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The grandson of Ivan the Great, Ivan Chetvyorty Vasilyevich, was born in August 25, 1530, in the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, Russia to member of the Rurik dynasty, His father Basil III, died when he was 3 tears old. His mother, Elena Glinskaya, ruled as regent until her 1538, when Ivan was 8. During this time, the realm rapidly degenerated into chaos as rival noble families (boyar) disputed the legitimacy of her rule. The court intrigue and constant danger that Ivan was exposed ti while growing up molded much of his ruthless and suspicious nature. Evidence indicates that Ivan was a sensitive, highly intelligent boy, neglected and occasionally scorned by members of nobility who looked after him after his parents death.<br />
The hostile environment nurtured his hatred for he nobles, whom he suspected of being involved in his mothers death. He reportedly tortured small animals as a boy, yet still managed to develop a taste for literature and music.<br />
In1547, Ivan IV was crowned tsar Muscovy. He was the first in the history of Russia, deriving the term "tsar" from the Latin "Caesar". That same year, he married Anastasia Romanovna, who later became the great aunt of the future first tsar of the Romanov dynasty. During 1549, he appointed a council of advisers, a consensus building assembly who helped institute his reforms. During what is considered the constructive period of his reign, he introduced a self government in rural regions, reformed tax collection, and instituted statutory law and church reform. In 1556, he instituted regulations on the obligations of the boyar class in service of the crown.<br />
In foreign policy, Ivan had two main goals, to resist the Mongol Horde, and to gain access to the Baltic Sea. Ultimately aimed to conquer all remaining independent regions and create a larger, more centralised Russia.<br />
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In 1552 and1556, Ivan's armies crushed the Tartar khnates of Kazan and Astrakhan. This extended Muscovy control to the Urals in the east and the Caspian sea in the south, creating a buffer zone against the Mongols. He commissioned St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, built between 1555 and 1561, to commemorate his success. However, he was not as successful at annexing Lithuania and gaining access to the Baltic. Despite his victories though, Ivan was starting to become less popular, due to some of his methods. He seized private lands and redistributed them among his supporters, and created a police force called the oprichnina, that existed more to crush dissent than keep the peace. Its was the first secret police of Russia.<br />
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Upon the death of his first wife in 1560, Ivan Vi went into a deep depression and his behavior became more erratic. His suspicion that had been murdered by the boyals only deepened hos paranoia. He left Moscow suddenly and threatened to abdicate the throne. Leaderless, the Muscovites, pleaded for his return. He agreed under one condition, that he would be granted absolute power of the region surrounding Moscow, known as Oprichina. He also demanded the authority to punish traitors and law breakers with execution and confiscation of property.<br />
Over the next 24 years, Ivan conducted a reign of terror, displacing and destroying the major boyar families in his region, and earning the moniker by which he's now best known. During that period some of major atrocities took place, like beating his pregnant daughter in law, causing a miscarriage, killed his eldest son in a fit of rage when he lost a chess game, and gouged the eyes out of the architects of the St. Basil's Cathedral, so they would never replicate its beauty.<br />
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In 1584, with his health failing, Ivan the Terrible became obsessed with death, calling upon witches and soothsayers to sustain him, but to no avail. His end came on Match 18, of the same year, when he suffered a stroke. He had willed his kingdom to his unfit son Feydor who suffered from mental illness, whose rule spiraled Russia int the catastrophic Time of Troubles, and would not recover for over half a century later.<br />
Ivan the Terrible is responsible for nearly three decades of cruel terror. At that time he and his secret police brutally killed over 220.000 people, while mutilation and torture was reduced to a routine. An entire nation fell into anarchy for many as a result of his policies, and because of the countless executions of the nobles, the economy plummeted, and wouldn't be restored until the rise of the Romanov's to power.<br />
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Saloth Sar. better known by his nom de guerre Pol Pot, was born in 1925 in the small village of Prek Sbauv, located about 100 miles north of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. His family was relatively affluent and owned 50 acres of rice paddy, or roughly ten time the national average. In 1934 Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh, where he spent a year at a Buddhist monastery before attending a French Catholic school. His Cambodian education continued until 1949, when he went to Paris on a scholarship. He studied radio technology and became heavily involved in communist circles. After three failed attempts to earn a decree he returned to Cambodia in January 1953.<br />
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At that time the whole Cambodian region was revolting against French colonial rule, and officially gained its independence later that year. Pol Pot, meanwhile, joined the proto-communist Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP), which had been set up in 1951 under the auspices of the North Vietnamese. From 1956 to 1963, Pol Pot taught history, geography and French literature at a private school while simultaneously plotting a revolution.<br />
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In 1960 Pol Pot helped to reorganise the KPRP<br />
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Once in power, Pol Pot begun a radical experiment, to create an agrarian utopia inspired by Mao Zedong's "Cultural Revolution". Mao's "Great Leap Forward" economic program included forced evacuations of Chinese cities and the purge of "class enemies". Pol pot would now his own "Super Great Leap Forward" in Cambodia, which he renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea. He declared the Year Zero, and the "purification" of the Cambodian society. Capitalism, western culture, city life, religion, and the foreign influences were to be extinguished in favor of an extreme form of peasant Communism. All foreigners were thus expelled, embassies closed, and any foreign economic or medical assistance was refused. The use of foreign languages was banned, newspapers and television stations were shut down. Money, free markets, normal schooling, private and government property were abolished. Public schools, hospitals, pagodas, mosques, churches, universities, shops and government buildings were shut down or turned into prison, stables or granaries. Even parental authority was revoked, as Cambodia was sealed off from the outside world.<br />
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All of Cambodia's cities were forcibly evacuated. At Phnom Penh, 2.500.000 inhabitants were evacuated on foot into the country side. More than 30.000 died along the way.<br />
Millions of Cambodian accustomed to city life were now forced into slave labor in Pol Pot's "killing fields", where soon began dying from overwork, malnutrition and disease, on a diet of one tin of rice (180 grams) per person every two days. Workdays in the fields began around 4 a.m. and lasted until 10 p. m. with only two rest periods allowed during the 18 hour day, all under the armed supervision of young Khmer Rouge soldiers eager to kill anyone for the slightest infraction. Starving people were forbidden to eat the fruits and rice they were harvesting, and after the crop was harvested, Khmer Rouge trucks would arrive and confiscate the entire crop. All work decisions were made by the armed supervisors, with no participation of from the workers, who were told "<i>Whether you live or die, is not of great significance". </i>every tenth day was a day of rest, and were also three days off, during the Khmer New Year festival.<br />
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Throughout Cambodia, deadly purges were conducted to eliminate remnants of the "old society". The educated, the wealthy, Buddhist monks, police, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and former government officials. ex-soldiers were killed along with wives and children. Anyone suspected of disloyalty to Pol Pot, including eventually many Khmer Rouge Leaders, was shot, or bludgeoned with hammers or axes. In the labor camps, unsupervised gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden, No discussions were allowed or showing the slightest affection, humor, or pity. Anyone who violated these rules was executed on the spot. Ethnic groups were attacked including the three largest minorities the Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cham Muslims, along this almost twenty other smaller groups, 50% of the estimated 430.000 Chinese living in Cambodia in 1975 perished,<br />
Many were held in prisons, where were detained, interrogated tortured and executed. the most infamous prison in Cambodia, known as S-21, held approximately 14.000 prisoners, while in operation. Only 12 people survived.<br />
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On December 25, 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion on Cambodia, seeking to end Khmer Rouge's border attacks.On January 7, 1979, Phnom Penh fell and Pol pot was deposed and fled into the jungle. He was pleased under house arrest in 1997 by a splinter Khmer Rouge group and died in his sleep on April 15, 1998, due to heart failure, even though many suggest that he was poisoned by his wife. He was never condemned for crimes against humanity.<br />
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Democratic Kampuchea was one one of the worst human tragedies of the 20th century along with the World War II. Over 2.000.000 people died from diseases due to lack of medicines and medical services, starvation, execution, or exhaustion from overwork. Tens of thousands were made widows and orphans, and those who lived through the regime were traumatized by their experiences. Several hundred thousand Cambodians fled their country and became refugees. Millions of mines were laid by the Khmer Rouge and government forces, which led to thousands of deaths and disabilities since the 1980's. A large proportion of the Cambodian people have mental problems because their family members were lost and their spirits damaged, These factors are one of the major causes of the poverty that plagues Cambodia today.<br />
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This concludes the first "Top Ten Week" folks, and i know it wasn't really a week, but i also gotta work for a living. Also, research turned out to be far more interesting than i tough, making me deviate from my original search very often. I hope you found these post as interesting as they for me me writing them, and i know that the subject i chose may be disturbing, but it is my belief, that we have an obligation to be aware of our history as a species. The least we can do about all these countless people that lost their lives in the hands of madmen, is to know their story.<br />
Also, i know many of you are wondering, why i left out historic figures like, Genghis Khan, or Nero, or Himmler, or many others who could make it into this list. If you look at these post closely, you ll understand why. You too will notice the similarities and common traits these people share, in contrary to Attila the Hun or Saddam Hussein.<br />
So, join me next week when ill be returning with my scheduled posts, and as always, thank you for reading.<br />
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Demourian Avet :Armenians mark massacre anniversary" The Boston Globe 25 April 2009 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taner_Ak%C3%A7am">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taner_Ak%C3%A7am</a><br />
Talaat Pasha <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/talaat.html">http://www.armenian-genocide.org/talaat.html</a><br />
The Three Pashas <a href="http://www.moreorless.net.au/killers/pashas.html">http://www.moreorless.net.au/killers/pashas.html</a><br />
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Tony Thorne "Countess Elizabeth Bathory: Icon if evil" The Telegraph (29 June 2008)<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3555482/Countess-Elizabeth-Bathory-icon-of-evil.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3555482/Countess-Elizabeth-Bathory-icon-of-evil.html</a><br />
Infamous Lady <a href="http://www.infamouslady.com/">http://www.infamouslady.com/</a><br />
Elizabeth Bathory the Blood Countess <a href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/hungarian-countess-serial-killer1.htm">http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/hungarian-countess-serial-killer1.htm</a><br />
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"The Fundamental Ideas of Robespierre" Alfred Cobban <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/555187?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106213046121">http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/555187?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106213046121</a><br />
"Robespierre: A revolutionary Life" Peter McPhee personal archive<br />
French Revolution History Channel <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution">http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution</a><br />
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Ruhollah Khomeini<br />
"History of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini"- Iran Chamber Society <a href="http://www.iranchamber.com/history/rkhomeini/ayatollah_khomeini.php">http://www.iranchamber.com/history/rkhomeini/ayatollah_khomeini.php</a><br />
Ayatollah ruhollah Khomeini Biography <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini-13680544">http://www.biography.com/people/ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini-13680544</a><br />
Hezbollah Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah</a><br />
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Joseph Mengele<br />
Vivi Papanayotou "Skeletons in the Closet of German Science" Semtember 18 2005 <a href="http://www.dw.de/skeletons-in-the-closet-of-german-science/a-1587766-1">http://www.dw.de/skeletons-in-the-closet-of-german-science/a-1587766-1</a><br />
Angel of Death <a href="http://auschwitz.dk/Mengele.htm">http://auschwitz.dk/Mengele.htm</a><br />
"The Children of Mengele" About Education <a href="http://history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins.htm">http://history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins.htm</a><br />
"Joseph Mengele" Holocaust Ensyclopedia <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007060</a><br />
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Tomas de Torquemada<br />
Simon Whitechapel "Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition" 2003 Personal Archive<br />
Tomas de Torquemada- Encyclopedia Britannica <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600065/Tomas-de-Torquemada">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600065/Tomas-de-Torquemada</a><br />
Catholic Encyclopedia <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14783a.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14783a.htm</a><br />
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Emperor Hirohito<br />
The Guardian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/japan-emperor-hirohito-pearl-harbor-attack-biography">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/japan-emperor-hirohito-pearl-harbor-attack-biography</a><br />
Emperor Hirohito Biography <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/hirohito-37173">http://www.biography.com/people/hirohito-37173</a><br />
History Channel <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito">http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito</a><br />
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King Leopold II<br />
The Belgian Monarchy <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito">http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito</a><br />
Mass Crimes Against Humanity <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocong.htm">http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocong.htm</a><br />
Sir Arhur Conan Doyle "The Crime of the Congo 1909 <a href="https://archive.org/details/crimeofcongo00doyliala">https://archive.org/details/crimeofcongo00doyliala</a><br />
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Ivan IV The Terrible<br />
History Channel <a href="http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/ivan-the-terrible">http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/ivan-the-terrible</a><br />
Russiapedia <a href="http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/the-ryurikovich-dynasty/ivan-iv-the-terrible/">http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/the-ryurikovich-dynasty/ivan-iv-the-terrible/</a><br />
Ivan the Terrible Biography <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/ivan-the-terrible-9350679">http://www.biography.com/people/ivan-the-terrible-9350679</a><br />
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Pol Pot<br />
BBC Historic Figures <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pot_pol.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pot_pol.shtml</a><br />
History Channel <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/pol-pot">http://www.history.com/topics/pol-pot</a><br />
"Genocide of the 20th Century" The History Place <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm">http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm</a><br />
"The death of Pol Pot" New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-pol-pot-pol-pot-brutal-dictator-who-forced-cambodians-killing-fields-dies.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-pol-pot-pol-pot-brutal-dictator-who-forced-cambodians-killing-fields-dies.html</a><br />
"Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare" Philip Short 2005 Personal Archive<br />
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Reinhard "The Hangman" Heydrich was the chief of the Third Reich's Security Office during the World War II. One of the most highest ranking officers in the Nazi party, he was was feared even by Adolf Hitler himself, who described him as "the man with the iron heart". He is the one of the main architects of the Holocaust, and the one who found the false pretend for the Nazis to invade Poland. After being appointed a "governor" in Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic, he organised mass executions to ensure the Czech people cooperation. He died nine months after a failed assassination attempt, to which Gestapo Officials retaliated, by wiping out the entire village of Lidice.</div>
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The dictator of North Korea for almost three decades, and the one responsible for the Korean War, which cost the lives of nearly 5.000.000 people. He utilised the same tactics of propaganda as the Nazis to convince his people to idolise him as a god, while he forced them into prisons and consecration camps for even the most petty crimes. He would execute the entire family of whoever was branded a criminal, and would torture his prisoners for months, and sometimes years.</div>
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By turning against his Soviet Allies, he became the one responsible for the Korean famine crisis, that killed over 3.000.000 people from 1994 to 1998.</div>
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A Chinese Marxist theorist, Mao Zedong led the Chinese revolution and form the communist party that would later found the Peoples Republic of China. He ruled with an iron fist and brought his nation to its knees, with his ill conceived goals to turn China into a force to mach the United States and the Soviet Union. He ordered the "Great Leap Forward", an act to transform China from a rural economy into an industrial one, but due to mismanagement, and the extremely high expectations to make a century's worth of advancement's in just a few decades, became the cause of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959. To this day its considered the biggest man made catastrophe, which is responsible for the deaths of over 40.000.000 people.</div>
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<b>Joseph Stalin</b></div>
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Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Under his Stalin, the Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror and millions of his own people died during his brutal reign. He was involved in criminal activities as a young man, before entering the revolutionary politics, and after Lenin's death he seized control of the party, collectivizing farming, and sending potential enemies into forced labor camps. After the World War II, he engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War. More than 20.000.000 died during his time in power.</div>
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<b>Adolf Hitler</b></div>
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Not much are left to be told about the dictator of Germany and the primary instigator of the World War II, the biggest most destructive man made event that has ever happened in human history. Over 80.000.000 people died collectively during his ambition to conquer the world, and establish the dominance of the so called Aryan race.</div>
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Hirohito was born at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo, and was educated at the Peer's School and at the Crown Prince's Institute, He became emperor of Japan on December 25, 1926, following the death of his father, the Taisho emperor, who was already retired due to mental illness. His reign was designated Showa, which meant "Bright Peace", and later became his posthumous name, as tradition suggests. When he assumed the throne, a universal male suffrage law had just passed, and political parties were near the height of their pre war powers. However, a plunging economy, rising militarism and a series of political assassinations soon caused a crisis for the pro-democracy movement. Hirohito, who as an emperor was the nation's highest spiritual authority and commander in chief of the armed forces, essentially fired the prime minister in 1929. The next prime minister was was shot and mortally wounded, and in 1932 yet another prime minister was assassinated by naval officers upset about a treaty limiting the number of Japanese warships. From that point on, all prime ministers came from the military rather than from the political parties, which were disbanded altogether in 1940, More political violence occurred in 1935, when a lieutenant colonel slashed a general to death with a samurai sword, and in 1936, over 1,500 soldiers mutinied in Tokyo, seizing the army ministry and murdering several high ranking politicians.</div>
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Meanwhile, Japans conflict with China was growing. In 1931, Japanese army officers initiated the so-called Manchurian Incident, by detonating a railway explosion and blaming it on Chinese bandits. They then used the event as an excuse to take over Manchuria in northeastern China and set up a puppet state there, Excursions into other areas of the country soon followed and by 1937 war had broken out. That winter the Japanese army committed war crimes equal to Nazi Germany, by massacring an estimated 300.000 civilians and prisoners of war, in the area of Nanking, in what came to be known as The Nanking Rape. Children were slaughtered mercilessly, and women who survived the raping, were brought back to serve as prostitutes, or slaves. Even though it is not certain that Hirohito gave the order, we know he did not punished those responsible, and also authorised the use of chemical warfare.</div>
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On September 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, in which they agreed to assist one another should any of them be attacked by a country not already involved in the war. Japan send troops to occupy French Indochina that month, and over a year later Japanese planes bombarded the U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor, destroying 18 ships and killing 2.500 men, as retaliation for U.S.A's embargo on oil and steel.</div>
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Leopold was born in Brussels on April 9th 1835. He was the second child of the reigning Belgian monarch Leopold I, and his second wife, Louise, the daughter of King Louis Philippe of France. After becoming a king in 1865, Leopold, fervently believed that overseas colonies were the key to a county's greatness, and he worked tirelessly to acquire colonial territory for Belgium, while lending money from the government. after numerous unsuccessful schemes to acquire colonies in Africa and Asia, in 1876 Leopold organised a private holding company disguised as an international scientific and philanthropic association, which he called the International African Society. In 1878, under the auspices of the holding company, he hired the famous explorer Henry Stanley to explore and establish a colony in the Congo region. Much diplomatic maneuvering among European nations resulted in the Berlin conference of 1884 regarding African affairs, at which representatives of fourteen European countries and the United States recognised Leopold as sovereign if most of the area to which he and Stanley had laid claim. On February 5 1885, the Congo Free State, an area 76 times larger than Belgium, was established under Leopold's personal rule and private army, the Force Publique. In reality the I.A.A was a vehicle to enslave the people of the Congo River Basin, enrich himself, and bring international prestige to relatively small Belgium. The 905.000 square miles of African rain forest held a vast fortune in rubber plantations, a commodity in high demand in the late 19th century industrial Europe.</div>
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Unable to read or write, the Congolese tribal chiefs, unwittingly sold their tribe member into a lifetime of slavery for some pieces of cloth. Such was the brutality of Leopold, that those who failed to meet the rubber quotas set by the Belgian officers, were routinely flogged with the chicote, a whip with sharp edges, that was often fatal after 50 strokes. His private mercenary force did most of his terrorising and torture, while the Belgian officers commanded native soldiers, many of whom were cannibals from other tribes, of kids who have been kidnapped from raids in the surrounding area, after their mother were killed. </div>
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Following the Independence of The Congo from Belgium in June 1960, Patrice Lumumba, leader of the Movement National Congeals, was elected Congo's first democratically elected president. Ten weeks later following a coup de tat headed by General Mobutu Sese Seko, Patrice Lummumba was murdered by firing squad. recent evidence suggest that the US and Belgium governments were involved. Mobutu who institutionalised corruption in the country apparently looted up to 4.000.000.000 US dollars, before he was subsequently ousted by rebel leader L. Kabila. Kabila was assassinated in 2001, and after brief return to civil war, his son Josepph Kaliba, became democratically elected president in 2006, stabilising the Congolese government for the first time in 50 years.</div>
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<b> Joseph Mengele</b><br>
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Mengele was born the eldest o three children on March 16 1911, to Carl and Walburga Mangele in Gunzburg, Bavaria, Germany. He was an exceptional student with an interest in arts, music and sports. After finishing school, he on to study medicine and philosophy to the University Munich, where the headquarters pf the Nazi Party where located. He joined the paramilitary organisation (Stahlheim, Bund der Frontsoldaten), which was later absorbed into the Nazi Storm Detachment, where he applied for SS membership.</div>
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In 1939, he studied medicine at the University of Frankfurt, and later he joined the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene, where he developed his studies in physical anthropology and genetics. His published articles on genetic abnormalities and racial variations were considered breaking through at the time, ensuring Joseph a bright career in academics, which was interrupted by the declaration of the World War II. The ideological foundation of Nazism, were identical to Mengele's beliefs, were elements of antisemitism, racial hygiene, and eugenics, were brought together with pan-Germanism, and territorial expansion that Germany needed to obtain for its <i>Lebensraum </i>(ling space). The Nazis planned to do this by attacking Poland and the Soviet Union intending to deport or kill the Jews and Slavs that lived there, and considered inferior to the Aryan master race.</div>
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Joseph was called to service in the armed forces in June 1940, a few months after the outbreak of the war, He soon volunteered for medical service in the Waffen-SS, where he attained the rang of second lieutenant, until November. He was then assingned to the SS Race and Resettlement Main Office in Posen, were he evaluate candidates for Germanisation, and in June 1941 was posted in Ukraine where he was awarded the Iron Cross. In January 1942 he joined the SS Panzer Division as a medical officer, where he was wounded in battle, and awarded the the Iron Cross First Class, as well as the Wound Badge in Black and the Medal for the Care of the German people. </div>
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After being seriously wounded in action he was deemed unfit for combat, and transferred to Berlin's Race and Resettlement Office, and a few months before his last transfer, was promoted to SS Captain.</div>
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Joseph Mengele was a radical Nazi, and an enthusiast of the MAster Race idea and in early 1943, he seized the opportunity to take place in Hitler's final Solution, the plan to eliminate all Jews from Europe. After being encouraged by von Verchuer, head of of the Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology and Genetics, he applied for transfer to the concentration camp service, where he foresaw the opportunity to undertake genetic research on human subjects. After his application was accepted, he was transferred to Auschwitz appointed to the position of chief physician of the Romani camp, where he selected those deemed able for work, and those unfit for labor that would immediately be killed.</div>
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Mengele, who was a member of the team of doctor that conducted this selections, was present, even when he was not assign to a selection, hoping to find subjects for his experiments. He was particularly interested in twins. It is worth mentioning that contrary to most doctors assingned to the selection team, who viewed this process as of their most stressful and horrible duties, Mengele undertook the task with a flamboyant air, always smiling, or whistling a tune. He used his position as an opportunity to continue his anthropological studies and research o heredity, using inmates for human experimentation. The experiments were unscientific and had no regard for the health and safety of his victims. He was particularly interested in identical twins, people heterochromia iridum (eyes of tow different colours), dwarfs and people with any kind of abnormalities. His was provided a grand form the German Research Foundation, with the help of his colleague von Verschuer, who received regular reports and shipments of specimens from Mengele. He build his own laboratory, and immediately began his research with twins. He wanted to prove the supremacy of heredity, and bolster the Nazi premise of the Aryan race.<br>
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Twins were subjected to weekly examinations ,measurements of the physical attributes. His experiments included unnecessary amputation of the limbs, intentionally infecting one twin with typhus or other deadly deceases, and transfusing the blood of twin to the other. Most of his "patients" died during these procedures.<br>
After an experiment was over the twins were killed and their bodies dissected. Mengele's assistant recalls one occasion where he personally killed fourteen twins in one night via a chloroform injection to the heart. If one twin died, he would immediately kill the other as well so he could run post-mortem comparative reports. He was also experimenting on eyes, trying to change the color by injecting chemicals into them, and killing people with hetero chromatic eyes, so he could remove them and send them to Berlin for study. His experiments on dwarfs and people with physical abnormalities included taking physical measurements with unnecessary drugs and X-rays. many of the victims were send to the gas champers after about two weeks and their skeletons were also sent to Berlin for further study. He was always looking for pregnant women, on whom he would perform his horrifying experiments, before sending them to the gas chamber. Witnesses report that he once sewed two Romani twins together back to back in an attempt to create conjoint twins. The children died of gangrene after several days of pain.After Auschwitz was captured by the Red Army Joseph Mengele was able to escape and flee to North America. First in Argentina, where he worked as a carpenter and a vet, Having eluded the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, he settled in Sao Paulo. He suffered a stroke in 1979, while swimming and drowned. In the mid 90's a historians findings shocked the world when he found out that Mengele, posing as a doctor, using a mobile laboratory, conduct numerus experiments in the small farming community, neat the Brazilian borders, of Candito Godi. The birthrate of twins is an astonishing 1 in 80, and all of the children were blond, with blue eyes, suggesting that Mengele was successful in his plan of creating a master race. The village is known as "The Land of the Twins".<br>
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Europe, the Great Old Continent, is home to 50 countries, each with its own rich culture and history, its the birth place of bright ideas that shaped the world of today, like the Western Philosophy from Ancient Greece, or the Industrial Revolution from England. Unfortunately, its also the protagonist in some of history's most dark pages, like the Spanish Inquisition.<br>
Medieval Spain was once the only multiracial and multireligius country in western Europe, and much of its development of its literature, architecture and arts stemmed from this fact. The populace of Jews had served the country and its monarchs well, providing an active commercial class and an educated elite for many administrative posts. However, by the late 14th century, the status of the Jews in Christian Spain began to change. Their former monarch protectors began to restrict the rights and privileges of the Jews, after being led by the Catholic Church to believe, that the Black Death was a plot devised by the Jews to destroy Christianity. Animosity toward the Jews was stimulated further by Jewish converts to Christianity who issued polemics against their former coreligionists. Calls for the expulsion or prosecution of the Jews were answered by anti Jewish riots in 1348 and 1391. The pogroms of 1391 were especially significant because of the subsequent mass conversion of Jews to Christianity in response to the violence perpetrated against them.<br>
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The conversos (Jews that adopted Christianity after a severe prosecution) and marranos (Jews who converted to Christianity to escape persecution, but continued to practice Judaism in secret), became a highly controversial group throughout Spain. Many of these converted Jews and their descendants assumed important positions in government and society and associated themselves with powerful noble families. They also achieved economic power and prosperity, which inspire increasing hatred of them by the 'old Christians", who already questioned the sincerity of their conversions. Indeed, although there were many devout Christians among the conversos, there were also those who were at most agnostic converts, and the marranos. Their wealth created jealousy and their uncertain conversions hatred in a population that traditionally saw itself as the defender of Christianity against the infidel. The Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragonia and Isabella I of Castile, ever good tacticians as ever, profited from this feeling. In 1478, they first obtained a papal bull, from Sixtus IV setting up the Inquisition, to deal with the conversos whose conversions were thought to be insincere. Since the Spanish Inquisition was constituted as a royal court, all appointments were made by the crown, and no appeals were allowed to the Vatican. </div>
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With its army of lay familiars, who were exempts from normal jurisdiction and who acted both as bodyguards and as informers for the inquisitors, and with its combination of civil and ecclesiastical powers, the Spanish Inquisition a formidable weapon in the armory of royal absolutism. Their secret procedures, its eagerness to accept denunciations, its use of torture, the absence of counsel for the accused, the lack of any right to confront hostile witnesses, and the practise of confiscating the property of those who were condemned and sharing it between the Inquisition, the crown and the accusers inspired great terror, as indeed it was meant to do. </div>
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In early 1482 the pope went on to appoint a number of inquisitors for the Spanish Kingdoms, including Torquemada, the personal confessor and counsel of Isabelle I. Torquemada, who hailed from a family of conversos, was deeply afraid of the Marranos, as a menace to Spain's welfare by their increasing religious and economic influence. He was able to successfully spread propaganda against them throughout Spain and in just a under a year he was named Grand Inquisitor which he remained until his death. In the 15 years under his direction, the Spanish Inquisition grew form a single tribunal in Seville to a network of two dozen "Holy Offices", helping Torquemada in his quest to rid Spain of all heresy. Under his personal edict of March 31 1492, approximately 200.00 Jews were forced to leave Spain, and 50.000 took baptism so as to remain. During his time as Grand Inquisitor, more than 2.000 people branded as heretics were burned at the stake in the ritual of acto da fe (act of faith), and over 19.000 brutally tortured and mutilated. </div>
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<b> Maximilien Robespierre</b></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The Spring of 1789, is one of the most important dates of history. That summer, the events that took place were about to change the word, and shape up our version of modern society. The French Revolution, a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #252525;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> grand upheaval, literally uprooted centuries of old ideas, and lead Europe into a brighter future of democracy and equality. But, no revolution is velvet, and no matter how noble the motives could be, absolute power, always corrupts absolutely, and Robespierre is not an exception.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Born on Arras in 1758,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Maximilien Francois Marie de</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Robespierre suffered tragedy early in his life. His mother died when he was six, and a few months later, his father abandoned him and his siblings, who were brought up by elderly relatives. Maximilien was the eldest, a hard working, conscientious, scholarship boy. As soon as he was able to shoulder the burden of caring for his younger siblings, after becoming a lawyer like his father, he took his family under his protection, and lead a quiet and blameless life in his home town. He soon became known for defending the poor and underprivileged, and for his passionate speeches in the local academy.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In 1789, when he was in his early thirties, the Revolution was declared. an event that would transform his destiny, and him. He launched himself in the political maelstrom that would immerse him for the rest of his life. During the first two years of the revolution, in witch the Estates General became the National Assembly, Maximilien spoke frequently in that body, but, as he was deeply influenced by Enlightenment philosophers, such as Rousseau and Montesquieu, his extremely democratic ideas, his emphasis on civil liberty and equality, his uncompromising rigidly in applying these ideas, and his open hostility to all authority, won him little support in this moderate legislature. He favored giving the right of vote to all men, and he opposed slavery. His mistake was only, that he was way ahead of his time. </span></span><br>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Luckily he found followers of his ideas in the Jacobin Club, the most important of the revolutionary clubs where people debated events and his stance won him a reputation among the <i>sans-culottes </i>(the common people of the lower class), and on the radical left, but the earlier years of the revolution were dominated by men who had no wish to see the power turned to the commoners, yet Robespierre persisted, as a spokesman of the opposition undaunted, tireless and consistent.</span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">From the spring of 1792 onward France was involved in a spiral of war, revolt and civil war. Counter revolutionaries were plotting the restoration of the absolute monarchy with the support of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. The Girodins which were the dominant revolutionary faction in the Legislative Assembly at the time, spearheaded the drive for an aggressive war with the empire, declaring war on April 1792. </span></span><br>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Robespierre himself had long warned of the dangers of provoking counter revolution. He had tried to oppose the war because he believed it would divide France and provide support for the counter revolutionaries. Nor he shared Brissot's (leader of the Girodin Club) beliefs, that the people of Europe would welcome an invading French army, even one who claimed to bring liberty and equality. "<i>No one welcomes armed liberators" </i>he claimed, and while he kept his stance, he became unpopular, and politically isolated.</span></span><br>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">By the summer of 1792, his fears were realized. The army far from being victorious was on the verge of defeat and suffered greatly by lack of organization, and inexperienced troops. When people turned to him for advise, he suggested that King Louis was siding with the Austrian and Prussian armies, which were now threatening Paris itself. In August the monarchy was overthrown in the battle of Tuileries palace, and a new republic government, the National Convention was established in September. Robespierre's ascendancy in the political ladder was now unrivaled, thus marking the begging of his transformation</span></span><br>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">When the fate of the King, who was now a prisoner of the rebels, was debated in the convention, Maximilien claimed that "<i>the king must die, in order for a revolution to live". </i>Even though he had yet to abandon his libertarian convictions, he was coming to a conclusion that the ends justified the means. By October of 1793, Robespierre, was rushed to power with the full support of the <i>San-culottes</i>, who were now demanding blood. They wanted total freedom, in order to maintain their new found militia status, and Maximilien delivered. By the end of the month, most members of the Girondin, as well as Marie-Antoinette, followed the king's fate in the guillotine, thus beginning the Age of Terror. It is worth mentioning that for the first time in history, the terrorists were the government it self, and absolute violence was<b> </b>voted legally by the National Convention. "<i>It is time that equality bore its scythe above all heads [...]" </i>, Robespierre proclaimed. </span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Not counting the 200.000 dead of the civil war of Nantes in the same year, Robespierre's Age of Terror made the heads of 40.000 people to roll, all over France. </span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Robespierre's desire for change was not limited to the political realm. He openly opposed the catholic church and the pope, and especially was opposed to its celibacy policies. Having denounced the excesses of dechrianisation</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, he sought to instill a spiritual resurgence in the </span>France<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> nation based on Deist beliefs. Accordingly, on May 7th 1794, Maximilien supported a decree passed by the Convention that established an </span>official<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> religion, known </span>historically<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> as the Cult of </span>the<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Supreme Being. The notion of the supreme being was based on ideas that Jean-Jacques Rousseau</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> had outlined in "The Social Contract" A nationwide "Festival of the Supreme Being" was held on June 8th, which is also the day of the christian holiday Pentecost. The festivities were held in the Champ </span>de<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Mars, and </span>Robespierre<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, who is now president of the </span>Conversion<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, presented him self as a leader of the people for the first time. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Even though Robespierre's delight couldnt be disrupted by his colleagues negativity, there were many who began to believe that he was taking things a bit too far. Reportedly, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot, one of his closest colleagues, was heard saying "<i>look at the bugger, its not enough for him to be leader, he wants to be God". </i>On that day many of his guests began to believe that the government was turning into a dictatorship, thus ensuring Maximilien Robespierre's downfall.</span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">On May 23rd 1794, a failed assassination attempts against Collot d'Herbois, made Robespierre believe that the lives of other government members could also be in danger. He introduced the Decree of 22 Prairial, which allowed the Comity of Public Safety, to freely execute anyone who thought to be suspicious without trial. The line was crossed when George-Jacques Danton, a key figure in the revolution and the overthrow of monarchy, was executed under unverified information of bribery by enemies of the revolution. After Robespierre failed to justify his actions under the Conventions accusations. His arrest was ordered by vote of the National Convention, which was a coup d'etat against the Jacobin Club, known as the Themidorian Reaction.</span></span><br>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">After a failed attempt to rally the sans-culottes to defend him, Robespierre and his follower withdrew to the Hotel de Ville, and soon after were declared outlaws. When the forces of the Convention arrived at two in the morning, Robespierre attempted to kill himself with a pistol but only managed to shatter his lower jaw.</span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Maximilien Robespierre remains one of the most controversial figures of history to this day. Apart from one suburban Metro station and a few streets named after him, there no memorials nor monuments to him in France. Most people consider him a blood thirsty monster that was in love with the guillotine, while others the embodiment of virtue and total commitment, who remained incorruptible until the end. His goal in The Terror was to use the guillotine to create what he called a "republic of virtue", wherein terror and virtue, his principles, would be imposed. He thought of it as a tool to accomplish his overachieving goals for democracy, "<i>a democracy for the people, who are intrinsically good and pure if heart, a democracy in which poverty is honorable, power innocuous, and the vulnerable safe from oppression. A democracy that worships nature, not as what it really is, cruel and disgusting, but nature sanitized, majestic and above all, good"</i></span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">A murderous psychopath, or man with plans above our understanding, that willingly took up the role of the evil master, and the hate of the people, so that his country could be reborn anew, with philosophical foundation, instead of religious? In virtue, instead of corruption?</span></span><br>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The only sure thing is, that even to this day, the story of Maximilien Robespierre, still fascinates historians and biographers worldwide, as one of the most enigmatic figures of history.</span></span><br>
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Khomeini was raised by his mother and an aunt, Sahebeh, both of whom died of cholera in 1918. The responsibility for the family then fell to Khomeini's older brother, Seyed Mourteza. The family claimed to be descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. Both brothers were avid religious scholars like their forefathers, and both attained the status of Ayatollah, which is given only to Shi'ite scholars of the highest knowledge. As a young boy, Khomeini was lively, strong, and good at sports. He was even considered the leapfrog champion of his village and the surrounding area. Far from being dedicated only to games, though, Khomeini was also an intellectual. He was known for his great ability at memorizing both religious and classical poetry, and also excelled at his studies at the local maktab, a school dedicated to teaching the Qu'ran. Because of his scholarly success, Khomeini's older brother decided to send him to the city of Arak (or Sultanabad) in 1920. There, Khomeini studied with the renowned Islamic scholar Yazdi Ha'iri. Ha'iri left Arak for the city of Qom in 1923, and Khomeini followed. There, he committed all of his efforts to furthering his own religious studies while also becoming a teacher for younger students at Ha'iri's school.</div>
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When Ha'iri died in the 1930s, the Ayatollah Boroujerdi succeeded him as the most important Islamic figure in Qom. As a result, Boroujerdi gained Khomeini as a follower. It is interesting to note that both Ha'iri and Boroujerdi believed that religion should not involve itself with government affairs. So, while the leader of Iran, Reza Shah, weakened the powers of religious leaders and promoted a more secularized country, the most powerful religious figures in Iran remained silent and encouraged their followers to do the same. Moreover, the same deference was encouraged when Reza Shah's son, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, turned to the U.S. for help quelling protests for democratic reforms in Iran's capital, Tehran, in the 1950s. One of those who were muted by the beliefs of the senior religious leaders was Khomeini. Unable to speak out against what he saw as a country leaving its Islamic roots and values behind, Khomeini turned his efforts toward teaching. He began to cultivate a group of dedicated pupils who became his staunchest supporters during his days as an Islamic revolutionary. On March 31, 1961, Ayatollah Boroujerdi died and Khomeini was in a position to take up the mantle left by the late religious leader. After publishing his writings on Islamic science and doctrines, many Shi'ite Iranians began to see Khomeini as Marja-e Taqlid (a person to be imitated). In 1962, Khomeini began protesting the intentions of the Shah in earnest. His first act of defiance was to organize the ulama (religious leaders) against a proposed law of the Shah's that would effectively end the requirement for elected officials to be sworn in on the Qu'ran. This action was just the beginning in a long string of events that would change Iranian politics forever.</div>
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In June 1963, Khomeini made a speech suggesting that if the Shah did not change the political direction of Iran, the populace would be happy to see him leave the country. As a result, Khomeini was arrested and held in prison. During his incarceration, people took to the streets with cries for his release, and were met by the government with military force. Even so, it was nearly a week before the unrest was resolved. Khomeini was held in prison until April 1964, when he was allowed to return to Qom.</div>
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The Shah continued to cultivate close ties with the United States, and to be what Khomeini considered "soft" on Israel. This prompted Khomeini to pronounce his belief that Jews would take over Iran and that the U.S. considered all Iranians to be little more than slaves to America's Western ideals. After delivering another inflammatory speech in the fall of 1964, Khomeini was arrested and deported to Turkey. Prevented by Turkish law from wearing the traditional clothes of a Shi'ite cleric and scholar, Khomeini took up residence in Najaf, Iraq in September 1965. He remained there for 13 years. In 1975, crowds gathered for three days at a religious school in Qom and could only be moved by military force. In response, Khomeini released a jubilant statement in support of the protesters. He declared that "freedom and liberation from the bonds of imperialism" was imminent.</div>
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More protests occurred in 1978 in Khomeini's defense, and were again put down violently by Iranian government forces. In the wake of these protests, the Shah felt that Khomeini's exile in Iraq was too nearby for comfort. Soon thereafter, Khomeini was confronted by Iraqi soldiers and given a choice: either stay in Iraq and abandon all political activity, or leave the country. He chose the latter. Khomeini moved to Paris, which was to be his last place of residence before his triumphant return to Iran. The year of his return was 1979, mere months after his move to Paris. Students, the middle-class, self-employed businessmen, and the military all took to the street in protest. The Shah turned to the U.S. for help, but ultimately had to leave the country himself in the face of the revolution at his doorstep. Despite statements such as the one he made in Paris, Khomeini was widely acknowledged as the new leader of Iran, and came to be known as the Supreme Leader. He returned home to cheering crowds, and began laying the groundwork for the Islamic state he had for so long been imagining.</div>
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During this period, he put other clerics to work on writing an Islamic constitution for Iran. He also began iterating more authoritarian sentiments than before: "<i>Don't listen to those who speak of democracy. They all are against Islam. They want to take the nation away from its mission. We will break all the poison pens of those who speak of nationalism, democracy, and such things.</i>"</div>
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Meanwhile, the Shah needed a place to serve out his exile. It became known that the Shah was ill with cancer. With this in mind, the U.S. reluctantly allowed the Shah to enter the country. In protest, a group of Iranians seized more than sixty American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Khomeini saw this as a chance to demonstrate the new Iranian defiance of Western influence.</div>
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The new Iranian government and the Carter Administration of the U.S. entered a standoff in that wouldn't end until after Ronald Reagan's inauguration in late January of 1981, under the pressure of sanctions and oil embargoes imposed by the U.S. on Iran. This is now known as the Iranian Hostage Crisis.</div>
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Once in power, the Ayatollah Khomeini was no more sympathetic to the cries of the secular left than the Shah had been to Khomeini's cries for reform. Many who protested against his regime were killed, and Khomeini had his doctrines and beliefs taught in public schools. He also ensured that clerics sympathetic to his beliefs filled the government ranks, from the smallest town all the way to his own office.</div>
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Moreover, Khomeini believed that the ideas on which the new Iran had been built needed to be, in his words, "exported." Iraq and Iran had long been in territorial dispute over border areas and claims on petroleum reserves. Sensing an opportunity, on September 22, 1980, Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein launched an attack by land and air against Iran. Hussein hoped to catch Iran, weakened by revolution. Though Iraq made some early gains, but June, 1982, the war wore down to a stalemate that lasted another six years. Finally, after hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars were lost, the UN brokered a cease-fire in August, 1988, which both sides accepted. Khomeini called this compromise "more deadly than taking poison." Khomeini is also well known for releasing a fatwa (a legal document issued by a Muslim cleric) calling for the death of Indian-British author Salman Rushdie for his book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Satanic Verses</em> in 1989. The book is a work of fiction that can be interpreted as depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a false prophet, and casts considerable doubt on many Islamic beliefs.</div>
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Shortly after the Rushdie fatwa was declared, the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died, on June 3, 1989. Iran remains a religion-based society, and Khomeini's life's work and decade of rule will no doubt continue to influence the country far into the future.</div>
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More than 1.200.000 people died during Khomeini's call for revolution. His most fanatic followers founded Hezbollah, one of the most infamous terrorist groups that would became responsible for some of the most notorious terrorist attacks, with the Cinema Rex fire being consider as the largest act of terrorism prior to the 9/11 2001, with over 500 victims. It is widely believed that Ayatollah Khomeini, is the "father" of terrorism.</div>
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I love top ten lists. I can literally spend hours watching All Time 10's or Watch Mojo, and i always wanted to do something similar. So while i was at work the other day, i came up with the "Top Ten Week". Simply, instead of a list of things with a picture and a few lines, i decided to separate it into five posts of two entries per post. By doing that i will be able to elaborate more on each entry, and maybe even provide some extra info. I plan to do this every now and then, and i am admitting that it also helps me to buy some time during my research for other posts (some of them turning out to be quite the challenge). For my first list i decided to kick things off with the most evil people in history, because i just happened to have a conversation on a similar subject recently, and realised that i was unaware of most of the entries you are about to see. So having researched this subject a little, i thought i could share with you some of my new found knowledge.<br />
Please note this is not intended as a typical Top Ten list, as i avoided the ranking from least to most or vise versa. Also, be warned that some of these entries may include uncomfortable images.<br />
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Tallat Pasha was one of the Three Pashas that ruled the Ottoman Empire by the time of the first World War. He began his career in politics when he became deputy of Edirne (Andrianopolis) in 1908 after the Young Turks Movement revolution, one year later, after the assassination of the Grand Vizier Mahmud Sevket Pasha, he was appointed Minister of Interior Affairs. It was then that he, along with Enver and Djemal, formed the triumvirate, later known as the Three Pashas, over their mutual hatred for Armenia people, that basically ran the entire Ottoman government. On April 24 1915 Tallad issued the order to close all political organization within the empire, and arrest all community leaders and all intellectual people, such as writers and thinkers, that are connected to them, by claiming that they were responsible for upheavals in the Ottoman Empire, and they were secretly collaborating with the Russians. Of course, the truth is that the radical Turks didn't want Christians within their empire. With the pass of his techir law, on June 1 1915, began the mass deportation of 2.000.000 Armenians to the Syrian desert were they were abandoned to starve to death.<br />
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Tallat's "Butcher Battalions" as they were named, were made up from ex-convicts and murderers, and they were order to, as one officer claimed, to "liquidity the Christin element". They would strip down the people, and marched them around naked until they were burned from the sun. The killed children and babies with no remorse, and raped women and adolescent girls in from of their families, and crucify them after.<br />
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By the end 1922 over 1.500.000 Armenians were brutally murdered, with their homes and proprieties seized, and by the end of 1923 the Armenian population was completely eliminated from Asia Minor and East Armenia leaving only 300.000 Armenians. The Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being by those few survivors.<br />
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After the Allied forces occupied Istanbul, they sought to bring to justice those responsible, among other charges, for the Armenian Genocide. Those who where caught were put under arrest at the Bekiraga division and where subsequently exiled to Malta. The Pashas, who held the highest positions in the administration and whose names were on the top of the execution lists of the Armenian assassination teams could be condemned in absentia because they had gone abroad. A few months later the British secret service located Tallat in Stockholm, and planned to apprehend him, but dropped the plan, fearing implications with Germany, instead they decided to allow the Armenian revolutionaries to carry out the verdict. Tallat was assassinated with a single bullet through the head on March 15 1921 as he came out of his house in Hardenberastrasse. His assassin was an Armenian Revolutionary Federation member from Erzurum, named Soghomon Tehlirian.<br />
He surrender himself, and after a two day trial was fount not innocent, on grounds of temporary insanity, due to the traumatic experience he went through during the genocide.<br />
Tehlirian died in 1960 and is buried at the Ararat Cemetery in California, in a monumental grave.<br />
He is still considered a national hero to the Armenians.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Turkish government still denies that the Holocaust ever took place. They claim that the Armenians were an enemy force, so extreme measures had to be taken. Turkey is considered a valuable ally to America and most western nations, so many world governments have yet to condemn the Armenian Genocide.</span><br />
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Elizabeth, or Erzsebet, Bathory was the daughter of George and Anna Bathory, born in Nirbratoe, Hungary on 1560. As a child she spend most of her days in her families estate, castle Cachtice, located near the town of of Vishine, north east of present day Bratislava (although it is commonly mistakenly reported being in Transylvania). From a very young age she showed exceptional brilliance, and began to educate her self. By the age of 12 she was fluent at German, Latin and Greek, She showed a passion for fine arts and historians suggest that she was studying, and fascinated by, astronomy. All that in an era when most of the nobles couldn't even write their own name.<br />
Elizabeth came from high nobility, her uncle was the former king of Hungary, and all of her family members were dukes and barons. Also her family was one of the first in Hungary to renounce the Catholic Church, and adopt Protestantism.<br />
As a child she was subject to heavy seizures, accompanied by intense fits of rage and uncontrollable behavior, and possible even epilepsy. At the time it seems many of the peasants who were in the Bathory family service, believed her to be cursed, because of her aunt, who was rumored to be a witch.<br />
Truth is, that it is highly possible that Elizabeth was a product of inbreeding, something that was really quite common within the nobility. Records of many dysfunctional members of her family also support this. Furthermore, she was growing in a era of war, when Hungary was overrun by the Ottoman empire, which lead to a constant series of proxy battles. On top of that, the Hungarians were influenced by the stories of Vlad the Impaler, and would mimic his brutality to instill fear to the Turks. It is suggested that Elizabeth witnessed countless brutal acts of punishment that deeply traumatize her, and psychologists believe that she was suffering from social anxiety due to these events. A historical analysis suggest that she once witnessed her father capturing a thief in his estate, witch he proceeded to beat near to death, and then sew inside the stomach of a dying horse and left to perish. So not only she was exposed to incredible violence, but her family absolutely condone attitude toward it.<br />
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Elizabeth Bathory was engaged at age 10 to a young knight named Ferenc Nadasty (known as "The Black Knight"), who was already famous for his brutal tactics against the ottomans, even though he was just 18, and were married on May 1575. He was a soldier, so he was away for long periods of time, even longer when he became chief commander of the Hungarian troops, and while he was away Elizabeth was tasked with protecting their vast estate and the seventeen villages that surround it.<br />
A series of letters discovered later on, showed that Elizabeth would write to her husband, asking him to describe to her the ways he killed his enemies, and he would happily respond in gruesome detail. Apparently, all this gore was arousing Elizabeth to the point that she would take part in massive orgies with her servants, allowing historians to believe that she was in fact bisexual.<br />
One day, Elizabeth suffered from a severe fit of rage, and since Ferenc was not around to restrain her, she killed a servant girl, who was supposedly jealous of too. It seems that the murderous rush was so intoxicating, that would turn young Elizabeth into the most prolific serial killer in history.<br />
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After her husband's death in 1604, nobody was left to restrain her, she was in charge of a huge territory, and bored from a comfortable life, that satisfied all her needs, Elizabeth resulted to the rush of murder. Having learned a lot from her late husband about torture, she unleashed her rage onto her servants and peasants, especially young girls. Some of her ways included:<br />
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Lady Bathory was able to remain undetected for many years, despite the complaints of the villagers about he disappearing girls. Supposedly she crossed the line when she included a noble girl in her past time activity, drawing the attention of the crown, which was more than happy to carry out an inquiry. You see the king was in great dept to the Bathory family, so if she was guilty, not only he could keep his money, but also seize her vast territory. So, after a raid on a Christmas night in 1610, Elizabeth was apprehended and put on trial, where after almost 300 testimonies she was found guilty for 650 cases of murder (even though that this this number is highly unlikely).<br />
She was sentenced to house restriction where she died in her sleep four years later.<br />
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Now it is worth mentioning that the tale of Lady Elizabeth Bathory is surrounded by myths. For instance, there are absolutely no proof that she would bathe in her victims blood to stay young, that myth surfaced more than 100 years later and its part of the folkloric tales the villagers created, mostly to attract tourists. Also it is believed that everything was a political conspiracy orchestrated by her familie's opponents to claim her land, and erase their dept to them (Knights Templar anyone?), after her husband died. Lets not forget that at that time, almost all widowed women were scape goats, and always considered witches.<br />
So, guilty or not, the legend of Lady Bathory is what inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula, one of themost famous novels, and create the vampire mythos, that would live to become an insuperable part of popular culture.<br />
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I am a smoker. Last night, as i was desperately searching for a lighter in my drawers, i came across my dusty old phone, and it got me thinking. Unconsciously, a feeling of nostalgia came over me. I held it my hand, felt its tiny screen and buttons, and wondered how i could ever use that primitive device. Until i realised. Last time i used it was only three years ago, and at that point, my steam rolling train of though began.<br />
What a time to be alive, right? We have taken a huge leap forward, and in just under a decade, we revolutionised the way we communicate, see things, and basically our whole way of life. If you came to me ten years ago, and told me, that in few years, i could have a device that can hold more data than a PC, have access to the Internet wherever i was, and that i could find whatever i need among its applicable functions, i would simply laughed at you, and told you to cut back on video games.<br />
But, it is now a reality, and boy oh boy, i couldn't be happier that i am experiencing this turning point in our culture. I'm in that age, where i can remember the older simpler days, but young enough, to be happily engulfed in the stream of the Digital Era. But... Where does it end?<br />
Do you remember how printers used to be? They would only print in black ink, and now, just 20 years later we are able to print 3D images, from tools, to car parts, to even guns. Now, the TTP has announced their plan for the Vista Printer. A 3D printer able to print organic material.<br />
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Let me say that again. A printer, that can print organic material. That is the marvelous age we live in. No more failed organ transplants, no waiting lists, no compatibility issues. Just imagine the hospitals 10 years from now "Sir you seem to have a heart failure, please wait while i download a compatible heart template on the printer, you'll be good as new in a couple of hours."<br />
I can see a bright future dawning for humanity, but for arguments sake, lets think of another scenario.<br />
So, the organic printer will be available for commercial use at some point right? In a decade from now most people would probably own a 3D printer, just like the VHS, the DVD, PC, or any electronic breaking through device.<br />
Now picture this: a teen boy, in his angry, rebellious years, that is bullied like hell in school, he returns home after another tough day and hes mad at the world. He goes online and downloads this<br />
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in his organic printer and begins printing. What is that text you ask? Oh nothing much, just a piece of the Ebola Virus genetic sequence. And there you have it, all you can print Ebola, without having to leave the comfort of your room. But why stop there? Imagine a radical fanatic, a "christian" that hates gay people, or a extremist "Muslim" that...hates everyone? Imagine having the ability to freely print some of the many deadly viruses at will. Ebola, HIV, Smallpox, or even the Yersinia Pestis bacterium and recreate the Black Death plague, in case you want to go vintage. Virus gets out of hand, of course, maybe mutates yada yada yada, and there you have it folks, a beautiful <i>Anthropogenic Extinction, </i>annihilation of humanity caused by humans<i>...</i> Wait, are we going to go extinct soon?<br />
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Well, the Global Catastrophic Risk Survey, by the future of Humanity Institution places a huge extinction event prior to the year 2100, at a whopping 19% of probability, reminding us that we are underestimating the risk of a complete extinction more and more, day by day.<br />
Now, i know what most of you must be thinking, "whatever, humans are smart, we ll survive anything", "we dealt with these scenarios before". Did we actually? No. You see as society progress, new dangers rise, 50 years ago, people were afraid of Nuclear War, 15 years ago we were afraid of the Millennium Virus, and 3 years ago many thought that the world would end. Today we are facing real problems, like overpopulation, and resources being limited more and more.<br />
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Isn't that ironic? A species, so advanced that even right now we have the ability to predict and avert catastrophic events. We even have the ability to deal with a oncoming asteroid-well a small one at least, so why can we even drought for a second, that a highly intelligent life form such as ours cant survive for billion of years in our universe?</div>
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We are still such young species, only 200.000 years old, imagine what we could do in the next one million years, we could expand in the universe, colonise and terraform planet after planet and create an empire that will last for millions of years to come... But, if that was possible, were are all the other empires? The universe is 13,8 billion years old, isn't that enough for an another species to have evolved somewhere out there? Were are all the advanced civilizations? Where is everybody?</div>
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It simply states that there is a probability that advanced civilisations may have a limit, that if reached, then self destruction is inevitable. So, are we reaching our final stages? Are down on our last couple of centuries? Does human civilization has an expiration date? Well...don't all thing have one?</div>
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But, what if we take it to the stars, just as S. Hawking suggests. What if, in 50-100 years from now, we manage to colonise Mars, an almost habitable planet, pretty close to us? Would it be marvelous for our species to be around when the Andromeda Galaxy collides and unites with our Milky Way? How lucky would the humans of that time be, to look up in the sky and see this:</div>
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Or the the deaths of the Betelgeuse and Eta Carinae, whose supernovas will light up the skies for weeks? Wouldn't that time, be a great time to be alive? Just imagine all the things we could achieve by then or the evolution that we could undergo. Imagine the forward leap when, instead of still using those black lines on maps, to separate ourselves, we just used terms like "Eartican", or "Martian", on even "Centurian", in a grand unification of our species that spans hundreds of light years into space, and billions of years in time, in one big, not ethnic but Human Empire.</div>
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Even so, even after all these truly grand achievements, how will it end? Everything has an expiration date, even time. At some point, everything will end. But how?</div>
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Before we talk about this we first must understand this. Since its beginning, there has been a battle raging in the universe, between two great forces. Expansion and Gravity. Simply put, the after shock of the Big Bang explosion that launched matter everywhere in -at the time void-space, is still going on. The universe is expanding due that explosion, but the gravity is pushing back.</div>
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So, first scenario is that expansion wins, the universe gets infinitely expanded, planets and stars lose their souse of raw universal materials and stop growing, energy stops flowing, and slowly, but steady everything comes to a sudden halt, were the temperatures will drop so low, that it will be inhospitable to life.</div>
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Next we have the Big Slurp theory, which physicists came up 3 years ago with the discovery of the Higgs particle. They suggest, that there is no actual balance in the universe and that it is so unstable, that at any time, anywhere in space, a bubble of vacuum could occur, that will expand in light speed, consuming everything. Kinda like a big turn off switch.</div>
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Finally the Big Crunch. The scenario, were gravity wins,and starts pushing back without the opposing force of the expansion. It keeps pushing and pushing everything together, planets, stars, nebulae and galaxies until everything collide, becoming smaller and smaller, until all mater is nothing more but a spec of sand.</div>
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Alright, kicking off this blog is the first subject that comes to my mind, as i sit here, drinking my hot coffee, trying to figure out what the hell should i talk about. The "men vs women" matter, is something that-to be honest-has taken a lot of space in my mind over the years, and has surfaced almost every time in a conversation between me and my friends or during my relationships.<br />
After hearing a lot of different opinions on this matter, i came to realise how much oblivious are both sexes to each others point of view. It seems that most of the time we tend to hang on stereotypes such as "women are crazy", "men care only for sex", an things like that. At this point i must make it crystal clear, that i hate stereotypes of all kind. Sure, sometimes they can be funny if used in that particular way, and humor is always harmless, but in my eyes stereotypes are nothing more than the perpetuation of old ideas or beliefs. As an Aquarius I'm against that by nature.<br />
So, why are we so different? Why is that we have different approaches on every little everyday thing?<br />
Shopping for example, a man will simply walk in a store, buy the thing he needs (which made him go to the store in the first place), pay and leave. A woman, will roam the isles for a while, browse around, buy a couple of things that got her attention, check the prices between different brands of the same product, buy a shitload of things she doesn't need, and probably forget to buy the thing she went to buy in the beginning. Right? No.<br />
Lets take it from the top, and by that i mean our brains. First, here are some facts.<br />
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<li>The male brain is <span style="background-color: white;">highly </span>specialized, using specific parts of one hemisphere, or the other to accomplish specific tasks, while the female brain is more diffused and utilises significant portions of both hemispheres for a variety of tasks.</li>
<li>Men are able to separate and isolate information, stimulus, emotions or relationships into different compartments of their brains, while women tent to link everything together.</li>
<li>Men are able to block out unnecessary information while focusing on an issue. Women see everyday things from a broader point of view.</li>
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So what does all this means? Its pretty simple. Men are able to use specific parts of our brains, for the respective specific issues. Women on the other hand, use their whole brain on every issue. That's why a woman can see a variety of different aspects in a single issue, while a man will simple sit down and try to fix it. In simple words, men are simple beings.<br />
We are often "accused" of not being emotionally connected, at least i have been, but here is a paradoxical fact. Studies suggest that men are more emotionally sensitive beings than women! How is that possible? Because we evolved so we could hide it better. Can you imagine a sensitive man in prehistoric times? Yeah, i thought so.<br />
At this point i would like to use this example i made up, in order to explain my theory to female friend of mine, the basic difference between our "species".<br />
So, imagine the male brain as a warehouse full of boxes neatly stacked but never ever touching. Each box has its title such as: "car", "girlfriend", "PlayStation 3", "work". So every time, we pick up the respective box, open it, and focus on its content, one box at a time (simple brains, remember?), and then we put it back in its place, again neatly. Women on the other hand, have all the same boxes, but this time are connected with a string. An emotion string, so every time you use a box, you unconsciously tie it with an emotion, that carries to the next box. Not only that, but men have a special box, above all others, that women do not have. The Empty Box. When we use that, we can just sit there, and think about nothing, just watch the game, or play video games for hours and be just stupidly happy. That drives most women mad, because they can't understand how we can be so "immature" as they prefer to call it. <br />
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Still, why this differences occurred in the first place? How can the brains of the same species be so different? Could it be...a different evolutionary path? I am convinced as such.<br />
It was always my opinion that women are more evolved than men, not just their brains, witch i believe are stone cold calculatory devices, but their bodies too. Women easily spot details and even slight color changes, They can pick up lower frequency noises easier than men (although they cant hear better than men, that's just a myth), and recent studies suggest they can even detect fear. That's right, women can smell it when you re sweating out of fear and react to it, even though they are unaware of that capability. They posses higher pain tolerance, and above all, the gift of life. So, is it possible that we walked different evolutionary paths during our time in the planet? Before we answer this let me ask you something first. How many men, walk into a room, and the first thing they notice is something that needs repair? A broken outlet, or a slightly leaning table? And how many women have walked into a room and the first thing they checked is, if that room is comfortable, if its well lit, and clean, if the furniture are properly placed, and the color pattens? How many women moved in a guys house and totally changed the place? Almost every one. Because we are wired to do these things. During our evolution, men would provide safety, while women a caring environment. for their offsprings.<br />
It is believed that the early human societies, of prehistoric times were matriarchal. Simply put, men would provide, while women would rule the society. But, isn't that still happening? Even with all the progression and changes to our culture? It could just be basic instinct. All people, no, all living things have the instinct of procreation, they constantly try to ensure the passing of their genetic material, to create a next generation and ensure their continuation. a man must ensure his significant other's well being in order for her to perform the miracle of life.<br />
Now, i know these last sentences may seem regressive. "But I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself", "we don't need men", and stuff like that are common reactions in the struggle for equality. Of course you are. Everyone is capable of taking care of them selfs. But in order to progress, in order to continue evolving, we need each other. You see, as we come to a conclusion, this is the only thing that makes sense. We need to take care of each other, each in their own way. Instead of pointing our flaws, and failing to understand why we behave like that, we should embrace each others difference because we complete each other, and even though we tent to complicate things, we must understand that we are half animal, and half divine beings, we have instincts, but also choices. Don't forget that the ancient Greeks believed the very essence of perfection and balance<br />
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Hi, I'm Vlasis and this is my first attempt at blogging. Basically, what i wanna do, is share some of my ideas, opinions and points of view on a number of different subjects. In this blog, there will be all kinds of topics varying from social matters such as homophobia, racism or religion, to philosophy, psychology, history, and basically about everything that i find interesting. From black holes, to relationships. Stay tuned and expect to hear the ugly truth.<br />
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