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5. Empress Matilda’s escape
In the autumn of 1142, Empress Matilda was besieged in Oxford Castle by soldiers loyal to her cousin Stephen. A battle, labelled ‘The Anarchy’, was raging across the country for the crown of England.

Stephen, grandson of William the Conqueror and Matildas’ cousin, both laid claim to the crown and took it in turns to lay siege to one another’s strongholds. The siege at Oxford Castle lasted for three months.

Matilda’s epic escape came one freezing snowy night in December, when according to legend, she wrapped herself in a white cape and fled on makeshift ice skates across the ice to Wallingford Castle. A truce was decided to end the battle, with Matilda agreeing that Stephen could keep the throne as long as her son Henry became his heir.

Suspiciously, Stephen died not long after this agreement was forged, allowing King Henry II to take the throne. You can discover more about Empress Matilda and more incredibly stories on a guided tour at Oxford Castle and Prison.




4. Escape from Alcatraz
In June 1962, three prisoners of the notorious Alcatraz Island escaped and mysteriously went missing. A plot devised by fellow prison Allen West saw Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clarence spending two years digging an escape route through the cell walls and building a raft to sail to freedom.

Dummies were placed in the three prisoners’ beds to fool the prison guards so it was not until the following morning that the guards discovered they had gone.

Parts of the raft and life preservers were later found in the bay along with some of the prisoners’ personal effects, leading investigators to conclude that the men had drowned.

The FBI officially closed the case on 31 December 1979, concluding that “no credible evidence emerged to suggest the men were still alive”. However, no bodies were ever discovered.




3. Ronnie Biggs
Ronald Arthur Biggs, more commonly known as Ronnie Biggs, is infamous for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and for his 36 years living as a fugitive until his voluntary ‘surrender’ in 2001.

Initially captured and sent to prison for his part in the Great Train Robbery, Biggs only served 19 months of his prison sentence before escaping from Wandsworth Prison on 8 July 1965 by scaling a wall with a rope ladder and dropping on to a waiting van.

He fled to Brussels via boat and then onto Paris where he acquired a new identity and underwent plastic surgery. His 36 years on the run were spent predominantly in Australia and Brazil. On 7 May 2001, Ronnie voluntarily returned to the UK and was immediately arrested and imprisoned. He served 8 years in jail before being released on compassionate grounds in 2009. He died in December 2013.




2. Maze Prison
HM Prison Maze was the location of the biggest prison escape in British history, when on 25 September 1983, 38 IRA prisoners smashed their way out of the maximum security prison, widely considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe.

Fifteen foot fences and Eighteen foot thick concrete walls topped with barbed wire encircled H-Block, and solid steel doors barred all exits from the prison complex.

Prisoners planned the escape over several months. Two accomplices, Bobby Storey and Gerry Kelly, started work as orderlies to identify weaknesses in the system and six handguns were smuggled into the prison by exploiting these downfalls. Just after 2.30pm, prisoners seized control by simultaneously taking the prison officers hostage, and hijacking a lorry which was delivering food to the block.

Officers in the gatehouse were also taken hostage and after several attempts, the main gate was opened. Abandoning the lorry after a makeshift road block was set up by two cars just outside the prison, the prisoners escaped over a fence. The prison was made secure by 4.18pm minus 38 prisoners. Twenty prison officers were injured and one died after suffering a heart attack during the escape.



1. The Great Escape
Devised by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell in the Spring of 1943, the ‘Great Escape’ from prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III occurred on the night of 24 March 1944.

Bushell was in command of the Escape Committee in the North compound, where the British airmen were housed. His ‘Great Escape’ plan involved the building of three “bloody deep, bloody long tunnels” underneath the camp fences. The tunnels were nicknamed Tom, Dick and Harry. If one of the tunnels was discovered by the Germans, it was presumed that they would never suspect two more might be underway.

More than 600 prisoners were involved in the tunnels’ construction, with Bushell aiming to get 200 prisoners to freedom. The tunnels descended 30 feet below the surface and were only 2 foot square. The walls were shored up with pieces of wood which were mainly scavenged from the prisoners’ beds.

The prisoners were very inventive with their scavenged items. Tin cans became scoops and candle holders; candles were fashioned from the fat off the top of soup served in the camp whilst wicks were created from old clothing. The sand dug out of the tunnels was discreetly scattered while the prisoners walked around the camp.

The 200 potential escapees were divided into two groups. The first group of 100, called “serial offenders”, were guaranteed a place and included prisoners who spoke German well or had a history of escapes. 70 of the men were chosen because they were considered to have contributed most to the tunnels. The second group was chosen by drawing lots.

On Friday 24 March, the escape attempt began. At 10.30pm, the first man out emerged and discovered the tunnel had come up short. Rather than reaching into a nearby forest, the tunnel came out just short of the tree line and perilously close to a guard tower. Even so, 76 men crawled through the tunnel to freedom before the 77th was spotted by the guards at 4.55am on 25th March.

Of 76 initial escapees, 73 were recaptured. Hitler order half of the escapees to be executed as an example.

10: Yoshie Shiratori
Yoshie Shiratori is best known for escaping from prison four times in three years. After being convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life plus 23 years imprisonment.

Shiratori escaped from Aomori Prison in 1936, was recaptured and escaped from Akita Prison in 1942. In 1944, he rusted his handcuff and an inspection hole with miso soup, before escaping from Abashiri prison. He was caught again in 1946. Sapporo District Court sentenced him to death, which caused Shiratori to desperately find a way to escape and in 1947, he dug a tunnel and escaped for the fourth time!

In 1948, he was recaptured after admitting to a policeman that he was an escaped convict. His death sentence was revoked and Shiratori eventually served 26 years before being paroled in 1961.



9. John Dillinger
John Herbert Dillinger Jr. was an American bank robber during the Depression era who robbed two dozen banks and four police stations during his crime spree.

He escaped from prison twice in his criminal career. During a period in jail in Indiana, Dillinger befriended a series of seasoned bank robbers who taught him to be a successful criminal. After being released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger immediately returned to crime.

After robbing two banks, he was captured and imprisoned in Lima in the Autumn of 1933. Dillinger used his time in jail to aid the escape of a group of inmates who he had met during his previous jail term. Inmates smuggled guns into their prison cells, which they used to escape just four days after Dillinger had been captured. The group then returned to the prison, impersonating Indiana State Prison officers and successfully released Dillinger from his cell.

After another series of bank robberies, Dillinger was captured again in 1934 and sent to Crown Point Jail. The police boasted to the media that the jail was escape proof. This proved wildly untrue when Dillinger crafted a fake pistol from a piece of wood, supposedly using shelving in his cell and a razor to carve it. Dillinger tricked a guard to open his cell and then took seventeen men hostage before luring the guards back to the cell block and locking them in his own prison cell. He then fled.

Dillinger evaded police across four states before meeting his end on 22 July 1934 when a tip-off led to a shoot-out in Chicago. Dillinger was shot three times and was pronounced dead shortly after.




8. Alfred George Hinds
Alfred George Hinds was a British criminal who successfully broke out of three high security prisons while serving a 12 year prison sentence. Hinds’ first escape was from a Nottingham prison in 1958 where he managed to get through locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall to his freedom. This feat earned him the name ‘Houdini Hinds’ in the media.

He travelled throughout Europe during his time on the run, working as a painter-decorator before being apprehended after 248 days of freedom.
Hinds used his re-arrest to his advantage, bringing a lawsuit against the authorities and hence finding a reason to be escorted to the Law Courts.

Accomplices supplied Hinds with a padlock and attached screw eyes onto a toilet cubicle so that while being escorted to the toilet, Hinds bundled the two guards into the cubicle and locked them in. Escaping onto Fleet Street, Hinds made for the airport where he was captured five hours later.

Hinds’ third and final prison escape came less than a year later, when he escaped from Chelmsford Prison. He fled to Ireland where he lived for two years under an assumed name before being stopped driving an unregistered car and rearrested. Following his eventual release from Parkhurst Prison, Hinds became a member of Mensa.




7. John Gerard
John Gerard is the only person ever known to have escaped from the notorious Tower of London. A Jesuit priest, Gerard was imprisoned for continuing to preach his Catholic beliefs when the church was under heavy persecution from Elizabethan England.

During his imprisonment, he endured several interrogations, often being tortured for information. He never broke, but was eventually sentenced to death for his “crimes”. Desperate to escape, Gerard communicated with allies on the outside via smuggled notes written in invisible ink made from orange juice.

These allies rowed a boat into the Tower’s moat and Gerard was able to escape by using a rope thrown up to him. Cheating death after almost falling because of his tortured hands, Gerard managed to climb down to the boat, flee England and live the rest of his life in Rome.



6. Texas Seven
A group of prisoners, dubbed the Texas Seven escaped from the John B. Connally Unit on 13 December 2000. An elaborate scheme devised by the group led to the group overpowering and restraining 16 people, including supervisors, officers and three uninvolved inmates.

Once overpowered, clothing, credit cards and ID were taken from the victims and used to impersonate civilians at the back gate of the prison. Four of the offenders stayed behind to make phone calls to the prison tower guards to distract them. The rest raided the guard tower and stole numerous weapons and then stole a prison maintenance pick-up truck in which all seven drove away from the prison.

They were apprehended just over a month after. Six of the seven were placed on Texas’ Death Row while the seventh (Larry James Harper) committed suicide rather than return to prison.

starbuck:
Westerners like playing rough play with their lives...


I nụkwa crocodile

No they just like to think there is more to this creatures apart from been considered food for man or a threat to man than the average black man.

I am sure it is the daddy g.o of witches you kill so but wait oh your enemies do call themselves, gather around, plan your matter den con look lion, look elephant, look cheetah, look rhino, look giraffe even look pass pussy way e fit try use finger to cut you, den con reason am, deliberate for hours con say na bat go work the matter.
It is either your enemies are still learning ABC or they have serious mental problems.

Baba abeg calm down and go and lie down.

I am still in shock,we had to do a video call so I can confirm she is not what she said for real and then I apologised for real.
Chai my liver break shall like seriously, how have you guys been coping been apart from the ones you are dating?
It's really not easy oh if your girl or guy stays loyal through this period abeg invite me sharply for the wedding.
Please let's push to the front page.

There were some foreigners who came across a village of black men.
The wanted to trade but had no idea what to exchange for but they had gold and lots of it.
So they took their gold to the black man and at the end of the day, they traded nothing.
Because the black man had no value for gold, so the next day they took some fruits, mirrors, iron rods, toys and all and this time they were able to trade.
For the black man, those toys were worth more the value of Gold to them.

The fact is you have no more value for what you have or have lost value for it hence your need for something else.
Am afraid you are not in love my dear.

Love is so many things but nothing of what you feel right now.

Good luck to your new relationship.

Angelfrost:
Sigh... You mean the NLC that died with Pa. Imoudu??!... Abeg, talk another thing!!!

memories my brother when there were people who had vision chai we will not forget the true heroes of our past

landlords be like : oya johnbull your rent is no longer 25k but 75k

this is a good idea although implementation wise hmm i would comment my reserves

so the club was almost hush puppy shebi?

minister of singular favors hahahahahahhah lol men shall kai see Bleep up. lowest of the low that is lowering into the lowest low. he should be castrated or made a pussy via surgery

jeff1607:
have you noticed that when you search for an item online , 1 or 2 days later you start getting suggestions from jiji , jumia and so on for the same or similar item you searched for?

hahaha it is been long try youtube and google those ones no dey hide your own . even when i dont sign in on google chrome . am a bit of a paranoia case so most times i use a vpn because your ip address is the real deal

please we all know the real people that are monitoring us those ones no need cctv or hack. comon groundnut back and they have monitored your destiny

fg releases guidelines for the guild lines that will contain the guild lines that has guidelines for the reopening of school's guidelines you have no idea how pissed i am to finally leave school and not been able to go and serve right now. what is the purpose of guild lines when you have no realistic or suppsoed resumption date to look up to . who buys a pack of condom for decoration?

this pandemic is here to stay, realistically a vaccine is 2021 issue. we africans have really shown to have a better system to deal with these. our low death rates speak volumes. so many people have been treating these virus with so many things from the street agbo to God knows what. we can't stop moving. nigeria is on it's way to one of the worst recession already . crimes have gone up rapidly. safety is evryone's personal choice in the end no amount of guild lines is going to save people if they don't follow it. we can't live in denial that we have more bigger problems than the convid 19 virus . it has been really crazy and absurd from locking down vital aspects of the economy too soon to this shit . its really abhorring.

"It's a crab who has lost its shells that gets constantly reminded by the water that it is crab"

Racism is how you let others treat you not how others treat you.

Get an Education, Go into Politics, Do something positive in your community and the society at large, a black man has ruled the white let them sink into our heads.

Racism is how you let others treat you.

Peace to all who found reasoning in my words

thesicilian:
A criminal database does not create itself. If you do not store information in the system, you'll never get a "database". As far as I can tell, there's a DNA forensic laboratory in Lagos. Let's analyse and store, then tomorrow the chances of getting a match becomes higher. But if everyone keeps saying "na naija we dey" as if it's an alien idea to do things right, then we'll always remain where we are despite the information and resources at our disposal

Well said boss

thesicilian:
And yet they haven't caught the rapists? Semen all at the crime scene is almost like saying the rapists dropped their ID cards at the scene before leaving!

DNA is only useful when you have suspects to match it against or have a DNA criminal database you can run a search on, naija I know will never spend money on such prospective and efficient means of curbing crimes

Uyi168:
And God was watching

Doesn't it bother you to know a higher power watched while she begged for her life under the weight of those men severally?
Doesn't it bother you that people would next Sunday or the next still go to church and thank God for his protection?
Doesn't it bother you to know she came to the church because she believed she would be safe within the presence of God?

Hmmm It does for me to know that.

Please understand I will be providing whatever necessary information you will need to access the possibility of me getting the loan and will not be withholding any back.
Thanks

Hi the name is Henry and am currently looking for a loan of 100,000-150,000 am currently working as tutor and a class room teacher and based on resumption I will be back working.

My need for such is to help me fund a little business of mine and help me rent a room, am a hard worker and if any one with a legit means of granting me a loan and a means of repayment with interest which we both can agree on.

I know we live in a twisted world and all but i know there are good people out there, I just need to find my feet here is my email

Whilst I have tried getting loans from apps it hasn't been easy lol from downloading 8-10 mobile loaning apps and uninstalling them it hasn't been easy so I came here.

Afehenry@gmail.com
07026688176

If you need any more information please let me know ,thanks.

Acmepreneur:
This my guy is not serious at all.

I used to tell myself change is the only permanent thing in life bla bla bla. And I really believe that once you take the right steps, you can be anything you want to be. This made me to be very soft with people.

When I started dating my Boyfriend, I really was not choosy or judgy. I accepted him without a second thought. I'm not the type of lady that actually do all those lady stuff, I'm a very serious person and I don't play games at all.
My BF is very cool, like not bad looking, normal behaviour etc and I like him a lot.

I'm a very ambitious person, with an extremely big dreams, my boyfriend is also hard working, but I'm not seeing any future at all with his career/prospects/life. When I say I'm with big dreams, it's means I'm working on discovering (new innovations), planning big business that would compete with top brands etc. I'm that big in dreams.

My children is also very important to me, I don't plan for their sufferings at all.
I'm an introvert, I find solace in my aspirations, dreams. I have books I work out those formulas (I mean how I would execute my business plans), I research a lot, think a lot etc

Our fight now

Since day 1, I do tell him to do this and that. I really hate company works, so I would tell him to have savings, and be building something sideways where he works. Also, I wanted him to do Masters, since he said he would love to travel out, he's always saying he hates Nigeria bla bla bla. His dad also wanted him to do Masters, but he's in the crew of Masters is a waste of time, and he can't do Masters in Nigeria bla bla bla

Baby try this business, he would say he doesn't have money, he needs 2 million to start a business etc.

Meanwhile, he doesn't have money to travel out of the country to do Masters, nor 2m to start any business. So I would tell him to manage what he has first, and that would propelled him later, but he likes to talk like illiterates that Masters is meaningless.

Meanwhile, while that is true, those things are just like investment, you don't know when you will see an opportunity to use your Masters certificate, and since he studied computer science, I told him that it can even help him get a job outside Nigeria when he leaves, that it can be useful there. I understand the situation of the country, but not having masters doesn't mean you will get a job as well, so why don't you just have it.

My bf would shut me off, and also his dad, the dad even asked him to take job at the federal university where he works, but my bf said he can't work in that place, this is a federal government job o, he would say the salary is too small and people there already knows him, because his dad is in a big office in the university.

So it won't seem like I'm disturbing him, I went quiet, but might chip it in in discussions, but I don't fight him on those things. He works in a small company, and he rose to the position of a Manager, he spent all his time in office, the little time to waste with his friends. It's a good thing but I'm not comfortable with that, the pay is about 90k, which is not enough for his expenses, also he's the first born.

Fast forward to last year, his dad died, it looks like a film trick to him, he now have to take care of his siblings and mum (mum is nurse, but retired long time ago, her pay is little because it wasn't normal retirement). Everything I was telling him finally came to pass.

He rented an apartment with His friends, he later hated it, and said he wants his own, he went to rent an apartment of 600k (he gathered it from different places and he borrowed), which I really hate and we fought on that as well. Because he could have used the money to secure his life in a better way, since his complain when I told him to start a business is that he doesn't have money bla bla bla

He will not apply for better jobs as well
He's practically doing nothing to grow, and would say he hates Nigeria and he would like to leave, but he can't even apply for scholarships or even google schools.

So this 2020, Jan 1, I started fighting him, that I'm not going to continue with him like that, that he should go apply for MSC, start a business or just do something. He now started saying that he has responsibilities which are his siblings, I told him this is the nonsense, he would do till the year ends, we will fight and later resolve it.

He won't even talk about it, or get reminded, he makes me feel Hus boss is using him. I have told him several times how he would be used and dumped, in fact, he makes me say negatives sometimes, and that's because I have seen people that get dumped while working with companies and they fall back to grass, my mum won't even accept him because he works in a company, small company, not cocacola or big companies. My mum hates company works like shits because we've heard and seen people falling to zero due to company jobs.

The problem
1. He says I'm disturbing his life, and not allowing him to rest

2. I'm not happy with him living that way, with no future, no investment, hes not building himself while working, hes not doing courses, not learning any skills, and I think its too risky.
His current salary is not enough for him, not to talk of me collecting part of it. But he gives me money though, has not been more than 1k, 2k and data subscription which I really appreciate.

3. I can't introduce him to my family because I want him respected. Truth is I don't know what he would say to impress my parents because I'm not even impressed with him. And I want him to be superloved and respected. I believe in first impression would last very long. He has introduced me to his family and all friends

4. He never ask me about my own life, aspirations, advice me etc, I'm always the one to do that. Yesterday he had the gut to tell me I'm not caring because of just two days of not showing care

5. Corona has turned his company outside down and he's highly affected. Just like all what I was telling him finally happened, and he has nothing to fall back at. He has a car,

6. I can't marry him or anyone this way, and I'm getting old, though and I want marriage next year. He said he wants too, but I can't marry him like this. And I don't want to get to late twenties, and he breaks up and I start looking for husband, people would be thinking maybe I have a problem that is why I'm yet to marry, they won't know that its him that caused my delay. Plus I have a very high esteem, so I would hate to be desperate for marriage with a man or be the one to be wanting marriage so much in a relationship

7. Right now, we have temporarily break up, so I'm asking if I should break up or make up? Because he was saying rubbish last night

Note: I'm not a fan of dating and rubbish, I love him very much and I don't want to leave him at all. I don't think there's any man I can date as I do not like dishonesty at all and 95% of men are dishonest. My BF is very honest and good I'm every other aspect

Why do I feel you this is for me

Man Is.weak

martyns303:
You may want to see psychologist, for someone who doesn’t feel empathy or the pains of others is capable of unimaginable things including murder.

It's clearly psychological and the kind of people we call sociopaths ,majority of the problem stems from childhood , a major event, an incident, an occurrence, a tragic happening something triggers this response ASAP to be exact his sociopathic tendency may be triggered in a wrong way and may result to very unpredictable consequences for the victim.

He needs a psychologist to evaluate him

Drop your numbers here to be added or reach me via. Whatsap on 07026688176 soon to be added.

The class is free as well as I will be throwing other freebies. Into it with no financial gains attached just a little task which we all can do

Updates am going to do it free now

Oh please if they get sick they have the means as well to get better so

I see nothing absolutely nothing and if you do I argue with you not.

The matter Don tire us jhore

RiyadhGoddess:
Money is the creator, the genesis of all evil.

Money is not my friend , money like everything else exploits the evil that dwells in our hearts.

emmanuelpopson:
I will DM you.. I dont send numbers on here due to scammers harvesting numbers. I'm interested in this stuffs.. thanks

Hi pls I have postponed for now, due to lack of participation by members I will convene a new date soon, thanks

Whilst I started experiencing OBE and have been experimenting with it for a long ,I got tons of material for some reason I like doing weird stuff lol but more because I am sensitive extra sensitive ,I will be sharing a near death experience of a litera nature.

Four years ago, been with an uncle I was working my daily shift of 24hrs hard labor lol, I kept working so hard an heavy downpour came and for those hours I was in the blistering cold when I was done, I felt extremely weak and decided to go sleep.

When I woke up, I began running temperature and I knew I wasnt well, I made to get out of my bed but I couldn't, I couldn't find the energy to even as much talk.

So I slept there, when my peeps realized I was sick I got paracetamol and I slept, that whole night I kept coughing but I couldn't stand so I kept spitting the stuff out on the bed and wherever I could..

Next morning was worse, my breath was getting harder for me ,I could remember someone screaming when they entered my room the next thing I know, I was in a car laid on the back, people were saying I shouldn't sleep they should keep me up but I swear I felt like sleeping, the tiredness I was feeling was different it came with my breaths ,again I remembered been wheeled , my nose was laced with a mask , and that is how I stayed for the first two weeks, they mistakenly diagnosed me with some sort of tb and was left in a tb ward how I didn't contract that stuff is something I am thankful for, but God that ward was terrifying, I was hallucinating most of the times, like hearing shit from the walls, windows even the fan seemed to be eyes always starring at me.
Anyways two months later I was out, the day I left the ward was the first day I saw someone die before my eyes, the guy was in a better condition than I was, he used to crack jokes for us all, that morning he died before my eyes.

Anyways it was when I got home I realized my bed had been changed I asked what happened and they told me that morning when they came to check on me they found out blood all over my bed and the floor, apparently what I felt was cough that night was blood, I was coughing blood that whole night.

The experience changed me, since then I took a liking for OBE and meditation as well.

I have some other experiences but my spirit is alot stronger through meditation and yoga practices there is alot i have been through and will go through am grateful for each and prepared for as many that will come .

Two things I vow never to do


Choose a career for my kids

Choose a life partner for my kids

Dont quote me, it's a choice, my prayers is that I fulfill my duties to them as a parent emotionally, physically and spiritually .