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May 8 – Adolph Zukor founds Famous Players Film Company, now Paramount Pictures. May 11 – Alaska is constituted as a territory of the U.S. May 18 – The Detroit Tigers go on strike to protest the suspension of Ty Cobb.
He was castrated by relatives of his lover, Héloïse. [13] Bishop Wimund, a 12th-century English adventurer and invader of the Scottish coast, was blinded and castrated after losing a power struggle. [14] In medieval England, men found guilty of high treason were hanged, drawn and quartered, which often included emasculation (removal of the ...
In 1912, Johnson opened a successful and luxurious "black and tan" (desegregated) restaurant and nightclub, which in part was run by his wife, a white woman. Major newspapers of the time soon claimed that Johnson was attacked by the government only after he became famous as a black man married to a white woman, and was linked to other white ...
Pages in category "Castrated people" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Judge Edward Aaron;
At Oued Djerat, in Algeria, engraved rock art with masked bowmen, which feature male circumcision and may be a scene involving ritual, have been dated to earlier than 6000 BP amid the Bubaline Period; [22] more specifically, while possibly dating much earlier than 10,000 BP, rock art walls from the Bubaline Period have been dated between 9200 BP and 5500 BP. [23]
A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors. While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the ...
In Russia, men of a devout group of Spiritual Christians known as the Skoptsy were castrated, either undergoing "greater castration", which entailed removal of the penis, or "lesser castration", in which the penis remained in place, while Skoptsy women underwent mastectomy.
Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Some family members have claimed that Washington may have had Native American ancestry, but this has not been widely documented in historical records.