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What Were Aztec Sacrifices Ritual Actually Like?
They were religious events first. The Aztecs believed that their gods got their sustenance from human sacrifice; and one of the basic duties of Religion is…
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What was Hitler’s last day on Earth like?
In late April 1945, chaos reigned in Berlin. Years of war had turned former superpower Germany into a battleground, and its cities from strongholds into places…
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This is the result of 200 years of inbreeding, Charles the II of Spain, at age 4 he could barely walk and was still breastfeeding. At…
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Did Some Southerners Immigrate to Brazil after the Civil War?
Meet the Confederados Defeated in the Civil War, some Southerners refused to live in a land without slavery. They also hated the idea of being part…
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This is Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker and nurse who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She entered the ghetto using a…
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This was a poster put up in San Francisco, calling for the forcible removal of Japanese Americans in 1942. The instructions are clear: “All Japanese persons,…
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Texas Track Club in 1964 During the spring of 1964, Sports Illustrated covers featured the usual cadre of super (or soon to be super) stars: golfer…
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Portrait of cotton mill workers in Georgia, 1909 Families usually began mill work together, since employers paid adults poor wages and offered jobs to children to…
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Could A Single M1 Abrams Survive An Entire SS Tank Battalion In 1940?
Assuming that all of their tanks were operational (unlikely) a German Heavy Tank Battalion in WWII had 45 tanks, with an additional 8–11 SPAAGs, 5 Recovery…
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In 1944 a black teenager named George Stinney Jr was accused of murdering two white girls on flimsy evidence, he was tried without legal representation with…