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Nazi Germany performed human experimentation on large numbers of prisoners (including children), largely Jews from across Europe, but also Romani, Sinti, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals and disabled Germans, in its concentration camps mainly in the early 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust.
From 1932 to 1945, Japanese imperial armed forces forced women from all over the world to be sex slaves in korea and surrounding areas. Japan still denies it ever happened today. I found out about ...
These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.. Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. [1]
Image credits: anon #14. Carbon dioxide was blamed for the deaths of around 1700 people in Cameroon, west Africa, in 1986 when a massive release of gas occurred from Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake.
One of the most significant initial discoveries on that front was found in 1929 at a site near Clovis, New Mexico. Mammoth bones and stone tools at the site date back to 13,000 years ago.
November 10 1941 1,200 1941 Jabal Razih earthquake: Yemen January 11 1942 61,000 1942 West Bengal cyclone: India Tropical cyclone October 14 – 18 1943 2,824-5,000 1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake: Turkey Earthquake November 27 1944 10,000 1944 San Juan earthquake: Argentina January 15 1945 4,000 1945 Balochistan earthquake: Pakistan November 28 ...
We are not very long into the smartphone era; it is still new and strange to have all of the world’s most disturbing news delivered at all hours of the day and night.