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Triboulet was a jester for Louis XII (King of France from 1498 to 1515) who is perhaps most famous for slapping the king on the butt. This…
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Indigenous children forced to pray to god in a residential school ran by the Canadian government and Catholic Church This photo was taken at the Bishop…
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This is Franca Viola, an Italian woman who became famous in the 1960s for publicly refusing to accept the twisted tradition of marrying her rapist. Instead,…
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Refusing to do the Nazi salute, 1936. The man was later identified to be August Landmesser who joined the Nazi party in 1931, believing that doing…
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Bass Reeves (1838—1910) was the first Black U.S. Marshall, west of the Mississippi River. He arrested nearly 3,000 outlaws in his career. Before becoming a legendary…
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Diarrhea was the leading cause of death in the American Civil War. Soldiers had a code of honor to not shoot at anyone who was pooping.…
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Marriage advice from 1891. These pages were taken from a dime novel that was sold in NYC by the J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company. It was recently…
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German war criminals laugh at a translation error during the Nuremburg Trials, 1945. The translation error: Joseph Goebbels wurde hingerichtet Joseph Goebbels was executed but it…
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(photo by Shane Gorski) This statue depicts Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was allegedly skinned alive. If you look closely, you’ll notice that’s not…
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Unpacking Mona Lisa at the end of World War II, 1945 Hitler and his cronies had a wish list of works they planned to plunder from…