THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

  This is the wisdom tooth of a gentleman who had not really worked on his oral hygiene The tooth had to come out. A week earlier, the man had eaten a guava, a tropical fruit. In the tooth there was a "cavity" with optimal conditions for germination. And so the dentist pulled out the guava germ at the same time. Whether the patient then planted the seedling in the ground, I have unfortunately not been able to find out. We hope that you have enjoyed reading our blog on the world history and facts. If you enjoy this blog please let us know in the comments below. If you are interested in history, we recommend you check out our other blogs here on the world history and facts. Thank you for reading.

  It was the first successful cesarean section that we know of. It was about the year 1500 and the wife of pig castrator Jacob Nufer was in labor. She had been struggling for the birth of her baby for days now. Thirteen ( I cannot believe that number, but history says so ) midwives had been already called to help and none could complete the process. Nufer basically knew how to help his wife because he had acquired extensive knowledge and skills through his work. Pig castrators had long performed C-sections on difficult births of animals such as mares, cows, bitches, sheep and sows. They did this to save the young when it was feared that the mother might die. Midwives were also familiar with this technique, but until the early 16th century, cesarean delivery was allowed only on dead mothers. What we do today-saving the mother's life at the risk of the baby's death-was strictly forbidden. Jacob was desperate. He finally managed to get urgent permission from the authorities to per

  This image touches the true essence of stage 4 cancer. But it is not what you think, unfortunately. They are not lovers, hanging on to each other before one of them vanishes for ever. They are not a mother and child sticking together till death does them part. It is not someone who is near the end of the cancer battle, clinging desperately to life in stage 4. Since I saw my ex-wife for the very last time, only weeks before she was obliterated by stage 4 cancer in a mist of bone and liver metastasis, leaving her barely recognizable — even for a person who once knew her so well — I see this painting representing an entirely different aspect of the stage 4 horror. Because I saw her empty eyes. Her lack of posture because all life was gone. The total absence of color around her, although she was simply in between us. The broken will to live. This painting depicts something else. An embrace. And it is the cancer which is holding on, deeper and deeper. Sucking all the life out of its host.

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month I would like to share my friend Melissa's story. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Please read Melissa's touching words below about her journey.  In Oct of 2011, I heard the life altering words "we got your results and it's the cancer".  My world shattered....cancer?  Me? How...I am only 37!  I am healthy.  Everything came to a standstill and I felt the fear of the word.  It was Stage 1 Breast Cancer - DCIS or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ in my right breast. It was the best kind to get as it was Non-Invasive, but nevertheless, it was cancer.  I chose to have a double mastectomy to reduce my chances of reoccurrence down to roughly 8%.  The surgery was tough but the tissue stretching done after a mastectomy was the hardest.  There were many lonely tearful night, but I made it through 4 surgical procedures and continued with my life.  Fast forward 2 years - I had just celebrated 2

  12th February is celebrated as— The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna in 1404. Vasco da Gama sets sail with 15 ships and 800 men from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India in 1502 In 1809, America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln was born In 1824, Arya Samaj's founder Daynand Saraswati was born The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in 1909. In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place in 1915 In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi halted the Non-cooperation movement on the national level One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up.  The women were successful in repealing the law in 1983 In 1999, Syed Abdul Malik conferred with the presti

  Burning at the stake. Heresy. Burning at the stake in public was used in England & Wales to punish heresy for both sexes from at least 1222 to 1612 with the death of Edward Wightman, who was the last to be burnt for this crime at Lichfield in Staffordshire on the 11th of April of that year.  It is not known when burning was first used in Britain, but there is a recorded burning for heresy in 1222, when a deacon of the church was burnt at Oxford for embracing the Jewish faith so he could marry a Jew. In 1401, the king authorised a Statute of Heresy which gave the clergy power to arrest and try those suspected of heresy. The first to suffer under the new act was one William Sautre, a priest, who was executed at (Kings) Lynn in 1402. This statute was repealed but in 1553, burning was re-introduced by Henry VIII’s daughter, Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary") and 274 burnings of both sexes for heresy were recorded during her five year reign (reign of terror) between 1553 and 1558. I

  THE FIRE LADDER 🤯 This photo was taken in Boston in 1975. In fact, it won the 1976 Pulitzer for photography. It shows a young woman and a little girl falling from 15 meters high. The building where they were was on fire, so they tried to get out to save their lives. They managed to get to the fire escape to be rescued by the fire brigade, the outlook looked encouraging, as it was a routine rescue, until unfortunately the ladder came loose and they fell to the ground from the fifth floor. However, in a human sacrifice, the woman hit the ground first and died from the impact, but the girl landed on top of her crumpled body. This spared him the impact of the landing and saved his life. This photograph was very famous and generated a lot of controversy in its time, to the point that it helped to redesign the way in which fire escapes were built. But the most shocking thing was that it framed a terrifying moment, for history. We hope that you have enjoyed reading our blog on the world hi

  How did the Lebensborn program affect the Norwegian women who were forced to participate, and what were the long-term consequences of their experiences? During the Nazi occupation of Norway, the Lebensborn program was established with the aim of promoting the "Aryan" race through forced breeding.  Young, blonde, and blue-eyed Norwegian women were chosen to mate with SS officers and other members of the Nazi elite, with the goal of producing "racially pure" children. Thousands of children were born as a result of the program, including Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who later achieved global fame as a member of the pop group ABBA. The Lebensborn program left a dark legacy in Norway, where the children who were born as a result of the program were often ostracized and bullied. Many suffered from identity issues and struggled to find acceptance in society.  In addition, the program had a devastating impact on the Norwegian women who were forced to participate, many of whom were

  Damnatio ad Bestias The readings in this section deal with those condemned to be killed by being thrown to a range of wild animals. In 146 BCE Scipio Africanus the Younger had deserters killed by this means; Lucius Aemilius Paulus had some deserters trampled by elephants in 167 BCE; but these were foreigners  – Roman soldiers were not normally executed publicly in this fashion, as it was a particularly humiliating form of punishment. The executions were not actually all that popular, not necessarily because people were compassionate and hated people being executed this way (although some surely did), but because they were boring and not edifying. Notice in the passage, below the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger is not disturbed by public executions per se, but by the evil effect he felt they had on those watching. I visited the games once at midday, hoping to find some touch of wit and humor there – I was bitterly disappointed. It was really nothing but butchery and what occur

  German soldiers posing for a photograph with their equipment in the snow, Winter 1916. Photograph belonging to 'Wooway1' on Flickr. The following is excerpts of Danish-German soldier Søren P. Petersen's account of his experiences on the Western Front near Loretto in November 1915. Translated by myself:  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "After two days we were ordered to the railway line. While we stayed here we had to carry supplies to the front. Two trips each night. It was almost worse than being in the frontlines. We pushed forward through the churned earth in pitch-black darkness, with barbed wire, planks, ammunition, bags with more. We had strapped our boots to our legs, but then they got stuck in the slush, and it was hopeless to get them out of there. It was favourable to have a strong and labour-seasoned comrade for these trips. For some time I had a comrade who was a doctor. He was a marvelous human being, but not at all used to the intensive labour. He was killed later on.  On

Irene Miller’s story is just one example of how some women endured and overcame persecution during the Holocaust. When Germany invaded her home country of Poland, Irene and her family were stranded in “No Man’s Land” trying to flee to Russia.  Later, she was forcibly sent with her parents, Bella and Israel, and her sister Halina to a Siberian work camp.  Starvation was a daily struggle, as Irene recalled: “My mother said to me, ‘Pretend that there's no war. What would you like for your present?’ So I told her I would like a big loaf of bread and that I can eat of it as much as I want.  And my mother started crying. I absolutely couldn't understand what I did to make her cry.” The family later traveled to Uzbekistan, where her father tragically died from illness. Out of desperation, Irene and her sister were sent to an orphanage, where her mother found work to stay close to them.  “She helped out in whatever she could. It wasn't an official job and there was no pay, but she

 SO CRUEL: FIRST YOU RAPE AND THEN CHOKE & HANG. SHAME !!! SHAME!!! SHAME!!! India gang-rape victims left hanging from tree Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY 12:42 p.m. EDT May 29, 2014 Police in India have arrested four men, including at least two police officers, for allegedly raping and killing two teenage girls. The girls' bodies were discovered hanging from a mango tree. The incident took place in the village of Katra, in India's northwestern state of Uttar Pradesh. The girls, who were 14 and 15, and are either sisters or cousins — it was not immediately clear — had gone into fields near where they lived because there was no toilet in their home, said Atul Saxena, police superintendent for the area. Indian TV footage showed the villagers sitting under the girls' bodies as they swung in the wind, and preventing authorities from taking them down from the tree until the suspects were arrested. The victim's families maintain that local police initially shielded the attacke

  MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING, THREE OTHERS JAILED FOR KIDNAP, GANG RAPE AND TORTURE OF 20-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN EDO An Edo High Court sitting in Auchi on Thursday, December 7, 2022, convicted and sentenced one Taofeek Isah to death by hanging for kidnap, gang rape and torture of a 20-year old woman, Blessing Ezekiel, with harmful substance, while three others were sentenced to jail terms ranging from four to 19 years. The convicts, namely; Taofeek Isah, Jeremiah Okamudu, Godwin Adeyemi, and Miracle were brought before the court on a five-count charge of rape, kidnapping, attack with harmful substance, inflicting physical injury and unlawful trial by ordeal. The presiding judge, Justice Philip Imoedemhe, in his judgment sentenced Isah, the 1st defendant to death; Jeremiah Okamudu, 2nd defendant to four years imprisonment without option of fine, while Miracle Pius , the 4th defendant was jailed for 19 years without option of fine. Justice Imoedemhe held that all the evidence tendered

  Mount Rushmore Before it Was Desecrated was known as The Six Grandfathers. The Sioux Treaty of 1868 and the Treaty of Fort Laramie, seemingly granted the Sioux autonomy over a reservation that included all of South Dakota’s land west of the Missouri River. Over a century later, on August 29, 1970, a group of Native activists protested repeated violations of that treaty by scaling and occupying a national monument—Mount Rushmore—within that territory. The National Archives state that the government first violated the 1868 treaty just six years after it was signed, when General George A. Custer led a military expedition to the Black Hills. The Lakota Sioux regard these hills as sacred, but the government’s quest for the gold found in that range took precedence over tribal sovereignty. Miners flooded the area and demanded U.S. protection from Sioux peoples protecting their land, which lead to further military incursions and the U.S. seizing the land in 1877. Nearly fifty years later, pr

 Execution of Perkin Warbeck: Pretender or one of the Princes in the Tower? On 23rd November 1499 Perkin Warbeck was hanged at Tyburn. Perkin Warbeck had claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. Richard was one of the two Princes in the Tower, placed there in the summer of 1483 together with his older brother Edward. The princes were sons of Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth Woodville. As is very well known their uncle, Richard of Gloucester, succeeded in having himself declared king and the two princes, then aged twelve and nine respectively, disappeared. Rumours concerning the fate of the princes started quite soon after their disappearance with many believing that they had been murdered. Their uncle, Richard III, was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, after which Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, took the throne as Henry VII. He married the princes elder sister, Elizabeth of York then aged almost twenty, in January 1486. Henry VII faced various challenges and rebe

  Hereford prison. In the late 18th century many counties in England and Wales constructed new county gaols to replace their dilapidated and/or unsuitable ones.  Herefordshire was no exception and began planning a new county gaol and house of correction in 1790. The new County Gaol was designed on a cruciform plan by architect John Nash and his design approved in July 1792.  The prison was constructed between 1794 and 1796 on Bye Street Without (now Commercial Road) on land known as “The Priory”.  It was reported to have cost £18,646 16s 3 1/2d.  The stone building initially had four two story wings radiating out from the octagonal Great Hall, providing good visibility of the four wings and the prison’s yards.  The prison chapel was above the Great Hall.  The new gaol was surrounded by a high brick wall and opened for prisoners in the Summer of 1796. The gatehouse was a single story building with a flat roof upon which the “New Drop” gallows was erected for public hangings up to 1864. 

  The Long Walk of the Navajo 1864  Refers to the 1864 deportation and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the United States federal government. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. An estimated 10,000 Navajos were forced to walk more than 300 miles at gunpoint from their ancestral homelands in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico to an internment camp in Bosque Redondo, which was a desolate tract on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico. Many died along the way. From 1863 to 1868, the U.S. Military persecuted and imprisoned 9,500 Navajo (the Diné) and 500 Mescalero Apache (the N’de).  Living under armed guards, in holes in the ground, with extremely scarce rations, no more than 3,500 Navajo and Mescalero Apache men, women, and children died while in the concentration camp. Many of the Native Americans died of starvation during the walk. Women, children and the elderly walked hundreds of miles, it was the coldest