Galvarino was heralded as a fearsome warrior, though it probably had something to do with the sharpened knives secured to the ends of his arms where his hands used to be.Wikimedia CommonsA depiction of Galvarino just after the Spanish cut off his hands. Galvarino was the Mapuche’s version of William Wallace. A chieftain and warrior, Galvarino sought to free his people from Spanish domination in the mid-1500s. The Mapuche inhabited present-day Chile and much of Argentina in the 1500s when the Spanish conquered the Incas with their superior forces and firepower.

64-year-old Guy Gorney has a history of showing off his kills. The hunter has killed more than 70 wild animals for sport.FacebookGuy Gorney straddles a dead lion. A newly resurfaced video shows a trophy hunter shooting a sleeping lion in Zimbabwe, sending it to a painful death — and now eliciting outrage across the internet. According to the The Daily Mail, the hunter is 64-year-old Guy Gorney of Manhattan, Illinois. The graphic footage shows Gorney firing three rounds into the sleeping lion, which then wakes up writhing in pain.

From chain-smoking Santa to gifting guns, these vintage Christmas ads are so offensive, sexist and bizarre that it's hard to believe they're real.Source: Huffington Post Vintage advertisements offer a unadulterated look into the traditions and worldviews that people once believed. These vintage Christmas ads paint a picture of the past that’s not so politically correct. From constantly insinuating that women should be left working in the home to using children to sell lighters and guns, these ads wouldn’t fly today.

The Harpers Ferry Raid: When Abolitionist John Brown Tried To Start A Slave Revolt Kendrick Foster last year On October 16, 1859, John Brown launched a raid on Harpers Ferry, hoping to inspire a nationwide slave rebellion. He failed, but the Civil War broke out just 18 months later. ncG1vNJzZmiZnKHBqa3TrKCnrJWnsrTAyKeeZ5ufonyiwdOhpqtnm5q7pb7InKJmnp%2Bowaa%2B

Lyudmila Pavlichenko joined the army when women weren't accepted, but that didn't stop her from recording over 300 confirmed kills.For most snipers, receiving threats from the enemy wouldn’t be something you looked forward to. For Lyudmila Pavlichenko, however, it was something that delighted her. When the Germans threatened to tear her into 309 pieces, the exact number of Nazis she had killed thus far, she reveled in it. “They even knew my score!

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison famously said that she and Jim Morrison were wed in June 1970 during a Celtic handfasting ceremony — where they drank each other’s blood.Tim Roney/Getty ImagesPatricia Kennealy-Morrison, circa 1990. Patricia Kennealy-Morrison was one of the first female rock journalists, a pioneer in the genre who paved the way for countless women in rock today. But she isn’t known primarily for her pioneering work. Instead, she’s known as Jim Morrison’s wife, who she says she married in a private pagan ceremony in 1970.

Known as a ligula, this unusual object would have been used to extract cosmetics, perfume, or medicine from long-necked bottles. Museum WalesThe Roman toilet spoon may have served a number of different purposes in ancient Britain. Valentinas Avdejevas was walking through the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales in June 2020, sweeping his metal detector over the ground, when he suddenly got a hit. Avdejevas had come across a Roman toilet spoon made of silver, a curious ancient object with multiple purposes.

A high concentration of the 900 statues are located on the coast of the remote island and researchers have always wondered why they were constructed – until now.For centuries, the famous statues that dot the coast of the remote Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific have both fascinated and puzzled archaeologists. Now, a team of archaeologists claims to have answered one of the biggest questions surrounding the mysterious stone figures: why they were built in the first place.

Scientists believe this is an entirely new species of mammoth that until now hasn't been proven to exist.Academy of Sciences of the Republic of SakhaThe pygmy mammoth was found fully preserved, buried underneath the ice on Kotelny Island in an Arctic area of Russia. Scientists have discovered relics of Mammuthus exilis, or what they’re calling a “Golden mammoth”, named after the color of its seemingly strawberry blonde colored hair. The discovery of the carcass proves the existence of a miniature or “dwarf” species of woolly mammoth — something that’s never been seen by scientists before.

An 18th-century French showman, Tarrare could eat enough to feed 15 people and swallow cats whole — but his stomach was never satisfied.They found Tarrare in a gutter, shoveling fistfuls of garbage into his mouth. It was the 1790s and Tarrare — born circa 1772 and known only as “Tarrare” — was a soldier in the French Revolutionary Army who was infamous for his almost inhuman appetite. The army had already quadrupled his rations, but even after downing enough food to feed four men, he would still scavenge through the refuse piles, guzzling down every discarded shred of waste they’d thrown away.