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CREEPY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS – DEATH, DEMONS, AND DECAPITATION Those looking for an enjoyable scare for the Halloween season are unlikely to seek one out in a European medieval manuscript. Those things are stuffy and deeply religious, right? It would just be silly to look for anything creepy there, wouldn’t it? Not so fast! Lurking inside these pious tomes are a surprising selection of terrors in a sufficiently wide variety to satisfy the average horror movie fan or haunted house aficionado.   The first and best place to look for your recommended dose of medieval-inspired Halloween spirit is the Office of the Dead. A series of prayers for the souls of the deceased, the Office of the Dead can be found in collections of prayers called books of hours. 1  It may also be included in another, related type of devotional book – the Psalter. Since the Office of the Dead was performed at funerals, depictions of the various stages of Christian funerary services – last rites, t...

The Joys (and Challenges) of S*x After 70 S*x can drop off in our final decades. But for those who keep going, it can be the best of their lives. Before David and Anne married, they hadn’t ventured beyond touching. It was 1961. She was 21, he was 22 and they were raised in conservative Catholic homes. “Thursday and Friday, s*x is a sin, then you get married on Saturday,” David said. “What’s a clitoris? I didn’t know about that.” From the outset of their marriage, the two explored sex together. David was more lustful and eager; Anne was more hesitant, at times leaning toward accommodation rather than enthusiasm. A few years after their wedding, they had their first child, and David began traveling half the month for his job. Over the next five years, they had two more children, and Anne sometimes felt exhausted, managing homework, schedules, driving, emergencies, meltdowns. She loved David and liked sex with him, but it often fell lower on the list of what she needed: a good nig...

Horrifying portraits of American soldiers torturing women with pliers and murdering babies are used for propaganda by North Korea as posters created by Kim Jong-il’s regime are displayed in public Horrific North Korean propaganda art shows American soldiers torturing women with pliers and murdering babies. The paintings, believed to be from 2005, depict atrocities allegedly carried out by American soldiers during the Korean War of 1950-1953. They show Americans torturing women by removing their teeth and killing men by slicing their heads off.  Gruesome: This propaganda painting shows American soldiers torturing a Korean women by removing her teeth Paintings believed to be from 2005 claim to depict atrocities carried out by American soldiers during the Korean War of 1950-1953 Images show Americans torturing women and shooting babies as part of alleged war crimes during a massacre in 1950 In this distributing painting, four American soldiers slice the head of t...

This is not just a prisoner sucking a woman’s breast but rather it is a real story of an European country. There lived an old man named Cimon. He had no other relatives except his daughter Pero. Once Cimon was sentenced to starvation till death. As Cimon did not have any other relatives his daughter pleaded with the government to meet her father daily till his death. Fortunately she was granted permission. But there was one condition-Pero could not take any perishable items with her. When she visited, the guards would search her, making sure no food could be snuck in. On meeting her father and seeing his condition her heart sank. She looked at her father with motherly eyes. To provide him nourishment and keep him alive, she started breastfeeding him on a daily basis. After many days when Cimon did not die, the prison guards spied on her and caught her breastfeeding Cimon! They arrested Pero and presented her before the jailor, but after hearing about her selfless natur...

Why men use prostitutes The reasons why many men pay for sex are revealed in the interviews that make up a major new piece of research 'Idon't get anything out of sex with prostitutes except for a bad feeling," says Ben. An apparently average, thirtysomething, middle-class man, Ben had taken an extended lunchbreak from his job in advertising to talk about his experiences of buying sex. Shy and slightly nervous, he told me, "I am hoping that talking about it might help me work out why I do it." I, too, was hoping to understand his motives better. Ben was one of 700 men interviewed for a major international research project seeking to uncover the reality about men who buy sex. The project spanned six countries, and of the 103 customers we spoke to in London – where I was one of the researchers – most were surprisingly keen to discuss their experiences. The men didn't fall into obvious stereotypes. They were aged between 18 and 70 years old; they were w...

American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai Vietnamese villagers, including children, huddle in terror moments before being killed by American troops at My Lai, Vietnam, March 16, 1968.Ronald S. Through the centuries, whether combatants have fought with spears, bows and arrows, muzzle-loading rifles, naval cannons, long-range bombers, nuclear weapons or cutting-edge drones, one aspect of warfare has never changed: innocents die. In the 20th century alone millions — tens of millions — of civilians were killed and continue to be killed and maimed in global, regional and civil wars. Most of these victims are “collateral damage”: men, women and children caught in urban warfare; families obliterated by grenades and mortars; entire cities laid waste by bombers dropping tons of ordnance from miles above. But countless civilians slaughtered in warfare don’t die by accident or as the result of military errors; they’re killed by design. They are, in other words, murdered — often after being r...

Federal Judge Refuses to Grant Ghislaine Maxwell a New Trial Following S*x Trafficking Conviction, Finds Juror ‘Testified Credibly and Truthfully’ A federal judge rejected  Ghislaine Maxwell’s  request for a new trial, crediting a juror’s testimony that he made an innocent mistake on his sworn questionnaire when he denied being a victim of sexual abuse. “For the reasons stated above, the Court concludes that Juror 50 testified credibly and truthfully at the post-trial hearing. His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate,” U.S. District Judge  Alison Nathan  wrote on Friday. “The Court further concludes that Juror 50 harbored no bias toward the Defendant and could serve as a fair and impartial juror.” On Dec. 29, 2021, Maxwell was convicted of five out of six charges leveled against her, including a sex trafficking count carrying a maximum sentence of 40 years imprisonment. The other fo...