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'I was in the mood for kissing': Vet remembers WWII photo published in Life Magazine
‘If I Sleep for an Hour
'Saint Bartholomew Flayed' Duomo di Milano
‘The Very Definition Of Heartless Evil’
” reflected Holocaust survivor Erwin Deutscher–world history and facts
" wrote Antonina Żabińska.
"Mountain of God".
"Our zoo was full of life
"Pte San Win- The White Buffalo Calf Woman"
“The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public

“The ghastly figure on the gibbet stood black against the sky.
“We wanted more from life than just to be tolerated
(flourished 16th century)
🍒•In 2009
000 had been swelled by several hundred thousand refugees
000 Residents?
000 years ago
000 years ago.
000-year-old Iron Age bog body: the Old Croghan Man.
005
01:51–world history and facts
10.5 cm fortress guns–world history and facts
100th Infantry Battalion in World War II
11 Terrifying Facts About Mustard Gas–world history and facts
1349 in the Aachen Cathedral (Aachener Dom) Treasury - Aachen Germany.
15 Unimaginable Things Women Did In The Past Just For The Sake Of ‘Beauty’
1796
1828 Sarah Goodridge was an American painter who sent the first-ever nudes in modern history... world history and facts
1855: Pietro Fortunato Calvi
1864 Mary Edgerton
1881–world history and facts
1896
1910
1910 The Peaky Blinders were a street gang active in Birmingham
1916
1916–world history and facts
1918. Paris
1919: The Treaty of Versailles
1925
1929: The Geneva Convention–world history and facts
1939
1940's – world history and facts
1940s
1941 in the Jewish ghetto of Sandomierz
1941–world history and facts
1942–world history and facts
1943
1943.
1943. Kasserine Pass
1944
1944.
1945
1945 Eva Kor was a Romanian/American survivor of the Holocaust
1945 The USS Indianapolis was a flag ship during World War II... world history and facts
1945 – One of the most iconic photos of WWII shows shoot down of “Wee Willie” (B-17G)”
1945–world history and facts
1945.
1947–world history and facts
1953 - Village of Beautiful Girls- Girls Outnumber men by Four to one:
1960
1960"–HISTORY
1961
1962–world history and facts
1965
1966.
1972 Found in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran in 1972
1980
1980s.
1983. HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
1985
19th and early 20th century–world history and facts
2013Leave your thoughts
2016 Two Men And A Woman Striped dignity and severely beaten For Stealing Goats In Akwa Ibom (photos)
2016. The Villagers of Ogbia community Killed a GIGANTIC Snake They Thought Had Eaten Livestock.
2019
202
20th of February
227 years ago today
23
23 February 2023
251 of which were killed
26
27th January 1901: Italian opera composer
30 People Will Die
303 days and nights of fighting on the Western Front in France.
4000 BC
500 years–world history and facts
555TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY BATTALION [TRIPLE NICKLES] (1944-1947)
636 German casualties
70 Year-old-man Dies Having Sex With 2 Secondary School Girls
74
80 years ago
80 years ago today is when World War II: Rostov-on-Don
800 years.
81 years ago
A bit of Slavic mythology–world history and facts
a Bosnian who returned to his newly liberated village and learned that his family had been massacred by the Serbs - 1995
A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEING BURIED ALIVE
a cheetah at what is now the Maryland Zoo
a corpse of a woman presumably from the medieval era
A father and son fooling around while getting their pictures taken
A German soldier killed by a Soviet sniper– history
A girl became pregnant in Mexico at the age of just eight.
A history of oral sex
a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his unwavering loyalty to his owner
a Japanese soldier who was stationed on Lubang Island in the Philippines during World War II... world history and facts
A Japanese soldier's skull is propped up on a burned-out Jap tank by U.S. troops. Fire damaged the rest of the corpse
A lady was very sick in her bed and asked her husband
A lone captured Soviet soldier standing in the middle of his German captures after attempting to break out of Vyazemsky during Operation Typhoon
A lone Catalina flying boat of the US 53rd Patrol Squadron returning from a patrol spotted the German submarine U-156 east of Barbados
a man named John Jones
A Man with Two Penises Falls in Love with a Woman with Two Vaginas
a nude woman running across the court during a Wimbledon match
a senior zookeeper
A shell-shocked WW1 soldier in the trenches
A story of love. Of pain. Of tears.
A Stripper Showed Her Panties To A Judge To Win Her Case–world history and facts
a tall African man
A terrible journey to escape from the Nazi army
A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima
A Valentine’s Day love story. Remembering Antonio Puchalski (1923-2006) and Sgt. Gordy Carson (1924-1998).
A Woman Gave Birth To a Goat In River State Portharcourt Nigeria.
A Woman Gave Birth To Strenge Looking Baby In Zimbabwe ( Graphic Pictures )
A woman hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag
A woman warns beach goers that their clothing choices are going to send them to hell
A young woman from Vedbaek
Abduction of a Sabine Woman (or Rape of the Sabine Women)
Abduction of a Sabine Woman or Rape of the Sabine Women
After he died
Albany Street
ALEXANDRIA THE SECOND CITY OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
Alfred Arthur Rouse - who attempted to fake his own death–world history and facts
also called Braginoco
also known as the Ardennes Offensive
American Airman Bill Robinson being guarded by an NVA soldier following his capture on September 20
American University Once Had A Chemical Warfare Center–world history and facts
Americans React to the Great Depression
an amazing display of empathy between animals took place.
An archeological discovery that took place in 2018 was nothing out of the ordinary
AN EXCELLENT READ!🏹
and a Muslim army led by the Sultan of Egypt and Syria
and as such
and cheese ...world history and facts
and diarist who lived in colonial Maine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.–world history and facts
and Future of Sculpture: The Everlasting Impact of Art
And Life Will Seem Like A Fairytale…
and massacring Jews by the hundreds of thousands.
and these two young Victorian ladies stop to pose for an opportunist beach photographer before heading to the bracing sea off Worthing
and they think it's just a piece of wood
and Voracious Licking...
Animals are intelligent in the ways that they need to be–world history and facts
Another terrible monument to human self-confidence and arrogance–world history and facts
anyone know him in Malibu? ...world history and facts
Archaeologists
Are war tank dangerous
arrived at a heavily guarded complex hidden in a forest in East Prussia. His mission was to kill Adolf Hitler.
arrived in Japan in 1579 and made history as the first foreign-born man to become a samurai warrior.
Art and Entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s
As WW2 ended Germany made a desperate effort to cover up its crimes.
As you can see
Asaba massacre–history
AT THE KILLING CENTERS
Auschwitz: A Heartbreaking Memorial Of The Holocaust
Back in the 1690’s a bunch of people were accused of witchcraft in Salem–world history and facts
Barbara Marton Farkas never forgot the moment she realized the Soviet Army was closing in on Weisswasser
Bayinnaung
Beat your slaves
beginning on 18 March 1916 (5 March O.S.)–World history and facts
Behind the scene photos of the movie classic Jaws 1975.
Belfiore martyrs–world history and facts
Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany
Billy the Kid Escaped from Jail April 28
Bluetooth technology was named after a Viking king by the name of Harald Bluetooth who died over 1
Born in 1988
born without a vagina has become the first in the world to have one made out of FISH SKIN and she can finally have sex with her boyfriend
Brenda Schad is a model and actress Brenda Schad is Choctaw and Cherokee.
Brief history of king Cyprus the great
British officers pose against the background of a shell to the German 800 mm Dora cannon...world history and facts
built on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos somewhere between 292 BC and 280 BC. The statue was depicting God Helios (Sun).
buried with her newborn child who had been placed on the wing of a swan
Burning At The Stake
but did you know there are also geoglyphs in the USA?
California Man Kills Wife On Christmas Eve 2011 And Fools His Kids Into Thinking She’s Still Alive
CAMBRIAN ERA OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC–world history and facts
came across something very
Capital punishment by Impalement
Cathie Jung — Guinness Record Holder for Smallest Waist Published by Editorial Staff Posted on March 11
CHELMNO–world history and facts
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers Of all the typical Plains tribes
China.
circa 1890s.
Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego)
Col Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Comanche Chief Quanah Parker’s Daughters 1891
commonly known as the Trench Gun
Congo
considering that the car is left-hand drive.
Control room of a WW1 German submarine UB-110–world history and facts
CROCODILE EATING BALLERINA
Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade’s tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe
Czeslawa Kwoka
Dachau Concentration camp
Dahteste (circa 1860–1955) was a Chokonen Apache woman warrior–world history and facts
DAREDEVIL! SOFIA CHEUNG
Death and emigration in County Galway: Ireland during the Famine
Death of Marilyn Monroe
Death so horrible that it stopped a form of execution–world history and facts
Denmark
dies. He was regarded as one of the most influential composers of the 19th century.
Disturbing footage of a “surgeon” attempting to remove a live snake from a woman’s ear has gone viral.
Do You Know ❓ Fall of Babylonian Empire (October 539 BC) - about 2562 years ago)–HISTORY
Do you remember Vitellius?
Do You Think She’s Dead?’: Inside The Incredible Survival Story Of Alison Botha
Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
don't read it if you aren't a fan of it.
Dresden’s normal population of about 600
During the Nazi occupation of Norway
During the Vietnam War
During World War II
Dutch Japanese Prisoner of War__world history and facts
East side of the Apadana Palace
Edward Donald Slovik Execution 1920–world history and facts
Eight hundred children are gassed to death at Auschwitz
ejected from his English Electric Lightning F1 aircraft
Elisabeth Becker
England
English Men Once Sold Their Wives Instead of Getting Divorced
entrapped two Axis armies–world history and facts
Enubuj island
Everything You Want to Know About Tongue Splitting.
Evil Experiment Carried Out In History Of World War Ll–world History And Facts.
Ewen Montagu
Execution by cannon in Shiraz
Execution of Klava Nazarova by hanging–world history and facts
Executions in Berlin's Plötzensee prison–world history and facts
Exploring the Past
Eye-opening photos of executions torturers from Nazi camp
Facing the Death: the different expressions of six Polish civilians moments before death by firing squad
Fact Check: Does Hangzhou Regent International House 30
Famine within ukraine in 1932
Fantastic ‘Virgin’ Pool Never Before Seen by Humans Discovered Deep in New Mexico Cave
farmer
February 3rd 1943 - Stalingrad
February 4th
Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
First World War soldier with gas mask. US soldier at a First World War training camp peeling onions while wearing a gas mask.
Flaying method of execution
fleeing from the advancing Soviet army.
Following William Wallace's execution on 23 August 1305
Forgiving father whose 16-year-old daughter murdered her mother and two brothers after row over boyfriend says he's desperate to live long enough to see her walk out of jail–world history and facts
Former beauty Queen
France. Masks of War
Frank Hayes
from either the Iron Age or Romano-British period–HISTORY
from fellatio's ancient roots to the modern blow job
from the 1890s to the 1920s.
FROM THE PINA BAUSCH BALLET ‘KEUSHLEITSLEGENDE’
General Clark in The American propaganda film “Liberation of Rome” Roosevelt requested this to appease Americans that their sons being killed wasn’t all for not.
General Franz Halder noted in his diary that the campaign in the Soviet Union had thus far caused 1
George And Willie Muse
Germans often took photos of the camp to send along to the high command those these photos were not very damning.
Germany–world history and facts
Gertrude Baniszewski
Get In Tune With Your Intuition
Ghost Ship" Called The Ss Ourang Medan–world history and facts
Gordon Frederick Cummins - the “Blackout Ripper”.
graduated with a BSc
GRAPHIC Pics Of Lady Buried Alive By Her Rich Boyfriend
grooming Laika
Guiseppe Verdi
Guy of Lusignan
Hadrian's Wall: Wooden 'Roman s@x toy' found in Northumberland–world history and facts
Hanging and Quartering.
Hannah Halley - for infanticide.
has a four-inch devil horn removeIndiand from his head after it 'sprouted up following a head injury'–world history and facts
He rarely ever spoke about it - Inside The Chichijima Incident George H.W. Bush’s Harrowing Escape From Cannibal Enemies During World War II
healer
Her Father Wanted Her To “Live Forever”–world history and facts
Herb Baumeister–world history and facts
Here's why you should not GOSSIP.
high school science teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in one of Tennessee’s public schools.
Hiroo Onoda
Hitler's Army began a rampage through Ukraine
Homosexual)
How A Silent Natural Disaster Nearly Wiped Out A Whole Village And Their Livestock
How Airplanes Were Used in World War I
How blessed we are and don’t even recognize it.
how common was that? – world history and facts
How Corrie Ten Boom Saved Hundreds Of Jews From The Nazis.
How Shark Fin Soup Is Driving Some Species To Extinction
How The Sinking of The USS Indianapolis Became The Worst Shark Attack in History
Human Rights Court: Denial of Armenian genocide is not a crime–world history and facts
I often see this picture used by the hollocaust deniers as an evidence of the Soviets molesting German women... world history and facts
I was in Palm Beach for a conference...world history and facts
In 1361
In 1913 a woman named Mary Phagan was raped and murdered at the National Pencil Company in Georgia where she had worked
in 1952–world history and facts.
In 1993
In 1996
In 2008
in a dig down in Ecuador
in a zoo in Illinois
In ancient Greece
In early 1945
In June of 1941
in the 19th centur
In the winter of 1945
including women.
Indian Man Grows Four-Inch Horn After Head Injury (Graphic Photo)
Indonesian woman swallowed by giant python
INFLUENCER DIES AFTER FALLING OFF WATERFALL WHILE TAKING SELFIE.
Inside The Incredible Mount Everest Survival Story Of Beck Weathers–world history and facts
Iran
Irene Miller’s story is just one example of how some women endured and overcame persecution during the Holocaust.
is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp
Is there any veterans of the Dirlewanger Brigade still alive–world history and facts
Issei Sagawa
it is confirmation that life does not end at death.
It was the first successful cesarean section that we know of–world history and facts
It was the time when the Spanish terrorized the indigenous people of South America.
It's August 1900
It's been in the Manchester Museum for decades
Italy
Janek Schleifstein was born on March 7
January 15
January 17
January 1941 British forces launched concurrent offensives from Sudan and Kenya into Italian East Africa.
Japanese Prisoners of War Held by the Allies–world history and facts
Japanese troops executed
Joe Cummings noticed that every time he came home from work
Johann Pauls
John Lee - "The man they could not hang"–world history and facts
John Smith - who poisoned his fiancée–world history and facts
Join us in paying tribute to decorated Polish war veteran Ludwik Jaszczur
JORDAN DURING THE WAR IN 1918
Joseph "Muscha" Müller
Judenzählung (Jewish Census)
Jul - Village of Beautiful Girls 👭 Jul 07
July 27
June 28
Just a reminder of how Christianity became so popular today
Kane Tanaka
Kenya’s most prominent polygamist
Khmer Rouge: Cambodia's years of brutality–world history and facts
king of the Toungoo dynasty (reigned 1551–81) in Myanmar (Burma)–History
Krystyna Chiger goes to hell for a hid-out–world history and facts
Kwajalein Atoll
Lady uses Cassava As A Love Machine
Lady Who Uses Cassava As A Love Machine Lands In Hospital (Photos)
Leonard Siffleet about to be beheaded with a sword by a Japanese soldier
LIFE Photographer Margaret Bourke-White poses in flight gear in front of a B-17
Lina Medina the youngest confirm mother
Lindow Man : Lindow Man is the preserved body of a man thought to be from between 2 BC and 119 AD
Lingchi slow slicing–world history and facts
located in Lower Saxony
located in the southeast of occupied Poland–world history and facts
Long before colonialism
Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine grew up in the small
Love is eternal
Lynching of Jesse Washington May 15
Major General Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin and his execution companions carried out numerous atrocious mass executions during The Great Purge and World War II.
Male Robox: See The Sex Robot No Woman ‘can Resist’ (photos)
Manila Massacre: A Painful Reminder of War’s Impact
Marshall Islands
Martha Ballard was a midwife
Martin Luther King removes a burnt cross from his lawn that was placed there by the Ku Klux Klan
MARY J. WILSON 🙋🏾‍♀️ Wilson
Masha Bruskina–world history and facts
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp... World history and facts
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Mata Hari–world history and facts
Mediterranean campaign was the provision of naval gunfire support–world history and facts
Meet Carl Panzram
Meet John Albert Burr: The Great Black American Inventor Who Invented Rotary Lawn Mower–world history and facts
Meet Oliver Sipple
Meet the parachuting Yorkshire Terrier
Mike Tyson once Tried to bribe a zookeeper to let him fight a Gorilla ---- And more wild facts about the legendary boxers
Milan
millions of people were sent to concentration camps
Mirror hand syndrome–world history and facts
Mishukov was abandoned by his mother at a young age and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow.
Miss Wyoming winner 1973 Joyce McKinney being arrested.
Mizoch Ghetto
Mobile Killing Squads–world history and facts
Modern science to unlock the secrets of couples holding each other in loving embrace for 3
Molten gold was poured down his throat until his bowels burst
MONK DIES IN GREECE WITHOUT SEEING WOMAN Without ever seeing a woman in the years of his life–history and facts
More of our men died–world history and facts
Mummy of Queen Nodjmet
Mundari Tribe of South Sudan
Mussolini delayed Hitler's invasion of the USSR by six weeks as German troops were diverted to Africa to suppress the British in Northern Africa.
Mussolini’s Final Hours
Nanking Massacre and raped victim
Natural body
Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon The Hidden Disabled Cousins of Queen Elizabeth
New Brunswick.
NINETY YEARS AGO
northwest of Hanover...world history and facts
not a crime
October 1939 Germans begin killing of people with disabilities.
On January 27
On May 5
On November 9
on the 4th of November 1942
On this day
On this day 20th February 1942. Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Scanlan
On this day 28th February 1942 Operation Biting
On this day in 2006 the life of a brutal dictator came to a very public end.
On this day Jun 04
one of the great history of Igala Kingdom signifying love ❤️
one of the most dangerous jobs was undertaken by a select few known as "tunnel rats."–world history and facts
One of the versions. Yesenin's death came from asphyxia by hanging–workd history and facts
One of the worst Nazi concentration camps uncovered by Allied troops during liberation was in Wobbelin
One Of The Worst Serial Killers In Human History Was Joan of Arc's Right-Hand Man
Ordinary People Great Depression–world history and facts
Paris Catacombs🔘
Pearl Harbor skull could be of Japanese world war two pilot
Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Persepolis–History
Photographs lay bare scale of Nazi extermination machine
Photos: Meet Woman With Four Legs And Two Private Parts.
pistol sword
Poison Gas — The Seven Most Feared Chemical Weapons of WWI–world history and facts
Poland suffered horrendously during WW2–world history and facts
Pre-U.S. Entry Into WWII
Present
Project Pigeon During World War II
Queen Elizabeth II had two "secret" cousins with severe disabilities that were hidden from the public
quiet California town of Linden
Rainbow and cracked fairy chimney in Cappadocia
Rape of Japanese Women by American Soldiers in Okinawa
Rats This amazing colorization made by Marina Amaral shows a German(Prussian landwehrmann) soldier tanning rat skins in a dugout during WWI.
razing towns
Reason why all mankind isn't raising a loud and unambiguous chorus denouncing Russian atrocity in their war on Ukrainian noncombatants–world history
REASONS WHY A MALE CHILD IS BETTER THAN A FEMALE CHILD–THE FACTS REMAINS
Reincarnation can explain some of life's mysteries
Reliquary bust of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
Researchers Identify 536 A.D. as The Absolute Worst Year Ever–world history and facts
Robert Berdella (Serial Killer
roughly 100 miles from the hustle and bustle of San Francisco.
Rudolf Hoess
Rudolf Höss–world history and facts
Russia is liberated.
Russia's ill-fated Lake Naroch Offensive took place 107 years ago this week
Sacrificing POWs
Sadist
Salt
Sanctuary of Madonna della Corona
Sara Janse Geldof - the last woman executed in Holland.
Scorpion Mother Carrying Babies on Her Back
See the tribe in Ethiopia where women are flogged mercilessly as a sign of love for their men
See what drove Magdalena Solis to believe she was a goddess and start sacrificing her followers.
September 1941
Serial killer Dean Corll
servants or soldiers
served in Canadian Mounties and was sheriff at El Paso.
set out to explore Nutty Putty Cave in Utah
She discovered her husband having an affair with another woman outside
Skull wearing a medieval chainmail from a mass grave on the Island of Gotland
slaves
Smoky who saved countless lives during WW2.
Snowboarder's disappearance shrouds Mount Everest–world history and facts
so she poured him an acid out of an anger
Soldier fell for a Tiny Kitten in Korea–world history and facts
some scandalous events of the Middle Ages
South African photojournalist Kevin Carter visited Sudan on assignment.
Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)
Strange: British tourism officials irked as UAE adopts hoax.
survives After 8months
Sweden.
Swedish Major Eric Bonde smokes a cigarette after being ambushed and shot twice
Talk about starvation–history and facts
Tarrare
Terracotta Army–History
Terrible Capital punishment by Boiling To Death
Terrible punishment: Drawing
Test pilot George Aird
Test pilot George Aird ejected from his Lightning F1 aircraft
Texas Man Arrested After Allegedly Plotting To Murder And Cannibalize An Underage Girl
the "torture mother."
the 14-year-old inmate of Auschwitz
The Agonizing Death Of Floyd Collins
The American POWs Still Waiting for an Apology From Japan 70 Years Later–world history and facts
The Apache Woman Warrior Who Helped Lead Resistance to European Invaders
The Bataan Death March.
The battle of Hattin was fought between a Christian army led by the King of Jerusalem
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945.
The Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Tarawa
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Somme was a major offensive launched by British and French forces against German forces on the Western Front during World War I.
The battle of Verdun from February 21st to December 18th 1916
The Beast Of Jersey–world history and facts
The Black Brothers Who Were Kidnapped By The Circus And Billed As ‘Martians’
The bodies of civilians executed by the German army hang in the Pancevo city cemetery
The body of the Soviet pilot Boris Lazarev 55 years after his death
the British Eighth and the Anglo-American First
The capture of brave Russian officer Rosinski
The Cave Explorer Who Was Trapped Underground For 17 Days Before He Finally Perished
the Cheyenne were most distinguished for warlike qualities.
THE CLOSEST MAN HAS COME TO CREATING A HELL ON EARTH
The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue of the god Helios
the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
The dancing plague 1518–world history and facts
The Dark Legacy of America: Recalling Wounded Knee Massacre
The deadliest female sniper to ever live
The Death Of Tightrope Walker Karl Wallenda (video).
The Decembrists–world history and facts
The different treatment of Waffen-SS and Heer POWs by the Allies during World War 2–world history and facts
The Disturbing History Of Chinese Water Torture — And How It Drove Victims Insane
The Eagle Died After Twenty Years!!
The enigmatic Green Stone of the Great Temple in Hattusa
The Escape Of Henry Brown
The Execution Of Lepa Radic During World War II.The Execution Of Lepa Radic During World War II.
The Execution Of Maria Kislyak By Hanging–world history and facts
The execution of women by the Nazis during World War II–world history and facts
The execution of Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya & Vera Voloshina by hanging 1923
The face of war: The first press pictures of dead U.S. soldiers that was presented to the public
THE FIRE LADDER 🤯–world history and facts
The first complaint "letter" (more photos in comment section)
The first ever nudes
The Flowery Land Pirates – for mutiny on the high seas–world history and facts.
the forces of Danish King Valdemar Atterdag set out to conquer Gotland
The Forgotten First
the Germans were starting to lose the war.
The Giant Short-Faced Bear
The girl who forgave death
The grief of Senad Medanovic
The Gruesome Reality of Sawing Women in Half: A Historical Torture Method
The Harvest stops for a bit of bread
the high jump was a national sport at which Rwandans 🇷🇼 excelled.–world history and facts
the hungriest man to live.
THE HUNTER BROTHERS SPENT 23 DAYS IN FLIGHT WITHOUT LANDING
the Japanese cannibal who still walks free.
The Korean War Hasn't Officially Ended. One Reason: POWs
the last Belfiore Martyr–world history and facts
The last scientist who work in library
the Lebensborn program was established with the aim of promoting the "Aryan" race through forced breeding.
The Liberation of Majdanek–world history and facts
The Lvov pogrom - a Jewish pogrom in Lvov
The Macabre True Story Of Edward Paisnel
The man who haunted nobody
The man who posted himself home...world history and facts
The Man Who Refused A Pardon
The Massacre of Manila ... world history and facts
The mayans used to sacrifice people by pulling their still beating hearts out of their chests
The mistake of the US and USSR in places like Iraq and Afghanistan –world history and facts
The Mongolian steppe was a dangerous place to live during the 12th century AD–world history and facts
The Monster of the Andes: The Chilling Tale of Pedro Lopez–world history and facts
The most dreaded torture in history: 'blood eagle' torture was horrific.
The most painful form of death–world history and facts
The most surprising thing is when visiting a common bathhouse in Japan... world history and facts
The Most Twisted Serial Killer You’ve Never Heard Of.
THE MURDER OF MRS LEE AND CHILDREN
The My Lai massacre
the name indicates a bit of what it is about.
The Nanking Massacre is a devastating example of the suffering that can be inflicted on a defeated or weak country during times of war.
The Nazi Occupation in Poland
The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
The organic capsule–world history and facts
The phenomenon of CAMOUFLAGE was already known before WW1 but this very war accelerated this skill.
The possible cannibalistic killing of Micheal Rockefeller
The Rape Of Nanking–world history and facts
The real-life Peaky Blinders
the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp
The remote freezing-cold forests of Siberia
The role M67 grenade play in the history of the Vietnam War
The Rwandan genocide
The shark attacks of World War II
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth that bears the image of a man who appears to have been physically crucified–history
The skull of a woman
the spymaster behind Operation Mincemeat–world history and facts
The Story Of Ted Bundy
the subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
The supposed 300-year-old mummified "mermaid" that was worshipped in Japan–world history and facts
The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity–world history and facts
THE TARIM MUMMIES
The terror of the execution wheel
The Top 6 Deadliest Genocides.
The Tragic And Mysterious Disappearance Of Holly Bobo
the Union Library Company was founded at the White Hall Tavern
The United Nations War Crimes Commission organized a subcommittee to study the possibility of war criminals claiming that they were simply following orders in post-war trials.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW AND WHY FELA KUTI MARRIED 27 WOMEN ON THE SAME DAY IN 1978 (A must read)
The USA have the most brutal and horrific history–world history and facts
the veteran who saved President Ford's life - and was punished for it
The voices of the dead–world war ll
The Winchester Model 1897
The wisdom tooth of a gentleman who had not really worked on his oral hygiene–world history and facts
The worst act of cowardice in history–world history and facts
The worst crime committed I ever heard of.
The young man you see in part on these images–history and facts
There’s a ton of horrifying deaths for bugs–world history and facts
These are people who get eye piercings... world history and facts
These photographs survived the Holocaust—even though their owner didn't–world history and facts
these two skeletons have been embracing each other for the last 2
This guy is local
This image touches the true essence of stage 4 cancer...world history and facts
This is a close-up of the hand from a 2
This is a diorama of a decomposed German soldier next to his machine gun and personal items.
This is a photo of World War II you will never forget
This is a pillory as it was used in China
This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 differet stepfathers_world history and facts
THIS IS SAD! Malawi Times: world history and facts
This is the last photo taken of Hachikō
This post will feature one of the most gruesome torture devices
This statue is our Igala princess Inikpi
This story that I am going to tell you is one of the craziest and most absurd mysteries I have ever seen–world history and facts
Thomas Edward Ketchum the (Black Jack)_world history and facts
Thomas Nash executed– for the murder of his daughter 24th of November 1885.
THREE FEMALE KIDNAPPERS CAUGHT AND SEVERELY BEATEN BY MOB IN ABUJA ON THIS DAY 26TH JUNE
Thursday
Tickle Torture - Goats
Today in history
Today in History – April 8
TOMAHAWK JOE' real name Kazan Champion
took place from June 30 to July 2
Trophy Hunter Fatally Gored In Groin By Herd Mate Of Buffalo He’d Just Killed
Tunisia.
Turkey.
Tutsi Massacre in Rwanda 1994
Two American freedmen sit outside of a Japanese concentration camp after its liberation
U.S. Army Hangman John C. Woods Intentionally Botched Nazi Executions To Ensure Their Agonizing Deaths
Unit 731 was a Japanese research facility established in 1935 in Pingfang
unleashing death squads
US Marine discovers a near-dead baby in a cave in the jungle of Saipan island
USA
Vasily Ignatenko's body was so radioactive that he had to be buried under multiple layers of zinc and concrete in order to protect the public from his corpse.
very bizarre... world history and facts
Villagers Killed Gigantic Snake Which They Thought Had Swallowed A Cow(photos)
Violette Szabo: The Young Heroine of World War II
Visually impaired girl’s photo incorrectly shared as the one who saw the Nuclear blast in Hiroshima
volunteers and an occasional virgin (its why young girls were promiscuous in their culture) was a rite.
Wagner Chief Reveals Huge Pile Of His Mercenaries slayed In One Day in Ukraine
Wanada Parker Page (1882-1970) She was born in 1882 in Indian Territory. Her Indian name was Woon-ardy Parker.
War crimes committed on soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces
War Pigs: A Flaming History of Nature’s Cutest Creations in Battle
was a very significant day for the UK and the world on the path to victory over the Nazis and the Axis powers in World War Two.
was an American
was found in the Romanian Peştera Muierii cave
was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
We have friendly Cannibals and we have Katherine Knight
we honor the service of the Navajo Code Talkers
Well
West Sussex.
What a bullet does to a human body–world history and facts
What Angered Germans regarding the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1
When the Battle of the Bulge—one of the bloodiest battles of World War II
Where is it
While hygiene practices varied depending on various factors such as social status and geographic location–history and facts
Who and how the first gun was invented–world history and facts
who has passed away at the age of 95. 🕯️
who lived 35
who served during battles in the Pacific Theater during World War II.–HISTORY
who tried to feed her husband to his children... world history and facts
Why Queen Elizabeth Beheaded Her Cousin Mary...world history and facts
William Wallace's severed head was placed on a spike on Drawbridge Gate on London Bridge
with his family and friends...world history and facts
Woman
women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. –History
World Cup 1938: When Nazi Germany Forced Austrians to Play For Them—And Lost–world history and facts
World history and facts
World history and facts: Are the Hungry Always Innocent (and Does It Matter)? Postwar Hungers in Germany 1918-1949
world history and facts: The world famous painting- "The Truth coming out of the well" Jean-Léon Gérôme
World War 1 was the culmination of a century of uneasy peace.
World war I–world history and facts
World War II Prisoner of War Camps–world history and facts
World War II: The Holocaust
World War II: U.S INVOLVEMENT
wrote in a letter to her family in Ohio–world history and facts
WUPPERTAL
Yasuke
you can be killed…
You may have heard of the giant geoglyphs carved into the desert of Peru called the Nazca Lines

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