British royalty dined on human flesh (but don't worry it was 300 years ago) By Fiona Macrae Updated: 23:58 GMT, 20 May 2011 They have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes. But what is less well known is that the British royals also had a taste for human flesh. A new book on medicinal cannibalism has revealed that possibly as recently as the end of the 18th century British royalty swallowed parts of the human body. The author adds that this was not a practice reserved for monarchs but was widespread among the well-to-do in Europe.
Medicinal cannibalism: Both Queen Mary II and her uncle King Charles II both took distilled human skull on their deathbeds in 1698 and 1685 respectively, according to Dr Sugg Even as they denounced the barbaric cannibals of the New World, they applied, drank, or wore powdered Egyptian mummy, human fat, flesh, bone, blood, brains and skin.
Moss taken from the skulls of dead soldiers was even used as a cure for nosebleeds, according to Dr Richard Sugg at Durham University. Text / The Complete Military History of France. ***Please note that the Web designer is not American and blaming the Web designer for America's history is illogical. Though you may critisize this oversimplified French history all you wish, blaming or threatening the Web designer is not nice. We are still accepting submissions from history researchers. Last update: May 4, 2005. - Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
[Or at ths time in history, a Roman -ed.]- Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman. " With only an hour and a half of research, Jonathan Duczkowski provided the following losses: Norse invasions, 841-911. Andrew Ouellette posts this in response:1066 A.D. Matt Davis posts this in response to Andrew Ouellette above:Oh dear.
Mexico, 1863-1864. 9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds | Wired Science. On the evening of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery. Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiraling, unlike anything seen on other nights. Some viewers wondered if they were scraps of paper or plastic caught in updrafts from the spotlights’ heat. From beneath, it was at times like gazing into a snowstorm.
It was hard not to think of souls. Those unidentified objects have now been identified as birds, pulled from their migratory path and bedazzled by the light in a perfect, poignant storm of avian disorientation. “It’s only happened once before. New York City sits in the middle of a major migration corridor, used for millennia by birds flying south for the winter. During the previous week, weather was bad for migration. “Birds were coming down from the north and piling up, waiting to push southwards,” said Rowden. The buildings resembled stars. Russia in color, a century ago. With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.
In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. AU-DELÀ DE L'HORREUR: Ils mangeaient des chats, la sciure de bois, colle à papier peint ... même leurs propres bébés. Agonie de Léningrad comme les nazis essayé de l'affamer jusqu'à la soumission: Leningrad: tragédie d'une ville assiégée 1941-1944 PAR ANN.
By Peter LewisUPDATED: 12:37 GMT, 2 September 2011 The fallen: Only one passer-by seems to notice these victims of the siege lying dead in the street During the days I was reading this book I ate comparitively little. It quelled the appetite. Starvation on such a scale makes one feel almost guilty for having enough and to spare. The German siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days from September, 1941 to January, 1944. Terrible times: Citizens of Leningrad after the German bombing in the winter of 1941 Twenty years later I visited Leningrad. The Leningraders still bore the signs. Few people outside realised what the siege was like. After the Khrushchev thaw, a new legend was propagated of a Leningrad whose heroic citizens unflinchingly disregarded the bombs and shells and starved quietly as willing sacrifices to defend the cradle of the Revolution. Then, with the collapse of communism, archives began to open with their police records and siege diaries.
The toll of that first winter is staggering.