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Charles Domery (c. 1778 – after 1800), also known as Charles Domerz, was a Polish soldier, noted for his unusually large appetite. Serving in the Prussian Army against France during the War of the First Coalition, he found that the rations of the Prussians were insufficient and deserted to the French Revolutionary Army in return for food. Although generally healthy, he was voraciously hungry during his time in the French army, and ate any available food. While stationed near Paris he was recorded as having eaten 174 cats in a year, and although he disliked vegetables he would eat 4 to 5 pounds (1.8 to 2.3 kg) of grass each day if he was unable to find other food. During service on the French frigate Hoche, he attempted to eat the severed leg of a crew member hit by cannon fire, before other members of the crew wrestled it from him.
Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents were unable to provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan; he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and whole apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer...Tarrare was desperate to avoid further military service, and returned to the hospital... he would sneak out of the hospital to scavenge for offal outside butchers' shops and to fight stray dogs for carrion in gutters, alleys and rubbish heaps.[2][17][20] He was also caught several times within the hospital drinking from patients undergoing bloodletting, and attempting to eat the bodies in the hospital mortuary. Other doctors believed that Tarrare was mentally ill and pressed for him to be transferred to a lunatic asylum, but Percy was keen to continue his experiments and Tarrare remained in the military hospital.[20]
After some time, a 14-month-old child disappeared from the hospital, and Tarrare was immediately suspected. Percy was unable or unwilling to defend him, and the hospital staff chased Tarrare from the hospital, to which he never returned.
During 1935, there was a conflict between Breton and Ilya Ehrenburg during the first "International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture" which opened in Paris in June. Breton, had been insulted by Ehrenburg—along with all fellow surrealists—in a pamphlet which said, among other things, that surrealists were "pederasts". Breton slapped Ehrenburg several times on the street, which led to surrealists being expelled from the Congress.
so people who are dead now did pretty zany shit
lets talk about them!
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It seemed like ripe material for a comedy movie.
hemingway, churchill, and a matador
woah the plumbers are a real thing? i thought they were just from ben 10
Secret Satan 2013 Wishlist
Edit: I assume the Plumbers from Ben 10 were unrelated. I never watched much of that.
people post links to badass of the week and pharezon posts links to wikipedia articles about obscure eastern european massacres
the ben10 plumbers were like the men in black of their world, i think
AND SHUT UP SNOWBEAT I DONT CARE IF I HAVE TO SPAM THIS THREAD WITH NEW HISTORY MYSELF
THIS IS HOW JAPAN WAS STARTED I KNOW BECAUSE JAPAN SAYS SO
Jews loved Napoleon
discuss (it's for real look it up)
I'm thinking about writing a book on the subject. My working title is Cuntery in Western Music.
"Rise up, you oppressed, you downtrodden! Throw off the shackles of your enslavers! Join me in rebellion!"
"Is there anybody but you three?"
"Not at the moment, no."
"You know what? Don't worry about it. We're cool."
"But... oppression! Shackles!"
"No thanks."
if you know about something cool
then post excerpts about it
or at the very least a direct link
noone's going to go looking up something because its 'totally worth it you guys i swear!'
I guess that's cool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKMC#Vietnam_War
It's kind of a weird thing to put in your basic sports bar and grill
Can we talk about the future in here?
Haha I actually was thinking of you while I read that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_maneaters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_gevaudan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_%28crocodile%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_River_goonch_attacks
they are literally the hitlers of the animal kingdom
In life, they ate people. In death, they actually look pretty calm and relaxed.
Assigned as the Indian Agent for the Utes in Greeley, Colorado. He viewed it as a cush government job, hooked his friends and family up with jobs in the agency, never really took it seriously. But then got a bug up his ass about "civilizing" the tribe. Instilling some nice, Christian morality in them. He decides the most efficient way to do this was to plow over their horse racing track.
The Utes get pretty pissed, voices are raised, words are exchanged. Meeker panics, and because he spent his whole tenure ignoring his responsibility to get to know these people, had no idea how to relate to them, how to calm things down, how to diffuse the situation. So instead, he overreacts wildly, and calls the damn army. The Utes see an entire brigade of soldiers headed their way, and they freak the fuck out. They've seen what tends to happen to Indians when the army shows up. So they take hostages, including Meeker's family. They kill Meeker, in a pretty brutal way - they cut out his "liar's tongue" and shove a railroad tie down his throat.
Now here's where things get interesting. In the investigations into the incident, one of the hostages, Nathan's own daughter, is sympathetic to the Indians. Talks about the miscommunication and misunderstandings, talks about how it's a situation far too messy to lay blame neatly at anybody's feet. She fights to absolve the very people who killed her father.
Government ignores that testimony, and the testimony of all the other hostages, and forcibly relocates the entire tribe to a reservation in Utah. Media starts to imply that Meeker's daughter was only sympathetic because the Indians "ravaged" her and she liked it. Gets her name dragged through the mud by a neverending stream of "I'm not saying this is true, but shouldn't we CONSIDER the possibility that she's a harlot" style journalism.
Oh, and despite the fact that the army killed way more Utes than the Utes did white folks, the whole situation was labeled the "Meeker Massacre."
History! Always good for a pick-me-up.
I heard about these when I was in Nepal
people was terrified
Also awesome and Brotherhood of the Wolf fucking rocked
Metal as shit
What the fuck
Also way too much use of "oh no I dropped my gun" tension
But the actual lions were awesome and the giant fucking bone cave of death was great
Remember when they made a movie about that crocodile, and in the trailers made it sound like it was a standard serial-killer/slasher movie, and dropped absolutely no hints that the movie was actually about a crocodile?
I would have been pissed if I'd paid to see that movie.
oh that stupid fucking thing
yeah fuck that movie
there's claims of catfish taking people in a lot of places
catfish are beastly motherfuckers
could've been other creatures
one man escaped
that man, Nuri al-Said, had been the prime minister during the royal regime for about 14 consecutive and non-consecutive terms
he got out by stripping one of the women in the royal family and sneaking out in her clothes
he almost made it to the Iranian border, too
where he was caught because of his shoes
here's where the account gets iffy, owing to there being no serious record of the circumstances since, you know, the coup and everything, but the close truth is probably this:
Iraqi border guards shot him when they discovered who he was, killing him
the next day, however, some locals, having heard about his death and looking for a bit of fun, disinterred him, tied him to the back of a truck, and road hauled his corpse all the way back to Baghdad, where it was set upon by an angry mob, burned, and beaten with rocks until there wasn't anything left worth burying
fuckin' Iraqis, man
also, speaking of sick bastards, I present to you Japan's (article is quite disturbing) Unit 731. One doctor raped and impregnated then vivisected a young girl.