Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

The Fine print: The following are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Story Pipeline

Journal by Phoenix666

Thanks for the kind message. I have been looking to submit more through the recent dry spell, but the usual sources did run pretty thin. Perhaps we could put call-outs for Soylentils to submit good primers and how-to's they have found to fill those rough patches?

Story Pipeline | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 9 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Reply to Comment Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2016, @11:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2016, @11:26PM (#345892)

    Human rights abuses in British concentration camps:
    "Between 320,000-450,000 of them were moved into concentration camps. Most of the remainder - more than a million - were held in "enclosed villages". [...] Significant numbers were murdered; official accounts describe some prisoners being roasted alive. Prisoners were questioned with the help of "slicing off ears, boring holes in eardrums, flogging until death, pouring paraffin over suspects who were then set alight, and burning eardrums with lit cigarettes". Castration by British troops and denying access to medical aid to the detainees were also widespread and common. Among the detainees who suffered severe mistreatment was Hussein Onyango Obama, the grandfather of Barack Obama"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising#Human_rights_abuses_in_British_concentration_camps [wikipedia.org]

    "Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 [wikipedia.org]

    Allen Funt, the creator and host of Candid Camera:
    "The plane never made it to Miami because two men hijacked the airplane and demanded passage to Cuba—but some of the passengers, having spotted Funt, took the whole thing to be a Candid Camera stunt. Funt repeatedly attempted to persuade his fellow passengers as to the reality of the hijacking, but to no avail. The plane later landed in Cuba, finally convincing the passengers."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt [wikipedia.org]

    "A fire baloon was a weapon launched by Japan during World War II. A hydrogen balloon with a load varying from a 15 kg (33 lb) antipersonnel bomb to one 12-kilogram (26 lb) incendiary bomb and four 5 kg (11 lb) incendiary devices attached, it was designed as a cheap weapon intended to make use of the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean and drop bombs on American and Canadian cities, forests, and farmland."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon [wikipedia.org]

    "The tongue map or taste map is a common misconception that different sections of the tongue are exclusively responsible for different basic tastes."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map [wikipedia.org]

    Colonel Sanders
    "It was during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with a Matt Stewart, a local competitor, over the repainting of a sign directing traffic to his station."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @03:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @03:24PM (#352649)

    I think this is a good suggestion.