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"I just wanted to be vindicated, to hear someone say, 'You can't do that to a woman.'" In May 1937, a 20-year-old dancer named Patricia Douglas was brutally raped by an MGM studio executive at a "Wild West" party that was held for 300 of the company's employees. "He and another man held me down," Douglas recalled.  "One pinched my nose so I'd have to open my mouth to breathe. Then they poured a whole glassful of scotch and champagne down my throat. Oh, I fought! But they thought it was funny.  I remember a lot of laughter." But as Douglas sought justice for the attack, MGM stopped her at every turn. And when she finally sued the studio, their lawyers pointed at her at the trial and sneered, "Who would want her?" 

TRENCH WARFARE. most of the war was fought in the mud.  All in Europe. The Eastern front was bogged down with each side unable to take territory and keep it for a few days or a few hours.  This SEE SAW effect of each side gaining no military  advantage in years of war.  The Machine Gun killed hundreds of advancing soldiers on each attack making the tactic of mass advances of troops with single fire guns out-dated.  But change took months and the idea of overwhelming the other side with mass attacks was still the rule.  Latter gas was used to kill the  enemy before a charge rendering the other side helpless. Other new weapons like the flame thrower killed thousands.  Only in the last year of the war a new weapon challenged Trench warfare. THE TANK.

Tony Lovell was another fighter ace of the Battle of Britain, largely unknown today yet scored well in 1940. His name cropped up in many books I read between 1970 and more recent times.  He shot down at least 18 enemy aircraft down. Anthony Desmond Joseph Lovell was born in Ceylon on 9th August 1919 and educated at Ampleforth College. He joined the RAF on a short service commission and began his initial training course on 25th October 1937. He moved on to 6 FTS Netheravon on 6th January 1938. In late 1938  Tony Lovell joined 41 Squadron at Catterick. He went on a parachute course at Manston in March 1939. He was attached to SHQ Catterick from 41 Squadron on 22nd July 1939 for Ops duties and did not rejoin 41 until 20th November 1939. By now equipped with Spitfires 41 squadron would become the third top scoring RAF fighter squadron of the Battle of Britain period. Pilots like Tony Lovell and other aces of the unit made the squadron stand out. Tony started shooting down enemy aircraft du

MEET THE WOMAN THAT BROKE WORLD RECORD BY SLEEPING WITH 919 MEN The American Matured movie actress and director Lisa sparks popularly called Lisa Sparxxx (born October 6, 1977) competed against two other women one of which was the former world record holder who literally made love with 759 men in a day.. The very nature of their work requires them to make love to many different people. But one person took this to the extreme, and in the process created a new world record.  That person is matured movie actress Lisa Sparxxx who made love to 919 men in only one day.

Eddie Cullens - for the murder of a fellow circus performer. 26 year old Eddie Cullens was a Jewish American citizen who was born on the island of Crete, but grew up in Turkey.  He was working with Turkish born 26 year old Achmet Musa and Assim Redvan, as an attendant to Zaro Agha at travelling circuses.  Zaro Agha was billed as the world's oldest man at a claimed age of 156! Cullens and Musa, who spoke no English, took rooms together and Cullens borrowed a car from Redvan so that he and Musa could take a trip to Ireland.  They stayed at Ryan's Hotel on Donegal Quay in Belfast. When Cullens returned to England he told his boss at the circus that Musa had decided to stay in Ireland. On the 4th of September 1931, James McCalmot was collecting milk in Carrickfergus Co. Antrim, when his horse became spooked and he stopped to investigate.   He discovered the naked body of a man wearing only a blue and white women’s bathing hat with a gunshot wound to the head.  The previous day a se

Castrated African Slaves Did you know that Arabs gutted over 10 million Black boys to get barely 200,000 eunuchs for their harems?  "During the Trans-Saharan EnSlavement Trade millions of African men were captured from Darfur, Abyssinia, Kordofan, Zanzibar, and other African nations and then ultimately castrated in Arab-controlled regions in Arabian and Africa. I ronically their lack of sexual function did not prevent them from obtaining privileges such as working as Harem guards and palace courtiers. These forced castrations which made African boys into Eunuchs were done by Arabs known as the Chamba. Young boys, victims of raids and wars were subjected to the horrid monstrous, inhumane process of castration without anesthesia which had a 60% mortality. To stop the bleeding hot coals were cast into the naked wound,  followed by the most blood-curdling alien scream a human could make.  If the child survived this brutal act there was to be a life of influence and luxury; silk garmen

The Heretic's Fork - Worst Torture Device The Spanish Inquisition, a time when it was dangerous to be anything but catholic, saw the use of one of the cruelest tools of all time – the Heretic’s Fork.  Established in 1478 by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castille, the “Catholic Monarchs” sought to enforce religious uniformity. Medieval Spain was a multiracial and multireligious country with large Muslim and Jewish populations. In 1478 Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal decree, authorizing Catholic Monarchs to name inquisitors in order to enforce the Catholic religion and expel the Jews from Spain.  For Ferdinand and Isabella, this was a prime opportunity to increase their absolute power. The first Spanish inquisitors were determined to rid Spain of Muslims, Jews, and Protestants. They traveled to different areas, hunting non-Catholics.  Some, who admitted to being heretics were tortured as a form of punishment. Others, who refused to confess, were not only tortured,

The story of the only Japanese pilot to bomb mainland America, 1942 On 9 September 1942, though, something happened that had never happened before: an enemy plane bombed the contiguous United States. There had been rumors of bombers over Los Angeles the previous December, but those were ultimately proven false. And, of course, U.S. territory in one form or another was bombed in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and a few other areas in the Pacific, but those were not part of the continental US. Nobuo Fujita flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier I-25 and conducted the Lookout Air Raids in southern Oregon on September 9, 1942, making him the only Axis pilot during World War II to aerial bomb the contiguous United States. Japanese submarine I-25, with a crew of about 100, surfaced before dawn on 9 September 1942 just off the coast of Oregon after crossing the ocean outside of normal shipping lanes. The location was not chosen by chance: the I-25 was quite familiar with the

Elephant-mounted machine-gun, 1914 An American corporal aims a Colt M1895 atop a Sri Lankan elephant. The reason why the corporal is atop the elephant is a mystery but elephants were never a weapons platform adopted by the US Army. It’s probably a publicity picture, not something the army would actually try to employ. The elephant would not respond well to the sound of that machine gun a few inches from his ears. The gun is John Moses Browning’s M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun, nicknamed “Potato Digger”. The M1895 was developed by John Browning during the 1890s, it was a belt-fed, air-cooled, gas-operated machine gun with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute. As the weapon was air-cooled it did not require a water-cooling system, as a result, it was much lighter weighing just 17 kg (35 lbs). Gas pressure generated by ignited cartridges could be pulled from the barrel through a small opening leading into a cylinder. This force could provide an “automatic” mechanical action that drove

The capture of brave Russian officer Rosinski This is a shocking image and I apologize in advance for sharing it, but here’s one that truly got to me… in Belarus, 1918, after WWI had already ended, the brave Russian officer Rosinski was captured by the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks tortured the captain, likely to get information out of the man, which he bravely refused to give. After that, they simply continued with the torture out of some sick sense of innate cruelty. He was ‘the enemy’ and he was at their mercy, so they brutally murdered their captive. The brave captain was emasculated. And anally impaled on a tree branch. All this while still alive. Alfred Savoir, the man who published the picture and was an eye witness to the death of the brave military officer, described "M. B.", who ordered this atrocity,  "I knew him not long ago; he was a charming teenager with an ironic wit and joker. He was rubbed with French culture, he admired the novels of Barres and he quoted

This picture struck me hard.  As any military families, they long to be with their loved ones. When they are out to war, they carry their beloved with them in their hearts and memories.  This soldier literally brought her newborn with him in to the photo shoot studio! This is an iconic image worth shedding tears for and worth fighting for. The very reason soldiers are there in the first place.  This photograph is special and thank you soldiers and all military, naval, air force personels for your service to your countries.

The Last Public Execution In The History Of United States Of America Was Held In Owensboro,Kentucky On August 14, 1936. Rainey Bethea had been convicted of raping and then killing seventy-year-old Lischa Edwards, but the event had become nationally famous as rumors spread that the executioner might have been a woman, one Florence Thompson, who became sheriff of Davies County after the death of the father who held the position. Arthur Hash, an ex-Louisville cop, offered to operate the trapdoor lever for her, and Florence accepted. On the day of the execution, however, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people including journalists from all over America who had come to immortalize the moment, the man showed up drunk and at the decisive moment stood still before the eyes of the world.  A deputy pulled the lever in his place and Bethea fell to the ground from 3 meters high, breaking his neck; the embarrassing outcome of this event, added to the outcry received in the following months, contribut

US Marine discovers a near-dead baby in a cave in the jungle of Saipan island, 1944 In a photo that somehow comprises both tenderness and horror, an American Marine cradles a near-dead infant pulled from under a rock while troops cleared Japanese fighters and civilians from caves on Saipan in the summer of 1944. The child was the only person found alive among hundreds of corpses in one cave.  The battle for the Pacific island of Saipan during World War II is one of those well-remembered battles between Japan and America, one made worse by the mass suicide of local Japanese civilians who jumped off cliffs, fearful of capture by the Americans. This is what has been called “war without mercy” – battles supercharged by racial stereotypes about the enemy. Japanese soldiers hid out in the thick shrub on the island long after the battle ended, refusing to give up and attacking US troops stationed on the island.  One sizeable group led by Captain Oba only surrendered in December 1945 when the

In 1867, a group of hunters prowling the Indian jungle of Uttar Pradesh spotted a wolf den and cautiously began to approach it.  But, to their shock, they found that one member of the pack was a little boy of about six years old. The hunters decided to take the child away, smoking the pack out of the cave and killing the mother wolf in the process.  They named the boy Dina Sanichar and brought him to a nearby orphanage in hopes of civilizing him. But Sanichar could never be civilized. The boy continued to walk on all fours while eating only raw meat and even chewing on bones just to sharpen his teeth. Meanwhile, he communicated solely in wolf-like grunts and howls, and never learned a human language. Eventually, Sanichar's story inspired one of the most enduring works of Western literature, Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" — though the real story is even more unusual than the novel could ever capture. Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comment section b

King Edward VII,  had a special chair made for... Well, for your free time. When Edward VII was still a young prince devoid of any responsibility for the crown, he travelled far from the British capital in search of leisure and pleasure. On one of his visits to Paris, he approached Le Chabanais, one of the best-known brothels in Paris. It was located relatively close to the Louvre Museum.Edward VII was assigned his own room whenever he frequented the brothel. The prince's main problem was his overweight. To overcome the physical impediment, the cabinetmaker Louis Soubrier made what he called "the chair of love". The chair was made in such a way that the future king could act without getting too tired.  Also, the shape of the chair suggests that it was made so that the man could lie with two women at once.

The chilling history  behind Malabon’s demonic tombstone.   Don Simeon Bernardo didn’t believe in God. He wanted everybody to know about it, so much so that he built a hair-raising monument of a devil triumphing over an angel.  This sculpture now guards the tomb of Don Simeon who died of  heart attack in 1934 at the age of 65. Since then, the now-famous tombstone in Tugatog, Malabon has been the subject of a lot of legends perpetuated by people who never even knew its real origins. It only took an interview with one of Don Simeon’s surviving children to figure out the history behind the bizarre tombstone. In a traumatizing episode (at least for me) of the ’90s TV show Magandang Gabi Bayan, Atty. Sumilang Bernardo said that her father was a victim of Spanish oppression.  Accused of being a revolutionary, Don Bernardo was arrested by the Guardia Civil and subjected to unimaginable punishments like forcing him to drink a pail of water containing human excreta. One day, Don Bernardo realiz

What are some of history's most unusual punishments? A popular form of punishment in China was a device called the Cangue. This cruel device was used right up to the start of the 20th century. Two pieces of wood were fastened around the neck and sealed with padlocks. The Cangue was designed to humiliate the person wearing it with the offender’s crimes plastered all over the board for everyone to see. The size and the weight of the Cangue depended on the severity of your crime. The weight of the device could reach 200 pounds which would cause immense pain and crippling deformities if you were left in one long enough. On top of the humiliation, the board was wide enough so you couldn’t reach your mouth and relied on strangers for food and water. Another variation of the Cangue was the cage. The Cangue was placed in a cage in such a way the prisoner’s feet wouldn’t touch the ground.  Supports would be placed under the feet to help alleviate pressure on the neck. These supports would t

Though serial killer Ed Gein was a big inspiration for Leatherface, the cannibal murderer in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," there's no evidence that Gein murdered any of his victims with chainsaws. Instead, the film's director Tobe Hooper decided to give Leatherface a chainsaw thanks to his own macabre fantasy during a busy Christmas shopping season. Back in 1972, Hooper was growing increasingly frustrated with the crowds at a department store when he spotted a display of chainsaws and suddenly had a dark thought: "I know a way I could get through this crowd really quickly."  As soon as he got home that day, he immediately began working on what would become one of the most famous horror movies of all time. Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

Mary Anne Barry – “an accessory before the fact.” After 1868 the law required that executions be carried out inside the walls of county prisons.  However these early non-public executions were by no means private and some forty to fifty people were present in the yard of Gloucester prison on the morning of Monday the 12th of January 1874 to witness the execution of two men and one woman.   They were Charles Edward Butt, Mary Anne Barry and Edwin Bailey.  Curiously the victims in both cases had died on the same day, Sunday the 17th of August 1873. Edward Butt, aged twenty two, had shot and killed twenty year old Amelia Selina Phipps out of jealousy because she would not have a long term relationship with him.   They were near neighbours on adjoining farms at Arlingham.  Amelia was friendly towards Edward but simply did not want him, a fact that he seemed unable to accept. They had at least two violent quarrels and in the end he blasted her with a shotgun.  He was duly arrested and charg

December 7th 1815 - The execution of Marshal Michel Ney  When Napoleon was defeated, dethroned, and exiled for the second time in the summer of 1815, Ney was arrested (on 3 August 1815).  After a court-martial declared itself incompetent (November), he was tried (4 December 1815) for treason by the Chamber of Peers.  In order to save Ney's life, his lawyer Dupin declared that Ney was now Prussian and could not be judged by a French court as Ney's hometown of Sarrelouis had been annexed by Prussia according to the Treaty of Paris of 1815. Ney ruined his lawyer's effort by interrupting him and stating: "I am French and I will remain French".  On 6 December 1815, he was condemned, and executed by firing squad in Paris near the Luxembourg Garden on 7 December 1815, an event that deeply divided the French public. He refused to wear a blindfold and was allowed the right to give the order to fire, reportedly saying: "Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire s

John Taylor (see photo) became the second person in the post Furman US to be executed by firing squad.   He chose shooting rather than lethal injection. Taylor, 36, was convicted of the 1988 rape and strangulation of 11 year-old Charla King and was duly executed on January 26, 1996 at 12:03 a.m. Mountain Time. One of the nine media witnesses, Paul Murphy of KTVX-TV Salt Lake, described the scene saying “we saw this very large man strapped to a chair. His eyes were darting back and forth." He was strapped to the dark blue painted execution chair (see photo) by his hands and feet and lifted his chin for Warden Hank Galetka to secure a strap around his neck and place the black hood over his head. At 12:03 a.m., on the count of three, the five riflemen standing 23 feet away fired the standard Winchester Model 94 rifles.  Four of these were loaded with a single Winchester Silver Tip 150-grain .30-.30 bullet, while the fifth contained a blank round. The relatively light bullets which ex

Richard Townes Jr. for a robbery murder. 45 year old Richard Townes Jr. was executed by lethal injection in Virginia on Tuesday January 23rd, 1996. There was a 22-minute delay while medical personnel searched for a vein large enough to insert the needle into. The drugs were injected through the top Townes’ right foot after unsuccessful attempts to insert the needle in his arms. Townes whispered something unintelligible moments before he was executed at the Greensville Correctional Center. The U.S. Supreme Court had earlier rejected his requests for a stay and Gov. George Allen refused clemency. Townes was convicted of shooting Virginia Goebel, a 32-year-old mother of two, to death with a 45 calibre handgun, during a robbery of a Virginia Beach convenience store on April 14, 1985. He took $186.13 from the cash register. The shooting was apparently to prevent Virginia Goebel identifying him. A previous customer, Dorothy Moore, entered the store around 2:00 a.m. and noticed a man sta

On this day in 1999 Leo Echegaray received a lethal injection in what would become the first execution since 1976 in the Philippines. Leo Echegaray, now 38, raped his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter in 1994. He was pronounced dead at 3:19 p.m. (0719 GMT), eight minutes after he was injected with lethal chemicals, Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas told reporters after witnessing the execution. Church bells pealed across the city at the time of the execution in what priests said was a prayer for his soul and disapproval of capital punishment. Echegaray’s wife, Zenaida Javier, also among those watching the execution through a one-way mirror, screamed after her husband was declared dead and left the room sobbing, witnesses said. Cuevas said Echegaray’s final words were: “Filipinos, forgive me for the sins they accuse me of. A Filipino killed by a fellow Filipino.” “I hoped to see a sign of repentance from Echegaray,” Cuevas said. “It didn’t show.” Television reports had previously said he

Dutch Jews wearing prison uniforms marked with a yellow star and the letter "N", for Netherlands, stand at attention during a roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp. On February 28, 1941, 389 Jewish prisoners from Amsterdam and Rotterdam, many of them working class longshoremen, arrived in Buchenwald.  All were immediately sent to work in the quarry and on construction projects, which led many to soon fall ill from exhaustion, exposure, and poor diet.  Despite the deaths, camp Nazis still considered the liquidation of the Dutch Jews to be proceeding too slowly and ordered the camp doctor, Eisele, to close the infirmary to Dutch Jews -- expelling the bedridden or killing them by lethal injection.  Physicians among the transport were forced to perform clandestine medical procedures at night under primitive conditions.  On May 22 the remaining 341 Dutch Jews were transferred to Gusen.