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braham Lincoln’s Head on John Calhoun’s Body, circa 1860 One of the most famous pictures of President Abraham Lincoln is as fact-based as the upcoming movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Lincoln’s head was placed atop South Carolina politician John Calhoun’s body in this 1860 photo.  Interestingly enough, Calhoun died in 1850. 2. General Ulysses. S. Grant on a Horse in Front of Troops, circa 1864 Researchers at the Library of Congress uncovered this gem after extensive detective work. The image appears to show General Ulsses S. Grant in front of his troops at City Point, Virginia during the American Civil War. Investigation now shows the image to be made of three separate prints: (1) the head is taken from a portrait of Grant; (2) the horse and body are those of Major General Alexander M. Cook; and (3) the background is of Confederate prisoners captured at the battle of Fisher’s Hill, Virginia. 3. Kent State Massacre Fencepost Removal, 1970 In this Pulitzer Prize winning photogr...

1.  William Bullock news.discovery.com  / Via  en.wikipedia.org Bullock invented the web rotary press, a printing press fed by a continuous roll of paper. In 1867, he either kicked or had his foot caught in one of the mechanisms, which resulted in an infected cut, gangrene, and eventually death. 2.  William Nelson the-tin-man.com  / Via  en.wikipedia.org A 24-year-old inventor who worked for General Electric, Nelson was killed while test-driving a motorized bike for which he invented a motor in 1903. 3.  Henry Smolinski en.wikipedia.org  / Via  en.wikipedia.org Smolinski died in 1973 while test-piloting his flying car, the AVE MIZAR, the only product his company ever attempted to produce. 4.  Horace Lawson Hunley americandigest.org  / Via  en.wikipedia.org In 1863, Hunley engineered the first combat submarine for the Confederates during the Civil War. Despite the submarine having already sunk once, killing a majority of its cre...

Illustrated History Rare Original pictures Images WW2 Nazi Germany WW1 Vietnam War. OSTFRONT It was June 1941. Crete had fallen two days ago to the Germans. But the Greeks had not gone down without a good fight. This irked the Germans. Moreover even in defeat the Greeks kept harassing and killing the German paratroopers in Crete. At Kondomari village dead bodies of some paratroopers were found. Also found in a village home was a jacket of a paratrooper with a bullet hole. The Germans rounded up men aged between 18 and 50 from the village and shot them. The Germans were led by a  lieutenant called Trebes. The whole operation was captured on film by Franz-Peter Weixler, then serving as a war propaganda correspondent (kriegsberichter) for the Wehrmacht. Read more on  Wikipedia On left is Trebes Welcome to Summitgist.blogspot.com This is a blog site that focused on all that’s interesting and matters and history event. As a visitor, you are free to participate by sharing, comment, ...

Most so-Called “Medieval Torture Devices” are fake actually made up by hoaxers, showmen, and con artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Yes, there's evidence they were ever actually used. Mostly, they appear in funny drawings and early cartoons. Most likely, they were just a common joke of the time. Which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense. A pair of handcuffs will irritate the skin to the point of open wounds, if worn for too long. Now, imagine a piece of metal that goes  between your thighs . People were wearing that for months? Working in the fields, with that between their legs? the history of chastity belts:  The earliest mentions of these belts were in the form of obvious jokes. They likely didn't exist in physical form until the 16th or 17th centuries. And, even then, they were created for display in "torture museums." The chastity belt as we know it was most likely a 19th-century invention. "It seems to have been a part of ...

North Korea publicly executed six-months pregnant mother, carried out human experiments and forced women from 'list of dwarfs' to undergo hysterectomies, human rights report claims North Korea  has committed horrific human rights violations including executing children and pregnant women, carrying out human experiments and forcibly sterilising disabled people, a South Korean report has claimed. The pariah state has also put citizens to death for being homosexual, for their religion and for trying to flee the country, the report by the South's Ministry of Unification states. Horrifying testimony also reveals the regime forced nurses to write up 'a list of dwarfs' and conducted hysterectomies on a woman with dwarfism, as well as human experiments. The extensive 450-page report details egregious human rights abuses in North Korea, including the right to life and liberty, as well as freedom from slavery, torture and other inhumane treatment.   It is based on damning tes...