Tag: Jonestown
18-Nov-09 – History Links of the Day
by Jonathan on Nov.18, 2009, under Uncategorized
And a happy New Year?
1) Better late than never: justice is served as a 90-year-old Nazi is charged on 58 counts of murder. (Link)
2) Muslim academics are actively trying to discredit Charles Darwin and his theories in accordance with the doctrine of Islam. Weird how science and History can just be cast away like that… (Link)
3) “Deck the halls with boughs of Swastikas” – How the Nazis once tried to steal Christmas. (Link)
4) A female American reporter was arrested and detained in China for wearing a T-Shirt comparing Obama and Chairman Mao (and presumably for being female). (Link)
5) Time Magazine delves into ancient Persia and tries to elucidate the mystery of Emperor Cambyses II and his vanishing army. Occam’s razor may certainly apply here. (Link)
ON THIS DAY IN 1978: Jim Jones led the 900 members of his cult down to Guyana to avoid persecution and then to eternal happiness through Kool-Aid and cyanide. A fun side-note is that he himself didn’t drink it and had to be gunned down. (Link)
AND AS FOR THE LIGHTER SIDE: Cracked.com’s “6 People Who Got Away With Living an (Implausible) Lie” – One of England’s most prolific XIXth century doctors was only revealed to be a woman at her autopsy. Now that is commitment. (Link)
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