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WHY DOGS LIVE LESS THAN HUMAN Here's the surprising answer of a 6 year old child. Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home. As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience. The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker‘s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away. The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s transit

On 4 Jan. 1903, Thomas Edison electrocuted Topsy the circus elephant to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current electricity. Topsy had killed one trainer (who had burned the elephants with lit cigarettes), and was aggressive to 2 other trainers (who had prodded her with pitchforks) and was deemed unsafe. Thomas Edison agreed to execute the elephant as part of his campaign to discredit his rival Westinghouse. Edison was a proponent of direct current electricity and had refused to accept the superiority of AC technology when it was presented to him by Nikola Tesla.  Westinghouse bought some of Tesla’s patents, however, and began installing AC generators around the country. Edison believed them to be dangerous predicting, ““Westinghouse will kill a customer within 6 months.” In 1890, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair, and Edison argued that the Westinghouse AC current was the most effective method.  He even coined a term for the execution.

Rain-in-the-Face was a leader of the Lakota tribe. He was among those who defeated George Armstrong Custer and the US 7th Cavalry Regiment at the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn. Rain-in-the-Face was a leader of the Lakota tribe Born in the Dakota Territory near the forks of the Cheyenne River in about 1835, Rain-in-the-Face was from the Hunkpapa band of the Lakota nation. His name may have been given to him due to a fight with a Cheyenne boy when he was pretty young. His face was splattered like rain with his Cheyenne adversary’s blood. Late in his life, he related that the name was reinforced by an incident when he was a young man in a battle in a heavy rainstorm with a band of Gros Ventres. At the end of the lengthy combat, his face was streaked with war paint. He first fought against the whites in 1866 in a raid against Fort Totten in what is now North Dakota. He again fought the U.S. Army in the Fetterman massacre near Fort Phil Kearny in present-day Montana in the same year. In th

World War II was the bloodiest conflict in world history, but it was especially cruel to the Soviet(Public domain) World War II was the bloodiest conflict in world history, but it was especially cruel to the Soviet Union. Estimates vary, but most historians put the number of people killed in Russia during the war at 27,000,000 people. That number includes 8.5 million military deaths and 18.5 million civilian deaths. Other estimates put the number closer to 40 million dead, but those are more heavily scrutinized. For comparison, the United States suffered roughly 300,000 combat deaths during World War II and 400,000 deaths in total. That means that the Soviet Union suffered 67 times as many deaths as the United States during the Second World War. That number of dead is enough to change the face of a population for generations to come. In fact, when you look at the population pyramid of the Russian Federation today, you can still see the echo of World War II moving through their society.

"Pi’tamaka also known as "Brown Weasel Woman” was born into the Piikáni Piegan Tribe of the Blackfeet Nation. She was the eldest of two sisters and two brothers. As a girl, she began to show less interest in traditional female roles and more interest in hunting and the games her brothers played. Her father, a well-respected warrior of the tribe, indulged her interest and taught her to hunt and fight. "She loved learning the ways of a warrior and soon gave up the work of the household in exchange for hunting buffalo with her father. During one of these buffalo hunts, the group of hunters encountered an enemy war party and when they retreated at top speed to escape their enemies, her father had his horse shot out from under him and he was injured. Although it was very dangerous, Brown Weasel Woman turned back, picked up her father and escaped. One of the bravest deeds a warrior could perform was to face the enemy while riding back to rescue someone who was left behind. So

ÀARE̩ KURUMI OF IJAIYE. THE YORUBA WARRIOR WHO LOST HIS FIVE SONS IN ONE DAY The story of Kurunmi is one that draws tears from the eyes of people who feel pity for a man who stood firm for tradition.  There was a time in the history of Yoruba where the heir to the throne is killed whenever the king dies. This tradition came about because it was discovered that a lot of princes killed their fathers so they could ascend the throne and become king instead.  It was believed that if the heirs were killed alongside their fathers, kings would live longer on the throne.  During this period, Alaafin Atiba was the paramount ruler of the Oyo empire, and he appointed Kurunmi, the son of Esiele as the Aare-ona-Kakanfo ( the generalissimo of the whole Yoruba warriors).  As it was with tradition, a king and an Aare-ona-Kakanfo cannot stay in the same town because their wield similar powers, so Kurunmi was assigned to Ijaiye, where he was given the power to lord over.  One day, Alaafin Atiba summoned

Collective punishment is inhumane, immoral, and ineffective. The collective punishment in Gaza – from years of embargoes to indiscriminate killing of Palestinians – has only brought us the horrible situation today.  Sadly, some believe we should impose similar collective punishment on Iranians and we have seen how decades of sanctions have only enriched the worst actors and crushed the lives of ordinary people.  As the world watches thousands of innocent Palestinians, including so many children, killed in destruction caused by decades of political and moral failures, we hope that policymakers will finally realize that collective punishment has no place in our policies.

 *Not Horrible But Interest Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school.  She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons. Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing.  Gillian does not know how to sit and cannot be attentive. When she comes home, her mother punishes her too.  So not only does she Gillian have bad grades and punishment at school, but she also suffers from them at home. One day, Gillian's mother is called to school. The lady, sad as someone waiting for bad news, takes her hand and goes to the interview room. The teachers speak of illness, of an obvious disorder. Maybe it's hyperactivity or maybe she needs a medication.    During the interview an old teacher arrives who knows the little girl. He asks all the adults, mother and colleagues, to follow him into an adjoining room from where she can still be seen.  As he leaves, he tells Gillian

In ancient Rome, military leaders used a shockingly cruel punishment on their own soldiers who displayed cowardice or insubordination on the battlefield...   After the guilty unit was sentenced to "removal of a tenth," the men would be forced to draw lots, and the 10 percent of soldiers with the shortest straws would be executed — by their fellow troops. While this punishment was rare, the very idea of it struck terror into the hearts of countless Roman soldiers. And though the Roman Empire eventually collapsed in 476 C.E., the practice of decimation continued for hundreds of years. It was used following several battles of the Thirty Years' War between 1618 and 1648, and it was also practiced during the War of the Triple Alliance between 1864 and 1870...  Shockingly, decimation was even used as recently as 1917, when World War I Italian General Luigi Cadorna allegedly forced soldiers from the 141st Catanzaro Infantry Brigade to choose lots after they mutinied, and then ex