Picture Of The Day

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May 18, 2022

Divorce by Combat

In medieval Germany, husbands and wives could fight in a marital duel in order to legally settle their disputes.

Interestingly, the man had to fight in a hole with one of his arms tied behind his back. The woman was allowed to move freely within the arena but had to wear cloth containing weights. As for her weapon, she was usually given a sack filled with rocks. The man was provided with three clubs. However, if he touched the side of the hole during combat, he had to forfeit one of his clubs.

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May 16, 2022

10 people killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, police say. The 18-year-old suspect, Payton Gendron is in custody

The suspect drove to Buffalo to the Tops market heavily armed, wearing tactical gear, and had a camera where he was livestreaming what he was doing, said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia.

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May 13, 2022

A Japanese balloon bomb drifted 6,000 miles to deliver a deadly blow to a party of Sunday school picnickers in Bly, Oregon.

In 1945, In Bly, Oregon, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five neighborhood children are killed while attempting to drag a Japanese balloon out the woods. Unbeknownst to Mitchell and the children, the balloon was armed, and it exploded soon after they began tampering with it.

They were the first and only known American civilians to be killed in the continental United States during World War II.

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May 12, 2022

This 14-Year-Old TikTok Star Became An Overnight Sensation After She Stabbed Her Disabled Sister To Death

Claire Miller was a seemingly average 14-year-old in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who lived a second life online posting lip-synching videos on TikTok. She soon found success there, gaining some 22,000 followers with her lighthearted posts.⁠

But in February 2021, she suddenly gained more than 10,000 additional followers almost overnight — just after news broke that she had gruesomely murdered her disabled sister. On February 22, Miller repeatedly stabbed her wheelchair-bound sister in the neck while their parents slept just down the hall. Click the link in our profile to go inside this disturbing murder — and the disturbing TikToks Miller is believed to have posted just before the crime.⁠

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May 11, 2022

Before alarm clocks existed, people used nails fixed onto candles to wake up. they knew hoe to calculate the burning time and put the nail at right position. As the candle melted, nail fell, made a noise and woke its owner

There were much more sophisticated variants. In some monasteries they used metal balls stuck inside the candle, which rolled on the ground.

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May 10, 2022

Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed

Noela Rukundo is a Burundian-Australian woman who became notable for crashing her own funeral. In January 2015, she was presumed dead after her husband, Balenga Kalala, secretly paid several gunmen to kill her while she was in Burundi for her stepmother’s funeral.

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May 9, 2022

The moment of impact from Michael Chandler’s ‘Knockout of the Year’ finish of Tony Ferguson

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May 4, 2022

This magnificent rooster defended his flock of clucking hens from god knows what, and he’s got the bloodstains and scars to prove it.⁣

Whatever it was that knocked, this rooster answered and survived to see another sunrise. Roosters are the head of the flock, charged with setting the pecking order straight and keeping that order within the group.⁣

Yeah, they come to snuff the rooster…⁣

Their other job is to be first in line to kick some ass, no matter what goes bump in the night, the rooster takes the hit for the group. Common chicken thieves range between free roaming cats to fucking bears, but the rooster cares not – his prime directive is to put his life on the line in defense of others and he serves his duty to the letter.⁣

You know he ain’t gonna die⁣.

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May 3, 2022

Camberley Kate, aka Kate Ward, and her stray dogs in England. She never turned a stray dog away, taking care of more than 600 dogs in her lifetime. (1962)

Kate’s early history is somewhat hazy – When interviewed she stated that she was born in Middlesbrough on June 13th 1895, and remained proud of her Yorkshire roots.

Orphaned before she was ten, she was brought up by an aunt in a strict religious atmosphere. As a young girl she went into service, in Yorkshire and eventually found her way to Camberley.

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