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2022-06-17 14:18:00 Slaughterhouse of Chicago, USA.

Built in 1865 and in operation for 106 years. By 1900, the 2 km² slaughterhouse housed 300,000 pigs, 75,000 head of cattle, 80,000 sheep and 6,000 horses.

With the spread of direct transportation from farmers by refrigerated trucks, the need for centralization was no longer necessary, and in 1971 the slaughterhouse was closed, and an industrial park was built in its place. Open / Comment

2022-06-16 21:18:00 Oderint, dum metuant (Latin: "Let them hate as long as they fear!") is a Latin expression.

It is used to describe an authority or ruler who holds on to the fear of his subordinates.

The source is considered to be the words of the cruel king Atreus from the tragedy of the same name by the ancient Roman poet Lucius Actius.

According to Suetonius, it was an expression that the emperor Caligula liked to repeat. Open / Comment

2022-06-16 17:18:00 The picture shows the heirs of the ancient Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn dynasty of Westphalia, Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander.

The picture was taken in 1955 on a yacht in Mallorca by their mother Marianne, who was a famous photographer. Open / Comment

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2022-06-16 14:18:00 On August 11, 1984, U.S. President Reagan, checking the microphone before a press conference, declared to the entire country, unaware that the microphone was on:

“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

News of his flippant remark soon leaked to the media, turning what Reagan believed to be a harmless private quip into an international embarrassment, precipitating dismay among America’s allies and providing fodder for Soviet propaganda mills. Open / Comment

2022-06-15 21:18:00 Prince Mikhail Dolgorukov before his execution.

The sentence was carried out on December 11, 1937. His guilt was not proven. Twenty years later, in 1957, he was rehabilitated posthumously.

He was one of many who were shot for the title. Open / Comment

2022-06-15 14:18:00 In 1835, Halley's Comet flew close to Earth, and two weeks after its perihelion, Mark Twain was born. In 1909, he wrote:

"I came in 1835 with Halley's Comet, a year later it arrives again, and I expect to leave with it”.

And so it happened: Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day after another perihelion of the comet. Open / Comment

2022-06-14 21:18:00 American scientist James Stuckey and volunteer Judy Creeden demonstrate the human body's ability to function as a conductor of electric current during a lecture in New York organized by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1966. Open / Comment

2022-06-14 17:18:00 When Pablo Picasso was born, the midwife thought he was stillborn.

The child was saved by his uncle, who was smoking cigars and, seeing the baby lying on the table, blew smoke in his face, after which Pablo roared.

Thus, we can say that smoking saved Picasso's life. Open / Comment

2022-06-14 14:18:00 The famous sadistic landlady Darya Saltykova, who murdered and tortured dozens of peasants and yard people, had, among other possessions, a house in Moscow.

It was located on the corner of Bolshaya Lubyanka Street and Kuznetsky Most. Ironically, it is now the location of the FSB buildings, in the basements of which many people were tortured in the 1930s. Open / Comment