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colorised stereographs depicting Japanese soldiers and camp life during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.



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these kats are pretty dark
 

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It is not true at all. Monkey Wrench was not named for Jack Johnson at all.

Not entirely true

In the 1920's Jack Johnson patented an improvement he invented for the existing wrench, but the wrench itself and its name were invented by an Englishman in the 1860's.
 

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Mary Ellen Pleasant was an African American abolitionist, businesswoman, and entrepreneur for over fifty years in the San Francisco Gold Rush heyday.

Histories of the west describe her as a madam, voodoo queen, and prostitute. Pleasant herself requested that the words “she was a friend of John Brown” be printed on her grave. From Philadelphia, she was educated in Nantucket and while in Boston began associations with William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionist including Alexander Smith whom she married. After his death and the willing of money, she moved west, spending time in Canada Westin working with abolitionist and fugitive slaves near Chatham in the late 1850s. At this time see met John Brown where the raid on Harper’s ferry was planned.

By the 1860s she moved to San Francisco where she became a restaurateur and investor. Her best-known establishment, at 920 Washington Street (in the heart of today’s Chinatown) was the meeting place of some of the city’s most prominent politicians. Mary Pleasant challenged Jim Crow laws in her case against the North Beach Railroad Co. in 1868, and she testified in a highly publicized trial Sharon v. Sharon of 1884.

She was well aware of the distortions of her character in the press, contending that though they (the press) were smart; she was smarter. Mary Ellen Pleasant died in 1904.


http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/san-franciscos-finest-mary-ellen-pleasant
 

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Belgian King Leopold II ruled The Congo for almost 30 years and killed over 10 million people mostly Congolese. He did things like cut off their hands, feet, and genitals. In the pictures below, a father looks at the hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter for failing to meet her rubber quota. The other pictures show children whose hands were cutoff for missing quotas or disobeying.


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SamSneed

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Belgian King Leopold II ruled The Congo he killed 10 million people and did things like cut off their hands, feet, and genitals. In the picture below, a father looks at the hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter for failing to meet her rubber quota.


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Shit angers me
 

SirRahX

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Pendant with the Virgin Mary and pendant with a feminine Christ, Bakongo culture, Kongo Kingdom

Exhibition: DU JOURDAIN AU CONGO - Art et christianisme en Afrique Centrale

Christianity (Catholicism) arrived in the Kongo Kingdom (what is now northern Angola, western Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Republic of Congo) in the 15th century, King Nzinga converted to Christianity in 1491 making the Kongo Kingdom a pre-colonial Catholic state. Kongo Catholicism did not completely separate itself from traditional Kongo religion, Catholic customs and traditions mixed with traditional Kongo religious customs and traditions. The religious syncretism also gave birth to Antonianism, a Kongo-Catholic sect founded by Kongo prophetess Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita).
 

Cybts1

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Belgian King Leopold II ruled The Congo he killed 10 million people and did things like cut off their hands, feet, and genitals. In the picture below, a father looks at the hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter for failing to meet her rubber quota.


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WOW, never hear of this.
 

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Photography and the Religious Encounter: Ambiguity and Aesthetics in Missionary Representations of the Luba (Baluba) of South East Belgian Congo
 

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Bankisi/Minkisi (plural of nkisi), Nduda figure, Yombe, Kongo (Bakongo) culture

These minkisi are associated with warriors, they protect the warriors they belong to.

Ritual specialists called banganga (plural of nganga) use minkisi (plural of nkisi) as divination tools. With the help of incantations, whistle sounds, claps, and other interactive gestures, ritual practitioners call ancestral spirits from the underworld to inhabit sculptures like this one as a means of resolving social, political, or personal problems, which befall communities or individuals. -
University of Michigan Museum of Art
 
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