German East Africa is now known as Tanzania. In the early 1900’s the natives of this land were subjected to German rule and soon sought to rid themselves of the imperial shackles. A spirit medium named Kinjikitile Ngwale become the voice of the oppressed natives. He changed his name to Bokero after he claimed to […]
The accusation is known as “blood libel.” It was thought among English Christians that Jewish people needed the blood of Christian children for use in their religious rituals. Blood libel received mainstream attention in the case of Hugh of Lincoln, who was murdered at the approximate age of 8 years old. Hugh’s body was discovered […]
In March 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, U.S. troops massacred hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of Son My. The massacre is known as the My Lai Massacre in the United States because one of the areas of the village was called My Lai. To make matters worse, the […]
The Zeigarnik Effect was discovered in 1927 by psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik. It states that once a task has begun it creates a task-specific tension which is relieved once the task has been completed. So the open orders are more easily remembered by waiters because the bill has yet to be closed but, as soon as […]
The Bagh massacre occurred in the province of Punjab, British India, on April 13, 1919. Thousands of Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus had gathered in the public garden on the festival day of Vaisakhi. Additionally, there was a protest planned in the garden in the early afternoon over the arrest and deportation of two national leaders. […]
Marlon Brando was nominated, and won, the award for Best Actor in 1973 for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Instead of walking to the podium and accepting his award when his name was announced Brando sent Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather in his place. While onstage she informed the audience Brando was […]
The meeting occurred in the midst of World War II. Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the leaders of Great Britain and The United States, respectively, had desired a meeting with Joseph Stalin, the leader of Russia, to discuss the strategy the three countries would take in dealing with the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and […]
Physicist Enrico Fermi packed up and emigrated to the United States in 1938, the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Instead of returning home after accepting the award in Stockholm he continued on to the United States because the atmosphere in Italy was beginning to become toxic for his Jewish wife […]
Two black men, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, were lynched by a white mob on April 13, 1937. They mob was convinced the two men were responsible for the shooting murder of a white storekeeper in Duck Hill, Mississippi. The police used bloodhounds to track the scent from the scene of the crime and ended […]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in the election of 1932 and was scheduled to be sworn in on March 4 1933. During this period he decided to take a Florida vacation and found himself in Miami before sailing to the Carribean. Roosevelt had agreed to meet his constituents and give […]
