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Billed as “The Sheep-Headed Men,” “The White Ecuadorian Cannibals Eko and Iko,” and “The Ambassadors From Mars,” George and Willie Muse were world-famous sideshow performers in…
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Charles Nelson of East London worked as a knocker-up for 25 years. He woke up early morning workers such as doctors, market traders and drivers. 1929.…
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A young 19-year-old Teddy Roosevelt at Harvard, 1877 As a child, he was more like Samuel L. Jackson’s Mr. Glass in “Unbreakable” than the eventual Rough…
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Civil War veteran Jacob Miller was shot in the forehead at Brock Field at Chikamauga, Georgia in 1863. “When I came to my senses some time…
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American Revolutionary War Veteran Nicholas G. Veeder outside his home in 1862. Nicholas was born in Schenectady County, New York on December 25, 1761. In 1855,…
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De Beer mine workers are X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines, Kimberley, South Africa, October 1954 Each day at the…
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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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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…