germans at the end of WWII
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Graphic photographs taken during the liberation of Denmark after five years of Nazi rule show how gangs of men rounded up and abused conspirators and women accused of sleeping with Germans. The black and white images, taken after British paratroopers swept into the Scandinavian country in 1945, illustrate the anger…
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More of our men died.
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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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When Queen Anne Boleyn’s head was removed and held up to the crowd at her exEcution in 1536, her mouth kept moving!
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😳 In Anne’s last moments, she knelt down in preparation for the exEcutioner’s blow, and began to pray loudly. In an instant, the exEcutioner b~headed Anne with a single strike of his sword. Some eyewitnesses reported that Anne’s lips continued to move for several seconds after her b~heading. Did she…
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James Edward Kelly
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Born: 1835, in Black Lick, Pennsylvania Served: Private, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861 to 1863 Died: October 26, 1913, in Burrell Township, Pennsylvania Kelly was severely wounded in the left leg during a skirmish on the Rappahannock River in April 1863. The musket ball shattered his femur and the surgeons had…