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Hi I'm doing some research and trying to build up a list of unique and fascinating historical characters or events that people wouldn't necessarily have heard of.
This guy is one of my favourites - not exactly unknown but still a fairly obscure one:
'He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart
Thanks for your help.
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Hi there redditors,
So I was reading Orlando Figes a few weeks ago and was absolutely disturbed by a piece he wrote on sex and virginity in the peasant/serf towns of rural Russia. Generally, a newly wed virgin and her husband would take part in a deflowering ceremony in front of the entire village and how, if the man could not perform, the eldest in the village would take over. Cultural behaviours like these continued into the 20th century in some places and, alongside his section on peasant torture and execution methods, left me morbidly curious to find out more.
I would like to know of any fascinating sexual rituals, domestic/married behaviours towards sex, sexual tortures, attitudes toward polygamy, virginity, etc, throughout all history and all cultures both remote and widespread to better understand the varied 'history of sex'
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So I know people recorded what happened at the time, such as the black death, there were Dairies and books. But when did people start investigating fossil's, or battle sites. They must have looked back to what was before them but were there historians? Did they dig up old buildings or question what was there before them.
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