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25 Things Foreigners Admire About Americans

July 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

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1. My partner’s American and whenever we travel to the States I’m always struck by how ridiculously friendly everyone is. I’ve had long conversations with people I’ve only just met who are just genuinely interested in what life is like in other countries/how I’m finding America etc. And people tend to be very giving of themselves as well. In Britain the standard response to ‘How are you?’ is ‘Fine/great’ whatever, whereas American’s can give you a complete breakdown of their life at the momen. It’s nice though.

What Happened To The Women Of Germany After The End Of WW2?

July 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

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When Berlin fell to the Soviets it is rumored that Stalin gave the Soviet Soldiers permission to do what ever they wanted for the first 3 days. At the end of that 3 days you would be hard pressed to find a single German woman who had not been raped at least once by the Soviet Soldiers.

Almost 100 percent of women between the ages of 8 and 80 were raped — repeatedly — some as many as 60 to 70 times.

Fascinating Photos Collected From History

July 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

Soviet Soldier in a parade in Moscow, 1940

15 Fascinating Maps and Graphs That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

June 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

The richest person in every state

Fascinating Photos Collected From History

June 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

Houdini exposes spirit trickery to New York clergymen, 1925.

Harry Houdini did not like mystics and believed (rightly) that they were frauds. These are the people who would take people’s money and claim they could contact the dead or get them in touch with long deceased relatives. What Houdini would do every chance he got was to show how everything that occurred in one of these sessions could be reproduced by clever movements of feet, hands, etc. and that it was all a trick.

History Lesson of the Day: China’s Great Leap Forward

June 10, 2020 Leave a Comment

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When Mao Zedong came to power in China, he had big plans to change his country. For all of it’s history, China was an agrarian nation. Mao wanted to change this. He envisioned the poor farmers of China uniting to remake the country into a vast, modern industrial superpower, similar to the rise of the neighboring Soviets, whom Mao drew inspiration.

Fascinating Photos Collected From History

June 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

British sappers training to defuse mines blindly, so that they can be able to do it in the dark, 1943

How Does A Corporate ‘Shill’ Operate Online?

June 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

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99% of our job is to convince people that something that is fucking them over is actually good for them.

The whole concept of ‘shills’ has somehow became a conspiracy theory when in reality it’s just PR workers who are paid by a company to defend their product/service. My last job was defending fracking.

How Did The Japanese Perceive Surrendering In WW2?

May 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Japanese soldier was no allowed to surrender — under any circumstances. Even badly wounded soldiers were not allowed to surrender. It was seen as shameful and not only dishonored the inividual, but his family as well.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Japan’s Fantasy Fetish Clubs

May 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

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The world of fuzoku or pink (commercial sex) is Japan’s second largest industry, raking in over 10 trillion yen ($85 billion) a year. For a fee, men can live out their fantasies in elaborate sets including no-panty coffee shops (with mirrored floors!), mock subway cars crowded with schoolgirls, and harem-themed bath houses. Japan’s sex workers and intricate fantasy rooms have been largely hidden from the rest of the world—until now. Joan Sinclair, a lawyer from San Francisco and an unlikely candidate to document this underground sex industry, is the first journalist to expose what really lies within Japan’s exotic clubs.