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2022-05-17 14:31:34 Emperor Napoleon bequeathed, "I wish my ashes to rest on the banks of the Seine, among the French people whom I loved so dearly”.

Bonaparte's last will was carried out only 19 years after his death on St. Helena. On December 15, 1840, the remains of the great commander were solemnly reburied in the cathedral of the Invalides House in Paris. It was not until April 2, 1861, in the presence of Napoleon III, that the coffin with the body of the Emperor was for ever immured in a sarcophagus made of dark-red Karelian stone known as Shoksha porphyry, which was used in the construction of the altar at St. Isaac's Cathedral and the frieze of the Engineers' Castle. And Russia gave this stone to the French, despite the fact that they wanted to buy it.

“What a strange fate of the Emperor Napoleon. He lost his glory in the fight against Russia, and Russia builds him a tombstone."

So said Nicholas I, giving France 40 tons of Karelian crimson quartzite for Napoleon's sarcophagus. Open / Comment

2022-05-16 21:18:00 Arrested 16-year-old girl who opened fire at San Diego Elementary School, 1979.

Two people were killed in the shooting. The killer attributed her act to the fact that she just didn't like Mondays. Brenda Ann Spencer was sentenced to life in prison. Open / Comment

2022-05-16 17:18:00 No historical evidence exists that the Vikings fought wearing horned helmets.

They wore such headdresses only for ritual purposes or as decoration for special merits. The horned helmet was impractical in battle because it prevented the enemy's sword from slipping. Despite this, these inconveniences did not stop the knights of the Teutonic Order.

You can see images of them wearing horned helmets both at knightly tournaments and in real battles - such equipment served the knights to intimidate the enemy. Open / Comment

2022-05-16 14:18:00 M&M's are candies from army ration packs

M&M's candies originated in 1941 in the United States. The U.S. Army was the company's first major customer. It thought these candies would be great for soldiers' rations as they wouldn't melt when worn.

During World War II, these candies were sold only to the military Open / Comment

2022-05-15 21:18:00 "A Voice from the Past." Caricature from the American magazine Puck, 1905.

The shadow of Louis points to the image of the guillotine and says to Nicholas: "Careful, Brother." In front of him is a crowd of people begging him to sign a petition, but the tsar seems not to notice it. The cartoon refers back to Bloody Sunday. Already at that time it was obvious to many abroad that a revolution in Russia was inevitable. Open / Comment

2022-05-15 17:18:00 The Sleeper of Tollund.

This man lived in the 3rd or 4th century B.C. He was about 40 years old when he was hanged. It is believed that this was a sacrifice or execution for a crime. The corpse had lain for more than 2,000 years in an area of peat bogs near the village of Tollund in Denmark.

It was found in 1950 by brothers Viggo and Emil Hoigord. Open / Comment

2022-05-15 14:18:00 It is commonly believed that Napoleon was really short - 157 cm

This figure is obtained by translating the value of 5 feet 2 inches into the metric system. However, at that time feet were not only English feet, but practically every country had different feet.

If translated from French feet, Napoleon's height is 169 centimeters, an average for his era. Open / Comment

2022-05-14 21:48:06 The drug pervitin (a methamphetamine derivative) was widely used to stimulate Wehrmacht soldiers - its pills were officially included in the rations of airmen and tank crews.

Civilians used it as well - chocolate candies filled with pervitin were on sale, although the Ministry of Health later recognized its dangers and banned its production.

The pharmacists who created pervitin were transported to the United States after the war and participated in the development of drugs used by the U.S. Army in Korea and Vietnam. Open / Comment

2022-05-14 17:18:00 In 1945, Soviet schoolchildren presented the American ambassador with a precious wood panel depicting the U.S. coat of arms.

Neither the students nor the ambassador knew that the panel contained an eavesdropping device designed by Lev Termen. The bugging device was so well hidden that the U.S. intelligence agencies did not notice anything, while the Soviet ones listened to conversations in the ambassador's office for another 8 years.

After the discovery, the device was presented to the UN as evidence of Soviet intelligence activities, but the principle of its operation remained unsolved for several years. Open / Comment

2022-05-14 14:18:00 Adolf Hitler at age 35 after his release from Landesberg prison. Weimar Republic. December 20, 1924.

Hitler was accused of treason against his country for his participation in an attempt to organize a mutiny in 1923 called the Beer Putsch.

This photo was taken shortly after Hitler finished dictating the book Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess. Open / Comment