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Various methods of torture: One victim lies in the "iron coffin of Lissa," while others are tied to the pillory or are being stoned to death in the background The "iron coffin of Lissa" is an instrument to prolong capital punishment, its implementation is referred to as "killing by inches": the prisoner was laid in the coffin and saw the iron lid creep slowly, until, after lingering days and nights in suspense, the prisoner was slowly crushed by the.iron lid pressing on him A screaming young woman is forced by soldiers into a "iron coffin of Lissa". Etching by M Pool after O Elliger. The "iron coffin of Lissa" is a contraption to prolong capital punishment by "killing the prisoner by inches". The prisoner was laid in the coffin with the iron lid creeping slowly down on him. After days and nights in suspense, the prisoner was at last slowly crushed by the.iron lid on him. The contraption could also be an "iron cage of Loui...

Tetanus: Pathophysiology, Treatment, and the Possibility of Using Botulinum Pic: (Top) Tetanus Following Gunshot Wounds, 1809. By Sir Charles Bell, surgeon and artist; depictinga solider in the throes of tetanus. (Bottom) A young unvaccinated child suffering from tetanus complications. Tetani resides in the soil and leaves. It is omnipresent. But as long as it remains on theother side of our skins, we are safe. When our defenses are breached either by the scratch of a sharp rose thorn or a blister on the foot, tetanus gains access to the body..Tetanus infuses our bodies with tetanospasm toxin, which acts on the central nervous system and works by irreversibly blocking the release of neurotransmitters that work on the muscles, thus interfering with the natural rhythm of nerve firing. As a result of this blockage, the nerves fire continuously, leading to persistent spasming of the muscles. The stronger muscles of the body have a greater effect and dominate, forming an agonizing posture k...

A magnificent Soviet soldier, dressed in skirts on the battlefield, died after being captured and subjected to humiliation In the early days of World War II , Germany's policy towards the Soviet Union was to attack the Soviet Union at a distance, and because the Soviet authorities believed that due to the strength of the Soviet armament, Germany would never take the initiative to attack the Soviet Union. Therefore, at the beginning of the war, the Soviet Union did not actively help other countries resist German aggression. The actual result was that the German Lightning Forces quickly moved into the Soviet Union. Of course, the old men were caught off guard, and the battle was retreating steadily, and the army suffered heavy casualties. The most indispensable thing for a fighting nation is people who can fight. When a man is dead, a woman can also go to the battlefield.  Those women who were only waiting for the return of their husbands and sons took up their weapons unwillingly. S...

Did you know that ? In the Middle Ages , in a French city, women would put in the morning a slight p.i.oson in the breakfast of their husbands, and then when they returned home, late at night, they were given the antidote, so this p.i.oson was not too harmful to human beings. And In case men didn’t come home because they were elsewhere and so the antidote was delayed, men got headaches, nausea, shortness of breath, depression, pain, vomiting. The more the man was away from home, the sicker he was, and then when he returned home, unknowingly, his wife would give him the antidote and he would get better in few minutes. With this horrible trick, men were scammed, because they imagined that being away from home would cause them pain and depression, so they became attached to their homes and wives. Enjoy Christmas 2023 with these promotions offers and its benefits. Special offer for our readers and it's free. Hurray

Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was executed Banda Singh Bahadur was put into an iron cage and the remaining Sikhs were chained. The Sikhs were brought to Delhi in a procession with the 780 Sikh prisoners, 2,000 Sikh heads hung on spears, and 700 cartloads of heads of slaughtered Sikhs used to terrorise the population. They were put in the Delhi fort and pressured to give up their faith and become Muslims. The prisoners remained unmoved. On their firm refusal these non-converters were ordered to be executed. Every day 100 Sikh soldiers were brought out of the fort and murdered in public In March 1715,on the order of Mughal Emperor Farrukh Siyar, the army under the rule of abdus Samad Khan, the Mughal king of Delhi, drove Banda Bahadur and the Sikh forces into the village of Gurdas Nangal, Gurdaspur, Punjab and laid siege to the village.The Sikhs defended the small fort for eight months under conditions of great hardship,but on 7 December 1715 the Mughals broke into the starving garrison and c...

Stealing Africa: How Britain looted the continent’s art British Troops showing off their precious loot after the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897 During war and colonisation, Western nations participated in the theft of thousands of pieces of African art. This is the story of the role Britain’s anti-slavery mission played in looting African artefacts, and of the campaign to get them returned. Nowadays, the sleepy town of Chibok in northern Nigeria is notorious for the kidnapping of 276 children by Boko Haram. But go back 115 years and this tiny farming community perched atop a hill fought one of the greatest resistances to British colonisation. In November 1906, around 170 British soldiers launched what that country’s parliament called a “punitive expedition” against the town for carrying out annual raids along British trade routes in Borno state In defence, during an 11-day siege, Chibok townsmen shot poisoned arrows at the soldiers from hideouts in the hills. The fiercely independen...

A hunter killed a male gorilla at Urhuakpa Gana in Sapele, Delta State. Read and see photos A male Gorilla was a victim of a hunter's expedition in Sapele area of Delta State, as it has already been killed and butchered. A hunter killed a male gorilla at Urhuakpa Gana in Sapele, Delta State. The person displayed the mammal publicly as amused people came out in droves to watch. In no time, the animal transited into the cooking pot as it was butchered into pieces for the next meal. Some Nigerians on social media have criticized the killing of the endangered specie of animal which they feel should be protected from going extint. SEE PHOTOS BELOW Enjoy Christmas 2023 with these promotions offers and its benefits. Special offer for our readers and it's free. Hurray

Banyankole Tribe, Uganda The Banyankole tribe is a minority tribe in Uganda. And the mention of marriage is definitely a burden to the bride's aunt. When a couple is about to get married, custom dictates that the aunt of the bride sleeps with the groom to ensure the potency of the groom. Furthermore, she also has to test the bride's virginity. Some traditions claim that the group must have sex with the aunt before sleeping with the bride. Another tradition asserts that it was the responsibility of the aunt to prove the potency of the groom by watching or listening to the couple  while they're having intercourse How much influence should aunties have on their nieces? In many African cultures, aunties provide counselling to their young nieces as they age from adolescence to adulthood. When it comes to marriage, these aunties prepare their nieces for the challenges that lie ahead. But for the Banyankole people in Southwestern Uganda, the aunt had more than the above, especiall...

Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy This is the grave of Italino Lacomelli, 5 years old, who died August 16th, 1925. He was the victim ofa murderer while he played in the. garden with his hoop This is the grave of a little boy named Italino Lacomelli, who was murdered on the 16 August 1925. It is located in Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy. He was only five years old and he was playing with his hoop in the public garden when he was killed by a madman. The monument was designed by famous Italian sculptor Genovese Adolph Luciarini and it represents the little boy playing happily, absolutely unaware of the hands of the killer reaching out to snatch his life away. His mother and father were later buried in the same grave. Enjoy Christmas 2023 with these promotions offers and its benefits. Special offer for our readers and it's free. Hurray

A Dutch woman accused of having a  romantic relationship with a German have her head shaved soldier is held by members of the Dutch Resistance and is punished by having her head shaved following the liberation of the province of Overijssel. April, 1945.  She sleeps with a German soldier to avoid starvation . Probably countless examples. In Norway (not very harshly occupied, but still), about 10 000 "war children" were born as a result of relationships between German soldiers and Norwegian women. It is estimated that 10% of Norwegian women between the ages of 18 and 35 were engaged in these relationships. Several thousand women married Germans and were forcibly deported as a result. In danish historiography, it is absurdly put to 50.000 women being "tysker piger" or "german girls." (Anette Warring) While this might not sound as a high number it would mean that 1 out of 7,5 of women between 16-29 would fall in this category - in a country that was occupied ...

Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important Around 34,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who roamed the Russian plains started to bury their dead at the site of Sunghir, about 200 kilometers east of what is today Moscow. Now considered one of the most iconic Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe, Sunghir was initially discovered in 1955 while it was a quarry. After careful excavations from 1957 to 1977 uncovered 30,000- to 34,000-year-old remains, the site has never ceased to fascinate archaeologists. The mortuary site contains extremely elaborate burials of an adult male covered in beads and ochre (a red clay earth pigment), and a juvenile and an adolescent, approximately 10 and 12 years old, buried head to head. “Sungir is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological site in Russia, about 200 km east of Moscow, on the outskirts of Vladimir. The site is approximately 28,000 to 30,000 years old and serves as a grave to an older man and two children. They were all adorned with elaborate gra...

The strange story of the Devon Man they couldn't hang, John 'Babbacombe' Lee The man they could not hang! John 'Babbacombe' Lee famously dubbed the man they could not hang' was accused of the murder of Miss Emma Anne Whitehead Keyse. In the early hours of November 15 1884 in the hamlet of Babbacombe, Devon, Emma Keyse was discovered brutally murdered. Her throat was slit, she had three wounds to her head John " Babbacombe" had also attempted to burn the body. He was sentenced to be hanged at Exeter Prison on 23 February 1885. When John was about to be executed however, He was sentenced to be hanged at Exeter Prison on 23 February 1885. When John was about to be executed however, the noose was tied around his neck but when the executioner pulled the lever to remove the floor beneath him to hang him, it stayed up. The executioner then tested the door and it worked so led john up again. Again however it did not work and the miraculous process was achieve...

Horrific moment a climber plummets 23ft to the ground after shinning up an icy pole during a Russian folk festival to mark the last days of winter Horr!fic moment near-n£ked man falls 23 feet from pole as he takes part in a festival Named only as Alexander , the climber was wearing just shorts despite the sub-zero temperatures A climber suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell 23 feet froma pole at a festival This is the horrific moment a man sustains serious injuries falling 23 ft from a pole during a Russian folk festival to mark the waning of winter. The climber called Alexander - wearing only shorts despite subzero temperatures - shins his way up tom the top and touches a red box in front of a crowd of impressed onlookers. But as he comes down, the 28-year-old suddenly gets into trouble - and plummets like a stone to the ground. There were screams as he fell and an announcer at the event in the Siberian town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk yelled: 'Oh my God, ambulance please!...

Selknam natives en route to Europe for being exhibited as animals in Human Zoos , 1899 A family of Indians being taken to Europe as the new inhabitants of the zoo With the permission of the Chilean government in 1889, eleven Selk’nam natives including an 8-year-old were taken to Europe to be exhibited in Human Zoos. The Patagonian Indians were a rarity. Between 1878 and 1900, three groups of natives belonging to indigenous groups of Tehuelche, Selknam, and Kawésqar were shipped to Europe to be exposed in Human Zoos. They were photographed, measured, weighed, and were expected to perform every day. Sometimes 6 to 8 times a day. The Selknams did not receive the best care. Therefore, many of them did not make it back. Some did not even make it to Europe. But why would civilized people do such a thing as showing other people in zoos? From a sociological point of view, it’s understandable: a much more technologically advanced civilization lacking the modern-day sensibilities and political ...