Napoleon was a creepy dude. See these "love letters" he wrote to Josephine:

“Adieu, adorable Josephine; one of these nights your door will open with a great noise; as a jealous person, and you will find me on your arms.”

"I don’t love you, not at all; on the contrary I detest you—you’re a naughty, gawky, foolish slut.”

"Josephine, take care! Some fine night, the doors will be broken open and there I'll be."

"There are those four days between the 23rd, and the 26th.; what were you doing that you failed to write to your husband? (...) The day when you say "I love you less", will mark the end of my love and the last day of my life."

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20 May

Colorized by me: This is probably the only photo of nine reigning kings gathered in the same room ever taken. They were in London for the funeral of King Edward VII - the last time all of the great European monarchs would meet before the First World War.

#OnThisDay in 1910.

Standing, from left to right:

King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel II of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, King George I of Greece and King Albert I of Belgium.

Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King-Emperor George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

Photo by W & D Downey.

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20 May

Evelyn Nesbit was the most sought-after fashion model in America’s Gilded Age.

She was involved in a relationship with railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw and architect Stanford White, which resulted in Thaw killing White at the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden.

The press called the resulting court case the "Trial of the Century", and coverage of these well-known figures was sensational. Nesbit testified that White had befriended her and her mother, but had sexually assaulted her when she was unconscious.

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Harry Thaw was a multi-millionaire with a history of mental instability and abusive behavior.

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19 May

Colorized by me: New Zealand soldiers in the transport lines having a meal break in a wood near Louvencourt, France. 21 April 1918.

🇳🇿 The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses to serve overseas in 1914–18 was 100,444, from a population of just over a million.

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Photo by Henry Armytage Sanders.
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16,697 New Zealanders were killed and 41,317 were wounded during the war – a 58% casualty rate. Approximately a further thousand men died within five years of the war's end, as a result of injuries sustained, and 507 died while training in New Zealand between 1914 and 1918.

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18 May

Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1875.

During the Victorian era, it was common practice for the elites to buy those and then hold “Mummy Unwrapping Parties”. Mummies were also often ground into a powder and transformed into, for example, pigment (known as Mummy brown).

Merchants in apothecaries dispensed expensive mummia bitumen, which was thought to be an effective cure-all for many ailments. It was also used as an aphrodisiac.

The medical use of Egyptian mumia continued through the 17th century.

The physicist Robert Boyle praised it as...

... "one of the useful medicines commended and given by our physicians for falls and bruises, and in other cases too."

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