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In Europe, in 1492, it was the moral thing to do to be covered head to toe. Yes, dress did sometimes accentuate some parts like cleavage in women. It was immoral to uncover body parts such as the buttocks or genitalia. In the Americas, many tribes lived their entire lives in the nude. They went around their daily lives in the nude because the warm, humid environment year round made clothes unnecessary and and making them was a waste of time and resources. When the Europeans encountered these tribes, they thought they were immoral because they were nude. They thought they were lascivious and loose because they were nude. In fact, they followed codes of conduct around relationships and sex that were in many cases even stricter than the Europeans’. The nudity was not relevant to their conduct. They were not having sex around the clock as Europeans thought.

A 25-year-old housemaid, Dominion Okoro, on Tuesday, in Benin, confessed to killing Madam Maria Igbinedion, 85, the mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Narrating how she carried out the act on December 2, Dominion, who was arrested in her hometown in Calabar, Cross River State, said she hit her late boss in the head with a stool while she slept. The suspect, who spoke while being paraded at the Edo State Police Command Headquarters in Benin, disclosed that she made away with N100,000, a wristwatch and jewellery from the GRA residence of the Igbinedions. She said, “I killed mama to carry her money. She did not offend me. While she was sleeping on her bed, around 12.01am on December 2, 2021, I used a stool to hit her in the head and she shouted for help; but only the gateman was around and he did not hear the shout. Mama later died. “I waited till 4am on December 2, 2021, before leaving the house with mama’s N100,000, wristwatch and jewellery. ...

A 26-year old man, Ayodele Bankole, was arrested by the police in the state, after killing a young lady he took to an hotel in Akure, the state capital. According to the CP, Bankole took the young lady to an hotel and stabbed her to death with knife before taking to his heels but was apprehended. Oyediran said: “The suspect, Bankole went to an hotel but a few minutes later jumped down the stairs of the hotel and took to his heels. “He was pursued and brought back to the hotel room, only to discover that a young lady of about 24 years old was found in the pool of her blood with fresh injuries on her neck and chest. “She was confirmed dead at the hospital while a blood-stained knife was recovered at the scene of the incident” But the suspect claimed that he was an Okada rider who was hired by a passenger but said he was apprehended while waiting for the passenger. He said: “I was never at the hotel or kill anyone, I am an okada rider but I was surprised to be apprehended and arrested by ...

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a man identified as Tunde Olayiwola for being in possession of a fresh human head. The suspect, who is a herbalist, was arrested by the personnel of the command in the Oka area of Ondo town on Thursday with the human head. Parading the suspect and others at the command headquarters in Akure, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Oyeyemi Oyediran, said Olayiwola was arrested following a tip-off. The commissioner stated, “On December 23, 2021, around 9.20am, the police received information that a self-acclaimed cleric named Alfa Tunde Olayiwola, a suspected ritualist, was about to receive a consignment suspected to be a human head. The police immediately swung into action and the cleric was apprehended at the Ajagbale area of Oka, Ondo town. “A fresh human head was found in his custody. He confessed that the head found in his possession was to be used to ensure that he had a better life.” Confessing to the crime, the 55-year-old Olayiwola said he bough...

Violet Jessop',    Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day.  Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC. “One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field.” For most people one sinking would be enough. But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean.  To her, this disaster was even more horrifying-- “Just as life seeming nothing but a whirling, choking ach...

The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353.  It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis spread by fleas, but it can also take a secondary form where it is spread person-to-person contact via aerosols causing septicaemic or pneumonic plagues. The Black Death was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history. The origin of the Black Death is disputed. The pandemic originated either in Central Asia or East Asia but its first definitive appearance was in Crimea in 1347. From Crimea, it was most likely carried by fleas living on the black rats that travelled on Genoese ships, spreadin...

The giant stone snake at Naka Cave Naka Cave is located in Phu Langa National Park, Thailand. The cave is home to many mysterious myths and legends and is a hotspot for tourists every year. Many of the legends come from the rock’s appearance, which takes the form of a snake. Buddhism plays a large role in many of the legends that appear around the cave as serpent beings are considered to be guardians of the water who live in damp caves. The complete video Every year, new parts of the cave that resemble snakes are discovered which fuel more stories to be told More pictures