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June 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Irena Sendler

This is Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker and nurse who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Warsaw.

She entered the ghetto using a special work pass and would smuggle out children in the bottom of her toolbox and also utilize her burlap sack for larger kids. She also used ambulances and sewers to get them out of the ghetto.

She was eventually caught by the Nazis and despite being tortured and having both her arms and legs broken, she did not reveal the names nor whereabouts of the children she had rescued. She was sentenced to death but managed to escape on the day of her scheduled execution after the Polish resistance bribed Nazi officials for her release.

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June 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F Kennedy, pictured in 1938. In 1941, aged 23, her father forced her to undergo a lobotomy, due to her mood swings, seizures and intellectual disability. This procedure rendered her permanently incapacitated and unable to speak, and the truth was kept secret for decades.

In her early young adult years, Rosemary Kennedy experienced seizures and violent mood swings. In response to these issues, her father arranged a prefrontal lobotomy for her in 1941 when she was 23 years of age; the procedure left her permanently incapacitated and rendered her unable to speak intelligibly.

Joseph Kennedy decided that Rosemary should have a lobotomy; however, he did not inform his wife of this decision until after the procedure was completed. The procedure took place in November 1941. James W. Watts, who carried out the procedure with Walter Freeman (both of George Washington University School of Medicine), described the procedure to author Ronald Kessler as follows:

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June 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

diarrhea civil war

Diarrhea was the leading cause of death in the American Civil War. Soldiers had a code of honor to not shoot at anyone who was pooping.

Of the nearly 750,000 soldiers that died, 95,000 died from diarrhea or dysentery.

For every soldier that died on the battlefield, two died from disease.

Poor hygiene, crowded conditions, lack of medical treatment, and latrines built near streams, created the perfect breeding ground for diseases to proliferate and spread amongst the soldiers.

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June 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

dont marry marriage advice from 1891

Marriage advice from 1891.⁣⁣ These pages were taken from a dime novel that was sold in NYC by the J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company. It was recently digitized by Villanova University.⁣⁣

Here are some excerpts:

—Don’t marry your cousin. It may be very tempting; relatives are often warmly attached to each other from long and intimate acquaintance. Remember that constantly thrown in each other’s society will often create such attachments. With many persons, marriage of blood relations will more or less lead to deafness, blindness, or deformity. It may skip one generation and find another. It may result in disease and weakness. It may be all right, but seven to eight it is risky and uncertain, and you can’t afford to be uncertain in such matters.⁣

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June 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

This is a photo of the students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, c. 1900.

The school was established in 1879 in order to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into western society by stripping them of their native language, culture, traditions, and clothing. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse were rampant as was forced labor in these schools.

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June 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

This is Emma Gatewood, the first known woman to hike the 2,168 mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail solo in just one season. She did it in 1955 at the age of 67, wearing only Keds shoes and carrying an army blanket, a raincoat and a plastic shower curtain. She was also a mother of 11, a grandmother and a great-grandmother.⁣

In the early 1950s, while reading a discarded copy of the August 1949 edition of National Geographic magazine, Gatewood found an article about the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) The description and photographs captivated her and made it sound like something she could do. All that was needed was “normal good health” and “no special skill or training.” She set out in July 1954 at the age of 66 to hike south from Mount Katahdin in Maine. After a few days, she got lost, broke her glasses, and ran out of food. The rangers who found her convinced her to return home, but she decided not to tell anyone about her failure.

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June 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Logan Paul’s Charizard Card

On the night of the biggest boxing fight of his life, YouTube star Logan Paul found a way to showcase his prized Charizard Pokémon card to fans.

Prior to his walkout, Logan Paul was shown on screen in his locker room wearing a diamond-plated BGS 10 Charizard around his neck on a diamond chain. He wore this necklace for the duration of his walk out and in the ring until the bout began.

The first edition, Beckett-graded 10 (pristine) Charizard is said to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — and one of three of its kind.

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June 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

wild elephants resting

A wild herd of wandering elephants takes a rest after 500km trek across China

The herd of 15 wild Asian elephants has covered a 500km stretch on a journey that began over a year ago when they left their designated elephant protection zone in Xishuangbanna, near China’s border with Myanmar.

They are believed to be headed northwest, though the reason behind this migration is unknown.

The group took a break on Monday, during which they were captured sleeping together in a patch of forest on the outskirts of southwest China’s Kunming.

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June 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

In 2018, Americans Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan were killed in Tajikistan while cycling through “ISIS territory” in order to vindicate their belief in human kindness.

A millennial couple embarked on an international biking adventure after quitting their day jobs in 2017. The two wrote a joint blog post about their planned travels, where they revealed that they would discover that “humans are kind” and that evil “is a make-believe concept.” Sadly, after just over a year of traveling, they were killed by ISIS militants in Tajikistan.⁠

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June 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

In France, Peyo, a 15-year-old stallion, often comes to comfort and soothe terminally ill patients at the Techer Hospital in Calais. The horse always chooses which patient he wants to see, kicking his hoof outside the door

Peyo was originally trained to take part in equestrian shows, but his handler Hassen Bouchakour began to realize his horse had a different calling. After shows, Peyo would pick people out in a crowd and stay close to them. Bouchakour later realized that he was instinctively choosing people that were sick—either physically or mentally. The trainer gave up his career as a showman and decided to embrace Peyo’s special gift in order to help those who need it. Today, Bouchakour works with a therapeutic organization called Les Sabots du Coeur (the clogs of the heart), which is conducting a study of Peyo’s extraordinary abilities.

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