The World Of History And Past Events

History of lesbianism Lesbianism is the sexual and romantic desire between women. There are historically fewer mentions of lesbianism than male homosexuality, due to many historical writings and records focusing primarily on men. Ancient Mesopotamia Women's sexuality in ancient Mesopotamia is not well documented. Stephanie Lynn Budin, writing on love magic, argues that "there remains no evidence for lesbianism in this regard (or any other from Mesopotamia)." However, there are at least two pieces of textual evidence for Mesopotamian lesbianism. One is a divinatory text which mentions female same-sex activity, while another, more explicit text remains unpublished. There are also mentions in the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1700 BC) of a sal-zikrum. This term may translate to "woman-man" and refer to a gender-nonconforming individual, "perhaps a female functionary, attached to a temple." The word is regularly treated as grammatically feminine, but a sal-zik...

"2010 San Fernando Massacre" The 2010 San Fernando massacre, also known as the first massacre of San Fernando, was the mass murder of 72 undocumented immigrants by Los Zetas drug cartel in the village of El Huizachal in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico.  The 72 killed—58 men and 14 women—were mainly from Central and South America, and they were shot in the back of the head and then piled up together. The bodies were found inside a ranch on 24 August 2010 by the Mexican military after they engaged in an armed confrontation with members of a drug cartel. They received information of the place after an Ecuadorian survived a shot to the neck and face, faked his death, and then made his way out of the ranch and up to a military checkout to ask for help.  There were only three survivors. Investigators later mentioned that the massacre was a result of the immigrants' refusal to work for Los Zetas, or to provide money for their release. On 17 June 2011 the Fed...

A friendly U.S. Marine gives a little Japanese boy a ride on his shoulders, only a few days after Saipan was secured in June 1944. While the battle officially ended on July 9, Japanese resistance still persisted with Captain Sake Oba and 46 other soldiers who survived with him during the last banzai charge. After the battle, Oba and his soldiers led many Japanese civilians throughout the jungle of the island to escape capture by the Americans, while also conducting guerrilla-style attacks on pursuing forces. The Americans tried numerous times to hunt them down but failed due to their speed and stealth. In September 1944, the Marines began conducting patrols in the island's interior, searching for survivors who were raiding their camp for supplies. Although some of the soldiers wanted to fight, Captain Oba asserted that their primary concerns were to protect the civilians and to stay alive to continue the war. At one point, the Japanese soldiers and civilians were almost captured by...

This one always gave me the chills, and it’s because of the story behind it. This is a newly freed slave with a blacksmith cutting his shackle off: This photo was taken in 1907 after Slavery was outlawed in most of the known world—but still being practiced as part of the Arab slave trade. The British frigate had intercepted a slaving ship and freed several men. This man was saved off the coast of Oman, just prior to being sent into longer-term slavery—by the skin of his neck. The photo always struck me. It's one of the very rarest photos of someone being freed from slavery—literally.

In the year 1882, a seemingly ordinary photograph was taken, capturing the innocence and curiosity of a young child named Albert Einstein.  Little did the world know at that time that this unassuming three-year-old boy would go on to reshape the very fabric of our understanding of the universe. Born on March 14, 1879, in the German city of Ulm, young Albert Einstein exhibited early signs of an inquisitive mind. The photograph reveals a child with unruly hair and lively eyes, already hinting at the spark of intellect that would one day illuminate the world. It was within the confines of his middle-class Jewish household that Einstein's intellectual journey began, nurtured by the love and support of his family. As he grew older, Einstein's insatiable curiosity continued to blossom. His father, Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, gifted him a compass at the tender age of five. This simple instrument fascinated young Albert, sparking a fascination that would become a guiding...

Serial killer Dean Corll. Around 8:30 a.m. on August 8, 1973, Wednesday morning, the Pasadena, TX, police department got a telephone call from a hysterical Wayne Henley.  Patrolman A.B. Jamison raced over to the address, 2020 Lamar Drive, a green and white frame house. Three teenagers, two boys and a girl stood in front of the house.One of the boys,Wayne Henley, came forward and told the police motioned the cop inside where Corll's body lay on the floor. Corll had been a large muscular man over six feet tall and weighing approximately 200 pounds. His dark brown hair, graying at the temples, was styled in little waves. His identification showed his name as Dean Arnold Corll, a 33-year-old electrician for Houston Power and Light.  Detectives had arrived to examine the sparsely furnished crime scene one of the more interesting ones they had witnessed in some time. Corll had been shot six times with bullets lodging in the chest, shoulder and head.   In the bedroom p...

Ghost Ship" Called The Ss Ourang Medan In the 1940s, an eerie story about a mysterious "ghost ship" called the SS Ourang Medan began appearing in newspapers around the world.  Each version of the tale varied slightly, but most agreed on a few key points. The Dutch vessel was traveling through the Strait of Malacca near Indonesia when its radio operator suddenly sent out a chilling message:  "SOS from Ourang Medan… We float. All officers, including the Captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. Probably whole of crew dead… I die." An American ship called the Silver Star soon responded and the rescuers who boarded the Ourang Medan came upon a horrifying scene. The entire crew was dead, scattered throughout the vessel with their faces frozen in terror. Even the ship's dog had died mid-snarl.  However, there were no apparent injuries on their bodies and no one could figure out how they died. The Silver Star was then about to tow the Ourang Medan to port...

The Unknown Soldier  In 1916 Reverend Railton saw a cross inscribed ‘An Unknown Warrior of the Black Watch.’ Railton contemplated who the soldier was, and who grieved for him. He also wondered if an unidentified soldier’s body could be reinterred in England to represent the lives sacrificed in the Great War.  Railton’s vision became reality on 11 November 1920 when an unknown soldier was buried at Westminster Abbey. As Amelia Bromley watched on, her thoughts turned to her dead son: ‘Yes, he’s come back home … to the place he first entered this world.’ That same day, France entombed a poilu’s remains beneath the Arc De Triomphe. A year later, an unknown American soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.  These tombs became places for silent contemplation, and often sad resignation.  In 1926, a one-legged veteran named Trocker visited the Paris tomb, and smashed a magnum of champagne on the sacred stone and drunkenly toasted the glorious dead. He was arrested ...

Killing someone's Soul ...  Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death!  Bone Pointing ...  A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed. The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out by a Kurdaitcha, or a ritual executioner. The name Kurdaitcha comes from the slippers that the Kurdaitcha wear. These slippers, made of cockatoo or emu feathers and human hair are completely silent when the user walks in them. The Kurdaitcha will use this silence to quickly hunt down the person to be killed if the person has fled. Once the person is caught the Kurdaitcha will go down onto one knee and point the kundela, or killing bone (which will have been charged with a psychic energy in a previous ritual), at the condemned.  At this point the victim is said to be completely frozen in fear. The Kurdaitcha will then chant a curse. Afterwa...

This is the actual execution of Amon Goeth.  He was famously depicted in the movie Schindler’s List, as firing on concentration camp prisoners with a sniper rifle from his balcony. Amon Leopold Göth  (11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II. Göth was tried after the war by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland at Kraków and was found guilty of personally ordering the imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people. He was also convicted of homicide, the first such conviction at a war crimes trial, for "personally killing, maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified number of people." Göth was executed by hanging not far from the former site of the Płasz...

Josephine Baker is often remembered as a trailblazing singer, actress, and dancer of the Jazz Age but few people know that during World War II she supported the Allied cause by working as a spy for the French Resistance.  By the start of the war, Baker had already been living in France for many years; she had become a French citizen in 1937 after marrying Jewish Frenchman Jean Lion.  Throughout the war, she maintained a busy performance schedule in many of Europe's wartime cities which provided an excellent cover for her covert activities.  Baker served as a sub-lieutenant in the Women’s Auxiliary of the Free French Air Force and helped spy for the French government by gathering information at high society events held at embassies. Her fame gave her the unusual ability to visit neutral nations during the war so she assisted the French Resistance by smuggling secrets written in invisible ink on her sheet music.  She helped other intelligence agents secure travel visas...

‘Be prepared for the worst to happen any day’ ANZAC Lieutenant Bert Crowle penned these sober words in a letter to his wife, Beatrice, from his bed in late August 1916. Days earlier, Bert had shepherded his ‘shaken’ men into no-man’s-land in a futile attack upon Mouquet Farm on the Somme.  Two machine-gun bullets had struck Bert in the thigh, with a third ricocheting off the periscope in his pocket.  Bert survived the wound.  Stretcher-bearers walked four miles across open ground to get him back to a casualty clearing station.  The station formed part of an intricate network of aid posts, dressing stations, and hospitals (pictured) that would treat over two million of the empire’s wounded in the Great War.  After three days of treatment, Bert realised things weren’t good. ‘Had I been brought in at once I had a hope,’ he told Beatrice.  The Somme soil, laced with manure, had infected the wound. Surgeons were forced to remove pounds of flesh from his buttocks...

In July 1937, Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps in Nazi Germany, opened. Over the next eight years, some 250,000 people were imprisoned there.  At first, Buchenwald was designated for male prisoners only—including political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Sinti and Roma, and Jews. Prisoners not only faced brutal, unsanitary conditions, but some were also subjected to forced medical experimentations. At the time of the camp’s liberation in April 1945, conditions were dire: “I saw human beings, human beings that had been beaten, they'd been starved, they’d been tortured. They’d been denied everything, everything that would make anyone’s life livable. There they were standing in front of me, and they were skin and bone,” remembered American soldier Leon Bass. At least 56,000 male prisoners died in the camp. Pictured here are survivors of Buchenwald following liberation.  Photo: USHMM, courtesy of Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft

Naked man impales himself on metal spike after getting drunk and trying to jump fence at party The streaker, named only as 39-year-old Denis, stripped off at a party and decided to vault the railings in Russia THIS is the painful moment rescuers tried to free a man who had managed to impale himself on a metal spike after trying jump a fence - while completely naked. The streaker, who has been named only as 39-year-old Denis, stripped off at a party in the Russian the city of Tolyatti and decided to vault the railings. Footage showed the careful operation to free the man, who was apparently drunk, from the sharp spike which was skewered through his left buttock. His family had to call the police to rescue him before he could be taken to hospital for treatment to the deep wound. It is unclear why he ran naked from the party or why he chose to jump the metal fence rather than use a gate, but he's since gained himself the nickname Drunk Tarzan. An eyewitness told Komsomols...

Indian Man survives after being impaled in the head with a rod (Disturbing Pix)  A 21-year-old Indian man has undergone a successful operation to remove an iron rod that pierced through his skull. On Wednesday, Sanjay Bahe was recorded calmly talking to medics with the iron rod sticking out of both sides of his head before it was safely removed. He was building a well at his family farm at Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, when he fell onto the metal rods, with one piercing the right side of his skull, passing through his brain and coming out of left side of his head.Surprisingly, Bahe remained conscious as he was taken to Neuron Hospital for treatment.. Neurosurgeon Dr. Pramod Giri said the rod entered the right temporal region of the brain and passed through the left frontal region across the midline. .. The rod did damage brain tissue but luckily the portion affected may only cause problems like seizures and behavioral changes, like irritability, in later part of his life. None of t...

Zookeeper attacked by orangutan in viral video apologises for taunting it. A zoo visitor has apologised for taunting an orangutan minutes before it attacked him in Indonesia. Hasanal Arifin, 19, climbed over the fence and filmed himself taunting the primate at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in Riau province on June 6. The orangutan became furious when the teenager held out his arms towards the cage and it attacked. The orangutan grabbed Hasanal's t-shirt and the shocked teen can be heard crying out for help. The furious animal tried to pull Hasanal inside the cage and even grabbed him by the leg. An onlooker tried to intervene but the primate brushed them away. Staff were alerted to the incident and Hasanal was kicked out of the zoo. Hasanal later claimed he thought he was going to die. Hasanal said: "I only made the video to play with the orangutan. I love all animals and I wasn't teasing it to show off. "I was shocked when it grabbed me. The monkey's reflexes we...

Man Paraded Naked For Raping Lady And Trying To Pluck Out Her Eyes In Akure Man Paraded Naked For Raping Lady And Trying To Pluck Out Her Eyes In Akure (Graphic) A young man has been paraded and beaten by residents of Oluwatuyi in Akure for allegedly raping a woman and trying to pluck out her eyes, IgbereTV reports. The alleged attacker was paraded naked alongside his victim and beaten with a plank on Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021. Lawyer and political activist TD Cole Esq. shared the graphic footage via his Twitter handle. In the graphic footage, the victim who appears weak and unable to move is seen lying naked beside her alleged attacker, with blood on the floor beside her body. Those speaking in the video are heard saying the man raped the woman and was in the process of removing her eyes when he was caught.