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Members of the pro-RUF "West Side Boyz" on the move in Sierra Leone. This group - and many of the other belligerents - recruited children extensively and indoctrinated them with extreme doses of drugs and violence. (ThingLink) On this day in 1991, rebel forces of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) entered Sierra Leone, a diamond-rich…
Grant as president in the 1870s. (Wikipedia). On this day in 1862, American Major-General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, a decree ordering the removal of all Jews from Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. Grant was commander of all Union (northern, "Yankee") forces during the American Civil War, and he sought the eradication of…
A drawing of the Gatling Gun showing its multiple barrels and old-fashioned design. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1862 Dr Richard J. Gatling patented the Gatling gun. The Gatling, a multi-barreled hand-cranked firearm, was one of the first machine guns and the deadliest rapid-firing weapon of its kind up to that point. The…
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