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Did money make them colour blind Sarah Rector, a little black girl became one of the richest girl in the world in 1913, when oil was found on the land that the government had allotted to her family.

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Did money make them colour blind Sarah Rector, a little black girl became one of the richest girl in the world in 1913, when oil was found on the land that the government had allotted to her family. By the time she turned 18, Rector was already a millionaire and was so rich that the Oklahoma Legislature declared her as a white person. Rector’s parents, Rose McQueen and Joseph Rector, were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866. As such, they and their descendants were listed as freedmen on the Dawes Rolls, by which they were entitled to land allotments under the Treaty of 1866 made by the United States with the Five Civilized Tribes. This is how Sarah Rector came to own the land that would make her a millionaire. The parcel allotted to Sarah Rector was located in Glenpool, 60 miles from where she and her family lived. It was considered inferior inferti

When the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants

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When the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn't upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country. The KGB’s attempt to blackmail Sukarno was not an isolated incident but part of a larger pattern of using compromising material, or “kompromat,” to manipulate individuals. The KGB had a long history of leveraging compromising photos, videos, and intelligence to its advantage. This tactic extended beyond foreign leaders to businessmen, journalists, and others who could be influenced to support Soviet policies. Sukarno, born Koesno Sosrodihardjo, was a charismatic leader known for his oratory skills. He led the Indonesian independence movement and served as Indonesia’s first president from 1949 to 1966. During his presidency, he replaced the country’s original parliamentary system with an authoritarian “Guided D

On January 26, 2011, during a blizzard in Philadelphia, Ellen Greenberg decided to leave her workplace and return to her apartment in Manayunk.

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On January 26, 2011, during a blizzard in Philadelphia, Ellen Greenberg decided to leave her workplace and return to her apartment in Manayunk. Around 6:40 p.m. that same evening, Ellen tragically succumbed to twenty stab wounds, including ten inflicted on her back and neck.  Additionally, she had eleven bruises at various stages of healing on her right arm, abdomen, and right leg.  Despite these concerning circumstances, the Philadelphia Police Department initially classified her death as a suicide. The Philadelphia Police Department did acknowledge that there were suspicions surrounding Ellen Greenberg's death, with homicide investigators considering it a suspicious case.  Nevertheless, the case was officially closed as a suicide. Ellen Greenberg was a 27-year-old elementary school teacher at Juniata Park Academy in the Juniata neighborhood of Philadelphia. She was born in New York City, New York on June 23, 1983. She lived in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, where she

Surveillance footage of Shaniya Davis being carried by her killer after her mother traded her for sex to settle a $200 debt.

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Surveillance footage of Shaniya Davis being carried by her killer after her mother traded her for sex to settle a $200 debt. The tragic case of Shaniya Davis has many chilling aspects that are not widely known. One such fact is that the initial reports falsely claimed that the debt was drug-related. In reality, Mario McNeill had lent Antoinette Davis the money to pay for a hotel room and to buy food when she and her children were homeless. Antoinette refused to pay, so Mario took Shaniya. Antoinette made no attempt to stop him from taking the 5-year-old. Another lesser-known fact is that the police and school employees failed to notify child protective services workers of concerns regarding Shaniya’s family. For instance, the police had conducted a drug raid at her family’s home several months prior to her murder. This oversight raises questions about the effectiveness of the system in place to protect vulnerable children. The case had a profound impact on the public

This is the most disturbing police interview you’ll ever hear… In 2014, 18-year-old Kevin Davis, killed his mother, Kimberly Hill, and then sexually abused her body.

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This is the most disturbing police interview you’ll ever hear… In 2014, 18-year-old Kevin Davis, killed his mother, Kimberly Hill, and then sexually abused her body. Davis admitted to investigators he choked his mother with a cord and stabbed her in the head before finally killing her with a hammer. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the disgusting crime. In the course of the investigation, Davis revealed some chilling details about the crime. He confessed that he had initially tried to strangle his mother with a cord ripped from a video game console controller, but when that didn’t work because she started screaming, he resorted to using a hammer. He chillingly recalls during the police interview that his mother was out pretty quickly and kind of tried to play dead at first. He then found a hammer in his mother’s drawers and returned to the living room to finish the act. Davis also admitted to investigators that he had s

David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958 Resulted in National Outcry

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David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility The history of Jim Crow is painful, and the reverberating effects of segregation still impact us today. No matter how bleak the history, it’s important to note that there were droves of Black people who stood up and fought back against what was considered the status quo, demanding fair and equal treatment under the law. There were those who demanded access to colleges and universities, freedom riders who refused to sit at the back of buses, and those who endured horrific violence for demanding they be served at dine-in restaurants. One courageous person whose story doesn’t get told enough is David Isom, the 19-year-old who broke the color line at a segregated pool in 1958 In 1958, David Isom, a 19 year old broke the colour line in a segregated pool in Florida. Isom said he was treated like “any other citizen” at the pool. However Offici

Horrible strange but true crimes in American history

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In 1983 David Steffen was convicted for the rape and murder of 19 year old Cincinnati Girl Karen Range. David Steffen a door to door sales man admitted the murder but insisted he didn’t rape her and couldn’t explain how they found semen in her body. He was given the death penalty due to the sexual motive for the crime. In 2008 to appeal his sentence his attorney got the D.N.A sample tested and it turned out it wasn’t a match for David. Instead it belong to Kenneth Douglas a coroner's technician who worked at the Hamilton County’s morgue were Karen's body was being kept. Kenneth Douglas In the strange twist of weirdness during the course of his 16 years working at the morgue Kenneth Douglas had been assaulting hundreds of female corpses. Due to these new outcomes David Steffen won his appeal and the Judge commuted his sentence to life in prison with no possibility for parole. Kenneth Douglas was given three years for gross indecency with a corpse.

An Iranian man has been sentenced to death for murder but the unthinkable occurred

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An Iranian man has been sentenced to death for murder but the unthinkable occurred  But at the execution ground, the mother of the victim instead forgave the man and removed the rope around his neck that would be used to hang the man. Usually, at the execution ground, the victim's parents kick the chair under the gallows to complete the execution. As in the picture above, seconds before the execution, the victim's mother chose to forgive the murderous man. Because she didn't want to let the mother of the perpetrator feel the same way, losing her son. The mother of the perpetrator hugged the mother of the victim and cried.

Shocking Secrets of the Infamous Characters Who Rival Hitler Hideki Tojo : The Architect of Japan’s War Crimes

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Shocking Secrets of the Infamous Characters Who Rival Hitler Hideki Tojo : The Architect of Japan’s War Crimes Hideki Tojo, the general and Prime Minister of Imperial Japan during World War II, indeed played a significant role in overseeing and perpetuating Japan’s war crimes and brutalities. His actions had a devastating impact on millions of innocent lives. Here are some specific examples of the war crimes associated with Hideki Tojo: 1. Unit 731: One of the most notorious war crimes associated with Hideki Tojo is the establishment of Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research unit. Under the guise of conducting medical research, Unit 731 conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Chinese, Korean, and other prisoners of war. These experiments included vivisections, forced infections, exposure to deadly diseases, and testing of chemical agents. The victims suffered excruciating pain and death, and it is estimated that up to 250,000 people were subject

Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners, 1943

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Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners, 1943 Amon Leopold Goeth was camp commander of the Plaszow concentration camp from February 1943 until September 1944. In the photograph, he can be seen standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners. Amon Leopold Goeth ( German:  Amon Göth ) the villain of the movie Schindler’s List, was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 24, he joined the Nazi party. In 1940, Amon Goeth became a member of the Waffen-SS. He was assigned to the SS headquarters for Operation Reinhard in Lublin in German-occupied Poland in 1942. Operation Reinhard was the plan to evacuate the Jews from the Ghettos in Poland to three death camps: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, all of which were in eastern Poland. In February 1943, Goeth received a promotion and became the third SS officer to hold the job of Commandant of the Plaszow labor camp. While he was the C

Czeslawa Kwoka, the 14-year-old inmate of Auschwitz, 1942 Czesława Kwoka in 1942 or 1943

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Czeslawa Kwoka, the 14-year-old inmate of Auschwitz, 1942 Czesława Kwoka in 1942 or 1943. Czeslawa Kwoka, age 14, appears in a prisoner identity photo provided by the Auschwitz Museum, taken by Wilhelm Brasse while working in the photography department at Auschwitz, the Nazi-run death camp where some 1.5 million people died during World War II. She died at Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland and is among those memorialized in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum indoor exhibit called ‘Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners’. (Here you can check a heartbreaking photo collection of the Holocaust). Czeslawa was a Polish Catholic girl, from Wolka Zlojecka, Poland, who was sent to Auschwitz with her mother in December of 1942. She was deemed a political prisoner for living in Zamosc, the location of a future German colony. The cut on her lip in picture two came from being struck by a female Kapo for not speaking German which she did not know. (Speaking Polish was ou

Deputy Mayor Ernst Kurt Lisso and his family after committing suicide by cyanide to avoid capture by US troops, 1945

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Deputy Mayor Ernst Kurt Lisso and his family after committing suicide by cyanide to avoid capture by US troops, 1945 Deputy Mayor Dr. jur. Ernst Kurt Lisso, his wife Renate Stephanie, in chair, and their daughter Regina Lisso after committing suicide by cyanide in the Leipzig New Town Hall to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945 As the Red Army and the Western Allies pressed closer and closer to Berlin suicides grew. Thousands of Germans committed suicide in the spring of 1945, rather than face occupation and the expected abuse by their victors. 3,881 people were recorded as committing suicide during April in the Battle of Berlin, although the figure is probably an underestimate. Although the motives were widely explained as the “fear of the Russian invasion”, the suicides also happened in the areas liberated by the British and American troops. On the 18th of April 1945, a number of officials of Leipzig committed suicide in the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus). The De