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Team Trappisone
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In 1904 the Bronx Zoo once housed a human being — an Congolese Pygmy tribesman by the name of  Ota Benga in its Monkey House exhibit, forcing him to share an enclosure with monkeys

A series of cruel events saw him plucked from the tropical rainforest of the Congolese basin, captured by African slave traders, transported halfway across the world and eventually put on display for the gawking American public.

Some time before 1904, Benga was away hunting when “a vicious armed force” loyal to Belgian King Leopold II attacked his village, slaughtering everyone including his wife and two children. (Leopold, like many other European leaders, maintained a brutal colonial presence in the Congo basin to exploit its natural resources.)

Shortly after his family was murdered, Benga was caught and enslaved by rival tribesmen called the Baschilele, then sold to an American named  Samuel Phillips Verner, who was “collecting” Pygmy tribesmen for an “anthropology exhibit” at the upcoming World’s Fair in St. Louis, according to the New York Times.

At the 1904 World’s Fair, Benga and the others “were displayed in all their ‘savageness,’ with a walkway over the top so white visitors could literally look down on their fellow human beings and point and laugh,”  the Riverfront Times.

The tribesmen were presented as “the missing link between man and monkey,” historian Angela da Silva told the newspaper.

Finally, in 1906, Benga was to the Bronx Zoo where a sign informed visitors that a genuine Pygmy tribesman — four feet, eleven inches tall and 103 pounds — would be “exhibited each afternoon during September.”

The New York Times dispatch about the exhibit made it sound like an amusing diversion:

"Visitors to the Monkey House that second day got an even better show. Ota Benga and an orangutan frolicked together, hugging and wrestling and playing tricks on each other. The crowd loved it. To enhance the jungle effect, a parrot was put in the cage and bones had been strewn around it. The crowd laughed as the pygmy sat staring at a pair of canvas shoes he had been given.
Few expressed audible objection to the sight of a human being in a cage with monkeys as companions,” The New York Times wrote the next day, “and there could be no doubt that to the majority the joint man-and-monkey exhibition was the most interesting sight in Bronx Park.”.

Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-tragic-tale-of-the-pygmy-in-the-zoo-2787905/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Phillips_Verner
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Congo_Free_State

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Mario
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Fifty years ago one of the mandatory subjects in high school was called civics. In fact, the curriculum was usually started in junior high.

Civics taught students all aspects of how our constitution and government worked. It taught them every role and limitation of elected officials and agencies. Far more than “three branches of government with checks and balances - and that’s how government works”. The emphasis of this was knowing the rights and duties of our citizens, and the limitations and legality of governing institutions, as well as the constitution.

The issue was after World War 2 civics became problematic for a government and wealthy class whose corruption began to run rampant. The next thing they knew a lot of things were clear to people and
People understood when their rights were being violated and when the government was acting illegally. This was something they learned in childhood. It didn’t take long for leaders with intentions of corruption to realize that civics needed to stop being taught. And that is exactly what they did.

The plan was to limit the students understanding of civic government and redirect it to social justices. Thus civics ended and “social studies” was born.

This plan worked and persists today. The average 10th grader understood the constitution, laws, and limitations of government better than most college students do now. This has allowed corruption in government to grow practically unchecked and unchallenged for over 40 years. In fact they have since made laws that would have been considered unconstitutional to now cover much of the corruption.

Civic education is no longer acceptable in high school. Which is to say having a meaningful understanding of your rights, your constitution, and the limitations of government is no longer acceptable in high school.

Ref: https://www.quora.com/What-was-totally-acceptable-in-high-school-50-years-ago-that-isnt-today

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The German Nazi government tried to created super soldiers that can reach Captain America superhuman level. The development of the drug to accomplish this however came to a halt shortly when the war ended.

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Albert Einstein married his cousin, Elsa Einstein, she was his first cousin. However fortunately they did have kids which if they did would have been a little too risky.

It was in jail that the first toothbrush to be sold on a large scale was invented, by a man named William Addiss in 1780.The usual method of cleaning his teeth in prison was to rub his teeth with a rag with soot and salt which was a common practice...Read More

Nelson mandela initially thought he was only going to spend 5 years in jail at the advice of his lawyer, His lawyer told him and other apartheid struggles heros that "They will not even spend five years in here and in no time they will be out an...Read More

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In 1904 the Bronx Zoo once housed a human being — an Congolese Pygmy tribesman by the name of Ota Benga in its Monkey House exhibit, forcing him to share an enclosure with monkeys

A series of cruel events saw him plucked from the trop...Read More

Orphan children used to be used for science experiments during the 1900s against their will. One of the creepiest of these experiments was the " Monster Study".
The study was a psychological experiment conducted by Dr. Wendell Johnso...Read More

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On May 8th, 1945 (VE Day). When the people of France were celebrating freedom from the Nazis, people in one North African country(Algeria) were violently denied the same.
While the French were celebrating throughout France, 5,000 Algerians para...Read More

Fifty years ago one of the mandatory subjects in high school was called civics. In fact, the curriculum was usually started in junior high.

Civics taught students all aspects of how our constitution and government worked. It taught them ...Read More

John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, a man who died 158 years ago, is the only president born in the 18th century to have grandchildren who are still alive today in the 21st century.
158 years is a long time ago, It just blows...Read More

When the titanic crashed, Charles Joughin a baker on the ship, was hell drunk in his cabin and that saved his life.

When the RMS Titanic hit on iceberg on April 14, 1912, even the ship’s staff was in a state of panic. No one stepped up...Read More

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William changed his name to William Stuart-Houston when he moved to the US,but he was born William Hitler.

He did not get along with his uncle A...Read More

Albert Einstein married his cousin, Elsa Einstein, she was his first cousin.
However fortunately they did have kids which if they did would have been a little too risky.