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Colorized by me: Wounded Canadian soldiers en route for Blighty, ca. 1918.

Original via Archives of Ontario. Image
Original via Archives of Ontario. Image
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Close to 61,000 Canadians were killed during the war, and another 172,000 were wounded. Many more returned home broken in mind and body.

warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/…
No reliable method existed for tracking or treating psychological casualties, but authorities identified over 9,000 Canadians as suffering from “shell shock”.

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Colorized by me: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; 1862. ImageImage
Part of the Maryland Campaign, the Battle of Antietam was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.

It was the bloodiest day in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
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The very first kiss on film: Thomas Edison's 1896 silent film "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John C. Ric.

"The film caused a scandalized uproar and occasioned disapproving newspaper editorials and calls for police action in many places where it was shown."
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The Edison catalogue advertised the film this way: “They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.”
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Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins was one of the most famous American entertainers of the 19th century. Blind from birth and born into slavery, Wiggins became well known for his piano virtuosity. Though undiagnosed at the time, it is likely that he was autistic as well.
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Celia was a 19-year-old enslaved woman who lived in Missouri. On June 23, 1855, after repeatedly requesting Newsom, her master, to stop sexually coercing her - with no success, she struck him twice with a large stick.

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