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24 Ridiculously Weird Historical Facts That Are Surprisingly TrueNot all historical events make it to the headlines. Many stories are swept aside to make way for the bigger ones such as the moon landing and WWII. But as we continue to discover more about our past, we begin to find these then insignificant stories making their way to the front page. And when they do, we learn that the past may be just as weird (and a bit scary) as the present.1. Heroin was once a perfectly acceptable medicine. Doctors prescribed it for everything from coughs to headaches.Source │ Image: Top Tenz2. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel on November 17, 1952, following the death of Israel's first President, Chaim Weizman. He declined, saying he lacked "the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people" to do the job.Source │ Image: Discovery Zone - Science, Technology, Controversial Inventions And Discoveries3. While in power, Pope Gregory IX declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated. He issued the papal bull, Vox in Rama, which "is the first official church document that condemns the black cat as an incarnation of Satan, and consequently it was the death warrant for the animal."Source │ Image: Web Gallery of Art, searchable fine arts image database4. Some believed that the disappearance of those cats helped rats spread the bubonic plague or Black Death that killed millions of people in the 1300s.Source │ Image: Wikimedia Commons5. In 1929, two Princeton researchers claimed they have turned a living cat into a telephone.Source │ Image: Headlines In History6. Before dentures were invented, teeth were extracted from the mouths of dead soldiers for use as prosthetics.Source │ Image: katetattersall7. Russian dictator Joseph Stalin often had photos retouched to remove people who had died or been removed from office.Source │ Image: via Boredom Therapy8. Chinese women used to bind their feet to prevent further growth. The painful custom became popular as a means to display social status and was also a symbol of beauty in Chinese culture.Source │ Image: Alpha History9. Rome's most tyrannical emperor, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known as Caligula, made one of his favorite horses a senator.Source │ Image: Wikipedia10. The Anglo-Zanzibar War (August 27, 1896) is the shortest war in recorded history. The war, which was between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate, lasted only 38 minutes.Source │ Image: Wikipedia11. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never actually straight to begin with, and the design was flawed from the beginning. The foundation, set weak on an unstable soil, began to sink when they started on the second floor.Source │ Image: Fine Art America12. Researchers believe that the Guanajuato Mummies’ terrible expressions are the result of the victims being buried alive.Source │ Image: Wordpress13. Former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il was said to be a great lover of music. He composed six operas while he was in office.Source │ Image: Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts14. Klerksdorp spheres are strange 3 billion-year-old rocks that have been dug up near Ottosdal in South Africa. Up to now, no one has been able to fully explain the markings on their sides.Source │ Image: NCSE15. The great Omaha Indian Chief Blackbird was said to have loved his horse so much that he was buried sitting on top of it.Source │ Image: Pinterest16. Before there were alarm clocks, there were “knockers-up”, who were hired to shoot dried peas from a blow gun at people’s windows in order to wake them up in the morning.Source │ Image: Pinterest17. The mysterious 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, bears the inscription “DOUOSVAVVM”, (the eight letters 'OUOSVAVV' is framed by the letters 'DM'). Some believe it was left by the Knights Templar as a means of finding the Holy Grail.Source │ Image: Wikipedia18. President Ronald Reagan was also a prolific lifeguard who saved 77 people from drowning.Source │ Image: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu19. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a Russian mystic, reportedly survived being poisoned, shot, and stabbed numerous times before he was finally drowned in the Volga river.Source │ Image: via Wikimedia Commons20. Winston Churchill typically smoked between eight and 10 cigars per day.Source │ Image: Home | Sir Winston Churchill Society of Edmonton21. During the Great Depression, people often made clothes out of flour sacks. Distributors would make their sacks more colorful to help people remain at least somewhat fashionable.Source │ Image: via Boredom Therapy22. The largest bird ever to exist had a wingspan of almost 20 feet. It lived 60 million years ago.Source │ Image: via Boredom Therapy23. Like many ancient royalty, King Tut’s parents were related. According to DNA taken from his mummified body, his parents were actually brother and sister.Source │ Image: Pinterest24. The use of the word “hooker” as a term for a prostitute originated with Civil War General Joseph Hooker, who brought prostitutes along on campaigns for his men.Source │ Image: WikipediaSource 24 Ridiculously Weird Historical Facts That Are Surprisingly True

Hi below are the some of the really interesting and rare photographs around the worls, from the past which really tells us something of the conditions at that times.. Hope you enjoy!!!Please bear with the length of the post!!1. The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband Seperated By A Wall, Holland, 1888.Source: 40 Rare Historical Photographs You Must See2. Austrian Boy’s Moment Of Pure Happiness After Receiving New Shoes During WWIISource: 40 Rare Historical Photographs You Must See3. Stopping Gender Barrier! Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967Source: 50 Years After Breaking The Boston Marathon's Gender Barrier, Kathrine Switzer To Run Again4. Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932Source: Painting the Eiffel Tower5. Grotto In An Iceberg, Photographed During The British Antarctic Expedition, 5 Jan 1911.Source: 40 Rare Historical Photographs You Must See6. The First Ever Underground Train Journey, Edgware Road Station, London, 1862Source: A short history of world metro systems – in pictures7. Measuring Bathing Suits, When police could arrest women, if They Were Too Short!!Source: 1920s Swimsuits- Women and Men (Parasols too)8. V-J Day in Times Square: Sailor Kissing Nurse, Times Square, August 14, 1945Source: V-J Day in Times Square - Wikipedia9. Job Hunting: After effects of Great Depression, 1932Source: A unknown man during the Great Depression, 193210. Work in Progress: The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884Source: Do You Know?11. Divided by the wall, united by Love: Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961.Source: Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 196112. Really the rarest sight in history when America mourns for the German’s.Source: America mourns the Germans who died in the Hindenburg crash; ca. 19313. Two dashing men and geniuses: Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein.Source: 50 Rare Photos From History That Will Leave You Spellbound14. Hitler in different role: Adolf Hitler as the best man in Joseph Goebbels' wedding.Source: History in Photos15. The Boeing B-29 Super-fortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima & Nagasaki on 6th August, 1945.Source: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Missions - Planes & Crews16. Pandit Jawahar lal Nehru speech “tryst with destiny” on the midnight of August 14th 1947.Source: Rare pictures from 1947, the year India achieved its independence17. Indian reinforcements being transported to Kilwa in German East Africa: 1917Source: These 12 Rare Photographs Of The Indian Army From World War I Tell A Story Less Spoken OfThank you all for patiently scrolling down till the end. Hope you have enjoyed the post :)Cheers!!

Huge significance History has been drastically transformed by both long-term and short-term phenomena. The Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution easily describe the former while the French Revolution, the Great War and WWII fall under the rubric of the latter.Having been born less than twenty five years after WWII and therefore come of age in the milieu of the Cold War (essentially the spawn of WWII) I have somewhat of an emotional attachment to this historical turning point. Both my grandfather and granduncle fought in the war and its events (certainly its impact on World Jewry) continue to influence my personal way of thinking.What follows is a list that I have compiled of important changes and transformations that were either galvanized or transformed, both indirectly or directly, by World War Two (not in any order)1. The Cold War – In a sense this was the leftover fallout of the uneasy alliances that made possible the defeat of the Axis Powers. It was defined by the emergence of an ideological struggle (East v West or Communism v Capitalism).2. Consolidation of the position of the US as a world power – Before WWII the US was viewed as more of an economic power than a military giant after the war it was clear that the US was both.3. Decline of Britain as a World Power – Britain was already on the decline following the turmoil of the Great War but World War Two confirmed and augmented this deterioration. What would follow in the years to come was a retreat from Empire (The crown Jewel of India would gain self determination in 1947) and the abdication of Britain as the primary defender of Western Democracy.4. Weakening of France – The French decline while paralleling that of Britain was in many ways even more severe in that it was motivated by that nation’s inglorious performance in WWII. Humbling defeats in French Indochina were to follow.5. Growth of Socialism in Western Europe – Socialism would grow unfettered on the free side of the continent with policies of industrial nationalization and extension of big government being adopted to placate a war weary populace. Some have argued that the decline of Western Europe as a key player and a believer in its own sense of exceptionality is a consequence of the socialist mind frame.6. Germany and Japan were successfully pegged back and weakened so that they could be rebuilt into democratic (and economic) powerhouses in the image of the allies.7. Extension of the Iron Curtain – Eastern Europe and a vast Soviet Union would for sometime fall under the Totalitarian control of the Marxist-Leninist dogma.8. Transition of China to Maoism – The Japanese invasion of China debilitated the central nationalist government (who fought bravely against the outsiders) leaving them devoid of the wherewithal to defeat Mao and his Communist insurgents.9. Independence drive for global colonial regions – The Mother countries lost their will to govern their colonial empires inspiring the success through peaceful and violent means of grassroots liberation movements Within the next thirty to forty years the vast European controlled territories would assume their new status as self governing nation states (Winds of Change).10. The Birth of the Nuclear Age – The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki signaled this beginning of this Age but the development beforehand (such as the Manhattan Project and the competing Axis initiatives) that had their impetus with the war effort.11. Improvement in Medicine – Vast strides in medical triage, use of antibiotics and surgical techniques were greatly accelerated by the war.12. Development of Weapons Technology – As expected this was ubiquitous across all fields from gun manufacturing/munitions, to tank production, to armed vehicle and naval warfare (Sonar, depth charges, sea mines etc.) - In the fields of aviation great strides were made with respect to jet technology, plane maneuverability and payload transportation and release.13. Espionage enhancement – Not only was the effectiveness of cloak and dagger spying, sabotage and other types of covert action improved over the course of the war many of the modern intelligence gathering services were born and grew to maturity in this volatile environment.14. The End of the Great Depression – There is some debate as to whether World War II actually ended the Great Depression but it certainly impacted the production and employment profiles of the nations involved in a positive sense.15. The Women’s Movement receives a big boost – With many of the men at war women provided an important role on the production line at the Home Front. The symbol of Rosie the Riveter and the boost that she gave First Wave Feminism in the work environment would forever change the traditional structure of western society.16. Formation of the United Nations – Although it has not lived up to its original intention and certainly sports a history of both success and failure the genesis of the UN (Dumbarton Oaks Conference – October 1944) has its origins in World War Two.17. Global Economics – Both the IMF and the World Bank were organizations that were set up to stabilize and mend international economics after the horrors of WWII (and to some extent the Great Depression). They continue to play a key role in global financer today.18. Space Race – While its history is marred in the Cold War the prototypes of the Rockets developed by both the US and the Soviets trace their background to Germany’s World War II V1 and V2 Programs (Wunderwaffen). These developments also pre-staged the missile delivery era associated with the Nuclear Arms Race.19. The Holocaust and an enhanced sensitivity towards genocide – While the message has been somewhat mixed and not always consistent our awareness of issues of human rights abuse (so often flatly ignored before WWII – look at the Armenian Genocide of 1915) has been highlighted by the Shoah.20. Formation of the State of Israel – Its possible that the Jewish state may have come into fruition without the occurrence of WWII (the Balfour Declaration was signed in 1917) but the war and the ramifications of the Holocaust certainly sped up the process.21. Oil Politics – The inability of the both the Third Reich and Japan to secure stable oil supplies for their respective war machines contributed to the failure of each of these military forces. Consequently oil politics as a driver for both political economy and industrial production would be highlighted by this truism.22. The Computer Age – The Code breaking machine driven initiatives at Bletchley Park together with the early computer ENIAC saw their light in World War II. Alan Turing and the Bletchley crowd greatly shortened the war and set in motion the embryonic Information Age.