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Marina Amaral

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15 May

Publishing a book was a desire I had in my heart since I was very young. I can't believe how much life has exceeded my expectations...

Ps: several publishers rejected my idea of a history book illustrated with colorized photos because, apparently, people wouldn't buy it.

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Ha

Of course, the project wasn't so refined and incredible as Dan and Head of Zeus (much love for them) made it be when we decided to work together. But still.... I have an evil satisfaction when I think about it.

Links to every published edition coming soon!

Mood

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

11 May

#OnThisDay in 1960, Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, is captured in Argentina.

"I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5 million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction."

Eichmann headed the Gestapo Department IV B4 for Jewish Affairs, serving as a self-proclaimed 'Jewish specialist'. He was the man responsible for keeping the trains rolling from all over Europe to death camps during the Final Solution. bit.ly/3y4TDAE

He drew up the idea of deportation of Jews into ghettos, and went about concentrating Jews in isolated areas with murderous efficiency. bit.ly/3y1F68N

Photo: Eichmann and members of the Gestapo, before a raid on the Jewish Community Center, Vienna, 1938.

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Marina Amaral

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8 May

#OnThisDay in 1886, pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.

In April 1865, Dr. Pemberton sustained a saber wound to the chest during the Battle of Columbus. He soon became addicted to the morphine used to ease his pain. In 1866, seeking a cure for his addiction, he began to experiment with painkillers...

... that would serve as morphine-free alternatives to morphine.

After a few attempts, he began experimenting with coca and coca wines, eventually creating a recipe that contained extracts of kola nut and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.

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Marina Amaral

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4 May

Mary Kenner was an inventor most noted for her development of the sanitary belt, also known as a menstrual pad. Racial discrimination caused her patent to be prevented for thirty years.

Kenner never made any money from the sanitary belt, because her patent expired and...

... became public domain, allowing it to be manufactured freely.

In an interview, she said, "one day I was contacted by a company that expressed an interest in marketing my idea. I was so jubilant ... I saw houses, cars, and everything about to come to my way."

"Sorry to say, when they found out I was black, their interest dropped. The representative went back to New York and informed me the company was no longer interested."

Between 1956 and 1987 Kenner received five total patents for her household and personal item creations.

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Marina Amaral

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3 May

Henry O. Flipper died #OnThisDay in 1940.

He was an American soldier, engineer, formerly enslaved, who in 1877, became the first African American to graduate from the US Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army.

After his commissioning, he was assigned to one of the all-black regiments in the U.S. Army, which were historically led by white officers. Flipper served with distinction during the Apache Wars and the Victorio Campaign, but was haunted by rumors alleging improprieties.

Eventually, he was court-martialed and dismissed from the U.S. Army.

In 1994, his descendants applied to the U.S. military for a review of Flipper's court-martial and dismissal. A review found the conviction and punishment were "unduly harsh and unjust"...

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Marina Amaral

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3 May

#OnThisDay in 1945, World War II: German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners from Nazi concentration camps is sunk by the Royal Air Force in the East Sea. 5,800 killed. This was one of the largest single-incident maritime losses of life in the Second World War.

For weeks after the attack, bodies of victims washed ashore, where they were collected and buried in mass graves at Neustadt in Holstein, Scharbeutz and Timmendorfer Strand.

Parts of skeletons washed ashore over the next 30 years, with the last find in 1971.

RAF Pilot Allan Wyse of No. 193 Squadron recalled, "We used our cannon fire at the chaps in the water... we shot them up with 20 mm cannons in the water. Horrible thing, but we were told to do it and we did it. That's war."

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