The Bog People

On May 8, 1950 two men were cutting peat at Tollund Fen in Denmark when they were horrified to see a human face protruding from the peat. What they had first assumed to be the buried remains of a murder victim turned out to be of quite a difference significance and the local police sent for archaeologist Peter Glob. The body, which became known as the Tollund Man, was lying naked except for a leather cap and belt, with his legs drawn up in the fetal position. His eyes were closed and his lips pursed as though in peaceful prayer or meditation. That tranquillity was shattered when the peat around his neck was removed, and the rope by which he was hanged about 2000 years ago was discovered.
The Tollund man owes his survival to the special properties of the peat bog. In most soils the fleshy parts of the body quickly decay leaving only the bones of the dead individual; but in peaty conditions it sometimes happens that the flesh and skin are preserved while, ironically, the bones of such bodies often become spongy or decay altogether. The Tollund man was not the only ancient body to be recovered from a bog. Hundreds of 'bog people' have been discovered by local peat cutters decades or centuries ago, and the bodies have been lost or reburied. But modern scientific techniques can yield important evidence about the lives and deaths of these people from the past.
Most of the bog people we know about died violent deaths, often from strangulation (hanging or garroting), blows to the head, or stabbing (and sometimes more than one of these). It is possible that they were being punished for a crime, but there is some evidence to suggest that their deaths were ritual sacrifices.

Young Adolph Hitler Bio

A Biography of Adolf Hitler
Early Days - 1889-1908
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. The town is near to the Austro-German border, and his father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to two other children by Alois, (Gustav and Ida) but they both died in their infancy. Adolf attended school from the age of six and the family lived in various villages around the town of Linz, east of Braunau. By this time Adolf had a younger brother, Edmund, but he only lived until the age of six. In 1896, Klara gave birth to Adolf 's sister, Paula, who survived to outlive him.
Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left, before completing his tuition, with an ambition to become an artist. Alois Hitler had died when Adolf was thirteen and Klara brought up Adolf and Paula on her own. Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, young Adolf neither worked to earn his keep, nor formally studied, but had gained an interest in politics and history. During this time he unsuccessfully applied for admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
The Vagabond - 1909-1913


Klara Hitler died from cancer when Adolf was nineteen and from then onwards he had no relatives willing or able to support him. So, in 1909, he moved to Vienna in the hope of somehow earning a living. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens. He had declined to take regular employment and took occasional menial jobs and sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to provide sustenance. To view more about the latter years here is a link for you**http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/ahitler.html

A Soldier's Letter~~~~Lyrics

THE LETTER THAT NEVER REACHED HOME(Words by Edgar Leslie, Bernie Grossman / Music by Archie Gottler, 1916)*****Just after the fray where brave soldiers lay upon the field their comrades came to carry them away, they picked up a note some poor fellow wrote, they read it with a tear dimmed eye 'twas a soldier's last good bye.He's only just one a husband or son who knows but what he left before his work on earth was done, but some one may yearn for some one's return and never know just where he went or the message that he sent.Just an old fashioned letter that lay on the ground it came from a soldier boy's heart before he ever could send it he had to end it "I love you" was all he could start. It was found without an address not even a name, so his message will never be known,only God in His might, know's who waiting tonight for the letter that never reached home.

Heckalicious Hole ~~Dangggggggggg

A 330-foot-deep sinkhole swallowed about a dozen homes in Guatemala City:
Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main. The two bodies were found near the enormous fissure, floating in a river of sewage.
The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or others could open up.All i know is I didn't do it~~Yikes!

Homeless People Scam

http://www.filecabi.net/video/FeedingTheHomeless.html~~` This may just be an answer please watch!

Japanese Warning Signs

Japanese Warning SignsEven without Japanese abilities these signs are easy to understand. And quite entertaining.

Tesla Coil

Creates it's own special effects*****A Tesla coil is a device which can develop very high voltages pioneered by Nicola Tesla over 100 years ago. And somehow or other you can create a thing called a "Sauron's Eye" which apparently could be used to stop your car being stolen.Scroll down the page.

Vintage Hoax Pictures

Hoaxed Photos of Earlier Times
PHOTO GALLERY**Baby Adolf **The picture on the left was widely printed in newspapers throughout the 1930s. It was represented as being a snapshot of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Sometime in 1937 Mrs. Harriet Downs, of Westport, Conn., noticed the image in a magazine and recognized it as an altered baby photo of her own son, John May Warren. The original, unretouched picture is shown on the right. It is not known how the hoaxer obtained the original picture.Hoax Photo Gallery. In the days before Photoshop.

Hell's Kitchen New York

Hell's Kitchen History
Good read , the Capeman Murders, August 1959 link on that page is compelling.Always heard about this just didn't realize how interesting the history is.

China takes DIY approach to mountain greenery
Villagers in south-western China are scratching their heads over the local government's decision to paint a barren mountainside green.Workers who began spraying the Laoshou mountain last August told nearby residents they were doing so on the orders of the area authorities, but had not been told why.Some villagers believed Fumin county officials were to change the area's feng shui - the ancient Chinese belief of harmonising the physical environment for maximum health and financial benefit.Others suggested it was an unusual attempt to "green" the area in keeping with calls for more attention to the environment.China's official Xinhua News Agency estimated the cost of the paint job at 470,000 yuan (£31,247) and quoted villagers as saying that, if spent on plants and trees, the money could have restored a far greater area of barren mountain.

Mark Twain - Interesting

Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Mississippi, an impressive website from the Northern Illinois University Libraries.