You will never guess the reason chainsaws were inventer! NEVER! This terrible trends is truly terrible. Brace yourself!

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https://historyofyesterday.com/chainsaws-were-invented-for-a-disturbing-reason-cd39cefb5983
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mamamia.com.au/birth-facts/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/retro/why-were-chainsaws-invented-how-tool-was-used-during-childbirth-and-scottish-surgeons-who-created-it-3031236%3famp

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40324274.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/vv5ww9/ireland-wants-to-shred-the-records-of-brutal-operations-they-performed-on-women
https://allthatsinteresting.com/symphysiotomy


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Executions were a messy business! Executioners were expected to perform executions smoothly…but that didn't always happen. Learn about the different types of executions and what can go wrong.

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The Executioner Always Chops Twiice by Geoffrey Abbott


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People will try just about anything to cure themselves of whatever ails them. Even trusting whatever a Hangman comes up with from the dead bodies of criminals he punished. This Terrible Trend is gross!

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Quackery: A Brief History of the worst ways to Cure Everything Lydia Kang, MD and Nate Pederson

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You may think from the title we are making this plague up, but it was really a thing, and there were several times in history that it happened. This was not just a one time deal! The Dance Plague sometimes referred to as St Vitus dance, or St John’s Dance depending on the area where it broke out. It is just what it sounds like, people started dancing and couldn’t stop! Some had hallucinations, others would scream out in pain, and it was contagious! There is no definitive conclusion of what caused it but we give several theories. What do you think caused the dancing plague?

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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg


https://www.historynet.com/the-dancing-plague-of-1518-historys-oddest-epidemic/


https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/the-medieval-dance-of-death/


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-case-dancing-mania-struck-germany-six-centuries-ago-today-180959549/

https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518

https://www.britannica.com/science/Sydenham-chorea

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220512-the-people-who-danced-themselves-to-death


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The price we are willing to pay to meet beauty standards. This isn't anything new! Throughout history women have been doing everything including dying to make sure they meet these standards. The Renaissance period is no different. Pale, white, blemish free, translucent skin was what women were trying to achieve. To do so they were knowingly poisoning themselves. What would you do for beauty?

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http://www.amonbe.org/renaissance-beautification-rituals-revealed/

https://lezamakeup.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/ideals-of-beauty-the-renaissance/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-being-pale-became-passe?ref=scroll

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We have heard of raining men, and raining cats and dogs, but we have never heard of raining meat! This strange occurrence has some crazy theories on what it actually was! This story is crazy! What do you think it was?!

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074156194&view=1up&seq=260&q1=meat

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/


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The Japanese trend of teeth blackening. It was a standard of beauty until the 19th century! Just wait until you learn what they did to make them black!

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The Mary Celeste is known in history as a Ghost ship! But before she was found abandoned adrift she had an unlucky past, and that led to her unlucky demise. Come on this adventure of mystery and lots of bizarre suspicions.

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www.history.com/.amp/news/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/

www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-disappearance-mary-celeste/

www.historyhit.com/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste/

explorethearchive.com/mary-celeste-lost-at-sea%3famp=1

https://www.americanheritage.com/mystery-mary-celeste#2

slate.com/human-interest/2011/12/the-mary-celeste-the-unluckiest-ship-to-ever-sail-the-seven-seas.html

numa.net/expeditions/mary-celeste/

explorersweb.com/exploration-mysteries-the-mary-celeste/

www.maryceleste.net/


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The Victorian area was full of strange and rather morbid trends! Nothing more morbid than their mourning customs! There were a lot of superstitions attached to their costumes, and many really creepy traditions they followed!


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Lord Byron was a poet, a man of the world. Women wanted him and men wanted to be him, or be with him. He had love affairs all over the world. He is considered the first famous person, and created “Byron Mania”. Come learn about his exploits and endowment.

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http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioe1/edlest01.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Byron-poet

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/vol28_1.1_8.pdf

http://carmichael.lib.virginia.edu/story/tools.html

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/that_time_they_opened_lord_byrons_coffin_and_found_he_had_a_humongous_schlo


Rest in pieces: the curious fates of famous corpses by Bess Lovejoy


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