The Tupinambá Indians became famous for a peculiar practice:the cannibalism they practiced in their rituals. Among the indigenous tribes that lived in Brazil at the time of the beginning of Portuguese colonization, in the 16th century, the Tupinambas became widely known for a peculiar characteristi
In the summer of 1992, at night, a billboard suddenly appeared on the side wall of an art gallery in Sydney, Australia. Five and a half meters long, it contained a strange mixture of images:spherical DNA fragments, vaginal wedges of color, and a pair of mirror images of women with unicorn horns flex
Suicides today arouse shock, disbelief, and often sympathy. But no one would think of ... punishing suicides. Meanwhile, from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, suicide was considered a serious crime, on a par with abortion, incest, arson or even murder. As such, it deserved the heaviest punishmen
In the south of the historic center of Nuremberg, a large cavalry barracks was established in the mid-19th century. An Uhlan regiment of the Bavarian Royal Army had their quarters here. After World War I, the former barracks became the citys police headquarters. In 1934 the Gestapo, the German sec