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Thomas Thistlewood: The Serial Rapist Who Documented All of His Crimes Against His Slaves in a Diary

Thomas Thistlewood was an English slave owner, planter, and diarist who spent most of his life in colonial Jamaica. Known for his extreme brutality, Thistlewood thoroughly documented his life in a 14,000-page diary, detailing the horrific abuse he inflicted...
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The Maxim Gun: The Weapon that Cleared the Path for European Conquest of Africa in the 19th Century

The Maxim gun, invented in 1884 by American-born engineer Hiram Maxim, was the world’s first fully automatic machine gun....