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benicta:
Lol, no lady should know about it and you're posting it on a public platform. Are you whining me?

well now you know the bro code

Chii59:
Cool
Yawns

. Huh

1. THERE ARE 3 SPECIES OF ORANGUTAN

The Bornean, the Sumatran and the recently confirmed new species (as of 2017), the Tapanuli. These great apes are only found in the wild on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
All three species are critically endangered, with just over 100,000 Bornean, fewer than 14,000 Sumatran, and less than 800 Tapanuli orangutans left.

Although they might look fairly similar with their fluffy ginger fur, Bornean orangutans have darker red coats and rounder faces than their Sumatran cousins.

But they do have some similarities - adult males have a beard and moustache - and adult female Sumatran orangutans also have beards.
2. ORANGUTANS ARE THE HEAVIEST TREE-DWELLING ANIMAL
They spend most of their lives swinging through the canopies and need vast stretches of forest to find enough food and mates.

Deforestation and hunting are the biggest threats to orangutans. Borneo alone is projected to lose 220,000 km sq of forest between 2010 and 2030 – that's almost 30% of its total land area; well over the size of the entire United Kingdom. This is largely for agriculture and infrastructure (such as roads), but forest fires are also becoming more frequent with climate change.

The good news is that studies have shown deforestation is slowing down in Borneo. And Indonesia and Malaysia are setting stronger requirements for forest protection.

3. THEY'VE GOT LONG ARMS
Orangutans have an arm span of about 2.2 m (over 7 ft) from fingertip to fingertip.

Considering their standing height is around 1. 5 m, this is an impressive reach. Their arms are so long in fact that they’re one and a half times longer than their legs and stretch to their ankles when standing.

4. THEY DON'T MIND EATING WITH THEIR FEET
Orangutans are incredibly dexterous and use both hands and feet while gathering food and travelling through the trees.

Like us, orangutans have four fingers and a thumb, and fingernails. Their feet look almost exactly the same as their hands – designed for agile climbing and gripping.
5. THEY LEARN EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO KNOW FROM MUM
Young orangutans stay with their mother until they reach around 7 years old. They spend this time learning everything from her – including what’s good to eat.

Infants are so attached to their mums that they ride on her body and sleep in her nest until they develop their own skills to survive on their own.

Because of this long learning curve, orangutans only have young once every 7 – 9 years, which is the longest birth interval of any land mammal.

6. MALES ARE MAJESTIC
Some adult male orangutans develop flaps of fatty tissue on both sides of their face - known as flanges - which develop when they're fully mature, at around 35 years old.

Orangutans can live to over 30 years old - and many live to 50.

Studies show that some females may consider flanges when selecting a mate.

7. THEY BUILD NESTS TO SLEEP IN
Orangutans like to be comfortable. They make a sleeping platform, or nest, every night.

An orangutan makes its nest in around 10 minutes, by pulling several large branches together, using smaller branches for a mattress and binding the structure together by weaving in more supple branches. In wet weather, they sometimes add a roof.

As orangutans make a new nest to sleep in every night, we actually use their nests to estimate their population size in any given area. We count nests both from the ground and the air as they’re much easier to spot than elusive orangutans.


8. SOME ORANGUTANS USE TOOLS
As you might have seen in Our Planet, some Sumatran orangutans use tools - like sticks to get termites, ants or bees out of tree holes.

These clever creatures have also been observed making a 'glove' out of leaves when handling prickly fruits or thorny branches.


9.THEY HAVE SMELLY TASTE IN FOOD
Fruit makes up around 60% of an orangutan's diet, but when it’s scarcer they also eat some weird sounding things, like soil and tree bark.

A huge spiky fruit called durian are the favourite fruit of orangutans – it's best known for its stench, which has been likened to sewage, rotting flesh and smelly socks. Tasty.

Shukusheka:
Serial killers don't have millions of fans worldwide, serial killing stories have a lot of following. There is a big difference.

you're wrong there
Serial killers do have fans
Check on the likes of the chess board killer

uboma:
Why would anyone engage in sexual masochism? These persons claim that they can only experience sexual excitement when they inflict/receive physical pains/abuse from their partners.

This is really weird. These group of persons have mental health disorders.

it's perspective you see what's wrong they see right

Natalie Connolly, 26, was killed by John Broadhurst, 40, who said the injuries he inflicted on her were part of consensual sex...
There has been public outcry following the short sentence handed to a man convicted of killing his girlfriend after what he called ‘rough sex’.

Natalie Connolly, 26, a mother of one, died in December 2016, of acute alcohol intoxication and blunt force injuries. John Broadhurst, 40, admitted to inflicting those injuries, but said they were meted out as part of what reports have called ‘rough sex’, and compared to scenes of 50 Shades of Grey.
Broadhurst and Ms Connolly went out earlier, to a football match and then for a curry. They’d been drinking and taking drugs, and once home, had violent sex.

Ms Connolly started bleeding hours before her death, but Broadhurst didn’t think to call the authorities until later, when he found her body in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of the couple’s shared rented house in Staffordshire. He called 999 to say she was ‘dead as a donut’ and her body was found to have suffered 40 separate injuries.

Birmingham Crown Court had heard during the trial that Ms Broadhurst had told people that her and Broadhurst shared an interest in masochistic sex. The prosecution also argued that Broadhurst had become angry after finding out Ms Connolly had sent explicit texts to an ex.

But the jury didn’t buy that, so Broadhurst hasn’t been found guilty of murder, or of GBH, but of manslaughter. Yes, Broadhurst beat her, but apparently only ‘within the bounds of her masochistic desires’. Yes, he inflicted a blow-out fracture to her left eye, and internal injuries via a bottle of carpet cleaner, but he was cleared, because this was all part of, we’re told to believe, consensual sex.
Broadhurst was instead found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence by leaving Ms Connolly unsupervised and failing to tell emergency services when ‘a risk of death as a result of her condition would have been obvious’.

In sentencing, Judge Mr Justice Julian Knowles said, reports the BBC, that Broadhurst ‘showed blatant disregard for a very drunk and injured woman’ and ‘you left that vulnerable young woman to die in the saddest and most avoidable of circumstances’. He then handed down a sentence of three years and eight months in jail.
He blames her for her own death, says she wanted is violence. She can’t give evidence as she’s dead. Men used to evade murder charge with “nagging & shagging” defense. The 21st century version is the “50 shades of grey” defense. Cannot be allowed to stand.’
There is no doubt that some people enjoy kinky sex. But what sort of kink is it to beat a woman until she is bleeding? What sort of kink is it to break a woman’s eye socket? What kink is it to literally kill a woman, especially when a kink is a sexual act that goes against the norm and, shamefully, there is absolutely nothing not normal about sexualised misogyny that ends in women’s deaths.

Today, the UK Femicide Census announced it findings. Looking at every single murder of a woman by a man in 2017 that isn’t currently under investigation, (that's 139 deaths!) it found that three quarters of all women killed by a man in 2017 were killed by a man they knew. Of the 30 women killed by strangers, 21 were killed in terror attacks.
Other details recorded show that more than half of women killed by a former partner were killed within the first month of separation. And for the first time ever, overkilling - where force or method used was greater than that required to kill the victim - was recorded, and found to be evident in 42% of the cases.
Kate Ghose, chief executive of Women’s Aid, has called on the government to ensure its imminent and overdue domestic violence bill is pushed through, so that the right resources and laws can be provided to help prevent such horrible cases of violence.

‘Time and time again, we hear of cases where a woman has been killed by a man as an “isolated incident”; yet the latest Femicide Census report shows yet again that this is not the case,’ she told The Guardian, ‘The majority of these cases are not isolated incidents. There are too many similarities in the circumstances where women are killed by men

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
All this na long story

Nigeria artist dey sing nonsense...na rubbish them dey sing. No talent... nothing nothing
We don't need hit song. We need good songs
Them need to learn more especially that frogged Voice called Davido....
No need for them to follow those your formulas
Make them settle down listen to artist like
The weekend
Imagine dragons
Sia
Burna boy
2face
Katty pery
Passenger
Bruno Mars
Avicii( rest in peace)
Twenty one pilot
The Chainsmokers
Dig the kid
Cold play
Khalid
Maroon 5
Calum scot
John legend
Selena Gomez
Post malone
Ellie Goulding
Christiana aquilera
A great big world
Rita ora
Clean bandit
Dua lipa
Martin garixx
Major Lazer
The night
Edsheeran
Taylor swift
One direction
Lewis capaldi
Sam smith
Ariana Grande
Kehlani
Billie eilish
Camilo Cabello

you're thinking too much of them. Just leave them to their style

engrchykae:
he is a mad man

true to that

engrchykae:
Gaius Caligula was a known maniac then,am not surprised he made his horse a senator.
He killed his mum

not so familiar on the part of his life where he killed his mother

Benbisco:
Very informative and educative.

Thanks.

Are you on Quora?

No
Is that some social media that I don't know?

Texman21:
he did what had to be done if not Russia would have been a mouse trapped in a corner.

That's the thing about dictatorship. It yields it's results

illicit:
Thesorcerer is that u

nah
I follow him up tho

Everyone has to die, but these 10 ways people died are very unusual.

Death is inevitable; there are many ways to go - some stranger than others. We all go one way or another and we don’t usually get to choose how, and sometimes fate chooses the most unusual ways to die. Here are some of the strangest ways to die in history

1. Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos, an Ionian Greek philosopher who was credited with many scientific discoveries - most notably the Pythagorean theorem and Pythagorean tuning - is our first bizarre death in this list. His death is shrouded by obscurity, legend, and lore, but from scholarly texts, it is by far one of the most strange on this list. Pythagoras was said to have prohibited his followers from eating beans because they were ‘ritually unclean,’ and his story ends without a shred of hypocrisy. He came into conflict with supporters of democracy and was said to have been chased by an angry mob. Having almost outrun them, he encountered a bean field and is rumored to have stopped running upon seeing the bean field where the mob caught up with him and enacted their form of justice. In the end, I suppose those beans were, indeed, quite ritually unclean.

2. Tycho Ottesen Brahe

Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman and astronomer in the mid-1500s, most notable for his accurate planetary observations. Brahe lived in a time before modern medicine, where the infections we would consider minor today, proved fatal many times; Brahe was no exception. Apparently, Brahe considered social etiquette to be more important than bodily functions, which anyone would consider downright bizarre! This would prove fatal, as he had refused to excuse himself from a banquette in Prague to relieve himself, and contracted either an infection of the bladder or a kidney dysfunction. Upon returning home he was no longer able to urinate, except in small amounts, and died eleven days later in excruciating pain. As my drunk friend, Joe, once said while urinating behind a dumpster, “When ya gotta pee, ya gotta pee,” apparently words of wisdom!

3. Hans Staininger

Another Renaissance man, Hans Staininger, the burgomaster of what is now Austria, was said to have had a four and a half foot beard that he kept rolled up in a leather pouch. That beard proved to be his undoing though, when one night, the beard was not in its pouch and the poor noble tripped over his beard, breaking his neck. To all hipsters aspiring to grow their beards, the lesson serving here is to always tie up your long facial hair because your fashion choices could prove deadly.

4. Sir Thomas Urquhart

Sir Thomas Urquhart, a Scottish aristocrat, writer, and translator, best known for his translation of French Renaissance writings evidently had quite the sense of humor. This Scotsman was said to have died laughing when he heard that Charles II had been restored to the throne to become king once again. It’s unclear what exactly he found so funny about it, but apparently, it was hilarious enough to kill him. I wonder how things may have played out if he’d had a friend who told him, “Jeez, man, it’s not that funny.”

5. George Herbert

Most recognized as the financial backer of Howard Carter’s famous expedition of Tutankhamun’s tomb, it’s said that George Herbert (also known as Lord Carnarvon) was a victim of the curse of the pharaohs; a curse that allegedly killed anyone who disturbed a pharaoh’s tomb. While not the only one rumored to have died from disturbing Tut’s tomb, he was the first. He died of a mosquito bite to the face that became infected when he nicked it shaving, leaving our world April 5th, 1923. It’s not the factual way he died, it’s the rumor of the curse that makes this so interesting. Though a total of fifty-eight people were present upon the opening of the tomb, only eight of them died not long after. Curse or not, there is true irony in his death as two weeks earlier, a letter by Mary Corelli had been published in New York World Magazine quoting an obscure text, asserting that anyone who disturbed the tomb of a pharaoh would be punished in a most dire way.

6. Basil Brown

Mr. Basil Brown was an ordinary man of no specific celebrity. He was not trying to break any records, he was not trying to obtain any sort of fame; he was just an ordinary health nut. At age 48, Brown, a London man, had become obsessed with a specific vitamin: vitamin A. He had been ingesting tablets, and is said to have been drinking one gallon per day of carrot juice, ingesting a total of 70 million units of vitamin A over the course of ten days, resulting in not only his skin taking on an orange color, but cirrhosis of the liver as well. He passed on February 17th, 1974 and Dr. David Haler, who performed the autopsy, said that the results of the poisoning were indistinguishable from alcohol poisoning. Let this be a lesson to all you fad dieters out there - that carrot stick may very well be your last!

7. Dick Wertheim

Dick Wertheim was an American tennis linesman who died in a most peculiar fashion; he was struck in the groin. Tennis is largely not regarded as a dangerous sport, however, this incident proves that something as seemingly harmless as officiating a tennis match can prove lethal. On September 10th, 1983, he was presiding over a tennis match between Stefan Edberg and Patrick McEnroe when a rogue serve by Edberg struck Wertheim in the groin causing him to fall from his seat and strike his head. He died on September 15th, 1983 from the resulting head injury. His family did attempt to sue the United States Tennis Association for $2.5 million, but in a decision suggesting that the tennis ball was not the official cause of death, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York reversed the decision, awarding his estate $165,000. I guess justice was… Served?

8. Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee, an American actor and martial artist, was the son of more famous, Bruce Lee. Most notable for his final role, Lee played Eric Draven in the film the Crow, a popular 90s film about a rock star raised from the dead to avenge his and his fiancée’s death. Lee was killed by an improperly loaded prop gun on the set of the film, March 31st, 1993, eight days before the estimated completion of production. Rumors continue to circulate about how intentional the incident was, but the film was completed posthumously with a stunt double, some special effects, and a few rewrites. His death was considered to be suspicious by his family; Robert Lee is even said to have made mention of the Chinese mafia (the Triads), allegedly implicating them in Brandon’s death. Regardless of how purposely the prop was improperly loaded, this was a true tragedy for Hollywood, as a talented rising star was taken from us and the limelight. No one can say what Lee would have gone on to do had his life not been cut short, but one thing is certain: the Crow remains a true classic appreciated by many all over the world to this day.

9. Garry Hoy

Garry Hoy was a Toronto lawyer and corporate and securities law specialist. Before the completion of his law degree, he had also completed his engineering degree. Lawyers build their whole career on their education and confidence, so it’s no surprise to me that those things got the better of him. On July 9th, 1993, Hoy was demonstrating that the glass windows of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable, hurling himself against the pane of glass on the 24th floor of the building. The glass was, indeed, unbreakable, but unfortunately for him, his weight pushed the glass out of the frame and he fell to his death, proving that no matter how educated you are, certain things, such as construction flaws, should not be taken for granted.

10. David Phyall

Have you ever met someone who would literally shoot themselves in the foot to spite their face? What about someone who decided to hack their own head off to fight the injustice of leaving their repossessed home? Well, that’s exactly what David Phyall decided to do on July 5th, 2008. Phyall, 50, had consumed a small amount of alcohol, but his plan was said to have been a well thought out endeavor to make a statement that his home would not be taken from him alive. He set up a chainsaw in his flat in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England, and literally let it rip, severing his head. His elderly parents called police when they could not reach him, and the police broke into his home to find this gruesome scene

History is a vast subject to be sure. And with so little time to cover it all, plenty of things get swept aside in favor of the bigger stories like World War II and the Louisiana Purchase. Those things are certainly interesting stories, but they’ve got nothing on these wacky facts we dug up.

Turns out there’s a lot more to history than we previously thought.
1. Albert Einstein could have been president of Israel when it was formed, but he declined.
2. Before dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers for use as prosthetics.
3. Roman Emperor Gaius, also known as Caligula, made one of his favorite horses a senator.
4. There’s a giant mushroom in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest with a root system that covers over 2,200 acres, making it the largest living organism in the world.
5. In 1929, researchers at Princeton University claimed that they had turned a living cat into a telephone.
6. Heroin was once a perfectly acceptable medicine prescribed by doctors for everything from coughs to headaches.
7. While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated in droves.
8. It’s believed that the disappearance of those cats cats helped rats spread the bubonic plague, or Black Death, that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 1300s.
9. Chinese women used to painfully bind their feet to make them appear smaller and more feminine.
10. The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War. It lasted just 38 minutes.
11. Former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il was said to be a great lover of music and composed six operas while he was in office.
12. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was actually never straight to begin with. The foundation began to sink when they started on the second floor.
13. Researchers believe that the famous Guanajuato Mummies’ terrible expressions are the result of the victims being buried alive
14. Ronald Reagan is best known for being President and acting in numerous films, but he was also a prolific lifeguard, who saved 77 people from drowning.
15. Klerksdorp spheres are strange objects that have been dug up near Ottosdal in South Africa. The spherical objects are billions of years old and no one has been able to fully explain the markings on their sides.
16. A famous native American named Blackbird was said to have loved his horse so much that he was buried sitting on top of it.
17. Before there were alarm clocks, there were “bosoms-up”, who were hired to shoot dried peas from a blow gun at people’s windows in order to wake them up in the morning.
18. The largest bird ever to exist had a wingspan of almost 20 feet. It lived 60 million years ago.
19. Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin reportedly survived being poisoned, shot, and stabbed numerous times before he was finally drowned in the Volga river.
20. People in Spain used to employ a form of torture called the Spanish Donkey. Victims had to sit high up, straddling a board while torturers tied increasingly heavy weights to their legs. Ouch!
21. Speaking of torture, the Mayans used to sacrifice people by pulling their still-beating hearts out of their chests.
22. The use of the word “hooker” as a term for a prostitute actually originated with Civil War General Joseph Hooker, who brought prostitutes along on campaigns for his men.
25. Like many ancient royalty, King Tut’s parents were related. They were actually brother and sister, according to DNA taken from his mummified body. He was also disabled and probably had malaria.
26. Russian dictator Joseph Stalin often had photos retouched to remove people who had died or been removed from office.

Even if you’re a history buff, I bet you didn’t know most of these bizarre facts. Makes you wonder what other secrets the past holds!

falcon01:
if it ain't drugs, theres a history if madness in their family.

yeah

falcon01:
drugs, its drugs.

I can bet it with you it's not drugs and not everything bad has to do with spirituality or sort

Somethings just happen

Olabode971:
Those days were; Boys to Men.... and Men remain Men.

yeah
And there were no cyber crimes. Pulling off an heist must have been the biggest brain work

007sledge:
No be small thing

some folks take their business very serious

TheFACELESS133:
Royal rumble: a print depicting the Crown jewels robbery of 1671

Trained thieves: members of the Wilcox Train Robbery gang

TheFACELESS133:
From old East End villains coming back together for one last job to Butch Cassidy blowing up a Wild West train, and Colonel Blood robbing the Crown Jewels, we look at the most sensational real-life heists ever.

Hatton Garden jewellery robbery

In March 2016 seven men with a combined age of 443 years were sentenced at the Old Bailey for breaking into a Hatton Garden security deposit vault in one of the most audacious heists in living memory.

Masterminded by Brian Reader, 76, with other career thieves who had previously been implicated in decades of London heists, the robbers used an elevator shaft to get close to the underground strong room, then drilled through half a metre of concrete into the vault.

The value of the stolen stones has been estimated at as much as £200 million, and although the “Old Blaggers” were caught and imprisoned, almost none of their haul has ever been recovered.

Boston Museum heist

Apparently responding to a disturbance call, two men disguised as policemen were admitted to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Quickly overcoming the guards, they spent an hour ransacking the museum before making off with 13 works of art with an estimated value of half a billion dollars – the most valuable theft of private property ever. Among the pieces were a Rembrandt, several Degas drawings and one of the 34 known Vermeers in the world.

Nobody was ever arrested, and not one of the pieces has ever been recovered. The frames of the stolen artworks still hang empty in the museum.

Crown Jewels robbery

In 1671, Anglo-Irish adventurer Colonel Thomas Blood ingratiated himself with the Master of the Jewel House in the Tower of London, disguised as a parson, with a prostitute posing as his wife.
After several visits, Blood convinced the Master to let him and three accomplices into the jewel vault, then clubbed and bound him, sawed the royal sceptre in half and flattened St Edward’s Crown with a mallet, while one of them hid the Royal Orb in his breeches.

In a somewhat chaotic escape, the sceptre was dropped, one guard was shot and Colonel Blood was apprehended, the crown falling from his cloak. Brought before Charles II in chains, the King, rather surprisingly, pardoned the old rogue – and even awarded him some land in Ireland.


Russian hackers

Between 2014-2016, a ring of Russian computer hackers stole an estimated £650 million from banks all over the world.

Using malware and phishing to hack banks’ systems, they studied the operations and routines of the banks, even watching through webcams and CCTV systems, then transferred money through fake accounts. They even programmed ATMs to dispense cash at specific times.

Never taking more than £80 million from a single target, the gang robbed as many as 100 banks in 30 countries and remain at large to this day

The Pink Panthers

Responsible for a string of the most audacious heists ever, the Pink Panthers gang surpassed themselves when four men dressed as women stormed Harry Winston’s exclusive jewellery store in Paris. After herding customers and staff into a corner, they smashed display cases and escaped with an estimated £85 million in diamonds.

Four years later, in 2013, a sole robber in a baseball cap, with a scarf over his face, walked into an exhibition of the Leviev diamond house in the Carlton Hotel in Cannes and made off with possibly the greatest single jewellery theft of all time, estimated at £110 million. The Pink Panthers were again suspected as being behind the robbery.

Wilcox Train Robbery

The robbery of the Union Pacific train by Butch Cassidy’s “Hole in the Wall Gang” was probably the most iconic heist of the Old West. Two “signalmen” stopped the train in the middle of Wyoming, the gang then dynamited the railcar holding the strong box, dynamited the tracks to stop any pursuit, then dynamited the strong box itself.
The gang escaped on horseback with about $50,000 (£40,000), equivalent to $7 million (£5.6 million) today, using fresh horses along their escape route to outrun any pursuit. Banknotes with the distinctive mark of one burnt-off corner would turn up for years afterwards as far afield as New York and New Mexico.

Saddam Hussein

The largest single bank heist of all time was committed the day before the Coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, when Saddam Hussein sent his son, Qusay, to the Central Bank of Iraq with a handwritten note to withdraw all the cash in the bank. Qusay then removed about $1 billion (£810 million) in $100 dollar notes in strongboxes, requiring three lorries to carry it all.

Approximately $650 million (£525 million) was found later by US troops hidden in the walls of one of Saddam’s palaces. Although both of Saddam’s sons were killed, and Saddam was captured and executed, more than one third of the money was never recovered.



Thesourcerer

Royal rumble: a print depicting the Crown jewels robbery of 1671

From old East End villains coming back together for one last job to Butch Cassidy blowing up a Wild West train, and Colonel Blood robbing the Crown Jewels, we look at the most sensational real-life heists ever.

Hatton Garden jewellery robbery

In March 2016 seven men with a combined age of 443 years were sentenced at the Old Bailey for breaking into a Hatton Garden security deposit vault in one of the most audacious heists in living memory.

Masterminded by Brian Reader, 76, with other career thieves who had previously been implicated in decades of London heists, the robbers used an elevator shaft to get close to the underground strong room, then drilled through half a metre of concrete into the vault.

The value of the stolen stones has been estimated at as much as £200 million, and although the “Old Blaggers” were caught and imprisoned, almost none of their haul has ever been recovered.

Boston Museum heist

Apparently responding to a disturbance call, two men disguised as policemen were admitted to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Quickly overcoming the guards, they spent an hour ransacking the museum before making off with 13 works of art with an estimated value of half a billion dollars – the most valuable theft of private property ever. Among the pieces were a Rembrandt, several Degas drawings and one of the 34 known Vermeers in the world.

Nobody was ever arrested, and not one of the pieces has ever been recovered. The frames of the stolen artworks still hang empty in the museum.

Crown Jewels robbery

In 1671, Anglo-Irish adventurer Colonel Thomas Blood ingratiated himself with the Master of the Jewel House in the Tower of London, disguised as a parson, with a prostitute posing as his wife.
After several visits, Blood convinced the Master to let him and three accomplices into the jewel vault, then clubbed and bound him, sawed the royal sceptre in half and flattened St Edward’s Crown with a mallet, while one of them hid the Royal Orb in his breeches.

In a somewhat chaotic escape, the sceptre was dropped, one guard was shot and Colonel Blood was apprehended, the crown falling from his cloak. Brought before Charles II in chains, the King, rather surprisingly, pardoned the old rogue – and even awarded him some land in Ireland.


Russian hackers

Between 2014-2016, a ring of Russian computer hackers stole an estimated £650 million from banks all over the world.

Using malware and phishing to hack banks’ systems, they studied the operations and routines of the banks, even watching through webcams and CCTV systems, then transferred money through fake accounts. They even programmed ATMs to dispense cash at specific times.

Never taking more than £80 million from a single target, the gang robbed as many as 100 banks in 30 countries and remain at large to this day

The Pink Panthers

Responsible for a string of the most audacious heists ever, the Pink Panthers gang surpassed themselves when four men dressed as women stormed Harry Winston’s exclusive jewellery store in Paris. After herding customers and staff into a corner, they smashed display cases and escaped with an estimated £85 million in diamonds.

Four years later, in 2013, a sole robber in a baseball cap, with a scarf over his face, walked into an exhibition of the Leviev diamond house in the Carlton Hotel in Cannes and made off with possibly the greatest single jewellery theft of all time, estimated at £110 million. The Pink Panthers were again suspected as being behind the robbery.

Wilcox Train Robbery

The robbery of the Union Pacific train by Butch Cassidy’s “Hole in the Wall Gang” was probably the most iconic heist of the Old West. Two “signalmen” stopped the train in the middle of Wyoming, the gang then dynamited the railcar holding the strong box, dynamited the tracks to stop any pursuit, then dynamited the strong box itself.
The gang escaped on horseback with about $50,000 (£40,000), equivalent to $7 million (£5.6 million) today, using fresh horses along their escape route to outrun any pursuit. Banknotes with the distinctive mark of one burnt-off corner would turn up for years afterwards as far afield as New York and New Mexico.

Saddam Hussein

The largest single bank heist of all time was committed the day before the Coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, when Saddam Hussein sent his son, Qusay, to the Central Bank of Iraq with a handwritten note to withdraw all the cash in the bank. Qusay then removed about $1 billion (£810 million) in $100 dollar notes in strongboxes, requiring three lorries to carry it all.

Approximately $650 million (£525 million) was found later by US troops hidden in the walls of one of Saddam’s palaces. Although both of Saddam’s sons were killed, and Saddam was captured and executed, more than one third of the money was never recovered.



Thesourcerer

TheFACELESS133:
2.joseph stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[b] (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili;18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are known as Stalinism.Despite abolishing the office of General Secretary in 1952, Stalin continued to exercise its powers as the Secretariat's highest-ranking member.
The historian Robert Conquest stated that Stalin, "perhaps [...] determined the course of the twentieth century" more than any other individual. Biographers like Service and Volkogonov have considered him an outstanding and exceptional politician; Montefiore labelled Stalin as "that rare combination: both 'intellectual' and killer", a man who was "the ultimate politician" and "the most elusive and fascinating of the twentieth-century titans". According to historian Kevin McDermott, interpretations of Stalin range from "the sycophantic and adulatory to the vitriolic and condemnatory". For most Westerners and anti-communist Russians, he is viewed overwhelmingly negatively as a mass murderer; for significant numbers of Russians and Georgians, he is regarded as a great statesman and state-builder.

Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union; Service suggested that without him the country might have collapsed long before 1991.In under three decades, Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a major industrial world power, one which could "claim impressive achievements" in terms of urbanisation, military strength, education, and Soviet pride. Under his rule, the average Soviet life expectancy grew due to improved living conditions, nutrition, and medical care; mortality rates also declined. Although millions of Soviet citizens despised him, support for Stalin was nevertheless widespread throughout Soviet society.Yet Stalin's necessity for Soviet Union's economic development has been questioned, with it being argued that Stalin's policies from 1928 on may have only been a limiting factor.
Stalin's Soviet Union has been characterised as a totalitarian state,with Stalin its authoritarian leader.Various biographers have described him as a dictator, an autocrat, or accused him of practicing Caesarism. Montefiore argued that while Stalin initially ruled as part of a Communist Party oligarchy, in 1934 the Soviet government transformed from this oligarchy into a personal dictatorship, with Stalin only becoming "absolute dictator" between March and June 1937, when senior military and NKVD figures were eliminated. According to Kotkin, Stalin "built a personal dictatorship within the Bolshevik dictatorship". In both the Soviet Union and elsewhere he came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot". The biographer Dmitri Volkogonov characterised him as "one of the most powerful figures in human history", while McDermott stated that Stalin had "concentrated unprecedented political authority in his hands",and Service noted that by the late 1930s, Stalin "had come closer to personal despotism than almost any monarch in history".

A contingent from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) carrying a banner of Stalin at a May Day march through London in 2008.

2.joseph stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[b] (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili;18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are known as Stalinism.Despite abolishing the office of General Secretary in 1952, Stalin continued to exercise its powers as the Secretariat's highest-ranking member.
The historian Robert Conquest stated that Stalin, "perhaps [...] determined the course of the twentieth century" more than any other individual. Biographers like Service and Volkogonov have considered him an outstanding and exceptional politician; Montefiore labelled Stalin as "that rare combination: both 'intellectual' and killer", a man who was "the ultimate politician" and "the most elusive and fascinating of the twentieth-century titans". According to historian Kevin McDermott, interpretations of Stalin range from "the sycophantic and adulatory to the vitriolic and condemnatory". For most Westerners and anti-communist Russians, he is viewed overwhelmingly negatively as a mass murderer; for significant numbers of Russians and Georgians, he is regarded as a great statesman and state-builder.

Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union; Service suggested that without him the country might have collapsed long before 1991.In under three decades, Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a major industrial world power, one which could "claim impressive achievements" in terms of urbanisation, military strength, education, and Soviet pride. Under his rule, the average Soviet life expectancy grew due to improved living conditions, nutrition, and medical care; mortality rates also declined. Although millions of Soviet citizens despised him, support for Stalin was nevertheless widespread throughout Soviet society.Yet Stalin's necessity for Soviet Union's economic development has been questioned, with it being argued that Stalin's policies from 1928 on may have only been a limiting factor.
Stalin's Soviet Union has been characterised as a totalitarian state,with Stalin its authoritarian leader.Various biographers have described him as a dictator, an autocrat, or accused him of practicing Caesarism. Montefiore argued that while Stalin initially ruled as part of a Communist Party oligarchy, in 1934 the Soviet government transformed from this oligarchy into a personal dictatorship, with Stalin only becoming "absolute dictator" between March and June 1937, when senior military and NKVD figures were eliminated. According to Kotkin, Stalin "built a personal dictatorship within the Bolshevik dictatorship". In both the Soviet Union and elsewhere he came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot". The biographer Dmitri Volkogonov characterised him as "one of the most powerful figures in human history", while McDermott stated that Stalin had "concentrated unprecedented political authority in his hands",and Service noted that by the late 1930s, Stalin "had come closer to personal despotism than almost any monarch in history".

1. Adolf Hitler
All Of Hitler’s Plans For Religion Had He not been defeated


Hitler was a cruel dictator, a proponent of genocide, and a mass murderer. He also liked to plan ahead - when Hitler committed suicide in his bunker under Berlin, he left detailed plans for Germany's future, including the role religion would play in the Third Reich. Hitler's plans for post-war Germany contained shocking details about his religious views.

Similar to how the Nazis removed Christ from Christmas, Hitler intended to tear down Christianity to establish his reputation as "Germany's Jesus Christ." He would start with replacing crucifixes with portraits of himself, followed by throwing religious dissidents in concentration camps. Hitler's plot also included the staged assassination of the pope and an alliance with Middle Eastern Muslims against Jewish people and the British.

To Hitler, religion was a thorn in his side threatening to pull people's loyalty from the state.According To Hitler's Foreign Policy, The Nazis Would Continue Depopulating To The East After They Won The War

Though raised as a Catholic, attended Catholic school, and served as a choirboy, Hitler held profound beliefs rejecting much of Christianity. Privately, Hitler made alleged financial contributions to the Catholic Church, despite refusing to attend mass or receive the sacraments. However, he complained about how Christianity was "a Jewish plot to undermine the heroic ideals of the Aryan-dominated Roman Empire." According to this logic, Jesus Christ was a known Jew.

Hitler's antisemitism - which drove his "Final Solution" to destroy Europe's Jewish population - meant he would have continued the Holocaust if he had won the war. As part of the Generalplan Ost, Hitler's foreign policy plan, Nazi Germany intended to depopulate the conquered territories to Germany's east, slaughtering religious "enemies," such as Jewish people, via mass murder.

Developed in 1941 and based on Hitler's Mein Kampf, the plan involved shutting out religious and ethnic undesirables by constructing a fortified border, which would have stretched from the Arctic to the Caucasus mountains
As An Initial Step, Hitler Replaced Crucifixes In Catholic Schools With His Portrait
Hitler demanded loyalty from religious organizations. When the Jehovah's Witnesses refused to perform the Nazi salute, Hitler sent most of them to concentration camps. He also used the threat of public disgrace to stop Catholic opposition. He ordered Catholic schools to take down their crucifixes and replace them with portraits of himself. One Catholic vicar declared, "Every attack on the crucifix, the symbol of our salvation, is an attack on Christianity."

Hitler rebuffed any dissent from organized religions - he considered an attack on his plan a sign of treason. Consequently, when Catholics in Oldenburg and East Prussia protested in 1936 and 1937, Hitler declared all schools were to become "German community schools," destroying religious education. The dictator demanded that they replace images of German hero and Reformation leader Martin Luther with portraits of himself With these enforcements, Protestants practically had to worship Hitler.Hitler's Actions Split The Faithful Into Two Categories: Followers And Enemies

To avoid harsh punishments, religious officials had to accept Hitler's goals. The Nazis arrested priests who prayed for Jewish people and sent them to concentration camps. When Hitler signed a concordat with the Catholic Church in 1933, he demanded a pledge of loyalty.

Hitler's actions split the religious faithful into followers and enemies. Some chose to support Hitler; for example, the so-called "brown priests" who acted as arms of the Nazi propaganda machine. Those who resisted ended up in the "priest block" at Dachau concentration camp.

In 1941 Hitler's private secretary Martin Bormann issued a secret decree to destroy the churches. He wrote:

More and more the people must be separated from the churches and their organs the pastors... Just as the deleterious influences of astrologers, seers, and other fakers are eliminated and suppressed by the state, so must the possibility of church influence also be totally removed.

To the Nazis, the Church threatened state power. Thus, the Nazis had to either control or eliminate organized religion.According To Testimony, Hitler Plotted To Kidnap And Kill The Pope
In 1944, the Allied forces pushed Nazi troops out of Rome. According to testimony published in 2005, with defeat on the horizon, Hitler ordered the SS to carry out a devious plot: kidnapping the pope. Despite the criticism toward Pope Pius XII for not doing more to oppose the Holocaust, Hitler regarded the pontiff as a threat.

Hitler ordered Karl Wolff, head of the SS in Italy, to occupy the Vatican and "secure the archives and the art treasures, which have a unique value, and transfer the pope... so that they cannot fall into the hands of the allies and exert a political influence."

Hitler also considered a plan where Nazi kidnappers would stage an escape attempt by the pope; in response, the Nazis would shoot the pontiff to make his death seem like a justified execution. Wolff managed to dissuade Hitler from this plan, arguing it wasn't worth the backlash. Author Robert Katz speculates the consequences would "make the Ten Plagues that rained down on the pharaoh of Jewish slavery in Egypt look like confetti."
In The End, Hitler Lamented The Failure Of 'A Bold Policy Of Friendship Toward Islam'

As Hitler spent his last days locked in a bunker in 1945, he reflected on his mistakes. How had the Third Reich crumbled? Hitler argued one of his biggest mistakes was his failed plan to partner with the Muslim world. After all, Hitler and Middle Eastern Muslims shared two enemies: Jewish people and the British, who controlled the Middle East.

Hitler railed, "All Islam vibrated at the news of our victories," convinced Muslims would soon revolt. "Just think what we could have done to help them, even to incite them, as would have been both our duty and our interest!"

Had the Nazis won the world and created a European New Order, Hitler would have likely pursued "a bold policy of friendship toward Islam."

School Resumption: Oyo Cancels 3rd Term, Reveals Resumption Date
NaijanewsJul 21, 2020

Governor Seyi Makinde’s led government of Oyo State state has revealed that 2019/2020 third term session for secondary schools is cancelled.

The development was coming following a meeting by the State Executive Council on Tuesday, July 21, 2020.

Naija News understands that the government had approved the measures to aide the resumption of schools and associated educational activities in the state.
The Oyo State government hinted that as a result of the development, continuous assessments of both 1st and 2nd term would be used as a yardstick to determine promotion of affected classes.

The report confirmed that Primary 6 candidates, Junior Secondary School III and Senior Secondary School III would from July 30 commences break and again resume for examinations a few weeks after.

“The Basic Education Certificate Examination is billed to hold between August 10 and 18, while the Competitive Entrance Examination into the schools of science is to hold on August 19,” Naija News quoted the government saying.

Also, for students hoping to join JSS1, their screening is slated for August 20, while placement test into technical colleges is for August 28. The report further noted that those in their final year will resume for examination but that they will have to wait until the West African Examination Council (WAEC) announces the examination date.

According to the state’s 2020/21 academic calendar for secondary school students, “First-term would hold between September 21 and December 18, while the second term holds January 11 and April 9. The third term will be between May 3 and July 30.”