Zana of Abkhazia

There are mamy stories of persons who lived outside civilization and how wild they acted. Among them all, the story of Zana the Apewoman stood out.

Zana was described as a six-foot, six-inches tall woman discovered in the Caucasus mountains between Georgia and Russia. In 1880 she was captured by local hunters. Zana behaved like a wild animal and as such was was kept in a cage. It is said that she dug a hole in the ground and slept in it for the first three years.

After three years she was tethered at first, but then was let loose to walk around and wonder. Like a well trained dog, she never went far from where she received food. She did not like living indoors and preferred to sleep in a hole in the ground.

Description

Zana's skin was dark and her whole body was covered with reddish-black hair.

She was very tall, broad, and had huge breasts and buttocks with very muscular arms and legs.

She never learned to speak, instead she made inarticulate sounds and mutterings. She, however, knew her name and carried out many commands.

Zana was said to be too fast she could outrun a horse, and could swim across the wild Makva River even when it rose in a violent high tide.

She was very strong and could lift incredible amounts. She preferred to walk naked even in the winter, tearing dresses that she was given into shreds.

Children

This may not sit down well with anyone, but Zana got pregnant by the men of the village.

Zana had four children who grew up to be normal speaking men and women. The oldest son was named Dzhanda, the oldest girl Kodzhanar, the second girl Gamsa and the youngest boy Khwit, he died in 1954.

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Men sef! I wonder what would have endear them to this woman

I doubt it

This is Sir Jai Singh Prabhakar GCSI GCIE, he was the Maharaja of the princely state of Alwar, India.

In 1920, he decided to visit the UK. While in London, he decided to go inside a Rolls Royce showroom one morning during one of his strolls.

He went incognito and was dressed like an ordinary English man. He was judged by the way he looked and the Rolls Royce employees did not entertain his queries professionally. They went as far as showing him the exit door.

The Maharaja was pissed, and when he got back to his hotel, he immediately asked that an official visit to the showroom be arranged.

This time he went to the showroom with heavy jewels and fine embellished royal outfit and an attending force of many subordinates. He was welcomed with open arms and was even granted a red carpet.

He brought raw cash and bought all six cars exhibited and paid for their delivery to India. When the cars got to India, the Maharaja handed them over to the waste department of the municipality and had them sweep the streets of New Delhi with these luxury pieces.

Rolls Royce heard of the mistreatment of Maharaj as their cars started getting associated with garbage collection. They were forced to offered Jai Singh a sincere apology in the form of six brand new cars and a promise of rightful treatment. This finally put a stop to the Maharaja’s anger and the cars were returned to their old glory.

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illicit:
I doubt it

Do you doubt the part of her being impregnated and having kids or the entire story?

TimeArena:


Do you doubt the part of her being impregnated and having kids or the entire story?

The whole story

illicit:


The whole story

Okay.

TimeArena:
This is Sir Jai Singh Prabhakar GCSI GCIE, he was the Maharaja of the princely state of Alwar, India.

In 1920, he decided to visit the UK. While in London, he decided to go inside a Rolls Royce showroom one morning during one of his strolls.

He went incognito and was dressed like an ordinary English man. He was judged by the way he looked and the Rolls Royce employees did not entertain his queries professionally. They went as far as showing him the exit door.

The Maharaja was pissed, and when he got back to his hotel, he immediately asked that an official visit to the showroom be arranged.

This time he went to the showroom with heavy jewels and fine embellished royal outfit and an attending force of many subordinates. He was welcomed with open arms and was even granted a red carpet.

He brought raw cash and bought all six cars exhibited and paid for their delivery to India. When the cars got to India, the Maharaja handed them over to the waste department of the municipality and had them sweep the streets of New Delhi with these luxury pieces.

Rolls Royce heard of the mistreatment of Maharaj as their cars started getting associated with garbage collection. They were forced to offered Jai Singh a sincere apology in the form of six brand new cars and a promise of rightful treatment. This finally put a stop to the Maharaja’s anger and the cars were returned to their old glory.

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There are levels to this money thing...

MEET OMAIMA NELSON THE WOMAN WHO KILLED AND ATE HER HUSBAND

Born in Egypt 1968, Omaima Nelson moved to California, US where she pursued her modelling career.

At 23 she met her husband Bill Nelson who was a pilot, the pair were so in love and said to have gotten married only a few days after their meeting.

Seems marriage didn't go as rosy as Omaima expected as she claimed to have been sexually abused by her husband, she also added that he had once thrown her pet cat out of his moving car, Yes, that was too much for Omaima to take and instead of leaving she opted for her cruel revenge.

On Thanksgiving day in 1991 Omaima stabbed her husband with a scissor then started beating him with Pressing iron just to make sure he died, after she confirmed his death, she disembamed his body. She fried his head and cooked his hands to remove his finger nails then mixed his left over body part with thanksgiving turkey and disposed it in a trash can!

Seemed like Omaima wasn't satisfied with just mudering her husband as she went further to castrated him in revenge for all his assualts, She also confessed to her psychiatrist that she cooked her husband ribs in barbecue sauce and ate it, a confession she later denied.

Even though she claimed the murder was in self-defense many speculated it was done in a bid to rob her husband.

She was convicted of second degree murder in 1993 and sentenced to 27 years imprisonment at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, California, US where she is currently serving.

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Marilyn Monroe and the Philandering Kennedy Brothers

John F Kennedy, 35th US President, was an exceptional womanizer and a gifted adulterer. Respecting the sanctity of his marriage wasn't a virtue he was known for.

As president, he slept with uncountable number of women in and outside the White House. Actresses, secretaries, employees, prostitutes, singers, politicians, name it. Kennedy slept with women in almost all spheres of life.

White House historians have since agreed that it's impossible to know the number of women JFK had an affair with while he was president.

One dark side of his uncountable affairs with high-profile women, is the one he had with Marilyn Monroe— one of the most beautiful actresses of the 20th century.

What led to the whirlpool of romance started in 1961. That year, Kennedy attended a Christmas party in his sister's home without his wife, Jackie. At the party, he got alone with Marilyn Monroe.

They had $e.x, soaked together in a tub, showered each other with champagne and were caught on tape by a private investigator. The hot romance that night left Marilyn Monroe to believe that JFK was in love with her. She even believed he was going to divorce his wife to marry her.

Far from the truth.

JFK caught a whiff of her plans and he passed her on to his younger brother, Bobby. Bobby made it clear JFK wasn't going to marry her. And he went on to have a passionate affair with her too. Shortly after, Marilyn Monroe had feelings for Bobby and was talking of marrying him.

Obviously, Marilyn Monroe's emotional delusions were becoming problems for the President and the Kennedy family.

So, on August 4, 1962, Bobby travelled to Los Angeles just to have a meeting with Marilyn Monroe and tell her that their relationship was over.

She killed herself few hours later by overdosing on barbiturates.

It's sad that one of the most beautiful, famous women of the 20th century will end her life because she couldn't get love from two womanizing brothers, when there were thousands of loyal men willing to do anything to marry her.


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We all know Donald Trump is shameless, but he isn't the first shameless, crazy American president.

Before Trump, there was Lydon B. Johnson.

One of the things Johnson was famous for in the anals of US presidential history, is his ability to show anyone his unclothedness.

At one time when a reporter asked him why US is involved in the war in Vietnam, Johnson unzipped his trousers, pulled out his pen!$ and said: "This is why."

Sometimes if someone is having a conversation with him and he wants to use the bathroom, he drags the person into the bathroom so they can continue the conversation there.

One time he decided to urinate in public by the side of the road and secret service agents had to shield him from public view. While urinating, a gust of wind blew his urine on the leg of one of the secret service men. When the agent told the president that he was urinating on his leg, Johnson said, “"That's all right, son. It's my prerogative."

After a 1964 Presidential campaign event, Johnson invited White House reporter Frank Cormier onto Air Force One to hold an interview. Johnson claimed it was a hot day and he was feeling too much heat so he stripped naked and completed the interview that way.


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A woman has a psychological condition called conversion hysteria, which causes her to faint anytime she hears the word "sex." She sued her neighbor for causing her to faint by mentioning sex to her. The court fined her neighbor $5,000 or jail term.

The problem is, at the court, she fainted twice when the judge mentioned sex in the judgement pronouncement


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Here is the story of an assassin who hired an assassin who hired an assassin that hired another assassin who eventually hired another assassin.

You think that's a typing error? No. Read the story.

In 2019 in China, Tan Youhui, a real estate developer, hired an assassin to kill his business rival. He paid the assassin £220,000.

The assassin in turn hired another assassin to do the job and paid him £110,000. Since the pay seems to be quite a lot of money, the second assassin too hired another assassin and paid £30,000, making it three assasins in the link.

The third assassin felt it's easier to give the job to another assassin. So he outsourced the job to another assassin and paid £22,000.

In the same pattern, the fourth assassin hired another assassin and paid him £11,000.

But instead of doing the job, the 5th assassin entered an agreement with the man he was supposed to kill. He asked the man to fake his death.

He then went back to the assassin who hired him, claimed the job had been done and collected his pay. The victim reported the case to the police and all the assassins were arrested.

All six men were convicted of intentional homicide and given prison sentences up to five years.

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We may have come across a story or more about what men have done for love, but only few, if any of us, have heard of what women did, or suffered for the sake of love.

Let's look at the story of Blanche Monnier

She found a suitor in the late 1800, but unfortunately he was not of her social class. He wasn't the young, rich aristocrat her family had hoped she would wed, but rather an older, poor lawyer.

The Monniers were a prominent and wealthy family; had an estate, and a spotless reputation. In Parisian high society Madam Monnier, Blanche's mother, was known for her charitable works, she had even received a community award in recognition of her generous contributions. Her son, Marcel, had excelled at school and now worked as a respectable lawyer

So when Blanche's low-classed suitor came, the mother insisted she choose a more suitable husband, but Blanche refused. Then her mother did the unthinkable:

She locked Blanche in a dark room for a period of 25 years.

Fast forward to a day in May 1901, the attorney general of Paris had received a strange letter stating that a prominent family in the city was keeping a dirty secret. The note was handwritten and unsigned, but the attorney general was so disturbed by its contents that he decided to investigate immediately.

The police did a customary search on the estate and was led to a dark room where an odd smell was oozing from. The room was pitch black, and its only window had been shuttered closed and hidden behind thick curtains. When the window was forced open, it appear that the odour was coming from spoilt meal littered on the floor.

That was the first time Blanche Monnier had seen the sun in over two decades. She had been kept completely naked and chained to her bed since the time of her mysterious “disappearance” 25 years earlier. Unable to even get up to relieve herself, the now-middle-aged woman was covered in her own filth and surrounded by the vermin that had been lured in by the rotting scraps.

It appeared that Blanche Monnier had refused to give in to her mother's request. So even after her suitor died she had since remained locked in her cell, with only rats and lice for company.

When the new went public, the outrage was so great that an angry mob formed outside of the Monnier house, leading Madame Monnier to suffer a heart attack. She would die 15 days after her daughter’s liberation.

Blanche Monnier lived the rest of her life with some lasting psychological damage after her decades-long imprisonment: she lived out the rest of her days in a French sanitarium, dying in 1913; 12 years after her freedom.

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The San Pedro Prison in Lapaz, Bolivia is one of the strangest prisons in the world.

Prisoners in San Pedro buy their own cells, they elect their own president, they run shops, restaurants, and schools in the prison. There are no guards in the prison, and prisoners can live with their wives and children.

Rich prisoners can rent their own luxury prisons for up to $30,000, build a new prison by themselves, or renovate existing prisons to meet their own standards. Poor prisoners rent filthy prisons for a few hundred dollars.

Rich drug lords and politicians held in the San Pedro Prison, built their own prisons and furnished it with TVs, Jacuzzis, library, etc.

Some criminals build their own prisons and put them up for rent so that new prisoners can rent them. Once the rent is paid, they sign the agreement form and deeds of transfer.

When prisoners are about to be released to go home, they are presented with a bill for the water and electricity they consumed during their stay in the prison.

Jobless prisoners can find job in a restaurant, school, or shop, there in the prison. A rich prisoner can also open a shop, school, restaurant, or any other type of legal business in the "prison community

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The Hansalu Lovers.

Hansalu is an ancient, burned out village destroyed about 2800 years ago. Recently, while excavating, archeologists were surprised to find the remains of two bodies, seemingly sharing a loving embrace before their eventual death.

These remains were found in a mudbrick bin that was designed for storing grain, embracing one another in what appears to be a kiss and were dubbed.

It was discovered that the city of Teppe Hasanlu was destroyed around 800 BCE by an invading army that sacked the city and burned it to the ground. Apparently, the Hasanlu Lovers were hiding from these invaders in the grain bin when they died of asphyxiation from the smoke emanating from the fires raging around the city.

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What Do You Think Is Wrong?

David Hampson is known as the "Silent Man" in the UK. For 7+ years he repeatedly stands on a certain road to block traffic, and when arrested, he never speaks a word, not even to the court or his own lawyer; but everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent when arrested.

Several times authorities have ordered a psychiatric report into Hampson in the hope it could shed some light on his behaviour, and suggest possible help that he could be offered. However, he has refused to speak to the court-appointed doctor so no interview could take place.

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Dolphins can Detect Pregnancy In Women

It has been speculated that dolphins might know when a woman is pregnant as female dolphins are known to take particular interest in pregnant women.

The search for explanation revealed that dolphins can detect pregnancy in women using a technique called echolation. They emit sound waves and listen to the echo to make sense of their environment. Experts say that it is possible that a dolphin may be able to detect the difference in the echo of woman before and during pregnancy.

Echolation is similar to the technique used by doctors to image a developing human baby. Both involve ultrasound — high-pitched pulses of sound above the range of human hearing. In addition to this, there are other anecdotal evidence of dolphins detecting cancers in people.

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Strange Twins

A lot has been said about identical twins, and the strange case of the identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons remains yet another enigma that will continue to attract even more broad discussions about identical twins.

June and Jennifer Gibbons only speak with each other— until one of them died, either of them or both of them never talked to anyone else. Their language of communication is strange and they mirror each other's action by doing everything at the same time.

In school, they refused to read or write and yet their room is filled with sheets of papers with many strange and scary fictional stories scrambled on the papers. They also recorded some of the plays they wrote, on tape.

Attempt to separate the twin sisters became another problem, as both sisters withdrew completely from the society when they were separated. At one point during their separation, it took two people to get June out of bed, after which she was simply propped against a wall, her body “stiff and heavy as a corpse.”

It wasn't long before they were reunited. But after their reunion their bond and withdrawal from the society increased. They stopped having verbal communicatio with their parents. They write to them instead of speaking.

Another mistake happened when they confined the sisters to a psychiatric hospital for 11 years, all in an attempt to break their bond and "make them normal".

In the end, one of the twin sisters (Jennifer) died. And after her death, June started talking to everyone and living a normal life.


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In ancient Rome, suicide was never a general offense under law.

A citizen who wants to commit suicide must first apply to the Senate. If the application is successful, the government itself makes an arrangement to make the citizen drink poison.

There are only three cases where suicide is forbidden:

1. People accused of capital crime can't commit suicide. This is because if a criminal commits suicide before the law tried and judged him, the government loses the right to seize the criminal's property.

2. Soldiers are not allowed to commit suicide. If a soldier commits suicide, the government will interpret it that the soldier is a coward running from battle. With that interpretation, a soldier who commits suicide faces the same judgement as the soldier who deserted his comrades during war.

3. Slaves are not allowed to commit suicide. If a slave commits suicide within 6 months he was purchased, the master has the right to claim a full refund from the former owner of the slave.


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Throughout history, people have used the name of God and religion for different ends and reasons. The story of the "Children of God" is one of the best historical lessons that serves as a good example.

The "Children of God Church" or officially "Family International" was a supposed church established by David Berg in 1968.

The Children of God Church preached Jesus and also promiscuous s!ex.

Women in the church have the responsibilities of going out for evangelism. But their type of evangelism was a bizarre one.

They used the Bible and sermons to evangelize and they also used se!x. To bring in new members to the "church" and make them "Christians", the women lure men into the church through casual sex. Female members of the "church" successfully lured over 100,000 men into their so-called church.

This practice of evangelism through casual sex, was based on a philosophy called the Law of Love. The idea behind the Law of Love is that, people should be willing to give their body freely to anybody as a way of showing their great love for God.

Later when the story of rape, kidnapping, child abuse, incest and other cringe-worthy stories started making the rounds from the Children of God, the FBI declared that the Children of God was not a church, but a cult.

In connection with Interpol, the FBI got to work in shutting down the cult and also incarcerating its leader. But the leader, David Berg, was on the run.

Government investigation into the cult ended when David died in 1994. The cult also crumbled afterwards.

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This Russian guy ( Kirill Tereshin ) desperately wanted to be a muscle man ( you know, the type of muscle guy that many ladies love) so instead of spending hundreds of hours at the gym, using dumbbells and other equipment to build his biceps, he took the fast lane. Sharp guy.

He injected three litres of Synthol into his biceps and triceps.

The result?

Well, the result is what you see in these pictures. He got abnormally large biceps and more than 5 corrective surgeries to remove the 3-pound stony, dead tissues in his biceps in order to save him from dying of face amputation.

The dangerous chemical he injected into his biceps saturated his muscle tissues, blocked blood flow, and killed the tissues. Without a surgery, he won't survive to tell the story of his foolishness.

He isn't only a fool, he is also broke. He didn't have the money to pay for his surgery. Perhaps he would have died if it wasn't for Russian plastic surgery activist named Alana Mamaeva who helped to raise money for the surgery.

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Javed Iqbal Wanted 100 Mothers To Cry

In December 1999, Iqbal sent a letter to the Pakistan police confessing that he raped and murdered 100 boys, all aged between 6 and 16.

According to him, he first strangled and dismembered the victims, and disposed of their bodies using vats of hydrochloric acid so as to hide his trail. He then dumped the remains in a local river.

He was not kidding, he claimed he wanted 100 mothers to cry for him and this is why:

Iqbal's motive was to revenge a perceived injustice at the hands of police who had arrested him on charges relating to an act of sodomy against a young runaway boy in the 1990s.

No charges were brought in relation to this offence, and his mother had "been forced to watch him decline" before suffering a fatal heart attack. He had therefore resolved to make 100 mothers cry for their sons as his mother had been forced to do for him before her death.

Iqbal was sentenced to death in the same manner he had killed his victims: strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed, his body cut into 100 pieces (for each of the parents) and put in acid.

However, the Pakistani Interior Minister faulted the sentence, claiming that such punishment is against humanity rights. He opted for him to be hanged instead.

But Iqbal hanged himself in his cell before the execution could be carried out.

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The Rotten Teeth of Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I had rotten, smelly teeth and yet she was the most fashionable woman of her time.

The medical devices, health supplements and cosmetics we have today were only figments of people's imagination in Queen Elizabeth I's 16th century England.

But while all those were unavailable, sugar was in abundance and it was a luxury only the rich could afford (of course, in the 16th century, consuming large doses of sugar daily, was one of the ways to show that you are rich). So, Queen Elizabeth I took more than enough sugar. Every meal she took was accompanied by lots of sugar.

It wasn't long before her teeth started to rot. People stay at arms length to talk to her because not only was her teeth rotten, they also smell terribly.

There were no sophisticated toothpaste or toothbrush as we know it today, but there were Barber dentists who could ensure the Queen's dental hygiene.

But the Queen just wouldn't have any dentist poke her teeth with any dental tool.

And as they say, the rest is history.


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Did you know, the spear that was used to pierce the side of Christ is called the Spear of Destiny, or Holy Lance, and it is said that whoever hold possession of the spear holds the destiny of the world in his hands, and has power to control the world.

True to this, about forty-five great Emperors of history had claimed the Spear, letting it serve as their talisman while they conquer territories.

Some of the emperors include:

Constantine The Great who claimed the spear guided him during the battle that settled the rulership of the Roman Empire and lead directly to the proclamation of Christianity as the official religion of Rome.

Theodosius (385 A D.), the man who tamed the Goths with the Spear.

Alaric The Bold (410 A.D.), a savage convert to Christianity who claimed the Spear after he had sacked Rome.

Theodoric (452 A.D.). He rallied Gaul with the Spear to vanquish the barbaric hordes at Troyes and turn back the ferocious Attila The Hun.

Justinian also claimed the Spear, and it was he who reconquered the old Roman Empire.

Justinian is said to have raised the Spear when closing down the “Schools of Athens”, exiling great Greek scholars.

Karl Martel (732 A.D.) used the spear as a weapon when he led his army and gained a miraculous victory over the massed forces of the Arabs at Poitiers (732 A.D.). Defeat here would have meant that the whole of Western Europe would have succumbed to the rule and religion of Islam.

Charlemagne (800 A.D.) the first Holy Roman Emperor, is said to have founded his whole dynasty on the possession of the Spear. Charlemagne fought 47 campaigns with the assurance of the Spears 'victorious powers.v

Before World War II, the Spear of Destiny, was exhibited in the Hofburg Museum in Vienna. At the time it attracted the attention of the young Adolf Hitler, who linked it with legends of the Holy Grail and made his own plans to be a man of destiny.

In the first stage of his plan for world conquest, Hitler led troops into Austria in 1938, and one of his first acts was to remove the Spear of Destiny from the Hofburg Museum.

The spear was buried beneath the Nuremberg Fortress, where it was discovered on the day that Hitler shot himself in the Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945.

Some believe the spear has occultic powers, especially those who don't identify with Christianity, whereas Christians believes otherwise.

The Spear is currently in the Hofburg Museum

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99% of people don't know that many nursery rhymes have dark meanings �. Let's go through some:

LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN:

There are many theories behind the origin of this rhyme, and they're all dark. But the most popular is that it's about child sacrifice.

Back then, it was believed that a bridge would collapse unless a human sacrifice was buried at the foundations. The practice is called immurement, which is to entomb someone within a structure, where they slowly die from lack of food and water.

The game played while singing this song has kids form an arch, and others run underneath till the end of the song. Whoever was left at the end, was trapped by the hands of the two kids forming the arch.

JACK AND JILL

There are two possible origins for this rhyme:

First. Jack and Jill were believed to be France’s Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, who were convicted of treason during the French Revolution, and beheaded. Jack or Louis XVI, lost his “crown,” i.e. his throne and his head. And Jill, or Marie Antoinette's head soon came tumbling after.

Another is that it originated when King Charles I attempted to reform the tax on liquid measures. Parliament rejected his suggestion, and instead, he made sure that the volume was reduced on half- and quarter-pints, known as jacks and gills, respectively.

BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP

This rhyme isn't innocent, but about a tax imposed on farmers by King Edward of feudal England, back in the 13th century.

One-third of the wool was taken for the king or the Master, one-third for the Church or the Dame, and one-third for the farmers.

Nothing was then left for the shepherd boy, crying down the lane. Black sheep were also considered bad luck because their fleeces cannot be dyed and so they were worthless to the farmer.

HUMPTY DUMPTY

Humpty Dumpty wasn’t a real person; neither was it an odd, fragile egg-shaped thing/person.

Instead, it was a cannon owned by the supporters of King Charles I.

Humpty Dumpty was used to gain control over the city of Colchester during the English Civil War. Once in Colchester, the cannon sat on the church tower until a barrage of cannonballs destroyed the tower and sent Humpty into the marshland below.

Although retrieved, the cannon was beyond repair. Humpty the cannon was a feared and effective weapon.

RING AROUND THE ROSIE

This rhyme refers to the Great Plague of London in 1665.

The “rosie” from the rhyme refers to the rash that covered the ones who contracted the disease, the smell of which they tried to cover up with “a pocket full of posies.”

The plague killed nearly 15 percent of the country’s population, which makes the final verse, “Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down” self-explanatory —the cremated remains of those who died of the plague.

THREE BLIND MICE

The "three blind mice" were believed to be a group of Protestant bishops—Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Radley, and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer. They conspired to overthrow the queen and were burned at the stake for their heresy after their plan failed.

Some suggest that the blindness in the title refers to their religious beliefs. While others say they were also blinded and dismembered, as if being burnt alive wasn't enough.

GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER

This rhyme is about what happened after England became Protestant following King Henry VIII's creation of the Anglican Church, and plenty of Catholic priests refused to follow the Protestant faith.

To avoid punishment, these priests set up small rooms in their homes to pray in, but if they were found praying in Latin, as the Catholics do, they would be “thrown down the stairs,” or put to death.

HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH.

Historian R. S. Duncan, who was also the warden of England’s Wakefield Prison, posited that the song's origin lies in the practice of female inmates singing this, who were exercised around a mulberry tree.

Which is probably not the connotation your six-year-old self had in mind.

ROCK-A-BYE BABY

One interpretation of this famous lullaby is that it is about the son of King James II of England and Mary of Modena. It is widely believed that the boy was not their son at all, but a child who was brought into the birthing room and passed off as their own to ensure a Roman Catholic heir to the throne.

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FAMOUS PROFESSIONAL P0ISONER
Giulia Tofana (also spelled Toffana, Tophana) was an Italian professional poison€r. She sold a pois0n called Aqua Tofana (supposedly invented by Teofania di Adamo who may have been Giulia's mother) to women who wanted to murd£r their husbands.
According to one version of events, Giulia Tofana fled to Rome and set up a pois0ning ring that began to sell this pois0n to women who wanted to escape abusiv€ or inconvenient spouses. There may have been 6 women in this poisoning active in the 1650s, including Girolama Spara, who took over after Giulia's d£ath.
The d£adly poison Aqua Tofana came in a pretty bottle. It was colorless, odorless, and tasteless. And for almost 20 years in 17th-century Italy, hundreds of women used it to stealthily k1ll their husbands.
Giulia confessed to k1lling over 600 men from 1633-1651 in Rome alone, though that number could be lower (or higher) given that her confession came under duress.
Her pois0n was a best seller during the sales.
It is believed that Guilia di£d in her sleep or was killed

General Sani Abacha's military government sentenced Obasanjo to 30 years in prison on coup charges. But due to the sudden death of Abacha, Obasanjo spent just 3 years in prison.

His lucky 3-year jail term was served in prisons in Yola and Lagos (Kirikiri).

Obasanjo's stay in Yola prison coincided with the time the military government banned pastors from visiting prisons because some pastors helped prisoners escape.

With government restriction on evangelism by pastors from outside the prison, Obasanjo became a prisoner pastor. He organized prison fellowships and preached to prisoners every week.

This was how he met a hardened criminal and armed robber named Baba Ali, who was a well-known notoriously merciless armed robber in several parts of northern Nigeria.

Baba Ali was converted.

2 years after he left prison and became the President, Baba Ali was released from the prison as a born again Christian. He linked up with Obasanjo in Aso Rock and Obasanjo enrolled him in a seminary to become a pastor.

After Bible school, Baba Ali became a pastor in a Baptist denomination and also converted his own younger brother.

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Are these Information true?cos I was doubting until I saw the one that came from Nigeria.thank for the information.

In ancient times, women who suffered from what we know today as anxiety, depression, and mood swings were "examined" to have what was called "female hysteria" by physicians of the time.

A way to fight this disease includes pelvic massage, which aims to achieve what was at the time called pelvic paroxysm, or "orgasm" in today's terms.

Society and physicians of that time did not consider external genital stimulation (pelvic massage) as erotic or sexually stimulating, so women went to the doctor for the treatment.

This seeming innocence is fueled by the ancient belief by doctors that women were biologically weak and flawed for exhibiting these behaviors and bodily functions, and as a result warranted medical intervention and correction.

These are similar behaviours and bodily functions that twenty-first-century scholars consider normal.

Soon a special mechanical device was created for this; the artifact emitted rhythmic vibrations and massages. At first, wealthy or women of good families kept them in their homes in case of any "outbreak of hysteria."

This is how one of the first vibrators in history was created. They're still used today, and it's interesting that even though the vibrator emerged as a treatment for an illness, it's gained popularity and has taken on a purely sexual nuance.

Credit: Apotheosis Of Knowledge