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2022-06-13 21:18:00 Darwin made lists of pros and cons of marriage before the wedding.

The pros included "constant companion" and "better than a dog. The list of cons included "will have to visit relatives" and "less money to buy books”. Open / Comment

2022-06-13 17:18:00 Claude Dettloff captured a personal tragedy of a young child when he took photographs of the British Columbia Regiment march of October 1, 1940.

Claude's photo depicts five-year-old Warren Whitey Bernard running from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard, shouting, "Wait for me, Daddy”.

The moment captured in the photograph is so poignant about the pain children feel when separated from their fathers that the photograph later became widely known: it was published in Life and hung in every school in British Columbia during the war.

And Claude, imbued with his son's affection for his father, began to follow this separated family, and filmed their reunion when Jack returned from the war. Open / Comment

2022-06-13 14:18:00 This photograph was taken on April 12, 1912, by the captain of the SS 'Etonian' (ship owned by the Cambrian Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. and served the Boston-Liverpool and Boston-Cardiff voyages). The coordinates indicated in the photo caption are 41°50' longitude and 49°50' latitude.

According to many researchers, it was this iceberg that the infamous Titanic crashed into two days later, on April 14, 1912. Open / Comment

2022-06-12 21:18:00 One of the greatest polyglots in human history, the Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries, spoke 39 languages fluently and could understand almost as many more, though he never left Italy.

He once learned a new language in one night only to receive a confession in the morning from a foreign criminal sentenced to death. Open / Comment

2022-06-12 17:18:00 On April 24, 1945, on the fourth day after the American occupation of Nuremberg, a victorious military parade was held in front of the main podium of the Third Reich at Zeppelin Field.

The highlight of the event was the destruction by explosion of the sculptural swastika that crowned the facade of the central building of the Führer's "Führertribune". Open / Comment

2022-06-12 14:18:00 "Stalin came to Russia with a wooden plough and left it in possession of nuclear weapons," Winston Churchill

A phrase attributed to Churchill that he never uttered. Indeed, Winston Churchill regarded the Soviet leader with apprehension and respect, as reflected even in the Fulton speech that began the Cold War: "I deeply admire and honor the valiant Russian people and my wartime comrade Marshal Stalin.”

But Churchill said nothing about the plough and the atomic bomb. It was first quoted by the Stalinist Nina Andreeva in her article "I can't compromise my principles" in March 1988.

The source of inspiration for Andreeva might have been an article about Stalin from the 1956 Encyclopedia Britannica. The author of the article, the Sovietologist Isaac Deutscher, wrote: "The essence of Stalin's truly historic achievements is that he took Russia with a plough and left it with nuclear reactors. He raised Russia to the level of the second industrially developed country in the world.” Open / Comment

2022-06-11 21:18:00 Australian soldiers of the British Army bury with all military honors the best pilot of World War I - the German Manfred von Richthofen, nicknamed "Red Baron", who died on British territory, April 1918. Open / Comment

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2022-06-11 17:18:00 Thomas Edison was in public school for only three months.

He showed no progress at all, and his teacher even called him a dullard. After that, Edison's mother decided to homeschool Thomas. Open / Comment

2022-06-11 14:18:00 American Gary Gilmore committed several robberies and murders and was sentenced to be shot in 1977.

Before his execution, he was given a final word, and Gilmore said: 'Let's Do It'. The phrase later inspired Nike's famous 'Just Do It' slogan. Open / Comment