Tommy Cooper's last act fooled us all, says Jimmy Tarbuck

Tommy Cooper's last act fooled us all, says Jimmy Tarbuck

Welch comedian Tommy Cooper, the

moment before suffering a massive heart attack in front of 12 million viewers. Theaudience, thinking it was part of the act, would laugh as fell backward, and slouch down.

The night of April 15, 1984, was one no comedy fan will ever forget.

Millions tuned in to watch the hit variety show Live From Her Majesty’s, only to see Tommy Cooper suffer a massive fatal heart attack right there on stage.

But, as he collapsed to uproarious applause from an audience who thought it all part of his act, the 63-year-old Welsh comedy legend died as he had lived – making people laugh

“God, that was the saddest night of my entire career,” remembered the show’s compere Jimmy Tarbuck, speaking for the first time about that fateful evening of 25 years ago this Wednesday.

“Tommy was doing the famous magic cloak skit, and I was hiding behind the curtain passing him different props which he’d then appear to pull from inside his long flowing gown.

“I’d hand him a paint pot, a plank of wood, gradually getting bigger and bigger until the final gag, which was me coming out carrying a step ladder and complaining I couldn’t fit it through his legs.

“But we never got to finish the routine because he suddenly dropped on to his haunches and was just sort of sitting there upright with his knees underneath him.”

The 69-year-old Liverpudlian comedian recalled how the fez-wearing funnyman had looked frail that evening – theatre staff even having to knock up a makeshift dressing room for him in the wings so he wouldn’t have to climb any stairs – but he’d put it down to the ravages of years spent drinking and smoking heavily.

Jimmy added that no-one knew that something was wrong, assuming instead the tumble was all part of Cooper’s usual slapstick act.

“I was watching on a monitor backstage and we all thought he’d just stuck another physical gag into his set; he was a real terror for introducing new bits and pieces without warning.

“But, as time ticked on, we realised something terrible had happened and I called for a quick commercial break,” Jimmy told Wales on Sunday.

Several seconds of blank screen followed as London Weekend Television’s master control contacted regional stations to get them to start transmitting adverts.

Meanwhile, back on the London stage, desperate efforts where being made to get the curtain around Cooper’s motionless 6ft 3in slumped frame.

“He was a big bloke and very heavy; we just couldn’t move him,” said Jimmy.

“And this show was live, don’t forget, so I told Les Dennis and Dustin Gee, who were up next, that they’d have to work in front of the curtain.

“Dustin said that they needed more room and I replied: ‘Well, you ain’t gonna get it. You’re professionals, just get on with it.’

“Howard Keel was supposed to be following them and I recall telling him: ‘Howard, Tom’s not well, can you sing at the front of the stage?’ and to this day I’ll never forget his reply.

“He said, ‘I’ll sing up the f****** aisle if Tommy wants,’ which had me crying with laughter, despite everything.

But with Donnie Osmond and a 24-strong dancing troupe on after Keel, Tommy had to be stretchered away.

“One of the first to him had been my manager Peter Pritchard and the guy from St John Ambulance, but they couldn’t revive him and Tom was eventually declared dead upon arrival at Westminster Hospital,” said Jimmy.

“No-one knew he had gone, not even backstage. They told me he was doing OK just so I didn’t throw a wobbler while presenting the rest of the show because, of course, we had to soldier on.

“The nightly news bulletin came live from the theatre straight after we’d finished and it was announced to the whole country that Tommy had died.

“It was a huge shock to everyone who’d been roaring with him right up until the very end.”

And Jimmy added that Tommy would always be his hero.

“I’d known him years, shared a dressing room with him on my very first Royal Command performance in 1964 and he was just lovely to me,” he said.

“He was one of those comics who could just walk on and be hit with a wall of love – people simply adored him and that’s why he was so successful.

“It’s all about likeability and, by heck, he had that in diamonds.

“There are men who tell funny jokes, like Bob Monkhouse for example, and there are men who simply are funny, and that was Tommy Cooper – Tom had funny bones. “He was the comedian’s comedian.”

Tommy’s showbiz career started with a magic set: next page

Tommy’s showbiz career started with a magic set

BORN Thomas Frederick Cooper in a rented house in Caerphilly in 1921, his showbiz beginnings came when he was bought a magic set when he was eight by an aunt.

After being demobbed after World War II, he started auditioning his conjuror’s act around the UK, but noticed the botched tricks got the biggest laughs and developed his act accordingly.

His bumbling persona won the British public’s hearts and he proved a big hit on the variety circuit and later on TV.

There was a dark side, though, with stories of his heavy boozing.

His long-suffering wife Gwen – whom he called “Dove” – once said: “ There is one trick Tommy can do really well and that’s making a drink disappear,” while the man himself is even said to have poured alcohol over his breakfast cereal one morning, reasoning that it was the healthier option.

“Well, milk is full of cholesterol!” he said.

He initially drank to cure his stage fright and told his friend and fellow comic Eric Sykes: “People say I’ve only got to walk out on stage and they laugh. If only they knew what it takes to walk out on stage in the first place.”

But the booze eventually became a problem that began seriously affecting both his work and his family life.

He once hit his wife in front of their two kids and she left him, but would always return despite his drunken rages and his reputed infidelities. However, a heart attack in Rome in 1977 led to him putting a stop to both the violence and the affairs.

Cooper still drank, though – “for medicinal purposes only,” he’d joke, “I’m sick of being sober”. And as a result some gigs would be a self-destructive disaster of fluffed lines, forgotten routines, heckles and, sometimes, even total no-shows.

He was also a prodigious smoker favouring up to 40 cigars a day, which led to him suffering a glut of other ailments, such as chronic bronchitis and severe circulation problems.

Rumours are he was the tightest man in entertainment too, his biography claiming Cooper would frequently tip taxi drivers by slipping a tea bag in their top pockets and saying: “Have a drink on me!”

However, he cut down on the sauce just enough for his later TV performances to be something of a revelation.

Accordingly, his comedic influence is as strong today as ever, finding fans in everyone from Bruce Forsyth to self-confessed “Cooper nut” Sir Anthony Hopkins, who is even patron of The Tommy Cooper Society.

A statue of him was unveiled in his Welsh hometown in February last year, unveiled by Hopkins himself.

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A surviving prisoner from Andersonville prison camp, America's own concentration camp, 1865-1867

A surviving prisoner from Andersonville prison camp, America's own concentration camp, 1865-1867

Andersonville or also known as Sumter's camp, was a confederate run concentration camp during the American Civil war for Union soldiers. It was in operation for the last 14 months of the civil war. Andersonville held approximately 45,000 and 13,000 of those would die as a result of their internment in Andersonville.

Andersonville had several problems which led to high death rates. It is easier to compile them into a list. I will also provide a map of Andersonville so that you can see these features more easily. Here they are:

The water supply was heavily contaminated. Andersonville had one very small river flowing through it, in which confederate soldiers would dump faeces and urine upstream so it would spread disease in the camp.

2. Diseases such as scurvy, diarrhoea and dysentery were very common. Parasites such as hookworm were common too. Many prisoners died from disease as there was very little hygiene being practised.

3. The defences around the camp were very hard to escape from. A high 19 foot stockade made it difficult for anyone to climb out of the camp. Guards from platforms called pigeon roosts shot anyone they saw trying to escape.

4. Food was very poor at the camp. Cannibalism was common and any food with any sort of good nutritional value was rare.

5. Social structure played a vital role. Prisoners often found themselves in groups. Each of these groups played a different role in the prison hierarchy. Examples of these groups were the Anderson Raiders and the Regulators. The raiders would raid other groups and steal food, supplies and clothes. The regulators were set up to combat the raiders and even held court sessions, in which 6 raiders were hanged by prisoners for their crimes towards other inmates.

6. The prisoners were given no clothes, and this left inmates in their uniforms which became tattered as the months went on and exposed the inmates to the elements.

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Man Kept Hearing Strange Noises Under Driveway, Look What He Found Inside

Man Discovers Strange Noises Coming From Underneath Driveway of New Home in Luton, England

Inspecting the damage he had just done and thinking that his day couldn’t get any worse, he knelt down in the driveway and peered underneath his car. But just as he was about to take a closer look at the concrete pavers, he heard the sickening sound that made his heart drop in his chest. What had he found? When buying a new house, you never know what you’re getting yourself into, but 37-year-old Simon Marks just couldn’t resist when he found a house for a bargain price in Luton, England.

The paperwork was quickly signed, and the transfer already underway, so the man never questioned why its owner was in such a hurry to get rid of it.A few months later, Simon excitedly unpacked his boxes. He was eager to spend the first night in his new home after a tiring weekend of hauling his belongings back and forth. He climbed into bed, exhausted, calculating the distance of his new and much shorter commute to the office.

Man Discovers Surprising Damage to Driveway After Hearing Strange Noises

He gleefully set his alarm for 8 am, but while he lay in the darkness, he heard a strange sound. Trying not to breathe, he listened intently, and then he heard it again. It was coming from outside. It was a dull and muted sound, like gravel scraping on metal. Curious, he got up and poked his head out the window, scanning the garden below, but nothing moved. All was silent again. Shrugging his shoulders and climbing back into bed, he had no idea that something was shifting under his new home.

The next morning, Simon threw his black Valhall Zafira into reverse, but instead of backing out of his driveway, the car lurched forward. Cursing, he tried again, but the wheel seemed to be caught on something. Revving the engine until the car jumped backward, he let out a sigh of relief. But when he got out to see what had been stuck under the front wheel, his stomach dropped. Kneeling down to take a closer look, Simon saw that the pavers of the driveway had cracked.

Homeowner Discovers Mysterious Object Buried in Driveway While Making Repairs

And then, right before his eyes, the driveway began to give in. He jumped back as the pavers broke with a sickening snap. Then, the concrete crumbled and fell into the earth. But as the dust began to settle, the crack in the ground revealed something truly unnerving. Now Simon knew that his house had been built in the 1970s by the elderly couple who had lived there previously, but this definitely hadn’t been on the house plans.

When he was sure that it was safe to put his weight on the surrounding pavers, he lay down on his stomach and inched forward, seeing a glint of something in the earth. He fetched a trowel and began to dig. The dirt gave way easily, and soon he could see a piece of metal sticking out from the soil. He uncovered it with his hands until he was able to get a grip on it, and then he pulled with all his might. But the rusted piece of metal wouldn’t budge, no matter how hard Simon pulled. He decided to try to dig around the mysterious object to free it from the earth.

Secret Passageway Uncovered Underneath Driveway Leads to Mysterious Rusty Ladder

As he began to uncover more and more of the piece of metal, he saw that it was attached to something. When Simon had first seen the black hole opening up, his mind began to race with visions of his car and even worse, his entire house being swallowed by a giant sinkhole. But when he looked closer and saw the glint of a man-made object underneath, he knew he was dealing with something far more sinister. He pulled out his phone and called for backup. Simon’s father, Gerald, raced to the scene, and without any professional tools or equipment, the pair got to work.

They carefully began to remove the cracked concrete around the piece of metal, revealing a rectangular hole in the ground. There, descending into the darkness, was a rusty ladder. Now they were beginning to feel uneasy. Why had the secret passageway been hidden underneath the driveway? Where did it lead? There was only one way to find out. Simon had done his research before buying the old house.

Homeowner Discovers Mysterious Underground Passageway with Two Rooms Hidden Beneath Driveway

He was all too aware that ordinance surveys wouldn’t shed any light on the mysterious passageway hidden beneath his driveway. According to the reports, there had been nothing but empty land there before the home was built.A shiver ran down his spine as they began to dig. They dug out shovelful after shovelful of the densely packed mud and carted it away in buckets. The pile of earth beside them grew larger by the hour. Soon, the pair had painstakingly excavated around five feet of dirt, enough for them to climb down the ladder and investigate.

And what they found would shed some light on the house’s eerie past. As Simon climbed halfway down the ladder, a strange feeling crept over him. He didn’t want to go any further. What if it wasn’t safe? He ran back to the house to fetch his selfie stick. With his phone firmly attached, he lowered it into the hole. On the phone’s screen, he saw that the underground passageway was hiding two rooms.

Discovery of Secret Room under Driveway Reveals Hidden History of Property

Gerald thought he knew what they were looking at immediately, but they had to be sure. Simon had purchased the property in question for around half a million dollars, but the land had been used for something else long before the house was built there. The elderly man who had sold the house to Simon was the original owner of the home, but he’d neglected to tell Simon what lay underneath.

The sounds he had heard the night before had been the earth finally giving way under the driveway as it fell into the secret room. Simon and his father stopped digging and began to do some research of their own. They looked up the plot number, and then things became apparent very quickly. Prior to the previous owners of the house, this plot of land had stood empty. But Gerald quickly pointed out that the land was situated in a strategic place in the town.

WWII Air Raid Shelter Found Buried in Homeowner’s Backyard

But even more telling was the period in which the house had been built. “My dad saw it and instantly said, ‘It’s an air raid shelter,'” Simon said. “We googled it and found that there are quite a few in this area.” After conducting some research, Simon found out that the shelter had been built during World War II. The previous owner must have known it was there, and when he built the house and put a garden in, he must have filled it in.

“In 1938, during World War II, a man by the name of Sir John Anderson was tasked with preparing the county for war. It was his duty to come up with a strategy. He needed to protect Britain’s citizens from the impending onslaught and the bombings that he knew were coming. So he devised an ingenious plan to ensure the civilians’ safety. Sir John Anderson and his team of engineers planned and helped to create cheap and simple underground shelters that could easily be buried in people’s backyards.

Uncovering a Unique Community Bomb Shelter from WWII Era

The close proximity meant that British citizens could seek shelter at a moment’s notice. These structures’ walls were constructed from lightweight and flexible metal, a better alternative to concrete. Over 2 million of these bomb shelters were scattered around the country, but what Simon had found was not one of these.” Just by looking at the chamber that Simon had found, Gerald could immediately tell that it wasn’t an Anderson-designed bomb shelter, but it had indeed been built around 1938. Not long after a bomb landed in the area near Luton, citizens in the area were frightened when they learned that their small city was now a target. They had to find a better way to stay safe. The community came together and quickly devised a plan to create a community shelter that was built to better withstand the air raids. Gerald could tell that the shelter that they had uncovered was definitely not an Anderson-style shelter. It had at least two rooms and was constructed from bricks and concrete.

Uncovering WWII Artifacts in Underground Bomb Shelter Found Under Driveway

And as Simon and Gerald dug deeper into the shelter, they uncovered some unusual artifacts. In one of the hidden rooms, Simon and Gerald found a newspaper clipping. The Herald newspaper dated from the days of World War II, and one of the headlines read, “Luton Airport: Is This the End?” While other articles detailed the goings-on of daily life in the war-torn country, this artifact offered a rare glimpse into British life during the war. But it wasn’t the only relic they found.

Simon and Gerald also found evidence that proved that the bomb shelter had once been stocked up with food and water to sustain the people who hid there. After all, people who were held up in underground shelters could be stuck there for days at a time. “It’s incredible to think it has all been made by hand,” Simon later told reporters. The concrete walls of the underground shelter had been reinforced by brick and mortar, which created a further buffer to protect it from the raids from above.

Excavation Continues for Monumental Discovery Found Under Driveway

But even after Simon and Gerald had finally unearthed the monumental discovery, their work still wasn’t done. “It’s been a case of dig, dig, dig. We’re about five feet down at the moment, so it’s just another five feet to go until it’s finished.

The Horrifying History Of Scaphism, The Excruciating Execution Method Of Ancient Persia

The Horrifying History Of Scaphism, The Excruciating Execution Method Of Ancient Persia

 Convicted criminals sentenced to die by scaphism would endure weeks of torture thanks to little more than some milk and honey, a pair of boats — and swarms of hungry vermin.

Based in the Greek word “skáphē” which translates to “bowl” or “grave,” scaphism remains one of the most macabre execution methods ever devised by humankind.

Humans have dreamed up a variety of gruesome and inspired ways to kill each other for millennia. From medieval execution methods to the botched executions of today, each historical period used the tools at hand to cruelly extinguish those it deemed unworthy.

The Persian Empire arguably trumped them all, however, when it created scaphism around 500 B.C.E. This ancient execution method was also known as “the boats,” as victims were placed in two hollowed-out logs or boats before their suffering even began.

With their heads and limbs sticking out and their bodies trapped inside, the victim was force-fed milk and honey. Their uncontrollable diarrhea filled the boats as executioners poured honey over the victim’s face — and vermin arrived to not only feast upon the prisoners, but enter their bodies to fatally eat them from the inside out.

The History Of Scaphism

It’s important to note that no tangible proof of scaphism exists.

But also, after more than two millennia, any human remains or evidence of the torture would have been long destroyed. As it stands, the first historical mention of scaphism was in the works of Greek-Roman philosopher Plutarch.

Plutarch himself had seen such an execution after a soldier named Mithridates killed Cyrus the Younger, the brother of King Artaxerxes II. While Mithridates had stopped Cyrus from overthrowing the king and Artaxerxes was grateful, Artaxerxes demanded he keep this a secret — and tell others it was he who had slain Cyrus.

Mithridates would forget about that covenant and drunkenly boast about killing Cyrus himself at a banquet. When King Artaxerxes II heard of this, he sentenced him to die by scaphism for his treachery and demanded he perish slowly. Ultimately, Mithridates endured 17 days of scaphism before he died.

Plutarch wrote that the king “decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lie down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back.”

“Then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer him food, and if he refuse to eat, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey.”

Plutarch detailed how this mixture was also poured on the victim’s face which blistered in the sun as the days-long torture continued. Initially, only flies would be drawn to the victim. As the prisoner defecated in the enclosed boats and vomited, however, vermin emerged to crawl inside their orifices.

“When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards,” wrote Plutarch. “In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.”

Death By ‘The Boats’

Joannes Zonaras further detailed the horrors of scaphism in the 12th century. While Zonaras merely based these observations on Plutarch’s own, the Byzantine chronicler opined that ancient Persians “outvie all other barbarians in the horrid cruelty of their punishments” that came after.

Zonaras also explained that the boats were firmly nailed together to guarantee there was no escape. “Next they pour a mixture of milk and honey into the wretched man’s mouth, till he is filled to the point of nausea, smearing his face, feet, and arms with the same mixture, and so leave him exposed to the sun,” he wrote.

“This is repeated every day, the effect being that flies, wasps, and bees, attracted by the sweetness, settle on his face and … torment and sting the wretched man. Moreover his belly, distended as it is with milk and honey, throws off liquid excrement, and these putrefying breed swarms of worms, intestinal and of all sorts.”

While it seemingly couldn’t get worse, executioners would allegedly pour additional heaps of milk and honey onto the prisoner’s soft tissues — namely, their genitals and anuses. Small insects would then flock to these areas to feed, and worse, infect the wounds with bacteria.

Those infected wounds would invariably begin to leak pus and spur the arrival of maggots that would also breed inside their body while delivering even more diseases. It was at this point that vermin such as rats would arrive to gnaw on the dying victim and force their way inside.

Was Scaphism Real?

True believers are confident that scaphism was a real execution method that emerged in ancient Persia, but claim it was nonetheless employed only on the most brazen of criminals, ranging from traitors to the crown to ruthless murderers. Ultimately, however, not everyone is as convinced.

Many scholars have since suggested that the practice was entirely fabricated. 

After all, the first historical mention of this ghastly act emerged centuries after Mithridates’ supposed execution. Furthermore, that account just so happened to be witnessed by a philosopher who traded in engaging prose.

For the skeptics, scaphism was almost certainly a literary invention by dishonest yet creative ancient Greeks. 

However, Artaxerxes II, Mithridates, and Cyrus the Younger were real, historical figures. Furthermore, execution methods just as macabre as scaphism would accumulate in the centuries to follow.

In that sense, it’s certainly plausible that these execution were real — and countless prisoners died some of the most horrible deaths in human history.

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What was the biggest massacre in Africa history? In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees

What was the biggest massacre in Africa history? In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees 

What was the biggest massacre in Africa history?

In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from their base in Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War. Over the course of the next three years, neither side was able to gain a decisive advantage. In an effort to bring the war to a peaceful end, the Rwandan government led by Hutu president, Juvénal Habyarimana signed the Arusha Accords with the RPF on 4 August 1993.

The catalyst became Habyarimana's assassination on 6 April 1994, creating a power vacuum and ending peace accords. Genocidal killings began the following day when majority Hutu soldiers, police, and militia murdered key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders.

The scale and brutality of the genocide caused shock worldwide, but no country intervened to forcefully stop the killings.

Most of the victims were killed in their own villages or towns, many by their neighbors and fellow villagers. Hutu gangs searched out victims hiding in churches and school buildings. The militia murdered victims with machetes and rifles. Sexual violence was rife, with an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women raped during the genocide. The RPF quickly resumed the civil war once the genocide started and captured all government territory, ending the genocide and forcing the government and génocidaires into Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

The genocide had lasting and profound effects. In 1996, the RPF-led Rwandan government launched an offensive into Zaire, home to exiled leaders of the former Rwandan government and many Hutu refugees, starting the First Congo War and killing an estimated 200,000 people. Today, Rwanda has two public holidays to mourn the genocide, and "genocide ideology" and "divisionism" are criminal offences.

Genocidal killings began the following day. Soldiers, police, and militia quickly executed key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders who could have assumed control in the ensuing power vacuum. Checkpoints and barricades were erected to screen all holders of the national ID card of Rwanda, which contained ethnic classifications. This enabled government forces to systematically identify and kill Tutsi.

They also recruited and pressured Hutu civilians to arm themselves with machetes, clubs, blunt objects, and other weapons and encouraged them to rape, maim, and kill their Tutsi neighbors and to destroy or steal their property. The RPF restarted its offensive soon after Habyarimana's assassination. It rapidly seized control of the northern part of the country and captured Kigali about 100 days later in mid-July, bringing an end to the genocide. 

During these events and in the aftermath, the United Nations (UN) and countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Belgium were criticized for their inaction and failure to strengthen the force and mandate of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) peacekeepers.

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THE GREAT EXECUTION OF A WITCHCRAFT IN EUROPE

THE GREAT EXECUTION OF A WITCHCRAFT IN EUROPE

Janet Horne, accused of witchcraft, she was brutally beaten and stoned and was the last person to execute legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. Women have been stoned, banished, disowned, beheaded and for speaking up and being visible. 

That’s right, literally burned alive while tied to a wooden stake with rope. Yes. 

Janet Horne, accused of witchcraft, died in 1727 as the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles.

Barbara Zdunk was burned to death for witchcraft in 1811 in Prussia, todays Poland; 

Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau was one of the last to be executed for witchcraft in Germany in 1749; 

Catherine Repond was strangled and burned to death for withcraft in Switzerland in 1731; Maria Pauer, the last person executed for witchcraft in Austria, was beheaded in 1750; 

Anna Eriksdotter, the last person executed for sorcery in Sweden, was killed in 1704 and Bridget Cleary was killed for witchcraft in Ireland in 1895. That’s almost the 1900’s.

Let that sink all the way in. Breathe. Next time you want to go to harsh self-abuse for not "getting it by now" or "doing it by now" think again. 

Get curious as to where your blocks are coming from. We now know that the "witchcraft" these women were burned and butchered for practicing was: healing people, knowing things, seeing things, saying things and owning their sex.

Many of us have stepped or been shoved into a "nice girl" jail cell and have eaten up the lie that as long as we stay in there we're "#safe."

 Safe from what and from whom? This may be our history but it is not our present reality across much of the world. 

Are you ready to break out of your collective conscious, ancestral and societally programmed fears to fully OWN your #power and your #YES to life, desire, abundance, love and creation? " 

by Alexis Lauren Ware

Then choose yourself! Get out of the Nice Girl Jail Break.

Go inside, get to the root of these subconscious beliefs and fears so that you are empowered to bust yourself out to your own damn destiny without anything holding you back! Claim ur resistance!!! 

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 A girl was living with her uncle because her parents died of HIV. She was the only child of her mother's belly.  She was educated by her uncle from kindergarten to class 4 and when the girl was in class 4, her uncle saw that the girl was beautiful.  One night, he went to the girl's room and told her that if she didn't play with him, he would take her away from home and stop paying her tuition fees. The girl tried to cry for her uncle, but he refused to understand.  The young girl agreed to leave her uncle's place and went to the street suffering, while crying, being hungry, lonely and the last option she had was to get on her knees and pray to God until What God answers to prayer.  A woman came by car and saw the young girl praying. She stopped and asked the girl to get in the car. She took the girl and brought her back to school, she bought it all for her as a girl.  The girl has completed her studies and, as we speak, she completed her university studies and worked a

 Colonial Masters Posing with Women in the 70s. Here is the moment when the colonial masters are posing with women... Read story.  Hammock boys carry a railway engineer/track inspector in colonial Nigeria, 1910. Hammock boys, as they were referred to by the colonial masters, were paid 25-30 shillings carrying their masters from village to village. “When we speak of ‘shooting’ with a camera, we are acknowledging the kinship of photography and violence.” Teju Cole This visual essay will assess the ways in which early photography was used as a tool to justify Europe’s colonial project in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, by depicting Black Africans as inferior to white Europeans. It will also consider how the camera was used during the same period in the United States for a similar purpose, namely, to further the cause of white racial superiority. Africa: photography and the colonial project The invention of photography occurred at a most opportune moment for Europe’s colonial powers

Here are others famous people who suffer the worst execution There’s no pleasant way to be executed - but one particularly barbaric method from the Tudor times has been branded the ‘worst ever’. Throughout history, there’s been no shortage of cruel and inhuman ways to torture people but this one may take the biscuit. The story of Richard Roose is about as grizzly as it gets when it comes to Tudor England's penchant for capital punishment. Check it out:..  In 1531, he was working as a cook for John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, and was accused of poisoning his guests while working at his home in Lambeth. It was alleged at the time that he had added some suspicious powder to the guests' porridge, as well as that of two beggers. Everyone was suddenly taken ill, while Roose was said to have run away. While Fisher's guests managed to survive the bout of sickness, the beggers died. According to YouTube channel The Fortress, he was swiftly arrested and taken to the 

War crime hangings at Landsberg in May 1946. With special thanks to Traugott Vitz for his help with this article. Over two days at the end of May 1946, 28 German war criminals were hanged at Landsberg am Lech prison in Germany (US War Criminals Prison No. 1). The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by two divisions of the U.S. Seventh Army on the 29th of April, 1945.  40 members of it staff were tried at the camp by a US General Military Court, presided over by Brigadier General John Lenz. The trials lasted from the 15th of November to the 13th of December 1945.  36 defendants received the death sentence.  Eight of these sentences were reduced to terms of imprisonment by the Reviewing Authority, the remaining 28 death sentences being confirmed. The trial went under the designation “USA against Martin Gerhard Weiß (Weiss) et al.”, Case No. 000-50-2. Martin Gerhard Weiss was the camp commandant at Dachau.  This trial became the “Parent Case” for 488 other trials (all dealing with co

LEST WE FORGET - I was not at Nyadzonia when the Rhodesian Forces attacked...I was at Chimoio. But I was among the platoon of 30 that was dispatched to the camp soon after the news of the attack was received. Thus, I will tell the story of the massacre not as a survivor but as one of the first people who got to the scene immediately after the massacre. Nyadzonia was attacked on the morning of August 9, 1976 but the news only reached Chimoio in the afternoon because the Rhodesians had blown up the bridge over Pungwe River, which was the link with Chimoio. We were sent not as a relief, but a security measure ahead of any help that would come to Nyadzonia. So armed with AKs, light machine-guns and bazookas, we raced to Nyadzonia in four Land-Rovers and an armoured personnel carrier. And at the devastated bridge, we met the first survivors. Among them was the camp commander, the late Moses Mvenge, the politician from Mutare. There was no need to ask him any questions because the tragic s

Most people laughed at the matter, while others felt sorry for the woman and the ridicule that she’s been subject to. Woman Turns To Cassava For Pleasure, Ends Up In Hospital Instead Who needs expensive vibrators when nature has given us an abundance of crops that might provide the same pleasure?  That thought might be cringe-worthy for most but some people actually turn to vegetables like cucumber or eggplant when they don’t have a sex toy and, for them, it works.  But sometimes, even a cucumber is not just enough, they just had to go for something more intense – like a cassava. That’s what exactly happened to one woman, who became the subject of a viral post on social media.  Allegedly, the woman tried to pleasure herself using, not a cucumber, but the edible tuberous root cassava.  The unidentified woman was just one of the people who prefer organic things, including sex toys.

A German concentration camp was no place for women – but the Germans thought otherwise, and designed KL Ravensbrück precisely as a place for women. The camp, for years hidden behind the Iron Curtain and overshadowed by places like Auschwitz, received only cursory mentions in the literature on the German Nazi terror. However, to quote author Sarah Helm, “Just as Auschwitz was the capital of the crime against Jews, so Ravensbrück was the capital of the crime against women.”  Over 100,000 of them went through Ravensbrück, and between 30,000 and 92,000 died there. They came from 20 countries, but the largest group were 40,000 Poles. In the six years of its existence, the camp and the population of the inmates grew severalfold, spawning nearly forty sub-camps, to great satisfaction of Heinrich Himmler, the camp founder. The women were worked to death, beaten, shot, hanged, gassed and experimented on, and most of the dozens of Polish “Beinoperierte” who had their leg muscles cut or bones sp

Poland, Women naked, before their execution The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. 

Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chamber. Read story The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas Poland, Women naked, before their execution. 

Several sources identified him as Alberto Errera, a Greek naval officer. He took two shots from inside one of the gas chambers and two outside, shooting from the hip, unable to aim the camera with any precision. The Polish resistance smuggled the film out of the camp in a toothpaste tube. The photographs

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Shocking Photos: Meet The The Girl With 2 (two) Head

 

Meet The The Girl With 2 (two) Head Abigail and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins from Minnesota. Being conjoined, they have had many struggles throughout their lives.

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The twins would not survive very long.

The girls are now 25 years old and are featured in a show, titled: Abby and Brittany, which will show viewers how their every days. Read story

Shocking Photos: Meet The The Girl With 2 (two) Head

Abigail and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins from Minnesota. Being conjoined, they have had many struggles throughout their lives.

Soon after they were born, doctors gave their parents the bad news; the twins would not survive very long. The girls are now 25 years old and are featured in a show, titled: Abby and Brittany, which will show viewers how their every days lives are.

These girls are one of the rarest set of dicephalus twins in the world!

It is very rare to be born conjoined (1 in 40,000) and it is even more rare to survive after birth (1% of the 1 in 40,000)! The fact that Abby and Brittany are alive and well is a miracle.

Abby and Brittany came to be when a fertilized egg failed to separate inside th womb.

They have two hearts, two spines joined at the pelvis, four lungs, two esophagi, three kidneys, one ribcage, one liver, a partially shared nervous system and a shared circulatory system. From their waist down, all organs are shared including the reproductive system, intestines and bladder.

Abby, the right twin can’t feel anything on the left side of body while Brittany, the left twin can’t feel anything on her right side.

Despite the fact that the twins can only feel their half of the body they share, they still are able to type, play piano, bowl, play volleyball, ride a bicycle, play softball, and swim, etc.

They were actually born with three arms, one arm was removed surgically at the time of birth. During their life, they have been operated on several times, but the twins have remained in good health.

The twins have been in the media several times in their lives. At the age of six, they appeared in Oprah Winfrey show and on the cover of Life magazine. They stayed out of the media for 10 years, and then when they were 16 the girls were filmed for a TLC documentary. If features them passing their driver’s test; each twin controls the steering wheel with one arm. Their mother wondered which twin would get the speeding ticket if they were ever pulled over.

The girls have to coordinate everything together and they don’t always have the urge to eat or sleep at the same time either.

Their parents have encouraged the twins to develop individual personalities. They have exposed the twins to the media but have purposely kept it limited for the sake of the girls and their other 2 children.

Although the two girls are individuals and they have the urge to sleep and eat at different times, they still coordinate among themselves to work as a single body.

Clothes have to be made special order for the twins because they have 2 necklines. In order to show their own styling and tastes, the girls have leggings made with different colors on each leg. They wear different shoes on each foot for the same reasoning as well.

Abby and Brittany have always been treated as two separate identities. They even buy 2 movie tickets when they go to the theater.

Their parents never thought of getting the twins separated. One of them might die or get physically handicapped for the rest of her life, so it just really wasn’t an option for them. The girls were always treated as two separate individuals. Patty (Abby and Brittany’s mother) said “when children ask the girls if they have two heads, they say they don’t, but that each has their own head. That’s what we have encouraged them to do, to develop their own individuality as much as possible.” They buy two separate cinema tickets, separate meals and two different birthday cakes for them. When the girls were younger, they made sure to scold the right girl and

not just scold them as one person. Since the girls are two separate people, one twin can get sick while the other stays healthy.

Abby and Brittany rarely fight. They eat on separate plates, with one twin holding the knife and the other holding the fork. The have to take turns eating. They alternate bite by bite, with each girl helping to feed the other. One twin will even scratch an itch for the other if the other twin’s hand doesn’t react fast enough.

One can get an illness, while the other twin stays healthy. For instance, Brittany has suffered from pneumonia twice and Abigail, the stubborn one, always helped Brittany in tough times.

The twins have only once wished to separate from each other and that was when Brittany suffered for pneumonia for the first time in childhood. Abby got bored of being in the bed all the time, when Brittany was ill. She said that she needed the

separation. Brittany would start crying and then Abby promised her they would never part.

Now that the twis are full grown women, some questions have arose: What happens if one twin falls in love?

Will they ever have children or wed?

Three years ago there was a rumor, in the news, about Brittany being engaged. Those were just rumors, but they made people think about their future. Now that the twins are full grown women, some questions have arose. They love each other very much, but what would happen if one fell in love, or even worse, one fell in love with someone the other twin hated? Since they share one reproductive system, will they ever have children? Their father, Mike believes that his daughters will get married someday.

Female conjoined twins have a much higher rate of live birth and survival than male twins. Approximately 70 percent of all conjoined twins are girls.[img]Abigail and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins from Minnesota. Being conjoined, they have had many struggles throughout their lives.

Soon after they were born, doctors gave their parents the bad news; the twins would not survive very long. The girls are now 25 years old and are featured in a show, titled: Abby and Brittany, which will show viewers how their every days lives are.

These girls are one of the rarest set of dicephalus twins in the world!

It is very rare to be born conjoined (1 in 40,000) and it is even more rare to survive after birth (1% of the 1 in 40,000)! The fact that Abby and Brittany are alive and well is a miracle.

Abby and Brittany came to be when a fertilized egg failed to separate inside th womb.

They have two hearts, two spines joined at the pelvis, four lungs, two esophagi, three kidneys, one ribcage, one liver, a partially shared nervous system and a shared circulatory system. From their waist down, all organs are shared including the reproductive system, intestines and bladder.

Abby, the right twin can’t feel anything on the left side of body while Brittany, the left twin can’t feel anything on her right side.

Despite the fact that the twins can only feel their half of the body they share, they still are able to type, play piano, bowl, play volleyball, ride a bicycle, play softball, and swim, etc.

They were actually born with three arms, one arm was removed surgically at the time of birth. During their life, they have been operated on several times, but the twins have remained in good health.

The twins have been in the media several times in their lives. At the age of six, they appeared in Oprah Winfrey show and on the cover of Life magazine. They stayed out of the media for 10 years, and then when they were 16 the girls were filmed for a TLC documentary. If features them passing their driver’s test; each twin controls the steering wheel with one arm. Their mother wondered which twin would get the speeding ticket if they were ever pulled over.

The girls have to cordinate everything together and they don’t always have the urge to eat or sleep at the same time either.

Their parents have encouraged the twins to develop individual personalities. They have exposed the twins to the media, but have purposely kept it limited for the sake of the girls and their other 2 children.

Although the two girls are individuals and they have the urge to sleep and eat at different times, they still coordinate among themselves to work as a single body.

Clothes have to be made special order for the twins because they have 2 necklines. In order to show their own styling and tastes, the girls have leggings made with different colors on each leg. They wear different shoes on each foot for the same reasoning as well.

Their parents have encouraged the twins to develop individual personalities. They have exposed the twins to the media, but have purposely kept it limited for the sake of the girls and their other 2 children.

Although the two girls are individuals and they have the urge to sleep and eat at different times, they still coordinate among themselves to work as a single body.

Clothes have to be made special order for the twins because they have 2 necklines. In order to show their own styling and tastes, the girls have leggings made with different colors on each leg. They wear different shoes on each foot for the same reasoning as well.

Abby and Brittany have always been treated as two separate identities. They even buy 2 movie tickets when they go to the theater.

Their parents never thought of getting the twins separated. One of them might die or get physically handicapped for the rest of her life, so it just really wasn’t an option for them. The girls were always treated as two separate individuals. Patty (Abby and Brittany’s mother) said “when children ask the girls if they have two heads, they say they don’t, but that each has their own head. That’s what we have encouraged them to do, to develop their own individuality as much as possible.” They buy two separate cinema tickets, separate meals and two different birthday cakes for them. When the girls were younger, they made sure to scold the right girl and

not just scold them as one person. Since the girls are two separate people, one twin can get sick while the other stays healthy.

Abby and Brittany rarely fight. They eat on separate plates, with one twin holding the knife and the other holding the fork. The have to take turns eating. They alternate bite by bite, with each girl helping to feed the other. One twin will even scratch an itch for the other if the other twin’s hand doesn’t react fast enough.

One can get an illness, while the other twin stays healthy. For instance, Brittany has suffered from pneumonia twice and Abigail, the stubborn one, always helped Brittany in tough times.

The twins have only once wished to separate from each other and that was when Brittany suffered for pneumonia for the first time in childhood. Abby got bored of being in the bed all the time, when Brittany was ill. She said that she needed the

separation. Brittany would start crying and then Abby promised her they would never part.

Now that the twis are full grown women, some questions have arose: What happens if one twin falls in love?

Will they ever have children or wed?

Three years ago there was a rumor, in the news, about Brittany being engaged. Those were just rumors, but they made people think about their future. Now that the twins are full grown women, some questions have arose. They love each other very much, but what would happen if one fell in love, or even worse, one fell in love with someone the other twin hated? Since they share one reproductive system, will they ever have children? Their father, Mike believes that his daughters will get married someday.

Female conjoined twins have a much higher rate of live birth and survival than male twins. Approximately 70 percent of all conjoined twins are girls.

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Past Happenings: GnMamoru Shinozaki. Japanese Spy who secretly saved 50,000 Malayans during WWII

Past Happenings: GnMamoru Shinozaki. Japanese Spy who secretly saved 50,000 Malayans during WWII

While the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Army in WWll are well-documented in history, it's sometimes easy to forget that even the Japanese had a few good apples who were on our side during the most destructive conflict in human history.

Mamoru was tasked by the Japanese govt to escort some high ranked members of the Imperial Japanese Amy to investigate the condition of the

coasts'. Despite this ominous threat, Mamoru was later charged with espionage for spying on Malaya and sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment (a fancy term for 'prison plus hard labour).

He would be sent to Changi Prison to serve out his sentence, where he would be placed among the other foreign prisoners (many of whom were Europeans and Eurasians). The friendships and experiences he had here would later influence his decisions during the Japanese Occupation. Rut s according to Mamoru, these uld be transferred and Eventuallv the Japanese Army would launch Operation Sook-Ching (Clean-Up'). which was desioned to 'clean-up' all anti-Japanese elements in Singapore (including one Lai Teck, about whom we've written before). However, the operation quickly devolved into a systematic targeting of local Chinese civilians, as the Japanese were still salty over the Sino-Japanese Wars, and thus hated the Chinese.

According to his own estimates, Mamoru extracted around 2,000 people from these concentration camps. It is unknown exactly how many people he Sook Ching Massacre, but Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (who narrowly escaped the massacre) puts the figure around 50 000 

Sources: Mamoru Shinozaki, 'Syonan: My Story, The Japan Times, World War lI Database. yould aive him a much harder time. Image Sources: Quillette, Wikimedia Commons.

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Battle Of Ramree Island: February 19, 1945, during a fierce battle on the island Ramram (Burma), English marines lured the Japanese army in the mangrove swamps, which lived thousands of saltwater crocodiles.

Battle Of Ramree Island: February 19, 1945, during a fierce battle on the island Ramram (Burma), English marines lured the Japanese army in the mangrove swamps, which lived thousands of saltwater crocodiles.

Over 500 Japanese escaped, and historians have dismissed the claims that hundreds of Japanese were.

killed by the crocodiles. Instead, the majority of the deaths are attributed to Wounds and thirst.

Homunculus_316 The British did not spend a single bullet or shel. The report of the Japanese army colonel Yasu Yunuko declassified last year, testifies:

 "Ramram of mangrove swamps from

the detachment returned alive only 22 soldiers and 3 officers." Check the special commission of the military court, which conducted an investigation 2 months later, showed that the water the area of wetlands, an area of 3 square kilometers, 24% is from human blood.

l'd say it's just a mistranslation, since the claim is obviously stupid and impossible: round 3km down to 1, convert to cm=10" cm.Assume 1cm of water per unit area = 101° cm.5L= 5000cm. 500*5000 cm=2.5 *10 cm.round up to 10. Then 10/ 101 =10 ~0.1% not 24%. Down and dirty estimates like that which are wildly conservative (only 1 cm of

water / cm, rounding down the area, and rounding up the blood volume) can be done almost instantly

and inform you better than simple intuition, which should be screaming at anyone that the claim is

nonsense -- so nonsensical that you have to assume it's a mistake. Without looking into this further, l'd

assume that it meant something like, "24% of sites within the 3km area used for testing returned positive for traces of human blood." That's a claim

that I could believe wasn't insane.

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Discovered by chance 94 years on: Bodies of 21 German soldiers in perfectly preserved First World War trenches

Discovered by chance 94 years on: Bodies of 21 German soldiers in perfectly preserved First World War trenches

Stunned workers were meant to be digging a new road but journeyed instead into a dim and grim past

They were meant to be digging a new road but journeyed instead into a dim and grim past.

Stunned workers stumbled upon an underground shelter – and inside were the bodies of 21 German soldiers killed in the First World War.

Many were found in the position they died when an Allied shell hit their tunnel and caused it to cave in 94 years ago.

A large number of personal possessions – preserved by the lack of air and light – were also found in the 300ft tunnel near the small town of Carspach in the Alsace region of France.

Michael Landolt, the archaeologist leading the dig, said: “Everything collapsed in seconds and is just the way it was at the time. Here, as in Pompeii, we found the bodies as they were at the moment of their death.

“Some of the men were found in sitting positions on a bench, others lying down. “One was projected down a flight of wooden stairs and found in a foetal position.

"The collapsed shelter was filled with soil. The items were very well preserved because of the absence of air and light and water.

"Metal objects were rusty, wood was in good condition and we found some pages of newspapers that were still readable. Leather was in good condition as well, still supple. The items will go to a lab, to be cleaned and examined.”

French archaeologists stumbled upon the mass grave during excavation work for a road building project. The 21 men were part of a larger group of 34 who were buried alive in 1918 at the site named Killianstollen on the old Western Front.

Thirteen bodies were recovered from the shelter after the bombing but it was too dangerous to retrieve the rest. As well as the bodies, poignant personal effects such as boots, helmets, weapons, wine bottles, spectacles, wallets, pipes, ­cigarette cases and pocket books were also discovered.

Even the skeleton of a goat was found, assumed to be a source of fresh milk. The dead were part of 6th Company, 94th Reserve Infantry Regiment. Their names were already inscribed on a memorial in the nearby German war cemetery of Illfurth.

The underground tunnel was big enough to shelter 500 men and had 16 exits. It would have been equipped with heating, phone connections, electricity, beds and a pipe to pump out water.

The French attacked the shelter on March 18, 1918 with aerial mines which penetrated the ground.

It is estimated that more than 165,000 Commonwealth soldiers are still unaccounted for on the Western Front.

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