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Stephan-Bibrowski

Barnum & Bailey Circus’Sideshow performer Stephan Bibrowski, also known as Lionel the Lion-Faced Man.

Stephan Bibrowski was born in Bielsk, Poland in 1890 with stunning blonde hair — that covered his entire body from head to toe. Aghast at this so-called abomination, his mother gave him up and turned him over to a businessman who paraded him across Europe as a sideshow attraction before taking him to America in 1901.⁠

Once in the U.S., Barnum & Bailey quickly snatched Bibrowski up and put him on display as “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” describing him as “half-man half-lion.” For 20 years, Bibrowski was exhibited as a “freak,” with audiences scarcely realizing that the gentle soul behind the hair was a soft-spoken man who knew five languages and nurtured a secret dream of leaving the stage and becoming a dentist.⁠

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The Determined Math Tutor Teaching Calculus on Pornhub – Mel Magazine

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15 Entitled Influencers Who Demanded Free Stuff And Got Shamed In An Online Group – Ruin My Week

Apparent human remains found after Brian Laundrie’s possessions located in Florida nature reserve – NBC

San Francisco Has Become a Shoplifter’s Paradise – WSJ

Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ is reportedly worth almost $900 million – CNBC

94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach – Big Think

Tight Pants Tuesday will give you an eyeful (nsfw) – Drunken

Hooters Has Updated Their Uniform Policy After Complaints About New Skimpy Bottoms! – Egotastic

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amon goeth

Amon Leopold Goeth, camp commander of the Plaszow concentration camp from February 1943 until September 1944. In the photograph, he can be seen standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners.

Amon Leopold Goeth, the villain of the movie Schindler’s List, was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 24, he joined the Nazi party. In 1940, Amon Goeth became a member of the Waffen-SS. He was assigned to the SS headquarters for Operation Reinhard in Lublin in German-occupied Poland in 1942. Operation Reinhard was the plan to evacuate the Jews from the Ghettos in Poland to three death camps: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, all of which were in eastern Poland.

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What Was The Most Formidable Military The U.S. Has Ever Faced?

There are a couple of ways to answer this. I’d argue that, in order of formidability, the most determined enemies the United States has faced in battle are:

  1. Themselves (the combined military forces of the Confederacy and Union).

  2. The military forces of the Empire of Japan (the Imperial Japanese Army, Navy, and Army Air Forces).

  3. The military forces of Nazi Germany (the German armed forces, or the Wehrmacht, consisted of the Heer (Army), the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and the Luftwaffe (Air Force).

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Ghost Robotics strapped a sniper rifle to its robot dog

The US military may be getting a dog-like quadruped robot armed with a sniper rifle.

The robot, developed by Ghost Robotics of Philadelphia, is a new version of its Vision series of legged robots. The US Air Force is currently testing an unarmed version of these robots for use as perimeter security at the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.

Ghost Robotics displayed the armed version at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army held in Washington DC this week. The robot is fitted with a Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle pod from Sword Defense, with a powerful 6.5mm sniper rifle. This has day and night cameras and an effective range of 1200 metres.

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