Tag: history/mystery
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Stonehenge: A Burial Ground for Stone Age Elites?
from guardian.co.uk: Centuries before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge, the world’s most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial ground, according to a theory disclosed on Saturday. More than 50,000 cremated bone fragments, of 63 individuals buried at Stonehenge, have been excavated and studied for…
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The Affair of the Poisons
from telegraph.co.uk: The Affair of the Poisons began in 1676 with the trial of an enthusiastic poisoner, the Marquise de Brinvilliers. Her brother had died after eating a pie of cocks’ crests and kidneys in a rich cream sauce. A postmortem revealed disintegrating intestines. It soon became clear that, whenever she ran out of money,…
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Michelangelo’s Secret Message in the Sistene Chapel
from scientificamerican.com: At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor and architect—was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed…
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At 95, Hitler’s Food Taster Talks Paranoia, Poison and Vegetarianism
from montrealgazette.com: They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler’s food taster. Woelk, then in…
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Orson Welles’ ‘War Of The Worlds’
The Princeton University Radio Project hired Orson Welles to adapt ‘War of the Worlds’ for radio in order to study the behavior of citizens under panic conditions.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode150 – Selling Gold, OpIsrael, Magic Mushrooms
Story #1: Cyprus To Sell €400 Million In Gold To Finance Part Of Its Bailout // Story #2: Israeli Hackers And Anonymous Continue Their Cyber Strife // Story #3: First Magic Mushroom Clinical Trial Hits Stumbling Block
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Og Buried In Cairn At Gilgal Rephaim
King Og of Bashan, a legendary king of last surviving remnant of Rephaim (giants), remains a mystery. Was he a true giant or just very tall?
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#Video: #DjangoUnchained – Good, Bad Or Ugly?
from brasschecktv.com: Lots of debate about this film. Bill O’Reilly hates it. Liberals hate it. So there must be something very good about it. What’s good about it? No one can walk away from Django without viscerally understanding that all those fine mansions, fancy ladies, and gracious manners were fronts for concentration camps run by…
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R.I.P. Dave Brubeck: Pioneering Jazz Legend Dies At 91
from stereogum.com: The great jazz pianist >Dave Brubeck died [Wednesday, December 5th] of heart failure in Norwalk, Connecticut. He would’ve been 92 [the next day]. Brubeck grew up on a cattle ranch in California, and he studied zoology in college before switching over to music. While serving in Patton’s Third Army during World War II,…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode134 – Chemical Warfare, Hacking McAfee, Frankenfish
Story #1: Halabja Chemical Weapons And A Chance To Find The Men Who Armed Saddam // Story #2: Hacker Finds McAfee Through Phone Trail // Story #3: Biotech Company Behind ‘Frankenfish’ Faces Uncertain Future Amid Ongoing Review
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#CorbettReport: Episode247 – Requiem for the Suicided: Vince Foster
Who was Vince Foster? What was his relationship to Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas? What was he working on in the Clinton White House? And what secrets did he take to his grave? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore the unanswered questions of the death of…
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Corbett Report: Episode246 – Meet The Clintons
Listen to @CorbettReport Radio on @RBNlive Weeknights at 7 Eastern Time from corbett report: Shameless liars. Committed globalists. Inveterate womanizers. Unrepentant drug runners. Unconvicted money launderers. Fake humanitarians. And two of the most popular politicians in America. Meet the Clintons. MP3/Feed Previous: Episode245 – Slaying the Mythical Winged Unicorn Beast
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#Video: Spraying Agent Orange on America
from brasschecktv.com: Dow Chemical wants to spray a whole lot of one of the ingredients of Agent Orange on American crops. The US news media thinks it’s a great idea. Watch them spin… the best reporting money can buy. Related Video: The History Of Agent Orange*
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Corbett Report: Episode244 – Secret Weapons Technology
We all know about the secret weapons of WWII or the spy planes of the cold war…but what about today? What weapons are the DoD working on behind our backs in this day and age? Given the secrecy around this question, what can we say about this topic and how can we discover the answers?
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#Video: “State of Siege” – Why Police States Love Terrorism
from brasschecktv.com: “State of Siege” was made 40 years ago and is a surprisingly difficult film to find. Maybe that’s because it shows in vivid detail how foreign police states operate and how the CIA helps them along. But they wouldn’t do any of that stuff here, would they? Scenes from a very hard-to-find movie…