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The wet Mummy.


This Ming dynasty mummy was found in a water-logged coffin on a construction site in China in 2011.

Researchers speculated that she had been submerged for nearly 600 years, making her body ultra-resistant to the terrestrial elements that would normally have decayed it.

The Sleeping Beauty of Capuchin Catacombs, Italy.



The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo are located in Sicily, Italy.

In the 16th century, the Capuchin monks of Palermo discovered that their catacombs contained a natural preservative that helped mummify their dead.

One of the most famous mummies is that of a two year old girl, Rosalia Lombardo who passed in 1920.

Rosalia was placed in the catacombs when she died in 1920.

Her body is so well preserved that she looks as if she were just sleeping in her glass coffin, hence her nickname “Sleeping Beauty”.

The secret for her excellent state of preservation was revealed a few years ago, when a hand-written memoir of the embalmer, Alfredo Salafia, was discovered.

This memoir recorded the chemicals that he injected into Rosalia’s blood. These chemicals were formalin, zinc salts, alcohol, salicylic acid, and glycerin.

It has been suggested that it was the zinc salts that were most responsible for Rosalia’s amazing state of preservation.

Ramesses The Great.

Regarded by many historians as Egypt’s most powerful pharaoh, Ramesses II reigned for six decades (c. 1279-1213 B.C.), lived to be over 90 years old and is said to have fathered upwards of 100 children.

His body was originally entombed in the Valley of the Kings, as was customary for a pharaoh, but ancient Egyptian priests later moved it to thwart rampant looters.

In 1881, Ramesses II’s mummy was discovered in a secret royal cache at Deir el-Bahri, along with those of more than 50 other rulers and nobles.

In 1974, archeologists noticed its deteriorating condition and flew it to Paris, where it was treated for a fungal infection.

Before the journey, Ramesses II was issued an Egyptian passport, which listed his occupation as “King (deceased).”

Based on the 7-centimetre deep cut found on his throat, historians speculated that he was murdered by his sons.


http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-great-mummy-discoveries

Ötzi the Iceman, Germany.


Ötzi the iceman, who was discovered by hikers in the Alps, border between Austria and Italy in 1991, was originally believed to be the frozen corpse of a mountaineer or soldier who died during World War I.

Tests later confirmed the iceman dates back to 3,300 BC and most likely died from a blow to the back of the head.
He is Europe's oldest natural human mummy and, remarkably, his body contained the still intact blood cells, which resembled a modern sample of blood.

They are the oldest blood cells ever identified. His body was so well-preserved that scientists were even able to determine that his last meal was red deer and herb bread, eaten with wheat bran, roots and fruit.

Oetzi rests in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in northern Italy today and holds the title of Europe’s oldest natural human mummy

Lady Xin Zhui.


When talking about body preservation and mummies, people all over the world think of Egypt and the mummified bodies of Pharaohs, such as Tutankhamun.

But how many know that the world’s best preserved bodies actually come from China? The Lady of Dai, otherwise known as The Diva Mummy, is a 2,100-year-old mummy from the Western Han Dynasty and the best preserved ancient human ever found.

Just how this incredible level of preservation was accomplished has baffled and amazed scientists around the world.

Xin Zhui, the Lady of Dai, died between 178 and 145 BC, at around 50 years of age. The objects inside her tomb indicated a woman of wealth and importance, and one who enjoyed the good things in life.

But it was not the precious goods and fine fabrics that immediately caught the attention of archaeologists, rather it was the extraordinarily well-preserved state of her remains that captured their eyes.

Tollund Man, Denmark.



Tollund Man is the naturally mummified body of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.

He was hanged as a sacrifice to the gods and placed in a peat bog where he remained preserved for more than two millennia.

Today, the face of the Tollund Man is as preserved as the day he died. The look upon his face is calm and peaceful, as though looking upon a sleeping man.

This 2000-year-old body of a hanging victim is among the oldest of the dead the world has seen.

Discovered in 1950 by Jutland farmers in the Danish Peninsula, his body looked so fresh that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim, not a man who belonged to the Pre-Iron Age.

A final autopsy revealed rope marks around his neck, concluding that he had been hung to death a common occurrence in the area.

Remains of vegetables and wild seeds were found in his stomach, which were probably the contents of the Tollund Man’s last meal.

Lalasticlala

The baby mummies of Qilakitsoq, Greenland.



His little face still stares upwards, as if eternally waiting for his mother. From the moment he was discovered, the little Inuit baby captured hearts with his photograph plastered on magazines and news stories around the world.

When he was first found, he was believed to be a doll, but it was soon discovered that it was actually the body of a six-month old baby boy.

He was buried alive with his already dead mother presumably because there was no one left to care for him.

The small Inuit baby was found along with a two-year-old boy, and six women of various ages, who were buried in two separate graves protected by a rock that overhung a shallow cave.

The bodies were naturally mummified by the sub-zero temperatures, dry, dehydrating and winds. They are the oldest preserved remains ever to be found there.

Mummies of humans and other animals have been found on every continent, both as a result of natural preservation through unique climatic conditions, or intentionally preserved corpses for religious or cultural purposes.

In addition to the well-known mummies of Ancient Egypt, deliberate mummification was a feature of several ancient cultures in areas of South America and Asia, as well as numerous other.

Here we feature some unique mummy discoveries from around the world.


source: http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2016/05/worlds-best-preserved-bodies.html/2

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general-ancient-places/ten-incredible-mummy-discoveries-around-world-001733?page=0%2C1

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

In 1961, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built by man was detonated at Sukhoy Nos Peninsula, Russia. It was called the Tsar Bomba and its shock waves travelled the earth three times.

The Tsar Bomba was built in a mere 15 weeks. The mushroom cloud that formed was 168 times taller than the Empire State Building and its power output was equivalent to 1.4% of the Sun’s.

The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns 100 kilometers away. It was so powerful, in fact, that it broke windows in Norway and Finland.

cc: lalasticlala

T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew back or replace the buttons of their shirts.

You can actually kill yourself by cracking yourneck like you do with your knuckles.


Cracking your neck can accidentally damage your vertebral artery. It can lead to swelling, followed by a restricted blood flow which will kill off a portion of your cerebellum.

This can cause a stroke and eventual death.

Fetuses in the womb can be startled and can cry. But since their lungs and airways are filled with fluid until birth, the sound of their distress goes unheard.

Priapism is a condition in which men suffer from erection for over 4 hours.

The treatment is gruesome where needles are jabbed into the penis to draw out the stagnant blood causing the condition. If that doesn’t work, then a small hole is cut at the top of the penis to drain the blood.

A young woman’s body rotted in a hotel water tank for two weeks while the water was being consumed by guests during this time.

Unwittingly, water contaminated by the semi-decomposed body was supplied to the guest rooms, the kitchen of the hotel, and a coffee shop downstairs, until people started complaining about a foul smell and odd colour.

Elisa Lam went missing while staying in a hotel in Los Angeles. While the police were looking for her, guests of the hotel began complaining about oddly colored water that came with a slightly unusual smell.

After about two weeks since Lam went missing, the hotel staffs went to the roof to investigate their four 1,000-gallon water tanks. They found Lam’s naked body inside one of the tanks with her face up and a foot below the water surface.

She had bloated and been moderately decomposed. The color of her skin had turned green. Even today, no one knows what happened to her.

Norway police.

Linemen college in California.

Pigeons were often used to carry messages from the front line when radio, Morse code and human runners had failed.

Here an officer (far right) writes a message as the pigeon's handler, having removed the bird from its cage, holds it upside down to attach the note.

dosht:
Explorers

Yes ma'am...

moscobabs:
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oya sey sorry joor!!!

Lol....Sorry sir.

Mimzyy:
Explorers, I think you should own a blog. Good morning.

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More than 200,000 African Americans served in WWI, but only about 11 percent of them were in combat forces. The rest were put in labor units, loading cargo, building roads, and digging ditches. They served in segregated divisions (the 92nd and 93rd) and trained separately.b


Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army as infantrymen rest in a room surrounded by weapons in Saint-Ulrich, France.

WWI introduced the widespread use of the machine gun, a weapon Hiram Maxim patented in the U.S. in 1884. The Maxim weighed about 100 pounds and was water cooled. It could fire about 450 - 600 rounds per minute. Most machine guns used in WWI were based on the Maxim design.

WWI was fought on every ocean and on almost every continent. Most of the fighting, however, took place in Europe.

The war left thousands of soldiers disfigured and disabled. Reconstructive surgery was used to repair facial damage, but masks were also used to cover the most horrific disfigurement. Some soldiers stayed in nursing homes their entire lives.

The most successful fighter of the entire war was Rittmeister von Richthofen (1892-1918).

He shot down 80 planes, more than any other WWI pilot. He died after being shot down near Amiens. France's René Fonck (1894-1953) was the Allies’ most successful fighter pilot, shooting down 75 enemy planes.



.The term “dogfight” originated during WWI. The pilot had to turn off the plane’s engine from time to time so it would not stall when the plane turned quickly in the air. When a pilot restarted his engine midair, it sounded like dogs barking.

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*. More than 500,000 pigeons carried messages between headquarters and the front lines. Groups of pigeons trained to return to the front lines were dropped into occupied areas by parachutes and kept there until soldiers had messages to send back.


*. On Christmas Eve in 1914, soldiers on both sides of the Western Front sung carols to each other. On Christmas Day troops along 2/3 of the Front declared a truce. In some places the truce lasted a week. A year later, sentries on both sides were ordered to shoot anyone who attempted a repeat performance.


*. The greatest single loss of life in the history of the British army occurred during the Battle of Somme, when the British suffered 60,000 casualties in one day. More British men were killed in that one WWI battle than the U.S. lost from all of its armed forces and the National Guard combined.


*. The Nazis murdered approximately 12 million people, nearly 6 million of those being Jews killed in the Holocaust.


*. Many Jews were subject to gruesome medical experiments. For example, doctors would bombard the testicles of men and the ovaries of women with X-rays to see the impact of different doses on sterility. Nazi doctors would break bones repeatedly to see how many times it could be done before a bone could not heal. They hit people’s heads with hammers to see what their skulls could withstand. Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of atmospheric pressure on the body. Prisoners were injected with different drugs and diseases, and limbs were amputated and muscles cut for transplantation experiments. Today reference to or use of the Nazi research is considered unethical.


*. Dr. Josef Mengele (the “Angel of Death”) used about 3,000 twins, mostly Romany and Jewish children, for his painful genetic experiments. Only about 200 survived. His experiments included taking one twin’s eyeball and attaching it on the back of the other twin’s head or changing the eye color of children by injecting dye. In one instance, two Romany twins were sewn together in an attempt to create conjoined twins.


*. More than 650,000 Jeeps were built during WWII. American factories also produced 300,000 military aircraft; 89,000 tanks; 3 million machine guns; and 7 million rifles.


*. The most powerful artillery gun created by any nation and used in WWII was named Karl by its designer General Karl Becker. Used mostly against the Russians, the huge gun could shoot a 2.5 ton shell over three miles. The shells were 24 inches wide and could go through eight to nine feet of concrete.



Source: http://facts.randomhistory.com/world-war-i-facts.html
http://www.factretriever.com/world-war-ii

*. More than 65 million men from 30 countries fought in WWI. Nearly 10 million died. The Allies (The Entente Powers) lost about 6 million soldiers. The Central Powers lost about 4 million.


*. There were over 35 million civilian and soldier casualties in WWI. Over 15 million died and 20 million were wounded.


*. Nearly 2/3 of military deaths in WWI were in battle. In previous conflicts, most deaths were due to disease.


*. During WWI, the Spanish flucaused about 1/3 of total military deaths.


*. Russia mobilized 12 million troops during WWI, making it the largest army in the war. More than 3/4 were killed, wounded, or went missing in action.



*. During WWI, British tanks were initially categorized into “males” and “females.” Male tanks had cannons, while females had heavy machine guns.


*. “Little Willie” was the first prototype tank in WWI. Built in 1915, it carried acrew of three and could travel as fast as 3 mph (4.8 km/h).


*. Tanks were initially called “landships.” However, in an attempt to disguise them as water storage tanks rather than as weapons, the British decided to code name them “tanks.”



*. During WWI, dogs were used as messengers and carried orders to the front lines in capsules attached to their bodies. Dogs were also used to lay down telegraph wires.


*. During WWI, the Germans released about 68,000 tons of gas, and the British and French released 51,000 tons. In total, 1,200,000 soldiers on both sides were gassed, of which 91,198 died horrible deaths.


*. Millions of soldiers suffered “shell shock,” or post traumatic stress disorder, due to the horrors of trench warfare. Shell-shocked men often had uncontrollable diarrhea, couldn’t sleep, stopped speaking, whimpered for hours, and twitched uncontrollably. While some soldiers recovered, others suffered for the rest of their lives.


*. The Germans were skilled at intercepting and solving Allied codes. Germans also captured one out of four paper messengers. However, when a U.S. commander used Choctaw tribe members form the Oklahoma National Guard unit, they used an extremely complex language that the Germans could not translate. The eight Choctaw men and others who joined them became known as the Choctaw Code Talkers.


*. On Christmas Eve in 1914, soldiers on both sides of the Western Front sung carols to each other. On Christmas Day troops along 2/3 of the Front declared a truce. In some places the truce lasted a week. A year later, sentries on both sides were ordered to shoot anyone who attempted a repeat performance.


*. WWI transformed the United Stated into the largest military power in the world, the war cost U.S abouy $30billion.


*. French Second Lieutenant Alfred Joubaire wrote in his diary about WWI just before he died that

“Humanity is mad! It must be mad to do what it is doing. What a massacre. What scenes of horror and carnage! I cannot find words to translate my impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible! Men are mad”

Summary.


WWI


Date: 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918(4 years, 3 months and 2 weeks)


World War I, also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

More than 70 million military personnel, including 60million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.

Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a resultof the war(including the victims of a number of genocides).

It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.


WWII


Date: 1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945(6 years and 1 day).



World War II also known as the Second World War, was also a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.

It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of thegreat powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most wide spread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources.

Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust(in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres(in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities.

These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history.

The Second World War was arguably the most significant period of the 20th century. It brought about major leaps in technology and laid the groundwork that permitted post-war social changes including the end of European colonialism, the civil rights movement in the United States, and the modern women’s rights movement, as well as the programs for exploring outer space


Casualties in World War II.


The most destructive war in all of history, its exact cost in human lives is unknown, but casualties in World War II may have totaled over 50 million service personnel and civilians killed. Nations suffering the highest losses, military and civilian, in descending order, are:


USSR: 42,000,000.


Germany: 9,000,000.


China: 4,000,000.


Japan: 3,000,000.



Read more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C2490354017
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C7735098332
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

President Barack Obama fist-bumps the robotic arm of Nathan Copeland during a tour at the White House Frontiers Conference at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 13, 2016.

For the first time ever in humans a technology that allowed Copeland to experience the sensation of touch through a robotic arm that he controls with his brain. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza).

cekhoe:
the bolded should not be encouraged, considering that most guys have multiple sexual partners, male infertility is on the increase because there are silent STIs that can stay long in the body with no symptoms, withdrawal or not,I think the importance of condoms cannot be overemphasized

You right sa.

olayinkajnr:
You get. I remember when he woke up around 12:30am, when I was just enjoying my sleep. His mum was so tired that she couldn't do anything. No cry I no fit cry that day. I could remember telling him that I don't have breast, I could have given you to suck.. Even him mama breast, he no gree collect. Around 4am, he slept and woke up around 6:30am.

Lol...Its just a stage, he's gonna pass.