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St Kilda, a remote island in Scotland, was home to a small community that thrived for centuries through unique practices like bird hunting and wool production   St Kilda, a remote island in Scotland, was home to a small community that thrived for centuries through unique practices like bird hunting and wool production. In 1930, facing food shortages and disease, the last residents requested evacuation. It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The largest island is Hirta, whose sea cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 The entire archipelago is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. Parties of volunteers work on the islands in the summer to restore the many ruined buildings that the native St Kildans left behind.  They share the island with a small military base established in 1957.

SKILLED HUNTERS  SKILLED HUNTERS: Ute “Already skilled hunters, the Utes used the horse to become expert big game hunters. They began to roam further away from their home camps to hunt buffalo that migrated over the vast prairies east of their mountain homes, and explore the distant lands. The Utes began to depend upon the buffalo as a source for much of their items. It took only one buffalo to feed several families, and fewer hides were required to make structures and clothing. The Utes already had a reputation as defenders of their territories now became even fiercer warriors. Women and children were also fierce and were known to pick up a lance and defend their camps from attacking enemies.  Ute men were described by the Spanish as having fine physiques, able to withstand the harsh climate, and live off the land in sharp contrast to the European who often had to depend upon Native Americans and their knowledge about plants, animals and the environment.  They became

  In December 1984, a group of 3,000 beluga whales were trapped by ice in the Chukchi Sea, near Russia.   In December 1984, a group of 3,000 beluga whales were trapped by ice in the Chukchi Sea, near Russia.  The whales were confined to small open water ponds surrounded by thick, impassable ice up to 10 feet thick in some areas. Without access to larger areas of the ocean, the whales had difficulty breathing and were at risk of dying. To help rescue them, an icebreaker named Admiral Makarov was brought in by Kremlin which is equipped with a specially reinforced ice-breaking hull. The ship attempted to take the whales to safety by breaking the ice, but the belugas initially refused to follow. When the crew began playing classical music like Tchaikovsky over the ship's speakers, the whales finally began to follow the Makarov through the narrow open-water channel. This allowed 2,000 whales to reach the unfrozen ocean after a journey of almost 100 miles. The successful re

 In the heart of the great plains, where the buffalo roamed freely and the rivers flowed with life  In the heart of the great plains, where the buffalo roamed freely and the rivers flowed with life, there lived a tribe of Native Americans known as the Sans Arc Sioux. Among them was a wise and respected leader named Chief Spotted Eagle. Chief Spotted Eagle was known far and wide for his strength, wisdom, and unwavering commitment to his people. He had earned his name from the keen eyesight and sharp intuition that guided him through even the toughest of times. In the year of 1880, Chief Spotted Eagle stood tall and proud, his weathered face a testament to the many years he had spent leading his people. He wore his traditional clothing adorned with symbols and feathers, each one representing a story or a lesson from the past. The Sans Arc Sioux were a people deeply connected to the land and the spirits that dwelled within it. They lived in harmony with nature, respecting

THE WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC ROLLER COASTER     THE WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC ROLLER COASTER Granville T. Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) introduced the “Figure Eight,” the world's first electric roller coaster, in 1892 at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York. Woods patented the invention in 1893, and in 1901, he sold it to General Electric. Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. In 1884, Woods received his first patent, for a steam boiler furnace, and in 1885, Woods patented an apparatus that was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph. The device, which he called "telegraphony", would allow a telegraph station to send voice and telegraph messages through Morse code over a single wire. He sold the rights to this device to the A

 Following the assassination Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich  Following the assassination Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich  The bodies of Czech paratroopers Josef Bublík, Adolf Opálka, Jozef Gabčík, Jaroslav Švarc, Jan Hruby and Josef Valčík lie in the street at the junction of Resslova Street and Václavská Street outside St Cyril's and Methodius Church in Prague where seven of them, including Jan Kubís who died on the way to hospital, fought a four hour battle with the Waffen SS after the paratroopers were betrayed by one of their own, Karel Čurda, and their hideout found. Čurda was there to identify the bodies. The priest who sheltered them, Father Petřek, was shot and his parents murdered in Auschwitz. Karl Hermann Frank stands with his hand to his mouth. He was Heydrich's second in command in Prague and it was he who ordered the villages of Lidice and Ležáky to be wiped out as retribution. He was hung in Prague in 1947 for treason. Note the small plaques