The Occult and Synthesizers

Apparently there is a long standing relationship between the occult and synths.
Huh. Whoda thunk it?

Via  Boingboing.net

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This Day In History: Killdozer

Wow.  I've never heard of this until today.

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Hypatia

 A historic female Roman Egyptian mathematician that was brutally murdered by a christian mob (ca. 335–405).

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10 Historic Werewolf Stories

Humans are the real monsters of these stories.

"There are many stories about werewolves or lycanthropy. Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf that could mysteriously talk. An American Werewolf in London. Being Human. All STORIES of talking, walking, hungry wolf-men. But has any one really thought if this is actually a real case? I am here to tell you about 10 interesting and weirdly scary cases of real lycanthropy…"
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Happy Birthday Marie Laveau II!

"Marie the Second is a name given to the daughter of the true Marie Laveau. One of the greatest tricks played on the people of New Orleans was to make them believe Marie was eternally young. It helped that Marie’s first born daughter looked exactly like her. From the moment that she was old enough, Marie the Second took over many public duties for her mother."

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15 Year Old Mick Jagger

He didn't look like he was really into rock climbing. Maybe he said he wanted to rock and they thought he meant rock climbing?

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Sending Babies In The Mail

Here is another example of what morons don't think about when they say "The good Ol Days".

"This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples."

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Crimes & Punishments Through Time

Interesting with beautiful graphics

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The War of 1361

This is some Lord of the Rings type stuff here:
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"War hammers were also in evidence where a square section of the hammer head showing in the shape of the section of the skull which had been stove in. See the picture on the left which points to three bodkin arrow points which had penetrated the skull and two holes where a hammer had been used and the skull split between them."
Brutal.
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Your Grandparents Government was Pro-Sterilization

"Sterilizing the Feeble-Minded, Insane, Epileptics and Prostitutes. And Maybe 18 Million More. USA, 1929"
They weren't exactly pro-life were they?
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The Dead of Mt Everest

Pictures and stories of dead climbers stuck on Mt Everest. Long story short it's simply too dangerous to recover them, so the mountain is literally littered with them.

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(Warning: Some of this is kinda graphic...)

Happy New Year Treating

In 1944 Switzerland during New Years, kids would dress up in costumes and carry around big bells (as pictured) then walk around the village waking everyone up, wishing them happy new year and asking for candy. Sound familiar?

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Green Beret Roy P. Benavidez

Epic Hero.
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Chankiri Trees

Who wants to be human? Certainly not me. The world would be a better place without us.
"A Chankiri Tree or Killing Tree was a tree in the Cambodian Killing Fields which children and infants were slung against to kill them because their parents were accused of crimes against the Khmer Rouge."

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Helter Skelter

I had no idea this is what it is:
"When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah"

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Kent State Anniversary

End the Wars based on Lies now. Convict the crooked politicians that enabled them and refuse to treat them like martyrs.
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12 Criminally Insane Real-World Medical Professionals

The crazy bugger below (Herman Webster Mudgett, AKA Dr. Henry Howard Holmes) built a castle where he would experiment, torture, dissect his victims, strip the flesh, and craft them into skeletal models, which he then sold to medical schools as legitimate study tools...

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Fat Man Freakshow

About 100 years ago a man this fat could earn a living in a freak show. Today all you have to do it go to America.

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The 10 Uncanniest Irish Mythological Creatures

Creepy.
Pictured below:
"The dullahan is a rider on a black horse, who carries his head under one arm, and a human spine as a whip in the other."

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The Strange Tale of Phineas Gage

His brain was injured by a rod that pierced his head. He survived but he went from a mild mannered man to a foul mouthed grump. How can you have a soul when your mind can be changed by an injury? It seems there is no true "You".

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