There's always the remarkable story of Rasputin's death. He was an advisor to Nicholas II of Russia, and refused to die after being poisoned, shot, and beat.

"The would-be killers first gave the monk food and wine laced with cyanide, however, when Rasputin seemingly failed to respond to the poison, they shot him at close range and left him for dead. In spite of these murderous measures, Rasputin revived shortly thereafter and made an attempt to flee the palace grounds, only to be intercepted by his assailants who shot him again and viciously beat him. They then bound Rasputin, who was remarkably still alive, and threw him into the freezing Neva River. His battered body was found several days later and it was reported that there was water in his lungs, indicating that he finally died by drowning."

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I will also add, it's pretty neat that Ernest Shackleton's famed lost ship, the Endurance, was found 100 years to the day that Ernest was buried.

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"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The 1921 Attack on Greenwood was one of the most significant events in Tulsa’s history. Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.” In June 1921, a series of events nearly destroyed the entire Greenwood area.

Teddy Roosevelt was shot, and then gave a speech shortly thereafter:

"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."

The Great Emu War.

Women had to protest for the right to smoke.

It was viewed in in America and Europe that smoking was unfeminine in nature and the only types of women that would do that must have loose morals and partake in "dubious sexual behavior". Edward Bernays (PR guru) started the "Torches of Freedom!" campaign back in 1928 with the idea of driving profits for American tobacco companies and removing the social taboo around it. Women took to the streets marching with signs and smoking cigs to make this happen.

So right after getting the right to vote, women went on to fight for the right to smoke in public.

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• You'd think no one would creep out Stalin, the second most evil person in human history after Mao...Well Stalin's daughter found herself alone with Beria. Stalin called to tell her to leave immediately.

• US Space program is founded on Nazi tech. See von Braun.

For me it's probably the murder of arch duke Ferdinand, that started the WWI. It's so fucking dumb all along, so much shit went south and yet here we are. It truly shows history is very stupid sometimes even if events in question have cathastrophic consequences - especially since that particular event shaped the modern history a lot.

Phineas Gage. He was a railroad worker who, in a freak accident, had a large iron rod driven completely through his head, destroying a chunk of his brain. He survived, but his personality had completely changed. It led to a lot of rethinking on what the brain actually does.

Bill Barilko disappeared that summer in nineteen fifty one
He was on a fishing trip, in a plane
The last goal he ever scored, in over time
Won the Leafs the cup
They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two
The year he was discovered

The Tunguska event. If a something similar happened today the first thought would be an above-ground nuclear detonation.

For me there's two:

One is that time a mob of angry Dutchmen killed and ate their prime minister.

The other is... the entire goddamn clown show that was The War of 1812. Wherein the most famous battle of the war -- the Battle of New Orleans -- happened something like six weeks after the war ended because nobody involved got the memo.

FYI Oversimplified has been known to be full of factual errors. I'd link the posts from askhistorians, but they're not exactly accessable at the moment.

On the 27th of November 1990, the canton of Appenzell Innerhoden would be the last to introduce voting rights for women in Switzerland.

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