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Old military Kendo was DEADLY!!!

Hi, this is Chadi. Today we’re going to be looking at military Kendo weapon-based martial arts,   how they train them in the Imperial Army, and also We’re gonna look at the police’s way of competing   with several examples, so here you see the footage I would say around the 1930s, it was far less   refined but far more effective they had far more options in terms of winning and scoring now today   they limit them to several targets and you have to attack them accordingly, but it […]

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Defunctland: The Awful Wiggles Dark Ride

(upbeat 1950s music) – [Kevin] In 1957, a 24-year-old Australian man named John Longhurst visited the newly opened Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. A regular viewer of the “Disneyland” television show, Longhurst was interested not just in the park, but the man who made it. The trip to Disneyland did not disappoint. Longhurst recalled, quote, “It was something different to anything I’d ever seen. There was something romantic about it. ” This trip began what would become a lifelong obsession with both Disneyland and Walt Disney. Longhurst […]

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Top 6 Worst Natural Disasters in History

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raywilliamjohnson/ JOIN Equals Three Studios –► http://bitly.com/dfyMcW In this Top 6 episode we explore some of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Yikes! Like our Facebook ► http://www.facebook.com/EqualsThree Follow us on Instagram ► http://instagram.com/EqualsThree Follow us on Twitter ► https://twitter.com/EqualsThreeShow Music: “Style Funk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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In 1986, A City Released Millions Of Balloons As A Publicity Stunt With Fatal Results

When the city of Cleveland, Ohio, put on a fundraiser for charity in 1986, they really brought it in terms of fanfare. In addition to raising money for United Way, the city also aimed to break the world record for most balloons ever launched. Thousands of volunteers gathered to make this a reality, and they filled balloons with helium together for hours. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DCBP_ATF’); }); When all was said and done, over a million balloons were released in downtown Cleveland. Although it was an incredible sight […]

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The World’s First Supermodel Led A Glamorous Life, But It Ended In Obscurity

Supermodels are among society’s most ubiquitous figures. You might not notice them at first, but if you start paying attention to commercials, magazine ads, and billboards, you’ll start to see the same faces over and over again. Supermodels, heralded as the world’s most beautiful people, sell everything from cheeseburgers to lingerie, and once you become familiar with them, their faces are almost impossible to ignore. And the stunning models of today are not without precedent. A woman by the name of Audrey Munson is known as the […]

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How They Used To Do Perms In The 1920s and ’30s Seems Outrageous By Today’s Standards

googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); When looking through vintage photos from the 1920s and ’30s, you’re bound to come across a few odd-looking images. It’s easy to forget just how different things were back then. But in some cases, things weren’t just different. They were downright horrifying (at least from our modern-day viewpoint). Take how they used to do perms, for example. That seriously looks like a machine out of “The Twilight Zone.” Getty Images googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DCBM_BTF’); }); While it might look pretty freaky to us, back […]

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Some Extremely Bad, Government-Sanctioned Things Went On In This Building

googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); If you know anything about the creepiness of early American history, then you certainly know about the Salem Witch Trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The movement resulted in the brutal killings of 20 women before all was said and done. While the whole town bears the marks of these trials, one building in particular deserves the title of being the epicenter of evil. This is the Joshua Ward House. During the late 1600s, it was […]

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