THE FACE OF HISTORY AND TOUCHING EVENT

Meet the woman who slept with 10,000 men This was one of NZH Lifestyle's top stories for 2017. Warning: Explicit and distressing content Gwyneth Montenegro says she has slept with more than 10,000 men. She first stepped into a brothel at age 21, lured by the prospect of earning up to $1000 for an hour's work. While she doesn't regret her 12 years as a sex worker, Montenegro, 39, says she is glad to be out. Now, she is trained in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), an approach to personal development and psychotherapy made popular by American motivational speaker Tony Robbins. She teaches women how to "understand" men and get the most out of their relationships. Here she answers questions about the reality of sex work and what men really want. How did you first get in to sex work? "I never wanted to get into the sex industry in the first place. I was 18, I went out to a nightclub and my drink was spiked and I got taken away and gang-raped by 6-8 men - ...

Is Putin trying to monopolise the victory over Nazi Germany? These are the most ubiquitous windshield stickers in Russia, where Victory Day, or the May 9 celebration of Nazi Germany’s surrender, has become a near-religious public event. President Vladimir Putin promotes the celebrations of Russia’s “victory over fascism” as a show of Moscow’s military might and moral superiority. He also appears to be seeking to monopolise the victory over Nazi Germany by silencing the role other nations played in defeating Adolf Hitler. Millions celebrate Victory Day by marching with portraits of their forefathers who fought in the war that cost the USSR 27 million lives. Schoolchildren and toddlers sport WWII uniforms, perform in amateur concerts, lay flowers on the nearest monument to fallen heroes, and eat a “battlefield lunch” of buckwheat and canned meat. Moscow Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s top Orthodox hierarch, has compared the holiday to Easter as both celebrate “victory over death and des...

Mystery of mass grave of 200 skeletons found beneath Paris supermarket by workmen The macabre discovery is thought to be the burial site of victims of an epidemic that struck France at least five centuries ago Gruesome: 200 Skeletons have been found in a mass grave in France (Image: Denis Gliksman, Inrap) Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info Builders have found a mass grave of around 200 skeletons beneath a supermarket in Paris. The macabre discovery is thought to be the burial site of victims of an epidemic that struck France at least five centuries ago. Chilling Find: The 200 Skeletons were found under the Monoprix supermarket in Paris (Image: Denis Gliksman, Inrap) The workmen had been extending the basement o...

Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries? A six-decade-old adventure mystery that has prompted conspiracy theories around Soviet military experiments, Yetis, and even extraterrestrial contact may have its best, most sensible explanation yet in a series of avalanche simulations based in part on car crash experiments and animation used in the movie  Frozen . In 2021, a pair of Swiss researchers first presented data pointing to the likelihood that a bizarrely small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for the gruesome injuries and deaths of nine experienced hikers who never returned from a planned 200-mile adventure in Russia’s Ural Mountains in the winter of 1959. Three subsequent expeditions have since confirmed their assumptions about the deadly—and infamous—event. Dyatlov Pass incident, ten members of the Soviet Union’s Urals Polytechnic Institute in Yekaterinburg—nine students and one sports instructor who fought in World War II—headed...

Hasanlu lovers The  Hasanlu Lovers  are a pair of human remains found at the Teppe Hasanlu archaeological site, located in the Naqadeh in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Around 800 BCE, the city of Hasanlu, located in north-western Iran, was destroyed by an unknown invader. Inhabitants were slain and left where they fell. In 1973, the lovers were discovered by a team of archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania led by Robert H. Dyson. The two  human skeletons  were found together in a bin during  excavations , seemingly embracing at the time of death, with no other objects except a  stone slab  under the head of one skeleton. They died together around 800 BCE, during the last destruction of the Hasanlu. Approximately 246 skeletons were found at the site altogether. How the lovers died and ended up in the bin is still under speculation but both skeletons lack evidence...

The 10 Grusome Steps of the William Wallace Death When you think of the William Wallace death, the first thing that may come to your mind is the movie Braveheart, followed shortly by an image of Mel Gibson covered in blue paint and crying “Freeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!” Braveheart is an amazing film and is one of the best medieval movies of all time, however, it unfortunately not an accurate depiction of the life or death of William Wallace. One of the unfortunate inaccuracies was that Wallace’s death was in fact a lot more gruesome than was depicted on screen. Wallace may have lived by the sword, but his death was not by the sword. When was William Wallace’s Death On 23 August 1305, William Wallace’s death took place. Found guilty of treason, Wallace was taken to the Tower of London, where his clothes were removed and he was tied to a hurdle and dragged through the streets by horses. At the end of this, he was hung, drawn, and quartered. If this was not bad enough, Wallace’s bowels ...

Impalement in the history: Worst way to die The verb “Khazak” in Arabic means penetrating or stabbing, It is the source of the word “Khauzakah” – Impalement, which refers to an inhuman sadistic practice based on the use of a wooden stick with a pointed tip that is pushed through a human body, often through the anus or vagina, then they lift the stick up in the air and hold it to the ground vertically, and the victim rises with it as if he is sitting over it, and the tip of the stick begins to dive into his body more and more by gravity, until it penetrates the viscera and comes out again across the shoulder or mouth. The speed of death varies according to the experience of the executioner. The more the tip of the stick is pointed, the more greased it is, the faster it passes through the body, and the sooner death occurs. The medieval executioners had creative ways and methods to increase agony. Perhaps they used a thick stick and made its head flat, so as to not penetrate the body q...