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Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre - Wikipedia
Bình Hòa massacre - Wikipedia
Binh Tai Massacre - Wikipedia

korean troops massacred civilians several times during the vietnam war...strange cause they were only a decade removed from the korean war.


Korean Martyrs - Wikipedia
thousands of catholics were killed in korea in the 1800s. most were beheaded


Carl Gugasian - Wikipedia
this bank robber was a genius.

"He would then dress in bulky clothes in order to hide his true build and, brandishing a pistol, he would burst into the bank moving quickly and crab-like so as to make assessments of his height and build difficult to ascertain...Once outside the bank, he would run into the well-scouted woods, where a dirt bike was waiting, stash the evidence in his cache, then ride the bike a few miles through the woods to an anonymous-looking panel van waiting on the other side"





 

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The Turk - Wikipedia

The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, "chess Turk"; Hungarian: A Török), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was eventually revealed to be an elaborate hoax.[1] Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 1734–1804) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once.

The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine. With a skilled operator, the Turk won most of the games played during its demonstrations around Europe and the Americas for nearly 84 years, playing and defeating many challengers including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. The device was later purchased in 1804 and exhibited by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel. The chess masters who secretly operated it included Johann Allgaier, Boncourt, Aaron Alexandre, William Lewis, Jacques Mouret, and William Schlumberger, but the operators within the mechanism during Kempelen's original tour remain a mystery.

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Varian Fry - Wikipedia


Just ran into this page a couple months ago. American dude flies over to France right after it was occupied by the Nazis, works underground within Vichy France to save thousands of people who were going to be targeted by the Nazis.

When 99.9% of America wasn't even doing the easy stuff to save people (like not even letting refugees from the Nazis land their boats), he flew straight over and risked his life to save others.
 

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Varian Fry - Wikipedia


Just ran into this page a couple months ago. American dude flies over to France right after it was occupied by the Nazis, works underground within Vichy France to save thousands of people who were going to be targeted by the Nazis.

When 99.9% of America wasn't even doing the easy stuff to save people (like not even letting refugees from the Nazis land their boats), he flew straight over and risked his life to save others.
You could make a multi-season show about this dude's entire life :ehh:
Varian Fry was born in New York City. His parents were Lillian (Mackey) and Arthur Fry, a manager of the Wall Street firm Carlysle and Mellick.[2] The family moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey, in 1910. He grew up in Ridgewood and enjoyed bird-watching and reading. During World War I, at 9 years of age, Fry and friends conducted a fund-raising bazaar for the American Red Cross that included a vaudeville show, an ice cream stand and fish pond. He was educated at Hotchkiss School from 1922 to 1924 when he left the school due to hazing rituals. He then attended the Riverdale Country School, graduating in 1926.[3]

An able, multi-lingual student, Fry scored in the top 10% on the entrance exams to Harvard University[3] and, while a Harvard undergraduate, founded Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly, in 1927 with Lincoln Kirstein. He was suspended for a prank just before graduation and had to repeat his senior year.[4][5] Through Kirstein's sister, Mina, he met his future wife, Eileen Avery Hughes, an editor of Atlantic Monthly, who was seven years his senior and had been educated at Roedean School and Oxford University. They married on June 2,
 

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Timeline of computer security hacker history - Wikipedia

The first known "hacker" was a 40 year old dude in the 1900s who owned telegraph patents.

"Magician and inventor Nevil Maskelyne disrupts John Ambrose Fleming's public demonstration of Guglielmo Marconi's purportedly secure wireless telegraphy technology, sending insulting Morse code messages through the auditorium's projector."

Dude would troll Nobel Prize winners 100 years ago :mjlol:
Brehs still haven't caught up to his game, he should be the patron st. of the internet
 

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There's a lesser known related syndrom for Paris : Paris syndrome - Wikipedia
It's crazy how some people have so many misconceptions about this city

Paris syndrome is a transient mental disorder exhibited by some individuals when visiting or going on vacation to Paris, as a result of extreme shock derived from their discovery that Paris is not what they had expected it to be. The syndrome is characterized by a number of psychiatric symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feelings of persecution (perceptions of being a victim of prejudice, aggression, or hostility from others), derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, and also psychosomatic manifestations such as dizziness, tachycardia, sweating, and others, such as vomiting.

Wtf lmaooooooo.
 

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What do they expect?

Some people (tourists obviously) seem to have some romantic image of Paris as being this laid-back cultural city, where you walk from one piece of art to another and where everyone reads poetry or whatever lol. Or that it's full of cute small parks where people sing about love while drinking wine. It's often funny how Paris is portrayed in movies for example. It's a great city to live in, don't get me wrong, tons of stuff going on at all times, but it's not easy-going at all and it can be brutal (the people, weather, architecture, everything).
 

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Timeline of computer security hacker history - Wikipedia

The first known "hacker" was a 40 year old dude in the 1900s who owned telegraph patents.

"Magician and inventor Nevil Maskelyne disrupts John Ambrose Fleming's public demonstration of Guglielmo Marconi's purportedly secure wireless telegraphy technology, sending insulting Morse code messages through the auditorium's projector."

Dude would troll Nobel Prize winners 100 years ago :mjlol:
Brehs still haven't caught up to his game, he should be the patron st. of the internet

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One later entry on there:


I read that book, shyt in the early days was crazy. Some random astronomer who was helping run the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory supercomputer system because he was out of a job was asked to fix a 75-cent discrepancy in the accounting, figured out that someone had used 9 seconds of mainframe time without approval and were hacking into the system. The methods he used to discover the hacking were crazy, like hooking up a separate PC to each of 50 different phone lines coming into the facility and having them each hooked up to a printer to print out freaking physical paper records of everything coming in and out, then having to look through hundreds of pages of paper to figure out when the hacker got in and where he came from, then having to physically go to the routing service and track shyt all over again from there. All this time he was in contact with the NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. but no one would give him the time of day because computer crime wasn't a "thing" yet so no one knew whose jurisdiction it was or that anything was being stolen. So this one random astronomer did all the crime work himself, after 10 months of intense effort he eventually traced it back to a hacker in Germany who was stealing government secrets and selling them to the KGB.
 
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