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Originally posted on History of Sorts: “The silicon chip inside her head got switched to overload” is the opening line from the Irish new wave/punk band Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Monday” The song was based on true events. On this day 38 years ago 16 year old Brenda Spencer went on a killing…
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I am going to keep this one simple. This is a blog about babies killed while they were still in diapers. What danger did they pose? These are picture of babies killed by the Nazi regime. I don’t have a name for the baby above, only the age. 1. Frederika Madeleine van Coeverdan murdered in…
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world Dr. Gene Shoemaker died…
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Talk shows used to be entertaining but they have turned into a bench marking tool the bring out the worst in society when you look at some titles of the Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle show It’s no wonder that it would come to the stage where someone would get killed. Jonathan Schmitz was 24…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This guest book belonged to the parents of sixteen-year-old Carla Hustinx from the city of Maastricht. Their home was a regular place to stay for singers, movie stars, athletes and comedians that came to entertain American soldiers after the south of the Netherlands was liberated in September 1944. A…
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Substances we now know to be highly addictive and even lethal weren’t always seen that way. In the late 19th and early 20th century heroin was seen as a cough medicine and coca cola’s secret ingredient was cocaine.(Have a coke and a smile) Cigarettes were recommended for pregnant women. Even arsenic was used in confectionery…
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Before I go into the blog I have to warn you that this blog contains an image of an adult nature. So if you are offended by it, get over it. U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Magee fell out of a burning plane at 22,000 feet without a parachute. And he lived. Magee…
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Some people say that TV has a bad influence on especially younger people.Juan Catalan will wholeheartedly disagree with that. Juan Catalan was 24 when he was wrongly charged with gunning down 16-year-old Martha Puebla on her doorstep outside her home in Los Angeles.Martha had earlier testified in a gang-related murder case ,involving Catalan’s gangster, and…
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I often add words in the titles of my blog to describe parts of the contents of the blog. In this case I don’t have to do that because everyone knows the story of Anne Frank and to a lesser extend that of her older sister Margot. On the 3rd of September 1944 they were…
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