Fleicheros travelingman/FlickrAn aerial view of the “arrow people” of Brazil.
They’re commonly called the “arrow people.” An isolated tribe from an area of Brazil called the Javari Valley, so little is known about them that we even have no idea what language they speak or what their ethnicity is. What we do know is that they have great skill with bows and arrows and that they will launch poison arrows at you for encroaching on their land. Read More...
Jean-Baptiste Carrier, appointed by his government during the French Revolution, personally oversaw the execution of 13,000 counterrevolutionaries. 4,000 of which were sent to slow, watery deaths.Wikimedia Commons The Drownings at Nantes in 1793, painted in 1882 by Joseph Aubert.
The bloody French Revolution saw the end of the monarchy and the emergence of peasants, military men and landowners as authorities over a bankrupt government. The harrowing revolt lasted for years, and it saw its share of horrible crimes against humanity. Read More...
Despite their 255-year age difference, not to mention the fact that one of them is dead, Teague claims the marriage is as normal as any other union. NewsweekAmanda Teague, the woman who married a 300-year-old ghost.
An Irish woman named Amanda Teague made headlines last week, after revealing that she had married the ghost of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate. Amanda Teague, 45 years old and unbothered by the 255 year age difference, married the ghost of Jack Teague, a Haitian pirate who allegedly sailed the seven seas in the early 1700s. Read More...
