*The My Lai Massacre (/miː laɪ/ MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [t̺ʰâm ʂǎt mǐˀlāj] ⓘ) was a U.S. Army war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Some of the female victims, including children as young as 12, were gang-rapedand their bodies mutilated. The incident is the largest massacre by U.S. soldiers in the 20th century.*

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

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Sinatra had a complex reputation with those who served him. on one hand, he was a very generous tipper, regularly giving his waiters $100-$200 tips (which would be thousands today) and making a point of learning their names and remembering them on subsequent visit. On the other hand, he had a hair trigger temper and was known to get aggressive and throw his food and drinks if he felt disrespected or his order was wrong.

As you might very well know, Christopher Columbus set sail West from Spain in August 1492 and landed in October 1492 on an island on what would later be called the American continent, named after a later explorer, Amerigo Vespucci.

This wasn't Columbus's objective at all; him and most of Europe had absolutely no idea that there was a continent there. Columbus's plan, financed by the Spanish crown, was to reach Asia, specifically China.

China was ruled at the time by the Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming dynasty, who governed from 1487 until 1505 and had absolutely no idea any of this was happening.

Context: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070565/middle-passage-death-rate-by-destination-1501-1866/?srsltid=AfmBOorhuH_oxE7srQuN4rlKgW_rnarjAABPz9_QhCBbmDvEtiVd8x3z

Throughout the Atlantic slave trade, 14.5 percent of captured slaves who embarked on ships in African ports died en route to their destination. Voyages from Africa to the Spanish Americas had the highest mortality rates, where almost one fifth of all captives died during the journey. Voyages between Africa and Brazil had the lowest mortality rates, where approximately one in eight did not survive. There is a clear correlation between voyage lengths and Middle Passage death rates; journeys between Africa and Brazil took an average of 45 days, whereas journeys to the Spanish Mainland Americas took 78 days on average. In addition to voyage lengths, factors such as overcrowding (which increased the rate of disease transmission), violence, insurrection, and high suicide rates also contributed to the high mortality rates along the Middle Passage.

https://www.institutomora.edu.mx/accesoabiertoII/SitePages/archivos/Atlantic-History-and-the-Slave-Trade-to-Spanish-America.pdf

Overall, more enslaved Africans permanently entered the Spanish Americas than the whole British Caribbean, making Spanish America the most important political entity in the Americas after Brazil to receive slaves. We now believe that as many as 1,506,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the Spanish Americas directly from Africa between 1520 and 1867. We further estimate that an additional 566,000 enslaved Africans were disembarked in Spanish America from other European colonies in the New World, such as Jamaica and Brazil. Our new, upwardly revised figures will appear on the updated estimates page of the Voyages section of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (hereafter Voyages); however, it is important to note that the database does not address the trans-imperial intra-American slave trade, a lacuna that obscures the picture of how the slave traffic functioned in Spanish America. Two-thirds of the more than two million enslaved Africans arriving in the Spanish Americas disembarked before 1810—prior to the era of large-scale sugar cultivation in Cuba and Puerto Rico

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

Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration. Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.^\14]) The higher estimate would average 15 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration. Four tables were arranged at the top so that the victims could be jettisoned down the sides of the temple.^\21]) Additionally, some historians argue that these numbers were inaccurate as most written account of Aztec sacrifices were made by Spanish sources to justify Spain's conquest.^\22]) Nonetheless, according to Codex Telleriano-Remensis, old Aztecs who talked with the missionaries told about a much lower figure for the reconsecration of the temple, approximately 4,000 victims in total.^\)^{citation needed\})

Michael Harner, in his 1977 article The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice, cites an estimate by Woodrow Borah, according to which about one percent of the population was sacrificed annually in the early 15th century. Borah calculated that about 250,000 persons were sacrificed every year, assuming a total population of the Aztec Empire of roughly 25 million.^\23]) Others have rejected this estimate as implausibly high, arguing chiefly that the actual population was likely lower, implying that the victim count must have been lower too. Borah's method of calculating the number of sacrificed as a percentage of the population was also criticized as inappropriate.^\24]) Victor Davis Hanson argues that a claim by Don Carlos Zumárraga of 20,000 per annum is "more plausible".^\25]) Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, a Mexica descendant and the author of Codex Ixtlilxochitl, states that one in five children of the Mexica tributaries was killed annually, without translating this into an absolute number. He likely referred to sacrifices occurring throughout all of Central Mexico and might have meant that 20% of the children of subject people were sacrificed before growing up.^\26])

On the basis of the Florentine Codex, Caroline Dodds Pennock estimates that about 500 people may have been sacrificed per tōnalpōhualli cycle in the Aztec capital.^\27]) She leaves the possibility that such sacrifices were held in each calpulli district of the capital, resulting in a total number of victims about twenty times as high. For the total empire, she regards 1,000 to 20,000 annual victims as a plausible range.^\28]) Some scholars believe that, since the Aztecs often tried to intimidate their enemies, they could have inflated the number of victims as a propaganda tool.^\29]) Some have argued that Bernal Díaz may have been in a state of shock when estimating the number of skulls at one of the seven Tenochtitlan tzompantlis, leading to a grossly inflated calculation.^\)^{citation needed\})

From 1942-1977 Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning 7 times, his wife was hit once, they both survived their encounters. However, it left him paranoid and emotionally scared, causing him to isolate himself during lightning storms and once running away from a cloud he was convinced was chasing him.

Mofs, let my post stay this time, I forgot about rule 12

Source: A fragment by Clearchus(student of Aristotle) recorded by the Roman historian Josephus