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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 4:56pm On Dec 19, 2016

Adulterers Were Tortured.

If a married woman dared to sleep with another man, it was over.

A Roman man, under certain circumstance, would have the right to kill his wife if he caught her in bed with another man.

Even the Puritans who colonized America took the biblical approach and legally condoned murdering adulterers.

Again, though, it was the medieval men who did the worst things.

They weren’t content to just kill their wives they wanted them to suffer.

In medieval times, they had a device called a breast ripper that they used on women who had affairs which does exactly what it says.

It’s a horrible torture and it wasn’t even limited to adultery.

A woman could be sentenced to the ripper just for having a miscarriage.

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 4:39pm On Dec 19, 2016

Women Were Barely Allowed To Talk.

In ancient Greece and Rome, women were forbidden from leaving the home without a male escort.

When company came over, they weren’t allowed to speak or to sit down for dinnerbthey had to retire to their rooms, out of sight, lest the presence of a woman bother the men.

In Denmark, unruly women who bickered or who openly expressed their anger could end up lockedup in a device called a shrew’s fiddle.

This was a wooden trap shaped like a violin that bound her hands and her face.

The woman would be paraded down the streets, publicly shamed for having openly shown anger.

The English were even worse. They put quarrel some women in the scold’s bridle, a metal mask with sharp teeth that had a bell attached to make sure everyone came out and mocked the woman who dared complain.

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 4:05pm On Dec 19, 2016

Women Were Forced To Kill Their Babies.

Murdering frail babies wasn’t just something that happened in Sparta.

In almost every country, when a woman gave birth to a deformed child, she was expected to kill it.

In Rome, it was the law. “A dreadfully deformed child,” Roman law mandated, “shall be quickly killed.”

If a Roman child was born with a disability, the mother had two choices.

She could either suffocate it or, more often, she could abandon it.

Some places were horrible for this.

On the shore of Israel, archaeologists found the remains of over 100 dead babies in the city’s sewers.

It happened a lot. We don’t know the exact number of babies that were left to die, but it’s believed that one out of every four Roman babies didn’t make it through the first year of life.

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 3:55pm On Dec 19, 2016

Brides Were Often Kidnapped And Raped.

In some parts of China, people were kidnapping brides until the 1940s.

In Japan, the last reported case of bride kidnapping happened in 1959.

Ireland had a widespread problem with bride stealing in the 1800s.

And even the Bible relates stories of men slaughtering whole villages and taking the virgin women as wives.

Rome wouldn’t even exist without kidnapped brides. The legends of the nation start with men kidnapping the Sabine women.

In the story, Romulus tells the women they she be happy to be kidnapped, because they were lucky enough to “live in honorable wedlock.”

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 3:52pm On Dec 19, 2016

Men Were Expected To Be Sexual Predators.

In Rome, slaves were expected to sexually active as part of their jobs.

The only way you could get in trouble for sleeping with a slave was if she was owned by someone else and you didn’t ask first.

Even then, it wouldn’t considered rape it just classified as property damage.

Women with some jobs couldn’t file rape charges no matter what happened to them.

It wasn’t just prostitutes that couldn’t accuse anyone of rape waitresses and actresses, too, were treated as willing participants of any sex a man forced upon them.

In one case, an actress gang-raped by several men was denied permission to press charges.

The men who assaulted her, it was ruled, had simple “acted in accordance with a well-established tradition at a staged event.”

In the middle ages, Saint Augustine was considered progressive for suggesting that raped women didn’t need to kill themselves.

Even he, though, suggested that some women enjoyed it.

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 3:37pm On Dec 19, 2016

Losing Your Virginity Early Was A Death Sentence.

In Athens, if a man found out that his unmarried daughter had slept with a man, he could legally sell her into slavery.

The Samoans made sure that their wives were virgin and that everyone knew.

During a Samoan wedding, the chief of the tribe would manually rupture the bride’s hymen with his fingersin front of a crowd to prove that she was pure.

In Rome, if a priestess of the goddess Vesta lost her virginity before the age of 30, she was buried alive.

And in ancient Israel, it didn’t even matter if you were a priestess.

Any woman who lost her virginity before marriage could be stoned to death.

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 3:26pm On Dec 19, 2016

Men Wouldn’t Touch Menstruating Women.

The Roman philosopher Pliny The Elder wrote, “On the approach of a woman in this state, milk will become sour.”

He figured menstruating women could kill everything they looked at, even saying, “A swarm of bees, if looked upon by her, will die immediately.”

In Egypt, the women spent their menstrual cycles isolated in a special building men couldn’t enter and they weren’t only ones to do it.

The Israelites wouldn’t even touch a woman during her period or, for that matter, anything she touched.

“Everything on which she sits,” they wrote, “shall be unclean.”

And in Hawaii, men who entered the hut for menstruating women risked the death penalty.

The natives of Papua New Guinea took it the farthest. If a man touched a menstruating women, they believed, it would “kill his blood so that it turns black, dull his wits, and lead to a slow death.”

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Education › Re: Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 3:22pm On Dec 19, 2016

Newborn Girls Were Regularly Left To Die.

In ancient Athens, it was very common for a couple to take a newborn baby girl out in the wilderness and leave it to die, an act they called “exposing” the baby.

“Everybody raises a son even if he is a poor,” one Greek writer wrote, “but exposes a daughter even if he is rich.”

In Rome, this was just as common, especially in poor families.

We have records of a lower-class Roman writing to his wife about her pregnancy.

“A daughter is too burdensome, and we just don’t have the money,” he told her.

“If you should bear a girl, we’ll have to kill her.”

Even in Egypt, which gave women comparatively equal rights, the poor often left kids to die.

“If you have the baby before I return,” one letter shows an Egyptian man writing his wife, “if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, expose it.”

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Education › Some Of The Horrible Realities Of Being A Woman Throughout History. by Explorers(op): 3:18pm On Dec 19, 2016*

Men have ruled since the earliest societies. In every stage of human history, women have been in margins, struggling through a second-class life.

It wasn’t just that women couldn’t vote or that they didn’t get equal pay. Women’s lives were like a horror story.

Throughout our history, everyday life was filled with experiences that made being a woman a waking nightmare.

Source: http://listverse.com/2016/11/29/10-horrible-realities-of-being-a-woman-throughout-history/
cc:seun

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Sports › Re: How A Last-minute Seat Swap Saved My Life, Chapecoense Crash Survivor. by Explorers(op): 11:49am On Dec 18, 2016

Ruschel promised to return to Colombia and treat his doctors there to one of the hearty barbecue meals famous in southern Brazil.

He also pledged to visit every one of the families of his compatriots who died before returning to the small town of Chapeco and continuing with the physiotherapy he needs to get fit again.

'As a lesson, this tragedy teaches that you have to keeping living,' he said.

'Take advantage of some things and do good for others.

'When I got here today I had the sensation that I was coming home.

I promise to give lots more happiness to this team. With a lot of effort and hard work I am going to be back playing again soon.'

Sports › Re: How A Last-minute Seat Swap Saved My Life, Chapecoense Crash Survivor. by Explorers(op): 11:34am On Dec 18, 2016

Bolivian authorities has suspended the airline's operating license and replaced the management of its aviation authority to ensure a transparent investigation.

Sports › Re: How A Last-minute Seat Swap Saved My Life, Chapecoense Crash Survivor. by Explorers(op): 11:12am On Dec 18, 2016

'I don't remember anything about the accident,' Ruschel said at the ArenaConda, the club's stadium in Chapeco.

'When they told me what happened it seemed like a dream, a nightmare.

Little by little they've been telling me what happened and I'm starting to understand.

'I try not to speak of the accident, I avoid the news, but from the little I've seen I think it was greed on the pilot's part.

'The pilot of the Bolivian-run LAMIA plane has been accused of taking off without enough fuel for the flight.

Sports › Re: How A Last-minute Seat Swap Saved My Life, Chapecoense Crash Survivor. by Explorers(op): 11:09am On Dec 18, 2016

The pilot of the Bolivian-run LAMIA plane has been accused of taking off without enough fuel for the doomed flight.

Ruschel waved to those greeting him as he left a hospital earlier this week.

Sports › Re: How A Last-minute Seat Swap Saved My Life, Chapecoense Crash Survivor. by Explorers(op): 11:07am On Dec 18, 2016

The disaster killed 71 people, including almost all the Chapecoense team,directors and staff.

Goalkeeper Follman, one of Ruschel's best friends in the team, also survived, but had part of his leg amputated.

He was transferred on Saturday morning via air ambulance from Sao Paulo to a hospital in the club's home city in southern Brazil.

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Sports › How A Last-minute Seat Swap Saved My Life, Chapecoense Crash Survivor. by Explorers(op): 11:02am On Dec 18, 2016*

Alan Ruschel was one of six survivors of the Chapecoense air crash.

He broke down in tears as he revealed how a last-minute seat swap before the flight took off saved his life.

Ruschel was sitting near the back of the plane when club director Cadu Gaucho asked him to move on the journey to play in the Copa Sudamericana final.

In a heartbreaking interview, the 27-year-old spoke to the press for the first time on Saturday, bursting into tears as he recalled the tragic plane crash in Colombia on November 28.

'Cadu Gaucho asked me to sit further forward and let the journalists sit together at the back,' Ruschel said at the news conference.

'I didn't want to but then I saw (Jackson) Follman and he insisted that I sit beside him,' he added.

'Only God can explain why I survived the accident.

He grabbed me and gave me a second chance.

'Ruschel was one of only six survivors on the plane, which crashed into the mountains near Medellin.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4044752/Chapecoense-player-Alan-Ruschel-breaks-tears-reveals-seat-swap-saved-life.html

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Art, Graphics & Video › Re: A Nairalander's Best Of 2016 Mobile Photography Photos -thank You! by Explorers(m): 6:42am On Dec 18, 2016

Cool bro.

Education › Re: Kenneth Okwor, 24-Year-Old 1st Class Law Graduate Who Is Already A Lecturer by Explorers(m): 12:15pm On Dec 17, 2016

Nice one

Politics › Re: Zahra Buhari, Her Parents And Her Father-in Law In New Photo by Explorers(m): 10:29pm On Dec 16, 2016

Congratulations...

Foreign Affairs › Re: The Final Resting Place Of Fidel Castrol. by Explorers(op): 3:30pm On Dec 15, 2016

flistyl:
straight away am going to cuba to go and register as secondary school student again, see as their school chicks fine, abi oga explorers what you talk¿

U c am 2 bro? I think say na only me dey c am o. The skirts no b 4 here.....

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Romance › Re: Relationship Issues: Women Confiding In Friends Are More Likely To Breakup. by Explorers(op): 9:40am On Dec 14, 2016

hopsydboi:
Somebody give explorers a cold bottle of table water *all drink z now expensive*

Nigga deserves an award!
Most educative/informative nairalander
Best nairalander of the year

Now on the topic; nice one there, now I know.

Thanks bro.

Nairaland General › Re: Graveyard At 26000ft, Stories About The Frozen Bodies On Mount Everest(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:39am On Dec 14, 2016

purplekayc:
Why has no African attempted this climb?

Some have.

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Nairaland General › Re: Graveyard At 26000ft, Stories About The Frozen Bodies On Mount Everest(Photos). by Explorers(op): 6:38am On Dec 14, 2016*

purplekayc:
Why has no African attempted this climb?

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Travel › Re: Tourism: Walt Disney To Open 'Pandora, World Of Avatar ' In 2017. by Explorers(op): 5:37am On Dec 14, 2016

Kyllahmc:
Lmaoooo i tell you man.. And 90% of naija babes are hardcore Nollywood fans.

Lol...But things are changing now, i will say 70% now.

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Travel › Re: Why Dont Commercial Airplanes Have Parachutes For Passengers? by Explorers(op): 8:16am On Dec 13, 2016

Kingsasian:
its possible

The weight and the cost of maintaining what you don't use are the issues.

Computers › Re: My Laptop Is Not Detecting Phones, Help. by Explorers(op): 8:11am On Dec 13, 2016

kirchofff:
where in ondo do u stay bro?

Around ACE.

Computers › Re: My Laptop Is Not Detecting Phones, Help. by Explorers(op): 11:49am On Dec 09, 2016

DeLioncourt:
Possible solution.

Connect your phone to your computer.
1. Open start menu and search for device manager
2. Look through the list for "portable devices"... if it is the problem, you should see a yellow caution triangle beside your phone's name.
3. Right-click on the device name and select update driver software.
4. A dialog box shud pop up. Select browse my computer for driver software
5. Another screen shud appear. Here, select let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer
6. On the next screen, you should see a possible list of options...look for MTP USB device
7. Select it and click next. It will reinstall and your computer will detect the device.

Hope this helps.

Yes, thanks. Its working.

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Computers › Re: My Laptop Is Not Detecting Phones, Help. by Explorers(op): 6:41am On Dec 09, 2016

swagifted:
i think we use same device, and i'v encountered such problems before, try change USB, If e no work.. If ur struggle is copying files,.. Go wireless (xender, sharit).. For months i'v not used my usb to send files across PC-Android (and vice versa) . I only use usb wen i want to charge my phone..

ok, will try that. Thanks.

Computers › Re: My Laptop Is Not Detecting Phones, Help. by Explorers(op): 6:43pm On Dec 08, 2016

computerboy:
From all you've said it's not from your phone neither is the usb port faulty.

Suspects
1. Usb cable (some only charges phone but can transfer files so try changing cable)
2. Drivers (This rarely happen if you're on windows 8 and above though)
3. Maybe it's already showing but you're just waiting for it to prompt the usual pop up (Just Plug your phone and open file manager, scroll down and check under media cos It won't appear under removable drives)

If all fail then seek professional help. Stuffs like this are easier if the system is present

Ok, thanks.

Computers › Re: My Laptop Is Not Detecting Phones, Help. by Explorers(op): 5:21pm On Dec 08, 2016

hahn:
Make sure you take it to the brand's accredited repair shop. What brand is the lappy and are you in Lag?

Lenovo, Ondo.

Business › Re: Bank Of England's Vaults Where Gold Bars Worth £100billion Are Stored. by Explorers(op): 5:05pm On Dec 08, 2016

yorhmienerd:
You're truly not greedy Haba ONE load of Hilux!!!

Too small ba huh

Am ok wit that, i dont do oju kokoro.

Computers › Re: My Laptop Is Not Detecting Phones, Help. by Explorers(op): 5:04pm On Dec 08, 2016

Edwinmason:
try consulting someone who knows about laptop repairs, they might be of help

Tanx.

Business › Re: Bank Of England's Vaults Where Gold Bars Worth £100billion Are Stored. by Explorers(op): 4:48pm On Dec 08, 2016

Am ok with one load of Hilux.

Am not greedy.

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