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15 Archaic Jobs That No Longer Exist

May 15, 2023 Leave a Comment

Knocker-uppers

Before alarm clocks became cheap and reliable, there were “knocker-uppers”, people who were hired to knock on the doors and windows of people who paid them a few pence each week. They did not leave until they had confirmation that his client was up and moving.

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Fascinating Photos Collected From History

May 10, 2023 Leave a Comment

Harassment during a civil rights sit-in at the Cherrydale Drug Fair in Arlington, VA June 10, 1960

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Diary Of A German Soldier Fighting In Stalingrad

May 9, 2023 Leave a Comment

stalingrad ww2

In July 1942, the Germans resumed their advance into the U.S.S.R. begun the previous summer, seeking to conquer Stalingrad, a vital transportation center located on the Volga River. Germans and Russians battled with dogged ferocity over every part of the city; 99 percent of Stalingrad was reduced to rubble. A Russian counteroffensive in November trapped the German Sixth Army. Realizing that the Sixth Army, exhausted and short of weapons, ammunition, food, and medical supplies, faced annihilation, German generals pleaded in vain with Hitler to permit withdrawal before the Russians closed the ring. On February2, 1943, the remnants of the Sixth Army surrendered. More than a million people-Russian civilians and soldiers, Germans and their Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian allies-perished in the epic struggle for Stalingrad. The Russian victory was a major turning point in the war.

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What Were Samurai Duels Actually Like?

April 25, 2023 Leave a Comment

samurai duel

This anecdote was recorded by western judo pioneer E. J. Harrison in his book The Fighting Spirit of Japan, published in 1913. The speaker is Sakujiro Yokoyama, one of the greatest judoka from the founding days of Kodokan Judo. This is a fascinating eye witness account to an actual duel of samurai.

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Fascinating Photos Collected From History

April 20, 2023 Leave a Comment

The headquarters of Mussolini’s Italian Fascist Party, 1934

The building in the picture is Palazzo Braschi in Rome, the headquarters of the Fascist Party Federation (the local one, not the national Party headquarters). It was not always covered up like that; this set-up was displayed for the 1934 elections, in which Italians were called to vote either for or against the Fascist representatives list. The “SI SI…” lettering (meaning “Yes Yes…”) was propaganda for one of the two plebiscite elections held during the Fascist Regime, where electors didn’t vote for individual parties (there wasn’t any but the Fascist one), neither for single candidates, but just voted “Yes” or “No” to a single list of candidates presented by the Duce himself.

The voting procedure used two ballots and two envelopes; the yes ballot was in the colors of the Italian flag with fascist symbols, while the no ballot was a white sheet. The voter had to place the ballots in envelopes, put his chosen ballot in the ballot box and return the discarded one to the voting supervisors, de facto allowing them to check what each person had voted. The list put forward was ultimately approved by 99.84% of voters. The overwhelming majority provoked Benito Mussolini to dub the election the “second referendum of Fascism”.

Mussolini headquarters

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Fascinating Photos Collected From History

April 12, 2023

Anna Mae ran away from her family farm in Wisconsin to join the circus where she met tattoo artist Charles “Red” Gibbons, who desperately wanted “somebody who could inspire him”. For over fifty years, she performed under the stage name, Artoria: The Tattooed Lady.

Artoria was born on a farm in upper Wisconsin. Her parents were poor and by the age of 14 she decided to leave home. When she was interviewed by Arthur Lewis, writer and author of the book, Carnival, she said, “I never been no place in my life.” While hanging around a local carnival sideshow she met Red Gibbons. “Him and me got to talking, tole me the show didn’t have no tattooed lady and would I like to be one.” Said he was the tattoo artist and if I let him tattoo me I could join the show and see the world. Well that’s what I done. We was married soon after that and we both had a good life. There ain’t hardly no place in the country I ain’t been to but when he died (late 1940’s) I went into retirement out on the west coast.”

Artoria’s tattoos were amazing: magnificent reproductions of paintings by Raphael and Michelangelo and a few patriotic designs but for those few exceptions the main inspiration is Italian. “My husband done everyone of them,” she said proudly.”They’re all masterpieces. He was crazy ’bout eyetalian (sic) painters.”

anna mae artoria tattoo lady

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18 NSFW Historical Facts They Don’t Teach You In School

February 24, 2023 Leave a Comment

1. Former president Lyndon B. Johnson was so fond of his presidential penis that he would often wave it around in public

It was a way to establish a kind of macho dominance over the people he was speaking to. And, more importantly, it let him show off his penis. While standing at the urinal, he would sometimes swing around to continue the conversation he was having, his genitals hanging free. Once he even pointed it out to a lawmaker standing next to him and asked, “You ever seen anything this big?” Johnson then continued speaking about some upcoming legislation as he swung his penis around in his hand.

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Fascinating Photos Collected From History

February 23, 2023 Leave a Comment

The most destructive single air attack in human history was the firebombing raid on Tokyo, Japan – Also known as the Great Tokyo Air Raid – Occurring on March 10, 1945 – Approximately 100,000 civilians were killed in only 3 hours

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A Look At The Past, At The Way Things Used To Be

February 15, 2023

The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family. Yakima Valley, Washington 1939. photo by Dorothea Lange

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A Collection of Fascinating Propaganda Posters From The Past

January 31, 2023 Leave a Comment

Soviet propaganda 1944-1945

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