The Bloody Benders, America’s First Serial Killers | Mental Floss

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53672/bloody-benders-americas-first-serial-killers

From the archive: Kristallnacht | From the Guardian | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2013/nov/08/kristallnacht-guardian-archive-1938

8 Natural Disasters of Ancient Times

8 Natural Disasters of Ancient Times

From Listverse”Natural disasters are something that humanity has had to deal with since its inception. They have the capability to wipe out significant amounts of the human and wildlife populations where they strike. In fact, it is possible that a natural disaster will be the cause of the end of the world, whenever that inevitably happens. They could be avoided, to some extent, by removing the human population from areas where natural disasters are known to strike. However, looking back on natural disasters in the past, we see that people were just as prone to exposing themselves to the risk of natural disasters as they are today.”

 

History Channel Mankind The Story of All of Us Episode 1/12 Inventors

“Mankind embraces a groundbreaking way of telling this epic human story. Drawing on a growing global interest in a revelatory field of history, now adopted by universities across the globe. ‘Big history’ focuses on the forces of nature to show how mankind’s path is guided by events that stretch back, not hundreds, but thousands, even millions of years. How the power of science, from geology and astronomy, to physics and biology, combined to shape our shared human journey. Revealing astounding global connections, and an astonishing interconnected story. This is history without limits. Free from boundaries and politics. Our story, like it’s never been told before. Written by History Channel “

Guns Germs and Steel | Documentary

Why do some civilizations advance while others remain stagnant?
Diamond argues that Eurasian civilization is not so much a product of ingenuity, but of opportunity and necessity. That is, civilization is not created out of superior intelligence, but is the result of a chain of developments, each made possible by certain preconditions.

The earliest human societies lived as hunter-gatherers. The first step towards civilization is the move from hunter-gatherer to agriculture, with the domestication and farming of wild crops and animals. Agricultural production leads to food surpluses, which supports sedentary societies, specialization of craft, rapid population growth, and specialization of labor. Large societies tend to develop ruling classes and supporting bureaucracies, which may lead in turn to the organization of nation states and empires”

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CNN: 20 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. History Fast Facts

CNN: 20 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. History Fast Facts

Fresh off the Mass shooting at the Naval Yard on September the 16th, CNN has compiled a list of the 20 deadliest mass shootings in USA history.

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• Maddow: Mass shootings are ‘part of how we live’ now (rawstory.com)

 

Faith and Fate

“Perhaps no other century in human existence experienced the terrible and remarkable contrasts of the 20th Century. The century was heroic and tragic, progressive and reactionary, forward-looking, and frighteningly regressive – a century of contradiction, confusion, and massive change. Faith and Fate focuses on how all these events and occurrences impacted on one specific group of people – a people whose survival has defied the ravages and challenges not only of this century, but of the over 40 centuries that have led up to it. Rabbi Berel Wein will take you on a remarkable journey into Jewish history. Faith and Fate powerfully and emotionally tells the story of how the events of the century impacted on the Jews – and the impact the Jews had on the century.”

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Idi Amin Dada: President of Uganda in the 1970s (evil dictator)

“Idi Amin Dada, who became known as the ‘Butcher of Uganda’ for his brutal, despotic rule whilst president of Uganda in the 1970s, is possibly the most notorious of all Africa‘s post-independence dictators. Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971 and ruled over Uganda for 8 years. Estimates for the number of his opponents who were either killed, tortured, or imprisoned vary from 100,000 to half a million. He was ousted in 1979 by Ugandan nationalists, after which he fled into exile.”http://africanhistory.about.com/od/biography/a/bio_amin.htm..

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Story of Korean War in Colour (Documentary)

“Korean War in Color documents war-torn Korea the way the soldiers saw it-in full, shocking color. Many of the images included in the documentary have never been seen by the public before, having been kept top secret for decades by military officials for fear of a public backlash.”

watch now: http://documentarylovers.com/korean-war-color/#ixzz2ecs2qggf
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Labor Day’s violent beginnings

While we take this day to remember labor day
“The bloody Pullman strike in 1894 spurred the national holiday that recognizes American workers.”

The Secret of the Seven Sisters A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world’s oil.

“The “Seven Sisters ” was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the “Consortium for Iran” cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.[1][2] The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California (SoCal) and Texaco (now Chevron); Royal Dutch Shell; and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso) and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) (now ExxonMobil).[3] [4]

Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 percent of the world’s petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined as a result of the increasing influence of the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies.” Wiki

10 Great Sites for Bored History Nerds – Flavorwire

If you’re crazy about history like I am, take a look at the site  http://flavorwire.com/412297/10-great-sites-for-bored-history-nerds

19th-Century Samurai Training Text Deciphered | LiveScience

Sumurai Training text deciphered!!!http://m.livescience.com/39280-19th-century-samurai-text-deciphered.html

The big history project now available!

THE BIG HISTORY PROJECTGreat reference for educators world wide, free of charge! Check out @BigHistoryPro’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/BigHistoryPro/status/369631370240225280

The big history project now available!

Great reference for educators world wide, free of charge! Check out @BigHistoryPro’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/BigHistoryPro/status/369631370240225280

Nazi Concentration Camps | Watch Documentary Online Free

This was filmed and entered into evidence the Nuremburg trials as evidence of the atrocities committed by the Nazis.  http://documentaryheaven.com/nazi-concentration-camps/

King Leopold’s Ghost

“The book places King Leopold among the great tyrants of history. The death toll in the Congo under his regime is hard to pin down, both because accurate records were not kept and because many of the existing records were deliberately destroyed by Leopold shortly before the government of Belgium took the Congo out of his hands. Although Wm. Roger Louis and Jean Stengers[3] characterize the earliest population and mortality estimates as “wild guesses”, Hochschild cites many subsequent lines of inquiry that conclude that the early official estimates were essentially correct: roughly half the population of the Congo perished during the Free State period. Since the census taken by the Belgian government (after acquiring the Congo from Leopold) found some 10 million inhabitants, Hochshild concludes that roughly 10 million perished, though the precise number can never be known.” Wiki

World War One from a German soldier’s perspective: Hundreds of images give a rare insight into the side of the Great War we rarely see | Mail Online

You ever wonder what World War II was like from a
German perspective?  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386912/World-War-One-German-soldiers-perspective-Hundreds-images-rare-insight-the-Great-War-rarely-see.html

8 Things You Should Know About the Korean War — History in the Headlines

“On July 27th 1953, an Armistice wad signed that ended the korean war after 3 years of heavy fighting. More than 36,000 Americans died in the conflict, making it the 5th deadliest in US history, along with millions of Koreans”  http://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-should-know-about-the-korean-war

TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS: 1932, A True History of the United States

To Govern a Republic, One Must Know the Minds That Created It …while a nation goes speculation crazy the people neglect to think of fundamental principles.
These were the words of Franklin Roosevelt in the months leading into the Democratic National Convention of 1932.
Roosevelt knew that the fight for the United States Presidency was not simply a game of political machines and punditry, but that this coming fight demanded a leader who understood the historic enemy of the United States and the founding principles of the nation.