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| Sunday Jun 18, 2000 | If you're ever planning a wedding, you might try something beyond the traditional and
have a Roman ceremony. to History by laurel |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Early in the 19th century, a young
German man named
Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
Initally taken to prison, it was eventually discovered that,
for reasons unknown, he had been kept
in a dark dungeon since early childhood, and denied any senosry input or
human contact. Conspiracy theories
were as popular then as they are now,
and it was a belief of many that he was the
the lost son of the
Grand Duke of Baden,
hidden away by political rivals.
Passing from caretaker to caretaker, Kaspar eventually
learned to read and speak, and became a celebrity; famous not
only for his mysterious origin, but also for his
innocence and
"christ-like
compassion". At the age of 21, however, he was assissinated
and his true origins never discovered. His story lives on, though, in a recent
play
as well a
movie by Werner Herzog.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Happy May Day! to History by boneyard |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2000 | HyperHistory Online is an interesting way to look at an overview of history. It may lack a little bit of depth in quite a number of places, but it's got quite a lot of breadth. to History by keith |
| Sunday Apr 23, 2000 | From the 1932 until the end of WWII, The Japanese ran Manchuria as a puppet state known as Manchukuo; under the figurehead reign of Pu Yi, Manchukuo had most of the trappings of a real state, including a postal system, currency, and railway system to History by mpc |
| Sunday Mar 19, 2000 | Wright Brothers 2003TM:
This time, it's personal.TM to History by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Mar 8, 2000 | Pittsburgh native son Grady Stiles II (aka
The
Lobster Boy), like many other members of his family, was born with
malformed
hands and legs and was raised as a
circus freak,
travelling around the United States in some of the
biggest carnivals from the '40s through the '80s.
He eventually married and and had four children, but when one of his daughters
tried to elope with a boyfriend of whom he did not approve, Grady shot the
man dead at point blank range. Amazingly, the courts did not jail him for
committing this murder, and for the rest of his life the Lobster Boy
abused and terrorized his family.
So chronic was his abuse that in 1992 his wife and one of the children
eventually hired a hitman who killed Grady as he sat in his trailer in
Gibsonton,
Florida.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is a pretty astonishing repository of information. They have biographies of hundreds of mathematicians and an index of famous curves (the mathematical kind). Read all about Einstein or the circle. to History by keith |
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