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The Poison Squad: The US Government Experiment That Saw Volunteers Deliberately Eat Poisons The Poison Squad in the room where they ate their delicious poison. Image credit: Public Domain via U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 1902, in the basement of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of...

Found this whole exhibit kinda fascinating. https://dublin.epicchq.com/revolutionary-routes

Motorists jockey for position at an L.A. gas station in February 1974. (Cal Montney / Los Angeles Times / UCLA Library) I love you. Just do it. Fill ’er up. All of them, actually, but that last one — depending on your choice of ride, a full tank of gas can now cost you within fumes-sniffing...

Many if not the majority of the African slaves were brought here during the British colonial period. It was the UK that set up the slavery system and the United States simply inherited that. Much of the US were also under French, Spanish, and Dutch rule at one point and all three powers...

It is a fact. Gandhi had young women in his ashram, some of them still teenagers, one of them his own grand-niece (Manu Gandhi), sleep naked with him in his bed at night. This was an aspect of Gandhi that I had not read about before, and it surprised me at first. I was researching for my book...

All that fukkery in one decade The pinned comment broke it down amazingly

In light of posts in the official invasion thread I thought it would be good to start a thread for us all to better acquaint ourselves with the history of these two nations. I’ll go dig up some info but if anyone would like to contribute that’s more knowledgeable please feel free the floor is...

Efunroye Tinubu (c. 1810 – 1887), born Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣuntinúbú,[1] was a powerful Yoruba female aristocrat, merchant, and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria She sold slaves to Brazilian and European merchants in violation of a 1852 treaty with Great Britain outlawing the slave...

Many people, even those with no more than a passing interest in sport, have heard of Jesse Owens, the American athlete who ruined Adolf Hitler’s moment in the sun. For there can be no question that Hitler saw the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin as the ideal platform from which to amplify Nazi...

an exploration of the German populace and its ideological views on race around the nazi era. enjoy, don't post until you watch:mjgrin:

Anne Frank betrayal suspect identified after 77 years A new investigation has identified a suspect who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis. The Jewish diarist died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, aged 15, after two years in hiding. Her diary, published after her...

Even while the Disney studio was making the film, Disney had to be clearly aware that he was risking a negative reaction. Records show that the Production Code Administration had warned him several times about using black stereotypes (Cohen 62). According to Ebony magazine, bandleader Tiny...

First half is a brief early history of Nubia. The story about the Roman invasion begins around 10:00.

:hubie: Discuss.

SOHH.com : Project B.U.

Found this pretty interesting. Apparently, Awkwafina's neighborhood, Forest Hills was safe during the time and white hipsters were already hanging out in the Lower East Side during the mid 80s

@8:00 The entire video is dope however. Their view on security guards, Christianity, and simps:deadmanny: