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USA sexually ‘teased’ its troops in the First World War to make them fight harder. Believing that sexually satisfied men could not be easily motivated, the aim of this teasing was to generate unmet sexual desire, which the War Department could leverage as motivation to fight The United States Government sought to sexually stimulate then frustrate its soldiers to prepare them for an unpopular conflict in Europe, a Cambridge historian argues. Recruiting attractive canteen staff; inviting female civilians to closely supervised dances; disseminating alluring propaganda; pressurising troops to write to women back home; and detaining allegedly promiscuous women to prevent soldiers wasting energy. These are just some of ways that America’s War Department sought to harness pent-up sexual energy to motivate troops in 1918. At the heart of this experiment was the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), a War Department-directed umbrella agency. Previous studies have demonstrated that the ...

He’s not forgotten in China. People do recognize Chiang Kai Shek and Nationalist China’s role in defending against the Japanese. Mostly PRC, because Taiwan wasn’t part of China during ww2 and they are kinda doing a sort of cancel culture thing with Chiang. Tbf that kinda happens when you run constant massacres on people who dare to suggest that maybe you could do a little reforming. Taiwanese identity is a  super  complex issue in itself. But regarding Chiang’s image and the history of his dictatorship — for mainland China that ended in 1945. barely anyone alive today actually lived through it, and so much crazy things had happened since it’s become quite distant. Whereas in Taiwan the martial law only ended in 1987 and memories are much much fresher. The PRC are already re-assessing Chiang's place in history, and they're slowly recognizing his role in reuniting China despite being hated by them. Hell, when Mao heard that Chiang died, he didn't celebrate nor gloat. He felt ...

Have you ever been told you look just like someone else that you have never met before? It is pretty strange to think that there might be someone from the past or present that eerily resembles you.  We found celebrities who have doppelgangers from the past, and it is pretty crazy how similar they look! Be prepared to have your mind blown.  1. Brad Pitt Bradd Pitt is an American actor who looks oddly similar to Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach. They both have fantastic hair and similar facial structures.  Hermann Rorschach came up with the Rorschach Test, which is also known as the inkblot test. It was commonly used as a psychological test.  2. Queen Latifah From rapping to acting and producing, there are few things Queen Latifah can't do. She also bears a resemblance to world-renowned essayist and author, Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was an influential African-American author who led the Harlem Renaissance movement. She also allowed so many artis...

Inside the Nazis' infamous Mauthausen concentration camps where Jews were forced to climb the Stairs Of Death while carrying 50kg stone blocks  This is the Nazi death camp where Hitler ordered the most 'incorrigible political enemies of the Reich' to be sent. Prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were forced to climb 186 steps, while carrying 50-kilogram blocks of granite, 'without a second's rest' for 12 hours a day. A collection of harrowing images from the German Federal Archive show prisoners undertaking back-breaking labour at the camp, which was built around a working quarry with the mission to work inmates t o death. The Nazis named the camp ‘the bone grinder’ and one of its most punishing features was the brutal steps, roughly carved into the cliff face of the quarry, called the ‘Stairs of Death’. Exhausted prisoners would often collapse and topple back on those following them, creating a horrific domino effect. Christian Bernadac, a Fren...

The Death of Stalin’s Son The death of Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili in a German concentration camp 80 years ago was kept a secret for decades. Joseph Stalin’s son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, following his capture, on a German airfield, 1941. Alamy. Shortly after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Allied military intelligence agents unearthed a container of top secret files in the garden of a senior German diplomat. One set of microfilmed documents contained a report into the shooting of a Soviet prisoner of war by an SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 14 April 1943. The victim was a 36-year-old Red Army artillery lieutenant named Yakov Dzhugashvili. There was nothing remarkable in the death of a Soviet soldier in Nazi captivity. In the first 12 months of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the USSR, an estimated 2.8 million Red Army prisoners had succumbed to starvation, exposure and disease while in German hands. However, as the SS report made clear, Yakov Dzhugashvili was...

The guy with the top hat is h.h. Holmes. the one that rigged a city mansion with all sorts of traps and chutes so he could kill his victims and sell the bodies to doctors that need cadavers for whatever reason The one at front is Ian Brady, who tortured and murdered young boys with his girlfriend Myra Hyndley. They are fucking monsters having a pic of David Berkowitz on each breast.  She's so quirky. And the Morbid podcast sucks.  Western Evil is the name of the company that makes this dress.  There are family members of one of Ian Brady’s victims that still go out on the moors every single weekend to look for his little bones Where on earth do you even buy fabric like that??? Like who in their right mind would think this was an appropriate product to sell? I see Ian Brady on there who was an actual monster. I remember hearing a three part podcast about him and Myra Hindly and I really needed to take a break from true crime for about a months because it was so dark and di...

Ann Lovett, The Girl Whom Society Failed, 1984 Ann Lovett was a schoolgirl from County Longford, Ireland, who tragically died after giving birth to a stillborn infant at the age of 15. She was described as intelligent, lively, and artistically talented. On January 31st, 1984, Lovett left her home for school and went to a local grotto, where she gave birth to a stillborn son under a statue of the Virgin Mary. She cut the umbilical cord with scissors and wrapped the infant in her coat. Around 4 PM, three school boys found a school bag outside the grotto and heard Lovett moaning. They alerted a farmer, who went to the local holy house, where Francis Canon Gilfillan resided. Gilfillan initially denied helping, claiming that it was a job for a doctor. An ambulance was called, but Lovett died of shock and post-birth bleeding. The death of Lovett remains unanswered, with her boyfriend Ricky McDonnell claiming that she approached him in April 1983 and showed signs of a physical and sexual atta...

Shadowplay, 1996 Ricardo López, who was originally from Uruguay, is an infamous figure among morbid enthusiasts. López is known as the Björk stalker, after his obsessive behaviours and thoughts about the Icelandic singer Björk, caught international headlines in 1996. López is said to have had a good childhood and early life. He dropped out of school to pursue an art career but failed to stay motivated. He then became an exterminator. By the age of 17, he began to exhibit low self-esteem and became more reclusive and isolated and stayed in his apartment more and more by himself, in Florida, USA. López became obsessed with the Icelandic singer and performer Björk. His friends and family acknowledged his intense admiration of Björk but never imagined what would happen on September 12 1996, a few weeks after López became enraged when he discovered that Björk was dating Goldie, a rapper and DJ from the UK. On that date, López, who was suffering from grand delusions, made a mail b*mb and sen...

The Most Violent Man in Britain, 2001 Charles Bronson, born in 1952 as Micheal Gordon Peters in Luton, England, is dubbed as "Britain's most violent man" as he has been in prison for most of his life due to violent offences. Bronson is documented as having a good childhood and is said to have been well-mannered and respectful as a child, but at the age of 13, he began to engage in petty crime, which marked a lifelong entanglement with the prison system. Bronson's life has largely been marked by violent events and artistic expression, an interesting and complex aspect of his life that has gained the attention of many people around the world, as he displays the struggles of dehumanisation of the prison system, the pursuit of identity in a living concrete tomb, all while displaying his volatility. His works are often dark in themes, looking into aspects of everyday life such as despair, isolation and resilience, which reflects both the dark and violent aspects of the hum...