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An anti-masturbation device. The rare 19th century item is made of copper and was designed to be worn by boys so they could not commit the ‘sin’. Attached to a belt it would have encased the genitalia. The bizarre antique dates back to around 1880 and was used in Catholic France.
Mary Fields aka “Stagecoach Mary” aka the most badass mail-carrier employed by the US Postal Service!
CHARACTER NAME: Mary Fields
BIRTH DATE: 1832
BIRTH PLACE: Tennessee
EDUCATION: No formal education
FAMILY BACKGROUND: Born a slave, grew up an orphan, never married, had no children. The nuns were her family; Mother Amadeus was her mother. She loved the children of Cascade County and supported the local baseball team as their number one fan.
DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Mary Fields lived by her wits and her strength. She traveled north to Ohio, settled in Toledo and worked for the Catholic convent. She formed a strong bond with Mother Amadeus. When the nuns moved to Montana and Mary learned of Mother Amadeus' failing health, she went west to help out. Having nursed Mother Amadeus back to health, she decided to stay and help build the St. Peter's mission school. She protected the nuns. Mary was a pistol-packing, hard-drinking woman, who needed nobody to fight her battles for her. When turned away from the mission because of her behavior, the nuns financed her in her own business. She opened a cafe. Mary's big heart drove her business into the ground several times because she would feed the hungry. In 1895 she found a job that suited her, as a U.S. mail coach driver for the Cascade County region of central Montana. She and her mule Moses, never missed a day, and it was in this capacity that she earned her nickname of "Stagecoach", for her unfailing reliability.
DATE OF DEATH: 1914
awesome photos and history lessons. props to the contributors.
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“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages” -Angela Y. Davis
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages” -Angela Y. Davis
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“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos — and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.“— Frantz Fanon
“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos — and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.“— Frantz Fanon
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Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, the first female US Senator. She served two days in office, November 21st, 1922 to November 22nd, 1922.
She said that in order to protect white women from black men, one thousand black men should be lynched a week to prevent rape and protect white womanhood.
“If it takes lynching to protect women’s dearest possession from drunken, ravening beasts,” she said, “then I say lynch a thousand a week.”
Source:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-904
Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, the first female US Senator. She served two days in office, November 21st, 1922 to November 22nd, 1922.
She said that in order to protect white women from black men, one thousand black men should be lynched a week to prevent rape and protect white womanhood.
“If it takes lynching to protect women’s dearest possession from drunken, ravening beasts,” she said, “then I say lynch a thousand a week.”
Source:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-904
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During Columbus’ time in Haiti, he and his men hunted the Taino Indians for sport, beating, raping, torturing, killing, and then using the Indian bodies as food for their hunting dogs.
(Painting: The Dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa by Theodore de Bry)
More information.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html
During Columbus’ time in Haiti, he and his men hunted the Taino Indians for sport, beating, raping, torturing, killing, and then using the Indian bodies as food for their hunting dogs.
(Painting: The Dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa by Theodore de Bry)
More information.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html
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Happy Columbus Day! Today America honors the slave trader, religious fanatic, gold seeker, and mass murderer Christopher Columbus.
Indian Massacre.
Bartolome de las Casas quote is one thing, “They made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground, and by thirteens, in honour and reverence of our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, they put wood underneath and, with fire, they burned the Indians alive.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre
Happy Columbus Day! Today America honors the slave trader, religious fanatic, gold seeker, and mass murderer Christopher Columbus.
Indian Massacre.
Bartolome de las Casas quote is one thing, “They made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground, and by thirteens, in honour and reverence of our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, they put wood underneath and, with fire, they burned the Indians alive.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre
Arab Musicians
They're Africans. Back then Arab was just used to denote that they where Muslims.
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