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March 20, 2023 Leave a Comment

A weeping George Gillette in 1940, witnessing the forced sale of 155,000 acres of land for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir, dislocating more than 900 Native American families

These lands were owned by the Three Affiliated Tribes, which “had been their home for perhaps more than a millennium”. Threatened by confiscation under eminent domain, the tribes protested…

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March 16, 2023 Leave a Comment

Charles the II of Spain

This is the result of 200 years of inbreeding, Charles the II of Spain, at age 4 he could barely walk and was still breastfeeding. At age 9 he couldn’t read or write, he died at age 38 and his death led to the War of the Spanish Succession killing between 400k and 700k people.

“The king is rather short, skinny, but not badly formed, only ugly in the face; he has a long neck, a long face, a long chin and as if it bent upwards; the lower lip typical of the Habsburgs; not very large eyes, turquoise blue and a fine and delicate complexion.

He has a look with melancholy on his face and a little astonished. His hair is blond and long, and it is combed back so that the ears are exposed.

He cannot straighten, unless he leans against a wall, a table or something else.

His body is as weak as his mind. From time to time he shows signs of intelligence, memory and a certain liveliness, but not now; he usually looks slow and indifferent, appearing dumbfounded.

You can do whatever you want with him, since he lacks of own will”

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Picture of the Day

March 15, 2023 Leave a Comment

Dina Sanichar

Dina Sanichar, the feral boy found after being raised by wolves and was the inspiration for The Jungle Book’s character of Mowgli

Deep in the northern Indian jungle of Uttar Pradesh in 1872, a group of hunters stopped in their tracks, bewildered by what they were seeing. A pack of wolves loped through the forest, followed by a ghostly form: a small child, ambling on all fours. The unlikely pack disappeared into a nearby den. The hunters planted a fire at the opening of the cave and smoked the pack out. As the group reappeared, the hunters killed the wolves and captured the boy.

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Picture of the Day

March 7, 2023 Leave a Comment

György Dózsa

The Execution of György Dózsa

History has taught us that committing high treason is a sure fire way to get tortured and executed in the most excruciating ways. Of course, this isn’t a problem if you actually manage to succeed in overthrowing a ruler or monarch, but those who fail are made an example of in the worst ways possible. Such was the case of György Dózsa, a Hungarian soldier of fortune who led a peasants’ revolt against the kingdom’s nobility in 1514. Despite achieving some early decisive victories against the Hungarian army, the revolution was eventually suppressed with force and Dózsa captured.

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March 1, 2023 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.

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February 27, 2023 Leave a Comment

japanese internment poster

This was a poster put up in San Francisco, calling for the forcible removal of Japanese Americans in 1942. The instructions are clear:

“All Japanese persons, both alien and non-alien, will be evacuated from the above designated area by 12:00 o’clock noon Tuesday, April 7, 1942.

No Japanese person will be permitted to enter or leave the above described area after 8:00 a.m., Thursday, April 2, 1942, without obtaining special permission from the Provost Marshal at the Civil Control Station located at:

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February 24, 2023 Leave a Comment

Texas Track Club in 1964

Texas Track Club in 1964

During the spring of 1964, Sports Illustrated covers featured the usual cadre of super (or soon to be super) stars: golfer Jack Nicklaus, lefty pitcher Sandy Koufax, the first-time national champion UCLA basketball team.

Then, on April 20, with hair blown out, makeup on, and crouched in sprint positions, Janis Rinehart (foreground), Paula Walter (middle), and Jeanne Ellison (now Jeanne Ellison Biggs, right) became the first female track athletes from the U.S. to grace the cover. Their look was no joke.

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February 20, 2023 Leave a Comment

CEOs of 7 major tobacco corporations testifying under oath that nicotine does NOT cause addiction in 1994

All 7 quit their jobs by 1996.

  • William Campbell, CEO of Phillip Morris went on to have leadership positions with Citigroup, Visa International, then JPMorgan Chase. He currently serves as President of Sanoch Management, “a consulting and investment vehicle for financial companies, start-ups, and venture capital firms.”

  • James Johnston, chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Now works as chairman of the board for Snyder’s-Lance.

  • Joseph Taddeo, President of US Tobacco, is now a chairman for Jupiter Medical Center.

  • Andrew Tisch, CEO of Lorillard Tobacco Company, became co-chair of its parent company Loews Corporation, after the death of his father. It is a holding company involved in hotels, oil, and insurance.

  • Edward Horrigan Jr., CEO of Liggett Group Inc. retired. He died last year at 91.

  • Thomas Sandefur Jr., CEO of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. Retired in 1995, then died in 1996 in the hospital at 56. He had aplastic anemia.

  • Donald Johnston, CEO of American Tobacco Company. Left the company before it was bought out by British American Tobacco plc. at the end of 1994, but I can’t find what he did after that.

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Picture of the Day

February 15, 2023

Eunice Winstead

9 year old Eunice Winstead with her 22 year old husband, Charlie Johns, in Tennessee, 1937.

Before the marriage the Reverend quickly looked over their marriage license and everything seemed to be in order. Issued six days earlier, that legal document allowed him to marry 18 year old Eunice Blanche Winstead to 22 year old Charlie Jess Johns. Of course it turned out the couple had lied on their marriage application.

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February 9, 2023 Leave a Comment

cotton mill workers

Portrait of cotton mill workers in Georgia, 1909

Families usually began mill work together, since employers paid adults poor wages and offered jobs to children to help make ends meet. “In this way, mills attracted a core of mature workers at low cost along with younger, even cheaper, laborers who could perform simple tasks and move in and out of the mills in response to market fluctuations.” Critics opposed child labor and mill owners were often of a divided mind on the subject, but children remained an integral part of the labor force. Between 1880 and 1910, about one-fourth of all cotton mill workers in the South were below the age of sixteen.

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