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Pope Formosus and Stephen VI by Jean Paul Laurens, depicting the Cadaver Synod of 897, when the corpse of Formosus was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial in the Lateran Basilica

u/aid2000iscool — 1 day ago

Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947),known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. To show what women could do and for suffrage movement. 1st international female athlete

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During the Seattle Area Prohibition (1920-1933), American bootleggers needed to dodge the police. So, they invented heifer-heels. These shoes made them resemble cows when moving through fields, preventing the cops from tracking their footprints.

u/MentirosoProfesional — 3 days ago

Hans Langseth, a Norwegian-American, who holds the record for longest beard in history. His beard measured 17 ft 6 in at the time of his death in Wyndmere, North Dakota. (1910)

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Myrlie Louise Evers kisses the forehead of her husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, after his assassination. His white supremacist killer would evade conviction for 31 years.

u/aid2000iscool — 4 days ago

Before affordable alarm clocks, working people relied on knocker-uppers. Armed with poles or pea-shooters they tapped on windows at dawn to make sure factory workers got to their shifts.

u/abdullah_ajk — 3 days ago

A surprised Boobook owl with its catch, a stick insect, is captured on camera by Australian News and Information Bureau photographer Harry Frauca, 1966.

u/abdullah_ajk — 4 days ago

The Indian Maharaja Who Saved 1,000+ Jews 😱 (The Maharaja of Nawanagar)

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AhPpHhWyK/ ‎ During WWII, the Maharaja of Nawanagar (India) opened his doors and saved over 1,000 Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. ‎He built a special camp for them and treated them like family. ‎A forgotten Indian hero who showed humanity has no borders.

u/abdullah_ajk — 4 days ago

Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders laying in state at Southern Seminary's Alumni Memorial Chapel in Louisville, Kentucky. 1980.

u/abdullah_ajk — 6 days ago