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The Münster Rebellion was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster. The city was under Anabaptist rule from February 1534, when the city hall was seized and Bernhard Knipperdolling installed as mayor, until its fall in June 1535.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_Rebellion

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04-18-2015 , 10:39 AM

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there was a pretty good Hardcore History podcast on that; worth a listen imo.

podcast #48 'prophets of doom'

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04-18-2015 , 12:38 PM

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DeuceSeven

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That's what got me to look at the wiki. Seemed interesting enough for this thread. Btw for history buffs that's a fantastic podcast.

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04-20-2015 , 09:47 AM

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That's what got me to look at the wiki. Seemed interesting enough for this thread. Btw for history buffs that's a fantastic podcast.

Whoa, wait a second. Are his podcasts really multiple hours long?!

I was all in, but if that's the case I will never listen to a single one.

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04-20-2015 , 10:01 AM

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Hardcore History is definitely hardcore.

I agree it would be nice if he broke them up into pieces, now it's almost like work listening to them.

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04-20-2015 , 10:09 AM

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Whoa, wait a second. Are his podcasts really multiple hours long?!

I was all in, but if that's the case I will never listen to a single one.

some are some are not.
either way its your loss. they are really good!

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04-20-2015 , 01:19 PM

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He has a lot of ~hour long ones about various topics, especially among his earlier shows. However imo the ones you really want to listen to are the longer series which he clearly does a ton of research and work for.

Death Throes of the Republic, Wrath of the Khans and Blueprint for Armageddon are my favourites. They are split up into a handful of episodes, but do still clock in at 10+ hours total.

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04-20-2015 , 02:15 PM

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You guys are really missing out. I generally break up the podcast in bits and pieces. The wiki page does no justice to what really happened which was explained in the podcast. Basically it was Charles Manson in charge of 14k people and if that wasn't interesting enough, have the town ingest some lsd like drug.

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04-20-2015 , 09:36 PM

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Obviously not everyone in nazi Germany was 100% Jewish or German. So how did they distinguish?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling_Test

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling

And we all know how Nazis treated Jews. But how about their axis partner the Japanese?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewis...Imperial_Japan

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo..._Jews_in_Japan

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04-21-2015 , 06:18 PM

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WW2 in the Pacific is more interesting, IMO. It was just horrifying and it does make you appreciate the gravity of the decisions that were made back then. It was a terrible war all around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

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The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking or Rape of Nanjing, was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (then spelled Nanking), the capital of the Republic of China. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants,[7][8] and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.[9][10] Several key perpetrators were tried and found guilty at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal, and were executed. A key perpetrator, Prince Asaka of the Imperial Family, escaped prosecution by having earlier been granted immunity by the Allies.

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04-21-2015 , 06:18 PM

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Prophets of Doom definitely worth the 4 hours. Recommended.

Now on part 3 of Blueprint for Armageddon. WWI. About eight hours in, really great.

Last edited by happyhappy...; 04-21-2015 at 06:20 PM. Reason: And by great I mean horrific.

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04-21-2015 , 06:28 PM

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Yup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...anese_war_dead

phenomenon of American soldiers collecting Japanese skulls, teeth, ears, as trophies.

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04-30-2015 , 06:01 PM

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Decade Volcanoes

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The Decade Volcanoes are 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas. The Decade Volcanoes project encourages studies and public-awareness activities at these volcanoes, with the aim of achieving a better understanding of the volcanoes and the dangers they present, and thus being able to reduce the severity of natural disasters.

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05-04-2015 , 10:02 AM

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not wiki but pretty interesting blog, sure many of these folks have wiki pages

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/

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05-07-2015 , 09:26 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce

and not wiki, but interesting:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history...-1930s-america

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05-08-2015 , 02:01 AM

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Feral children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

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Feral children lack the basic social skills that are normally learned in the process of enculturation. For example, they may be unable to learn to use a toilet, have trouble learning to walk upright after walking on fours all their life, and display a complete lack of interest in the human activity around them. They often seem mentally impaired and have almost insurmountable trouble learning a human language.[2] The impaired ability to learn a natural language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning, and taken as evidence in favor of the critical period hypothesis.[3]

There is little scientific knowledge about feral children. One of the best-known examples, the “detailed diaries” of Reverend Singh, who claimed to have discovered Amala and Kamala (two girls who had been “brought up from birth by wolves”) in a forest in India, has been proven a fraud to obtain funds for his orphanage. Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim states that Amala and Kamala were born mentally and physically disabled.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Wild_Boy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amala_and_Kamala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-A...emmie_Le_Blanc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxana_Malaya

And horrors of horrors, some of this **** is inflicted by the parents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_%28feral_child%29

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Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of abnormal child psychology.[1][2] When Genie was a baby her father decided that she was severely mentally ******ed, causing him to dislike her and withhold as much care and attention as possible. Around the time she reached the age of 20 months Genie's father decided to keep her as socially isolated as possible, so from that point until she reached 13 years, 7 months, he kept her locked alone in a room. During this time he almost always strapped her to a child's toilet or bound her in a crib with her arms and legs completely immobilized, forbade anyone from interacting with her, and left her severely malnourished.[3][4][5] The extent of Genie's isolation prevented her from being exposed to any significant amount of speech, and as a result she did not acquire language during childhood. Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles child welfare authorities on November 4, 1970.[1][3][4]

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05-22-2015 , 08:17 AM

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Denny McLain won 30 games in a season, but his career was much more interesting than that.

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05-22-2015 , 10:06 AM

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kid just graduated college at 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanishq_Abraham

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05-22-2015 , 04:43 PM

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kid just graduated college at 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanishq_Abraham

Holyyyy ****. He's accomplished more in his life (of only 11 years) than 99.9999% of the entire population of the world.

Great find! His younger sister has some incredible accomplishments herself.

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05-23-2015 , 01:48 AM

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Denny McLain won 30 games in a season, but his career was much more interesting than that.

American Pie is overrated.

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05-23-2015 , 11:16 PM

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Kim Peek, the inspiration for "Rain Man"

Laurence Kim Peek (November 11, 1951 – December 23, 2009) was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man. Unlike Babbitt, who had autism, Peek had FG syndrome.

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05-24-2015 , 07:07 AM

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Look up some YouTube videos of Derek Paravicini playing piano

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05-27-2015 , 03:00 AM

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Forgive me if this is a repeat. Edward Wayne Edwards possibly the most prolific serial killer ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...rial_killer%29

http://coldcasecameron.com/killers-timeline/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dan-zup...john-a-cameron

Police sergeant John Cameron wrote a book suggesting that Edwards was possibly involved in numerous high profile murders, with an unusually wide range of modus operandi, over a 45 year period. Cameron, known for his work on the Nathaniel Bar-Jonah case, worked in Deer Lodge Prison in 2010 and befriended Edwards.

He cites no direct supporting evidence while suggesting Edwards' possible involvement in the deaths of Patricia Kalitzke and Lloyd Duane Bogle in Great Falls on January 2, 1956, the Atlanta child murders, the Colonial Parkway Killer case, the Robison family murders, the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, the May 1, 2001 killing of Chandra Levy, the November 1, 2001 killing of Editor Kent Heitholt in Columbia, Missouri, and the 2001 anthrax attacks. Cameron further speculates that Edwards had killed as many as 500 people between the years 1946 (at the age of 11)until 1996. Between the years 1996 - 2009, the number of people killed remains unknown. It is believed that Edwards was the Zodiac Killer.[12]

Cameron also states in his book (pages 391-392) that Edwards was responsible for the Murder of Martha Moxley for which Michael Skakel was convicted in 2002, the murder of Laci Peterson, for which Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004, and the wrongful convictions of Father Gerald Robinson for the Murder of Margaret Ann Pahl, Wayne Williams, the West Memphis Three, Stobert L. Holt and Sergeant Edgar Patino. Chapter 25 covers the case of Burton Abbott, executed in March 1957, implicated after Edwards planted a body.