Washington was castrated and his fingers were cut off after he attempted to climb the red hot chain which held him to a tree over top of a bonfire. He was repeatedly raised and lowered for 2 hours, after which his charred body was drug through the town and his body parts were sold as souvenirs.. There was a celebratory atmosphere as people gathered around to watch and many children were allowed to take an extended break from school.. A professional photographer captured images of the first d...
White slavery - my ancestors.
Rose Maher
The Native American Holocaust
R Diane Martinez
![Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to the code she wrote by hand and that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969] Valentina Tereshkova, Margaret Hamilton, Rosa Parks, Apollo Guidance Computer, Amelia Earhart, Great Women, Amazing Women, Amazing People, Smart Women](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1c/ff/fb/1cfffb8bdce8c7c5d84ed90ae7599e84--apollo-project-margaret-hamilton.jpg)
The Face Book of a an Extinct Family of Mankind. Ishi (ca. 1860 – March 25, 1916) was the last member of the Yahi, the last surviving group of the Yana people of the U.S. state of California. Ishi is believed to have been the last Native American in Northern California to have lived most of his life completely outside the modern American culture. 49 years old; in 1911 he emerged from the wild near Oroville, California, leaving his ancestral homeland, near the foothills of Lassen Peak.
Prairie Pioneers, Sod Hut, circa 1880 - “Prairie pioneers often lived in sod houses at first. There were no trees to provide logs, so turf was dug up in the shape of bricks. Glass windows were a rare luxury.” - With a sod roof arrangement, I have read that interior ‘rain’ occured for a day or two after plentiful outdoor rains.
Fourteen years after Wild Bill Hickok’s death, in 1900, an aging Calamity Jane arranged to be photographed next to his overgrown burial site. Elderly, thin and poor, her clothes were ragged and held together with safety pins. Holding a flower in her hand, she said that when she died she wanted to be buried next to the man she loved. Three years later, she was.
Gisella Perl was forced to work as a doctor in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. She was ordered to report every pregnant woman to the physician Dr. Josef Mengele, who would use them in cruel experiments like vivisections before killing them. She would give them abortions before he found out to save them from this fate. After being rescued from the camp she tried to commit suicide, but survived, recovered and kept working as a gynecologist, delivering more than 3000 babies.