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June 28, 2022 · Facts
Being one of the most infamous world leaders to have ever walked the planet makes you famous at the same time. Hitler didn’t only cause the death of around six million Jewish people in the Holocaust, he also killed tens of millions of non Jews in the Second World War and other atrocities. Although he […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
As an Anglican monarch, Charles I of the House of Stuart governed Scotland, England, and Ireland. He is the first British monarch ever to be deposed and executed. Charles was born at a castle near Dunfermline, Scotland. His father was King of Scotland at the moment, but not of England. His elder brother, Henry Frederick […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Elizabeth Báthory, born on the 7th of August in 1560, was a rich and highly educated Hungarian countess with over 600 victims who is known as the greatest serial killer of all time. According to the stories, she bathed in the blood of her young victims. Elizabeth’s Youth and Education Elizabeth was born on the […]
June 28, 2022 · War
Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in the German Empire and was known as the ‘Angel of Death’ or the ‘Nazi Doctor’. He was mostly known for his experiments on people in the deadly Nazi concentration camps. Mengele was also partially responsible for the victims of the gas chambers. Mengele’s Early Life As stated above, he […]
June 28, 2022 · Crime
Recently, the story of the woman who (had) her own mother murdered named Gypsy Rose Blanchard has gained some popularity again. In 2017, streaming network HBO released a series about it. Also, in 2019, a motion picture called “Love You to Death” was released in which this story was excellently portrayed. But what really happened? […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
In 2013 on January 31, a Candian student died in a hotel in Los Angeles. Her name was Elisa Lam, and her mysterious death has held us for more than eight years now because we still don’t know what happened. The last thing we saw from her was filmed on surveillance cameras in the hotel — she […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Hermann Göring, also known as “Der Dicke” because of his stocky build, was a notorious Nazi leader. During the First World War, he was a celebrated fighter pilot. When the Nazis came to power, Göring became Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. In 1939, Adolf Hitler appointed him as his successor and deputy. During the Second World […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He became known worldwide with his work The Gulag Archipelago, in which he wrote, among other things, about the labor camps in the Soviet Union. When the secret service in his country finds out in 1945 that he has spoken negatively about […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
The communist Soviet Union was founded in 1922 and was ruled by the Communist party as a one-party state. Although the Soviet Union was officially a union of fifteen subnational Soviet socialist republics, the government and economy were highly centralized. Until its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union didn’t treat its civilians very well. It […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
The Roanoke Colony was an attempt by the Englishman Walter Raleigh to establish a colony on the coast of North America. The colony was founded on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. In 1584, Raleigh received permission from Queen Elizabeth I of England to undertake such a project, granting him property rights over […]