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Top 10 Horrible Cases of Mistaken Identity
Alfred Hitchcock pretty much made his living telling stories of mistaken identity, and
his tales painted thrilling adventures left in the wake of an innocent man being pursued
by mysterious people who thought he was someone else.
Of course, real life is typically not like the movies, and while films usually feature
happy endings, unfortunately that's seldom the case with instances of mistaken identity.
Here is a list of real-life cases, most of which ended horrifically.
10.
Teen Mistakenly Shoots Younger Brother
There is not much good about shootings in the cases of mistaken identity, so we are
just going to jump in with an incredibly tragic instance, to let you know that few things
good come of these situations.
In early-2013, a 16-year-old Florida teenager believed that a burglar had entered his house
and, knowing his parents owned a firearm, located it and shot the person he thought
was an intruder.
It turned out to be his 12-year-old brother.
Their parents were out when the incident occurred, and when the older teen heard strange noises
coming from another part of the house, he called out for his brother.
There was no response, leading him to believe something was amiss.
The younger brother approached the older one, startling him and prompting the shot.
The older brother immediately called 911, but his brother was dead before paramedics
could get him to the hospital.
9.
Unnamed Man Mistaken for Bank Robber, Held at Gunpoint by Cops
This past April, a bank in Sarasota, Florida, was robbed in the middle of the day.
Not long after that, an unnamed man was out riding his bike when police descended on him,
pointed guns at him, and threw him on the ground.
As you might be able to guess, he was not the same man who had just robbed the bank.
The real robber had walked into the bank and after demanding money, escaped on foot.
The police found the innocent man, who has remained anonymous by his own request, not
too far from the bank and, seeing that he fit the description of the criminal, assumed
he was the culprit.
It did not help that, while handcuffed, he was identified by a witness as the bank robber.
Of course things eventually started to sort themselves out when the police realized he
did not have any of the stolen money in his possession, nor did he have a gun or any other
sort of weapon, and in fact was dressed differently than the real culprit.
Fortunately common sense prevailed and he was let off the book, though we're guessing
it wound up being the least pleasant lunch break he ever had.
8.
Assam Rifles Fire on Each Other
For those who are unaware, the Assam Rifles are a paramilitary force in India with a history
that dates back to 1835, who have served in several wars over the years.
Today they work under the Ministry of Home Affairs and help provide internal security,
such as fending off rebels and helping to provide border security.
It was in this capacity that two AR personnel were killed recently when, unfortunately,
two groups from within AR mistook each other as rebels and opened fire on each other.
One of the groups had received information about underground movement and set up an ambush,
but sadly a separate AR group was on a foot patrol in the area when something set off
the firefight.
Unfortunately, it appears as though poor coordination within the Assam Rifles contributed to the
two deaths.
7.
Carlos DeLuna
Considering life is not a Disney movie, cases of mistaken identity are oftentimes tragic.
This was certainly case for Carlos DeLuna, who was sentenced to death for a crime he
did not commit, only for it to be later discovered that he was the tragic victim of mistaken
identity, and had been innocent all along.
Naturally, they only figured this out after he was dead.
A study by a Columbia University law professor and his students concluded that the state
of Texas executed an innocent man when DeLuna was put to death.
DeLuna had been arrested and convicted of stabbing a gas station attendant to death,
but maintained his innocence until the day his execution finally arrived.
According to the law professor, James Liebman, the police failed to pursue other leads and
DeLuna received poor legal defense.
It did not help that DeLuna had been arrested several times in the past but, as Liebman
pointed out, he had no blood on him when he was taken into custody, and the police ignored
potential evidence that the crime might have been committed by DeLuna's friend Carlos
Hernandez.
And when we say might have, we mean "probably did" considering that years later, just
before he died in prison, Hernandez confessed.
6.
Abby Guerra and Marlena Cantu
Imagine being told that you lost your daughter in a fatal car crash, and planning the entire
funeral only to be told later that she was in fact still alive.
And now imagine being in the opposite situation, believing your daughter had survived the same
crash, only to discover days later she had actually perished.
That's exactly what happened to the families of Abby Guerra and Marlena Cantu, and it's
sadly also a scenario that you'll see popping up on this list a little later as well.
In 2010, Guerra and Cantu, who lived in Arizona, were involved in a deadly car accident on
their way home from Disneyland, which is a fact that makes this whole thing that much
sadder.
It was believed that Guerra died at the scene, while Cantu was taken away to the hospital
for treatment.
However, six days later, once swelling began to go down on the girl in the hospital, Cantu's
family discovered it was Guerra, and not their daughter, who had in fact survived.
Guerra's family had put on a car wash to raise funds to pay for her funeral but, once
the mistake was discovered, the funds instead went toward her medical expenses, as well
as the funeral of Cantu.
5.
Margie Carranza and Emma Hernandez
Earlier this year, residents of Southern California were put in a state of crippling fear when
former Navy reservist and LAPD officer Christopher Dorner went on a shooting rampage, killing
four people (including two police officers), and injuring three more members of the LAPD.
Dorner had posted a manifesto that included the names of several police officers, so it
made sense to that the LAPD would be a bit wary when a truck, matching the description
of Dorner's, was seen near the house of one of those officers early one morning, while
he was still at large.
Of course, what did not make as much sense was that police opened fire on the truck,
riddling it with bullet holes despite not being clear on whether or Dorner was inside
or even if it was actually his truck.
As you must have gathered by now, it was not.
Instead, inside the truck were 47-year-old Margie Carranza and 71-year-old Emma Hernandez,
who were out delivering copies of the LA Times when the police fired at least 102 shots at
the truck.
Neither was killed, thankfully, but Hernandez did take two bullets in the hail of gunfire.
This was not the only incident of mistaken identity on that day alone, either; just thirty
minutes later, another man was shot when police believed he was Dorner.
That one is even more baffling though, as the victim was a thin white man, while Dorner
was a large black man.
4.
Ronald Cotton
Rape is an awful thing.
We aren't exactly breaking down any barriers by telling you that.
What's also awful is being falsely accused of committing such a heinous crime, which
is exactly what happened to Ronald Cotton in 1984, when Jennifer Thompson, then a 22-year-old
college student, claimed that Cotton was the man who had raped her, leading to his conviction
and serious prison time.
One night, a man broke into Thompson's house and raped her, and she burned his face into
her brain.
Or at least she thought she had.
Unfortunately for Cotton, he had been accused of sexual assault at the age of 16, when the
mother of his then-girlfriend found him in bed with her daughter and called the police.
The previous accusation did not help his case when Thompson looked at his photo at the police
station and identified him as the man who raped her.
As it turns out, mug shots of both Cotton and the actual attacker show a striking resemblance,
in terms of facial structure.
After 11 years in prison, DNA evidence cleared Cotton, and in a truly inspirational story
of forgiveness, he and Thompson became good friends, even writing a book together.
3.
Krystle Campbell
In the event of any public tragedy, there is bound to be confusion in the aftermath.
After 9/11, authorities spent weeks attempting to confirm the number of casualties.
That's why it is tragic, but not entirely surprising, that in the wake of the April
2013 Boston Marathon bombings, one family was subject to a case of mistaken identity,
leading them to believe their daughter was alright.
Sadly, that was not the case.
Krystle Campbell was one of the three people killed in the bombings.
However, when her father went to the hospital to try to learn whether she was okay, he was
told his daughter was alive, but would possibly lose her legs.
However, when he gained access to the hospital room, he discovered the victim was not his
daughter.
He was soon after informed that Krystle had died at the scene of the bombings.
2.
Whitney Cerak and Laura Van Ryn
One of the most amazing cases of mistaken identity in recent memory is also one of the
most heartbreaking, as it involves two families.
Tragedy was replaced by a miracle for one, while hope became despair for the other.
The two families were those of Whitney Cerak and Laura VanRyn, two friends who were involved
in a horrific car crash in 2006.
The friends shared a strong resemblance, as both were young, attractive blondes, and apparently
it was this resemblance that led to the confusion.
What was the confusion, you ask?
Oh, only that the coroner originally pronounced Whitney dead, while in fact she lay severely
injured in the hospital for weeks under the assumption she was, in fact, Laura.
Even the families were convinced, as Laura's family sat at her bedside until her facial
swelling had died down enough to finally confirm that she was not their daughter.
Whitney was alive, despite having recently had a (closed-casket) funeral attended by
more than 1,400 people.
As it turns out, her parents never looked at the body to confirm it was their daughter,
and there was no DNA test, as it was taken at the word of the people who had been asked
to identify her that they were not mistaken.
1.
Adolf Beck
It could be argued that the case of Adolf Beck is the most famous and extraordinary
mistaken identity victim in history, as his case spawned books and remains not only one
of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity, but also wrongful conviction on record.
In fact, his case has even made its way into textbooks studied in law schools.
Beck, who lived in Britain, found himself facing 15 convictions, all because a random
woman whom he met on the street one day in 1895 thought he looked like a man who had
a few weeks prior robbed her of a fairly small amount of money.
Unfortunately for Beck, the same swindler was wanted for several other similar thefts,
leading to all of those convictions.
Astonishingly, the other victims of the actual thefts identified Beck as the culprit, with
some even picking him out of a lineup.
There had been similar crimes committed in 1877 and a police officer was set to identify
as the same thief, who had served four years in prison earlier.
This was despite the fact that Beck had been living in Peru at the time of those earlier
crimes.
The judge ignored this apparent evidence of innocence and sentenced Beck to seven years
in prison, of which he wound up serving five.
While he was imprisoned, yet more evidence mounted in favor, such as how the actual thief,
named John Smith, had been circumcised.
After examination, it was discovered Beck remained uncircumcised.
The judge was presented this new conclusive evidence but ignored it, leaving Beck to finish
out his sentence and confirming his status as one of the worst judges in recorded history.
After being released, he was accused yet again in 1904 and was convicted again as well.
This time, however, fortune finally smiled on Beck when the real John Smith was arrested,
pulling off yet another swindle while Beck sat in jail.
Luckily, the judge didn't ignore the evidence this time around, and Beck was a free man.
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I eat Moroccan food,
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To see how this rich.
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Iraq Veteran And Congressman Seth Moulton Wants To Know Syria Strategy | Morning Joe | MSNBC - Duration: 8:31.
>>> WELCOME BACK TO "MORNING JOE."
YES, WERE YOU ABOUT TO SAY? >> TALKING ABOUT BOSTON GLOBE.
>> NEWSPAPERS AND READING ONLINE AS OPPOSED --
>> THE RED SOX. >> SPEAKING OF BOSTON, I GUESS,
I'LL TRY AND SEGUE. >> NORTH SHORE.
>> JOINING US FROM BOSTON MEMBER OF THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES
COMMITTEE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN SETH MULLTON MASSACHUSETTS.
HE SERVED FOUR TOURS IN IRAQ. >> THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
I'LL ASK YOU THE SAME QUESTION I ASKED SENATOR DURBIN.
DOES THERE HAVE TO BE A WHAT'S NEXT IN SYRIA?
DOES THERE HAVE TO BE A NEXT MILITARY STRIKE?
THAT'S WHAT THE MEDIA AND SOME POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN SAYING.
WHAT'S NEXT? WAS THAT STRIKE ACTUALLY ENOUGH?
>> WELL, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NO IDEA BECAUSE
>>> I WILL SAY THIS, IF THERE IS A STRIKE, THEY HAVE TO PRESENT A
PLAN TO NOT ONLY GETTING US INTO SYRIA BUT GETTING US OUT.
THAT THAT PLAN HAS TO BE IN MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC ACTIONS
AND THEY HAVE TO COME BEFORE CONGRESS TO GET APPROVED.
DO YOU OPPOSE LAST THURSDAY'S ATTACK?
>> I THINK IT IS A GOOD DECISION.
THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO WITH GO IN SYRIA.
IT IS NOT FAIR TO OUR TROOPS TO ASK THEM TO RISK THEIR LIVES
WITHOUT ANY END GAME. >> THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID, OUR
STRATEGISTS ARE NOT CHANGING IN SYRIA AND REX TILLERSON HAVE
SAID THE SAME AND RUSSIANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ASSAD WON'T
BE THERE FOR LONG. IS THAT ENOUGH GUIDANCE FOR YOU
SAYING THAT OUR POLICY IS NOT CHANGING AND WE ARE NOT SENDING
TROOPS IN SYRIA. >> WELL, IT IS FINE IF WE DON'T
DO ANYTHING MORE. WHAT WE CAUGHT TO TALK ABOUT IS
WHAT IS THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SYRIA.
THE REALITY IS WE HAVE TROOPS ON THE GROUND THERE NOW.
I AM NOT SURE IF THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
WHEN I AM GONE TO TALK TO SOME OF THE TROOPS FIGHTING IN SIR
SYRIA, I ASKED THEM, WHAT ARE
YOU FIGHTING TO ACHIEVE. I WAS IN THE IRAQ WAR.
WHEN I WENT OUT ON PATROL EVERY NIGHT.
I KNEW WHAT THE PLAN WAS. I KNEW THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT THAT
I SUPPORTED. I KNEW THAT IF WE MAKE THEM
SUCCESSFUL, WE COULD GO HOME. I DON'T THINK ANY PLAN LIKE THAT
IN SYRIA RIGHT NOW. LETS TAKE THOSE COUNTRIES IN
IRAQ. YOU HAVE SPENT AN ENORMOUS
NUMBER OF TIME IN YOUR LIFE ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ.
WHEN YOU GO HOME ON THE WEEKENDS AND A PARENTS COME UP TO YOU AND
ASKS YOU, I HAVE A 19-YEAR-OLD SON.
HE'S A CORPORAL AND HE'S IN IRAQ TODAY, HE MAY GO TO SYRIA
TOMORROW, WHY IS HE THERE? WHAT DO YOU SAY?
I DO GET THAT QUESTION A LOT. WHAT I WOULD SAY IS AS SOMEONE
WHO FOUGHT IN IRAQ AND NOW CAME BACK.
IT IS MY SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WHO EVER WE
SENT BACK THERE, THEY HAVE A PLAN TO WIN AND COME HOME FOR
GOOD AND WE DON'T FIND OURSELVES IN THE END LESS CYCLE OF
DEFEATING THE TERRORIST GROUP AND HAVING NO PLAN TO SECURE THE
PEACE AND WE HAVE TO SEND THE TROOPS BACK AGAIN.
IT IS PAINFUL TO ME AS A MARINE CORE VETERAN TO SEE WHAT WE
FOUGHT IN IRAQ SQUANDERED BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE A PLAN
TO SECURE PEACE. THEY DID NOT JUST DEFEAT IRAQIS
ARMY. THEY PUT THEIR WEAPONS DOWN AND
WENT HOME BECAUSE THEY LOST FAITH.
THE SAME APPLIES TO AFGHANISTAN AND THE SAME CERTAINLY APPLIES
TO SYRIA WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ANY PLAN WHAT SO EVER.
>> CONGRESSMAN, I WANT TO ASK YOU A QUESTION GETTING YOUR TAKE
AND EXPERIENCE, A QUESTION THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THROWING AROUND,
THAT'S THE STANDARD FOR AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA.
I UNDERSTAND OF THE ATTACK THAT TOOK PLACE ON THURSDAY NIGHT,
BUT, ALSO DONALD TRUMP TALKED ABOUT THE HUMANITARIAN ANGLE OF
IT AND HE SAW YOUNG CHILDREN SUFFOCATING AND DYING AND IMAGES
ON TV THAT IMPACTED HIM. WOULD YOU GET THOSE SAME
FEELINGS IF IT WAS NOT CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND KILLING CHILDREN
THERE AND KILLING MOTHERS AND FATHERS HOLDING THEIR CHILDREN.
HOW DOES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE.
HOW DO WE KNOW IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR AMERICAN POWER AND MILITARY
FORCE TO USE IN SYRIA. >> THIS IS ONE OF THE HARDEST
QUESTIONS THAT WE FACE AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CERTAINLY AS
CONGRESS WHO'S RESPONSIBILITY IT IS TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS AND
AUTHORIZES ANY SORT OF INTERVENTION.
I AM A BELIEVER THAT WE CAUGHT TO STAND UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
THAT'S SOMEONE USES CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS.
THAT'S A READ LINE THAT WE DON'T LET PEOPLE CROSS.
THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT, SYRIAN
CIVILIANS. SUFFERING OF WHAT THEY ARE
GETTING TARGETED BY. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS, WE HAVE
TO HAVE A PLAN. WE CANNOT GO INTO A CONFLICT
THAT'S OPENED ENDED. YOU KNOW GENERAL POWELL FAMOUSLY
SAID WE HAVE TO HAVE AN EXIT STRATEGY.
I DON'T SEE AN EXIT STRATEGY IN SYRIA.
HAVING SAID THAT, I HAVE ADDED THIS, SYRIAN CONFLICTS HAVE
UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OVER THE WORLD.
WE WON'T HAVE REFUGEE CRISIS THAT ROYAL --
>> CONGRESSMAN, THAT'S NOT THEIR POSITION RIGHT NOW.
>> IT IS NOT NOW. I AM GIVING WILY CREDIT TO SAY
THAT THESE ARE TOUGH DECISIONS. JUST LEAVING IT ALONE IT IS NOT
AN EASY ANSWER. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS A
PLAN FOR SYRIA THAT TALKS ABOUT HOW WE CAN END THE CIVIL WAR.
GENERAL PATREUS SUGGESTED THE NO FLY ZONE AND TROOPS TALKING
ABOUT SECTIONING OFF PORTIONS OF THE COUNTRY LIKE THE KURDISH
REGION AND THE NORTH. THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD
DISCUSS. WHATEVER IT IS, WE GOT TO HAVE A
CLEAR PLAN AND EVERYBODY IS COMMITTED TO IT.
WHEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS RISKING THEIR LIVES EVERY NIGHT, THEY
KNOW THE PLAN TO SECURE THE PEACE ONCE THEY ARE DONE.
>> CONGRESSMAN. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
>> SETH MULLEN. >> THANK YOU.
>> IN A FEW MINUTES WE'LL BRING IN BILL NEELY AND PLUS, WHITE
HOUSE PRESS SEAN SPICER AFTER
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>> FRANKLY WE TALKED CHEMICALS, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE JUST
DON'T SEE THIS, THE LEVEL OF BRUTALITY, THE LEVEL OF
VICIOUSNESS. BUT WHEN THEY DROP BARREL BOMBS
AND BOMBS OF ANY KIND RIGHT ON TOP OF A CIVILIAN POPULATION,
THAT'S THE WORST THING -- I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT.
FRANKLY PUTIN IS BACKING A PERSON THAT'S TRULY AN EVIL
PERSON. I THINK IT'S VERY BAD FOR
RUSSIA. I THINK IT'S VERY BAD FOR MAN
KIND. IT'S VERY BAD FOR THIS WORLD.
>> THE WHITE HOUSE IS ACCUSING RUSSIA OF TRYING TO COVER UP THE
SYRIAN GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN LAST WEEK'S DEADLY CHEMICAL WEAPONS
ATTACK. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAYS
DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE SHOWS THE CHEMICAL AGENT SARIN WAS
DELIVERED BY A SYRIAN REGIME AIRCRAFT.
MEANWHILE PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BOLSTERING THE U.S. ROLE IN ONE
OF PUTIN'S MOST HATED ALLIANCES. TODAY PRESIDENT SCHEDULED TO
MEET WITH SECRETARY-GENERAL OF NATURE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
YESTERDAY TRUMP SIGNED A TREATY ALLOWING THE ENTRY OF MONTENEGRO
INTO THE MUTUAL DEFENSE PACT WHICH WOULD EXPAND ITS REACH IN
EUROPE. SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON
IS WARNING RUSSIA IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS ABOUT ITS TIES
TO SYRIA SAYING THE ASSAD REGIME WAS, QUOTE, COMING TO AN END.
RUSSIA AT RISK OF LOSING RELEVANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST BY
CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THE DICTATORSHIP.
STILL THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE'S INEXPERIENCE IS SHOWING
JUST A BIT. HE REPORTEDLY SAID TO A GROUP OF
TOP DIPLOMATS AT TUESDAY'S G7 MEETING IN ITALY, QUOTE, WHY
SHOULD U.S. TAXPAYERS BE INTERESTED IN UKRAINE.
THAT'S ACCORDING TO FRANCE'S FOREIGN MINISTER.
>> LET'S BRING I THINK MEMBER OF SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE,
DEMOCRATIC WHIP DISHING DURBIN OF ILLINOIS.
SENATE, FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS, CUBS DOING
WELL, 5-2, GREAT SEASON. IT SEEMS AS IF DAVID IGNATIUS
AND OTHERS ARE SAYING THERE IS STARTING TO BE A SHIFT IN
AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY PERHAPS BECAUSE OF MATTIS AND McMASTER'S
GROWING INFLUENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT.
HOW IMPORTANT IS IT WE EXPANDED NATO YESTERDAY?
>> ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. UKRAINE US EXHIBIT A WHY IT IS
ESSENTIAL. COUNTRIES OF POLAND, BALTICS,
UKRAINE, IS ESSENTIAL. I AGREE WITH DAVID IGNATIUS.
WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS MODERATION OF THE VIEWS OF DONALD TRUMP AT
LEAST IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOREIGN POLICY THAT DIFFER FROM WHAT WE
HEARD ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. STARTED OFF AS PRESIDENT --
>> NOW IGNATIUS SAID MOVING TOWARDS CHINA IN A WAY WE CAN
DEAL WITH CHINA. THEY ARE ALL TALKING PRETTY
TOUGH ON RUSSIA. >> YES.
WHAT A CHANGE. WHAT A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN SUCH A
SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THINK A WEEK AGO, ABOUT A WEEK
AGO, HERE IS SECRETARY OF STATE TILLERSON SAYING LET THE SYRIAN
PEOPLE DECIDE IF ASSAD HAS A FUTURE.
WITHIN SEVEN DAYS WE'RE ATTACKING THEM.
SO THERE IS A TRANSITION TAKING PLACE.
YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED JARED KUSHNER AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS
OF THE TRANSITION. I THINK THAT'S TRUE FROM WHAT
I'VE HEARD. IT'S AN INDICATION THEY ARE
MOVING TOWARD WHAT USED TO BE THE CENTER STRIPE, MAINSTREAM
FOREIGN POLICY. >> GENTLEMEN, OBVIOUSLY GENERAL
McMASTER, GENERAL MATTIS OBVIOUSLY HAVING REALLY --
>> JOE, I VOTED FOR MORE GENERALS THAN I EVER DREAMED I
WOULD AS A KID GROWING UP IN THE '60s.
>> ISN'T IT FUNNY, I SAY THIS TO MIKE ALL THE TIME YOU THINK OF
GENERALS AROUND THE PRESIDENT, YOU THINK OF JFK AND THE
WARMONGERS HE HAD AROUND HIM, THE PEOPLE HE DIDN'T TRUST.
NOW YOU HAVE MAYBE 15 YEARS OF WAR.
GENERALS IS THE MODERATING INFLUENCE.
>> IF YOU SAW MATTIS YESTERDAY, WHAT A GREAT, SOLID PERFORMANCE.
>> RIGHT. >> HE WASN'T INTIMIDATED BY THE
AUDIENCE. HE WAS PLAYING THE PRESS SAYING
MAYBE IT'S YOUR TURN TO ASK A QUESTION AND GETTING SOLID
ANSWERS LIKE A MAN WHO HAS SEEN COMBAT AND WATCH PEOPLE DIE,
MAKING LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS. PRAISE THE LORD THAT THAT SORT
OF PERSON IS THAT CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT.
THAT'S THE THING MOST OF US FEAR THE MOST.
IT'S 3:00 IN THE MORNING. HE TAKES A NAP BETWEEN TWEETS.
THERE'S A KNOCK ON THE DOOR. FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE A LIFE OR
DEATH DECISION. WHO DOES HE CALL?
>> I THINK HE'S GOT A TEAM AROUND HIM BECAUSE OF WHAT'S
HAPPENED IN SYRIA THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SPENDING TIME WITH THAT
ACTUALLY ADDS VALUE TO THIS PRESIDENT IN A BIG WAY.
>> NO QUESTION. LOOK WHAT McMASTER IS DOING.
>> TRUMP MADE THESE CHOICES. >> THINK ABOUT THE TRADUP WITH
THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL. WE WENT FROM GENERAL FLYNN TO
GENERAL McMASTER. WE WENT FROM K.T. McFARLAND TO
DINA POWELL. >> YOU WANT SOMEONE OPPOSED TO
THE WAR GO TO PENTAGON. READ McMASTER'S BOOK,
DERELICTION OF DUTY, WHICH OUTLINES FLAWS AND COWARDICE AT
THE COMMAND LEVEL IN THE 1960s. >> YOU TALK TO THE MILITARY,
YOUNG MILITARY, ASPIRING LEADERS, McMASTER IS A HERO.
HE'S A PERSON THAT SPOKE UP AND TALKED ABOUT THE ERRORS OF
FOREIGN POLICY AND HOW THEY WERE PLAYED OUT IN MILITARY
DECISIONS. >> WHEN YOU HEAR REX TILLERSON
SAY THE ASSAD ERA IS COMING TO AN END LIKE HE DID YESTERDAY,
WHAT DO YOU HEAR IN THAT? THAT CAN HAPPEN A FEW DIFFERENT
WAYS, FROM THE SYRIAN PEOPLE SOMEHOW, RUSSIA LEANING ON HIM
CONVINCING HIM TO LEAVE POWER. I DON'T SEE ANY INCENTIVE FOR
HIM TO DO THAT. OR COME FROM WESTERN COALITION
LED BY UMBRELLAS REMOVING HIM FROM POWER.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? >> I THINK BACK TO FOUR YEARS
AGO AT HOME SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS IT'S SUNDAY NIGHT AND I
GET A PHONE CALL FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA.
WHAT'S UP, PRESIDENT? WELL, WE SEE SOME CHEMICAL
WEAPONS IN SYRIA. I WANT TO COME TO CONGRESS AND
ASK YOU AS A MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO
VOTE FOR A RESOLUTION AND GIVE ME AUTHORITY TO DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT, WHICH I DID. AND A NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS
JOINED US, CORKER, McCAIN, GRAHAM.
THEN IT CAME TO GENERAL CONGRESS AND THEY SAID, WHAT'S NEXT AFTER
THIS 60 DAY EFFORT TO DISCOURAGE ASSAD FROM CHEMICAL WEAPONS?
THEY BACKED OFF, BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS BACKED OFF AND
THAT WAS THE END OF THE RED LINE AS FAR AS THE PRESIDENT WAS
CONCERNED. SO I ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT
FOLLOWS 60 MISSILES, WHATEVER, WHAT'S NEXT.
>> THAT'S MY QUESTION. HOW IS ASSAD REMOVED FROM POWER
ULTIMATELY. >> 23 OF US VOTED NO ON THE IRAQ
RESOLUTION TO GO TO WAR. WE SAID NO ON THE QUESTION.
>> WOULD YOU VOTE NO ON THE MISSILES FIRED THURSDAY NIGHT.
>> I BELIEVE IN MY VIEW, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, THAT IS IN THE
INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
>> I'M NOT PUSHING YOU ON THIS NEXT QUESTION, THIS IS MORE OF A
GENERAL QUESTION FOR EVERYBODY THAT'S BEEN TALKING SINCE LAST
THURSDAY NIGHT, WHEN WE ASK WHAT'S NEXT, WHAT'S NEXT, WHAT'S
NEXT, A VERY WISE QUESTION TO ASK.
IF THEY ARE SAYING OUR POLICY IS NOT CHANGING, WE'RE NOT INVADING
SYRIA, ISN'T PERHAPS THAT THE WRONG QUESTION ON WHAT'S NEXT,
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO. IS IT JUST GOING TO BE A MISSILE
STRIKE? WE MAY BE A FOCUSED MISSILE
STRIKE THAT GENERAL MATTIS SUGGESTED TO THE PRESIDENT,
MAYBE THAT'S WHAT MOMENT CALLED FOR AND MAYBE THERE IS NOT A
NEXT UNTIL HE CROSSES ANOTHER RED LINE.
>> I THINK YOU MIGHT PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT.
I'M NOT SURE THEY HAVE A PLOT THAT SAYS THIS IS STEP ONE.
>> RIGHT. >> WHAT THEY DID WAS ASSERT THIS
PRESIDENT IS WILLING TO USE FORCE.
THAT WAS THE STATEMENT, AGAINST A DICTATOR USING WEAPONS THAT
ARE INEXCUSABLE WHEN IT COMES TO CONFLICT.
>> ALL RIGHT. HERE IS JON MEACHAM.
>> SENATOR, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BEING SURPRISED YOU VOTED FOR AS
MANY GENERALS AS YOU DID. ONE OF THE REASONS I THINK A LOT
OF THESE GENERALS ARE AS BUTTONED DOWN AS THEY ARE IS
BECAUSE OF VIETNAM. IT'S THE COLIN POWELL MODEL.
WE'RE NOW IN THE 16th YEAR OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, 14th YEAR
ALMOST TO THE MONTH IN IRAQ. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE NEXT
GENERATION OF GENERALS WILL BE LEARNING FROM THESE WARS THAT
ARE THE LONGEST IN OUR HISTORY. >> THAT'S A GOOD AND IMPORTANT
QUESTION. I THINK THE FRUSTRATION OF
VIETNAM WITH ALL THE LIVES LOST AND MONEY SPENT AND DIVISION
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
AFGHANISTAN TODAY. I VOTED FOR THAT WAR.
WE WERE GOING AFTER THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TERRIBLE
TRAGEDY OF 9/11. YET YOU LOOK BACK ON IT NOW AND
SAY WHERE ARE WE TODAY IN TERMS OF STABILITY AND FUTURE OF
AFGHANISTAN. WE STILL CAN'T FIELD AN ARMY IN
AFGHANISTAN TO EXECUTE BASIC PEACEKEEPING AND STOP THE
ADVANCE OF THE TALIBAN AND OTHER TERRORIST FORCES.
SO I WOULD SAY THERE'S STILL A LEVEL OF FRUSTRATION.
THE GREATEST MILITARY POWER IN THE WORLD HAS ITS LIMITS AND
PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHEN WE SAY WE'RE A GREAT NUCLEAR
POWER, DOESN'T MEAN MUCH WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH ROADSIDE
BOMBS. >> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREA
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Social Experience #33: Distributing 1500€ to homeless people - Duration: 9:59.
Would You React - Reproduction forbidden
#WouldYouReact
Hi everybody! A few weeks ago, on our Facebook page
we decided to organise an online pot for homeless people.
99 of our subsribers accepted to participate to this pot which permitted us to collect 1163,01€
Yves-Pascal and I have also decided to participate to this pot
to round it off to a total of 1500€.
Our subscribers then decided on our Facebook page to redistribute this sum
into thirty equals parts and to redestribute it into 5€ notes.
Before starting this video, we want you to know that we've opened a second online pot
and that if you want, you can participate by clicking on the link in the description.
Thanks in advance to everyone who will participate.
Meanwhile, here are the images of this first pot we distributed.
- I am homeless
- Where do you sleep?
- Everywhere, you know... everywhere, in the corner, in the street...
- Are you sure?
- I'm sure!
- Thank you very much...
- Take care of you.
- Where are you from?
- I'm from here my friend.
- I love you so, thank you...
- Take care of you my friend.
- Thanks, you'll be in my heart.
- Isn't it too hard? Are you okay?
- It's okay, but it's not sunny, that's the problem!
- What could I give you?
- Don't you have a little 50€ note there?
[They also all receive messages from the subscribers...]
"I hope that this attention comforted you and enlightened your face...
... and will help you to never lose hope". Malorie, 16, Charleroi
That's nice! A young girl like that, who got called to mind...
[Subscriber] - Excuse me, are you Jon from WouldYouReact?
[Jon] - Yes, how are you?
[Subscriber] - Nice to meet you!
[Jon] - It's a great pleasure!
- I'll still think of it in one week
- We won't forget!
[We told them that 99 people had participated to the pot]
- Can I give you a kiss for them?
- I hope that if one day they come here they let me know.
- They are 99.
- I will think of them in every prayer.
- This is for helping you in your life.
- If I you could help you, what would you need?
- A sleeping bag
- Are you serious?
- Honestly, thank you.
- It pleases me to please you!
- Take care of yourself, okay?
- Thank you.
- What would please you now?
- For me, an orange flavor Fanta because I don't drink alcohol.
- Wow... thank you very much.
- There's a lot!
- Isn't it too hard?
- No, it's okay.
- We wanted to offer you this, sir.
- I will share it with my friend.
- We also wanted to give you this...
- " and be aware that you will be in my heart" Nathalie, 45, Machelen.
- That's really nice!
- Do you like it?
- Oh yes, it warms the heart! Little words make good.
- Thank you so much!
In any case, thank you so much...
- Take care of yourself sir, okay?
- If you received a bit of money today, what would you use it for?
- To pay the vet.
- How much does it cost?
- I'll have to pay about fifty euros for both dogs.
- Maybe two or three people will smile to you out of about a hundred.
- What would you need at the moment?
- Now I have a little boy aged less than 2, it would be to feed him.
I assure, it feels good!
I don't want to work in Gare du Nord.
This message, I will keep it if you don't mind.
- Of course!
- I am here to ask people for a coin to live.
I have just enough to live but there isn't a cent left.
Do you understand?
[A friend] - ... [Jon] I'm filming, I'll be right there.
- Take it, sir.
- A note? - No, no, you take everything.
- I won't have anything to give back?
- That's your money, not mine anymore.
- I hope you enjoy....
- "I wish you a lot of courage, not because you need it, because you're so brave already."
That's super-nice! I'll keep this. Thank you for the message.
My friend, I hope that this little attention... - I am Mickael, but Mickel in french.
- I am glad to meet you.
Here, read yours!
- A look, a smile, a word... we don't ask for more!
- They think of you, don't forget it!
- In ten years in the street, I've never seen that!
Nobody ever care for us.
Think about the people who offered this money, they think of you anyway.
- Of course.
- I will take my girlfriend for a drink.
- We'll go somewhere and do something else than asking for money.
- I will stroll.
- Like that!
- Take care of you
- Thank you.
It will be for eating.
- Yeah, that's cool.
- Here, my friend!
- Ohhhh, that's great.
- Take care anyway.
- David, isn't it? - Yes, David!
- Take care my friend.
And be aware that there are people who think of you.
Even if you don't see them, this money, there are people who think of you.
- What you do is great!
- It's our pleasure, ciao David!
Thank you for taking your time.
- Are you serious?
- What is the best attention you received?
- A 5 minute conversation.
80% of people despise just looking at us.
- Few people give him a hand.
- What is the aim of life?
- To try to be a bit happy... Does it work?
- It depends on the moments.
- Here Louis!
- I know Louis
- And you?
- I owe you one.
- No, no, no...
- Yes, yes, yes!
- Some people think a homeless person is stupid.
That his whole life has been crap.
Nobody knows what a beautiful life I've had.
- I've been outside this winter, I've slept with -5°C, -10°C.
- Really, what do I need?
- I need to buy a second pair of sneakers!
Because wearing everyday the same, it sucks.
- Take this!
I promise.
- I'm used to people who give me 0.10€, 0.20€...
- It's a bit tough at the moment, yeah...
- What do you worked in? - I was a lorry driver.
- I woke up in the morning, I was happy to go to work.
I lost my wife who I loved, my housing, my job...
Wow...
- Have you known the street?
- No, I haven't
- So, why would you do that?
Thank you to my 99 first contributors. (There names are in the description)
It's your turn my friends. Dare. A smile. Say hello ...
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Dogs and Humans: A 30,000-Year Friendship (ft. MinuteEarth) - Duration: 3:55.
[PBS BUMPER]
There's about 7.4 billion people on Earth today
...and over 200 million dogs.
So exactly where, when, and why did warm-hearted wolves join our pack?
And who trained who?
[OPEN]
So…
Cat person?
Or dog person?
Me?
I'm totally impartial.
No matter where you sit – siiiiiiit, it's plain to see that the histories of dogs and
humans are intertwined… maybe like no other two species.
If we take domestication out of the human equation, it's estimated just 1 or 2 million
of us would be around today.
And of all those animal alliances, our relationship with dogs is the oldest.
But figuring out why, where, and when domestic dogs first originated is still a bone of contention.
Why?
Is the easiest to answer.
Every continent is home to wild canids – like Africa's painted dogs or Asia's doles,
but thanks to genetic research we know modern pups didn't descend from those local species.
Today's domestic dogs all trace their DNA back to ancient wolves.
You may have heard that wolves and ancient people were hunting buddies that used teamwork
to run down bigger prey.
That's a nice story, but wolf packs can hunt just fine on their own – and usually
aren't too big on sharing.
Plus, early humans tended to kill off most carnivorous competition.
It's most likely that humans didn't adopt dogs.
Dogs adopted us.
Any "wolves gone mild" that were tolerant of humans could have scrounged our scraps.
They didn't need us, but our leftovers could have made their lives easier.
Today, about 85 percent of domestic dogs still survive on our waste - no matter how many
times we tell them "STAY OUT OF THE TRASH"
But a tame wolf isn't a dog, and scientists are still trying to figure out when and where
that change occurred.
Studying living wolves tells us the line that led to our pups is extinct today, but we can
still find their footprints in modern dog genomes.
Looking at DNA in mitochondria tells us dogs split from their wolf ancestors somewhere
in Europe between 19 and 32 thousand years ago, but whole genomes from dozens of living
dogs put the split somewhere in South Asia around 33,000 years ago.
It's tough to pin down because dog genes have mixed so much.
Fossils don't tell the whole story either, because bones alone can't tell us when the
thing that looked like a wolf started to act like a dog.
But combining the two, fossils and DNA, could give us some hints.
DNA extracted from ancient dog fossils has suggested a new story: the domestication split
happened in two places, at least 12,000 years ago.
And then at some point, Eastern dogs followed people west, and became the dominant ancestor
of our canine compadres.
Dogs became useful herders, sled pullers, and guards – against predators AND neighboring
human tribes.
And in a pinch, they could have served as an emergency food supply.
Dogs probably saved us more times than we can count.
We're paying them back – pups now have access to insurance, healthcare, some even
have more instagram followers than you and me.
From a wolf mold, we've crafted 340 or so dog breeds, even a few weird ones.
It's hard to believe every domestic dog is still part of the same species, one whose
story is so tightly wound to our own, that we still can't quite tell where it begins.
Stay!
Staaaay.
Curious.
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Eat this fruit for 30 days and it will happen in your body! - Duration: 3:10.
Eat this fruit for 30 days and it will happen in your body
The kiwi is a native fruit of South China and entered recently on the menu
the Brazilian.
The fruit texture is similar to Strawberry or sapodilla and flavor, slightly sour.
The kiwi consumption brings many benefits the health.
It is a very rich source of dietary fiber soluble, which makes it a good laxative. Your
fiber content helps protect the intestinal mucosa, which reduces the time of exposure to toxins,
as well as production of carcinogens in the colon.
It is great for those who have the syndrome irritable bowel (IBS).
Scientists have found that the use of 2 kiwifruit per day for one month, significantly decreased
Colon transit time, increased and stool frequency improved function
intestinal those who have IBS.
The fruit is an excellent source of vitamin C, which helps the body develop resistance
against infectious agents and sweeps the radicals free of harmful organism.
The kiwi contains good amount of vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin K, flavonoids and antioxidants,
such as beta-carotene, lutein and and zeaxanthin.
It has also been proven to work in patients with Alzheimer's disease by limiting the lesions
neuronal brain.
Studies have shown that certain substances the kiwi thin the blood, similar action
the aspirin.
Thus, fruit helps prevent the formation clots inside blood vessels
and therefore decreases the risk of stroke Brain and heart attack.
The kiwi seeds are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids.
Studies show that food consumption rich in omega-3 fatty acids and can
reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, accident stroke, and help prevent the development
ADHD, autism and other developmental disorders in children.
Fresh kiwi is a very rich source of "potassium" essential electrolyte to the heart.
100 grams of fruit containing 7% levels daily recommended this electrolyte.
Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that help
regulate heart rate and blood pressure and combating the harmful effects of sodium.
In addition, the kiwi has good amounts minerals such as manganese, iron and magnesium.
And you consume kiwi?
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THUG or FAIL #4 - Did he really just throw that golf club?? - Duration: 10:04.
Steven
Push the boy..
Steven
Before you jump in..
That's not what I was looking for
but that was really funny
Ready?
I promise to show her the affection she needs
and partner together with you
Is everyone loosened up now?
Watch me
Happy birthday
Stay there
He's coming back
He's coming back
I just threw the golfclub
My hands are wet
It's your own birthday
Don't take pictures
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This BRAIN GLITCH Makes Good People Feel Like CRAP! - Duration: 4:55.
alright right now I need you to agree to
stop doing this okay this is hurting you
it is hurting the people around you and
it's just not good for life or business
and that is comparing yourself to other
people specifically comparing your
insides to other peoples outsides
here's what I mean by that when we meet
someone guess what usually they put
their best foot forward right first
impressions matter blah blah blah all
that kind of stuff so when you're
meeting someone you're seeing them at
their best think about a first date
right you're not seeing the real person
and if this is a case in business or
where you're seeing someone in their
element so let's say you say you see a
professional athlete say being a
professional athlete playing sports they
are going to be exceptional in that
field but they might be really messed up
in every other part of their life as
it's probably often the case so here's
what happens because you know your
insides and by insides I mean you're
unconscious all your self-doubts
insecurities fears weaknesses all that
kind of stuff because you know that
you're judging yourself all that inside
stuff against other people's outside
which you're just seeing the best of the
best the part they choose to cherry-pick
and share with the world here's why it's
even worse is if you're someone who is
authentic and i don't mean authentic
like Fifth Avenue coke advertising be
authentic drink coke or all those other
douchey companies that are using
authenticity to sell you garbage you
don't need but I mean really authentic
where you wear your heart on your sleeve
you don't mind looking stupid you tell
people you don't even know that well how
you really feel or vulnerable stories if
you're that kind of authentic first off
awesome secondly this has an even bigger
impact on you because if you're someone
who's really authentic and you share
yourself with people that means you're
probably not always putting your best
foot forward you're probably just
putting your foot for who you are right
so you're used to being someone who just
shares yourself who is essentially let's
say honest and authentic but most people
unfortunately are not that way which
means when you meet them you're meeting
this thin sliver of who they really are
right but because you're used to sharing
yourself and being authentic with other
people you're going to assume that other
people are doing the same so when you
meet someone and they're saying they're
always saying oh I'm great life is good
look at me oh you know my kids are so
happy whatever their kids are probably
at home doing crystal meth as they're
talking but that doesn't matter because
they're trying to make this amazing
impression on you because that's
unfortunately how most people are wired
and yet here you are being someone is
pretty authentic you know telling the
truth so you're feeling like compared to
these other people there's so much wrong
with you the reality is there's no way
to objectively compare yourself to other
people so why not just stop doing it
stop comparing what you know about
yourself which is the good and the bad
and all of that right to other people
where you're only seeing a thin slice of
the good it's not cool right it's not
going to serve you what it does is it
puts other people on a pedestal you're
constantly going to compare yourself in
situations where there's no way you can
win the deck is stacked against you and
that's going to make you feel crappy
about yourself it's going to make
insecurities come up it might damage
your confidence and ultimately
confidence has a huge role in our
happiness in our success whether it
comes to talk to members of the opposite
sex starting their own business going
traveling just doing whatever we want to
do or creating an awesome life we feel
insecure that means we don't believe in
ourselves and if you don't believe in
yourself it's really hard to take a risk
and talk to the cute boy or a girl book
a trip to some sketchy country start
your own business do anything like that
so your confidence is so so important
and I think one of the biggest ways to
erode your confidence if somehow you
wanted to do that is comparing your
insides all your insecurities everything
you know about yourself to other
people's outsides so again stop this
don't do it anymore please commit below
in the comments to stop comparing your
insides to other peoples outside it's
not helping anybody and also if you are
one of those people who always have to
put on a great face and hide all your
insecurities first off I hate you
secondly why not share below in the
comments a commitment to start being a
little more authentic because when you
share your vulnerabilities with other
people it encourages them to open up and
share their vulnerabilities with you and
it allows us all to have a more
realistic view of humanity to realize
we're all human we all have fears and
insecurities and well pretty screwed up
from time to time so why not share that
openly and get rid of all this garbage
we have about
being perfect and this need to have this
instagram culture right just snapshots
of our best cells all right that stands
rent out if you've enjoyed this
subscribe to the channel for more on
creating an awesome life and becoming
your best self that's it hope to catch
you in another video ciao for now
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Annie PAGE_KARJIAN 03/29/17 Marine WIldllife Rehabilitation - Duration: 39:34.
Thank you Megan for the introduction and thank you guys, all for joining me this afternoon
just to talk a little bit about wildlife rehabilitation, which is one of my favorite topics. So I'm
gonna start the talk this afternoon, talking about just, like, an overview of wildlife
rehabilitation, some of the principles and goals underlying wildlife rehabilitation efforts
and then I'm gonna tell you a little bit about my research. Actually a good portion of my
research is based on rehabilitating animals, especially sea turtles, and so I'm gonna tell
you about that work. So some definitions for you: Rehabilitation means to restore to customary
activity through therapy and education and that usually includes treatment, which means
to give medical aid to. One of the main concepts of rehabilitation is that the focus is on
the individual animal or human rather than the population at large. There's a lot of
underlying ethics surrounding wildlife rehabilitation that I think are important to consider.
When we look at animals and animal welfare and animal treatment, animal medicine, a lotta
times it comes down to decisions that are made by the animal's owners and with our pets
we know who the owners are, farmers we know who the owners are but who owns wildlife?
So legally wildlife is owned by all of us. It's owned by the public trust and that's
in the United States so we all have a stake in animal welfare when it comes from wildlife
and I think most people would agree that we have a moral imperative to humanely care for
a wild animal in distress as their owners and especially when the distress is due to
human activities. So I'll just give you some examples. Of some horrible things that have
happened to the wildlife, this is a harbor seal who has outgrown his packing strap entanglement.
This is an oiled sea turtle.
This is from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf. Here is a Florida manatee who
succumbed to respiratory distress because of harmful algal blooms that are ultimately
due to human activities. This is a sea turtle in rehabilitation at the Houston Zoo who swallowed
some fishing hooks. Here's a California sea lion who some nasty person shot with a bow-and-arrow
probably because either for fun or because the animal was raiding his fishing lines or
nets. This is an American bald eagle that has lead toxicosis from scavenging on an animal
carcass that was killed with lead bullets and this is a patient that was at the International
Bird Rescue Center in California.
This pelican they think a fisherman probably – he was probably – again raiding the
line or the net and the fisherman got mad, caught up the bird and cut his pouch with
a knife, which is a horrible thing to do but actually this is a good story and this one,
too. These animals were rehabilitated and released so just some examples. So when we
talk about the principles of wildlife rehab, programs to rescue and rehabilitate sick animals
are founded upon two general principles: Altruistic assistance to the sick or injured and conservation
of wild populations and, in the process, we gain medical and scientific knowledge and
provide a valuable interface wild-animal welfare and the public. The ultimate goal of wildlife
rehabilitation is a successful transition and return of an individual animal back to
its natural habitat in a fit and healthy state to reproduce and perform all natural functions
and behaviors benefiting the environment and the species. So I think that's important to
remember that the outcome is release. Conservation: So the Second Principle of Wildlife Rehab
is Conservation, as I just mentioned. Conservation is a realistic motive for reintroduction programs
for threatened species so, yes, reintroduction programs for threatened species such as the
rhino.
For robust populations however conservation is not a defensible argument for rehabilitating
animals because reintroducing a few or even a few hundred of these animals will be of
little benefit to most stocks and even less benefit to the population as a whole. So when
we talk about rehab, a lot of people wanna focus on the good things but there are also
a lot of downsides to rehab that a lot of biologists will argue. First of all it's extremely
expensive. There are several recent studies indicating that rehabilitation of a single
animal can cost over $100,000.00, depending on the species and the duration of rehabilitation,
and this cost may be justified for endangered species who with populations that are imperiled,
however the cost is very difficult to justify for non-threatened animals. Also many biologists
would argue that rehab facilities divert money away from programs based on wild population
conservation and habitat protection.
Rehabilitation success rates vary by species but they tend to be quite low. For example
the sea-turtle rehabilitation success rate in Florida between 1986 and 2004 was 36.8
percent and when we look at – when we say success that means the animal was released.
In another study in California 14 percent of 35 rehabilitated dolphins over a 25-year
period were released so generally low success rates. There's few long-term, follow-up data
on rehabilitating animals. The data is logistically difficult to obtain and maintain. It's expensive
and it's difficult to track animals after you've released them. That's the bottom line.
Some people argue that wildlife rehabilitation has no benefit to the population unless the
animal reaches sexual maturity and reproduces. Minimally the animal should have an annual
survival expectation equal to the age class of that population and anything less than
that is arguably a postponement of the animal's fate by the number of days that it was in
a rehabilitation facility. Another concept is that rehabilitated animals may be returned
back to health but it doesn't necessarily mean that they're releasable. The animal has
– in order to be released a wild animal has to be able to form all of its natural
functions, including movement, maintaining stable body weight by normal foraging behaviors,
have normal blood health, have no indication of infectious diseases and not be habituated
to or dependent upon humans for survival. So there's some pretty tall criteria and the
fact is that a lot of rehabilitated wildlife species end up as permanent captives. There's
also a risk of pathogen spread so when you bring an animal into captivity, there's a
risk to the humans who are interfacing with that animal, being exposed to zoonotic diseases,
and there's also a risk when you reintroduce that animal into their wild population that
they may have picked up some diseases during captivity that they would then take back to
their population so those are the downsides.
There are a couple other ethical dilemmas that underlie wildlife rehabilitation. There's
a lot of research that's been done on these concepts so the main question is that "Do
we invariably act in the best of the animal or are our best interests or our Number 1
focus is on, like, our altruism and that it makes us feel good to rehabilitate the animals?"
Also the question is "Is it humane to rehabilitate a non-releasable wild animal?" And also "How
can we ensure a released animal will survive in the wild or contribute to the population?"
Like I said you need long-term follow-up data that can be expensive to do and difficult
to maintain.
There's also a rehab bias and I just thought this is worth mentioning. We tend to focus
on species that we have a special affinity towards, there's this cute-and-cuddly bias.
We like adorable animals and who doesn't? There's also a flagship species bias where
we tend to gravitate towards charismatic megafauna and kind of ignore the less charismatic species
like snakes and things like that that people may not relate to as easily. So the truth
about wildlife is that humane, rapid euthanasia is often the best option for injured or sick
wildlife.
Euthanasia stems from the Greek word euthanatos, which means "good or easy death", and the
key to ensuring the welfare of individual wildlife casualties is a proven process of
triage that enables rapid euthanasia of animals that are considered unlikely to be released
back into the wild. Success in this sense may be judged in terms of preventing unnecessary
suffering whereby a high level of euthanasia could be considered successful. Once a decision
is made to bring the animal into rehabilitation, success is then defined as bringing an animal
back to health and releasing it into its natural environment and benefiting from this process,
in terms of public education and scientific knowledge. But, either way, the triage process
should be done quickly, animal-side and the decision should be made quickly if you are
going to euthanize. So again the key to successful rehab is a well-defined triage criteria, which
is supported by research, effective, appropriate intake criteria, which is often species-specific.
You need highly-trained personnel and lots of infrastructure including facilities, funds
and flexibility and usually a lot of those things.
So those are just some of the overall concepts about rehab and now I'm gonna talk about my
favorite part about rehab, which is access. So an important benefit of animals cared for
in rehabilitation is their role as sentinels of ecosystem health because rehabilitating
wild animals are so accessible, they can help contribute to the developing reservoir of
information on care and medicine that we can then apply to free-ranging wildlife needing
help. And this health knowledge is crucial for wildlife conservation and also veterinarians
gain skills and knowledge from rehabilitating animals that enable them to play a vital role
in conservation and also, in turn, to rehabilitate animals in the future better. So some of the
things that we learn from access to rehabilitating wild animals is information on physiology,
life history and nutrition, behavior, diseases, toxicology and medicine, including treatment
and diagnostics. Wildlife rehabilitation centers can be a valuable resource for the surveillance
and monitoring of pathogen activity and wildlife, which, in free-ranging animals can be cost-prohibitive
and logistically challenging. So although there are some inherent biases in this approach,
obviously, it can still provide valuable information to assist in management and conservation decision-making,
including approximations of disease prevalence in the general population, species variation
in disease susceptibility, clinical syndromes, standardization of diagnostic protocols, development
of medical approaches, therapeutics and outcomes associated with various pathogens. And we
can use this information to make these population-wide inferences that we can apply to general wildlife
populations and that we can also then, in turn, apply back to rehabilitating wildlife
to inform and improve future efforts. All right so that's just my introduction and now
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about my research. For the past seven years I've been working
on figuring out this disease that affects sea turtles, called fibropapillomatosis or
FP and since you live here in Florida you may be familiar with it. It's a debilitating,
infectious, neoplastic disease that affects all sea-turtle species but has reached epizootic
status in green turtles, meaning it's an epidemic in many green sea-turtle populations, across-the-world.
It's been reported in all oceans in many countries. It tends to mainly affect juvenile green turtles
after they migrate back to their coastal habitats so usually around four to seven years old.
It can affect any -- they can have tumors on any part of their body, including internal
organs and it can be fatal in some cases. There's a virus associated with these tumors
called Chelonid herpesvirus 5. It's the presumed etiologic agent of FP. Here's the virus right
here.
I say presumed because like many herpesviruses this virus is not able to be isolated in cell
culture, however the tumors have been proven to be transmissible via cell-free tumor extract,
meaning that a researcher cut off a tumor, ground it up, passed it through a virus-sized
filter, injected it into naïve turtles and they grew tumors. This virus is consistently
associated with FP tumors via multiple molecular techniques. The herpesviruses group into alpha,
beta and gamma herpesvirinae and this one is here. It groups with the alphaherpesviruses.
Phylogenetic studies show that the viruses coevolved with its sea-turtle hosts meaning
that the recent epizootic or epidemic is probably not related to the virus but probably something
related more to the host, which is the turtle, or its environment.
Other factors that have been associated with FP most significantly is the nearshore shallow-water
embayments so they tend to get tumors when they move from offshore to inshore. It's also
been associated with pollution, eutophication, harmful algal blooms and invasive forage species,
like macroaglae. It's been associated with warm-water temperatures, which is not that
surprising because a lot of herpesviruses are temperature-sensitive and also with host
immunosuppression. So the reason that I'm interested in FP is because when we talk about
emerging infectious diseases these days generally there's this, like, a triad that involves
the pathogen, the host and the environment so usually there's a bit of environmental
degradation or contamination or both. There's also host immunosuppression and then you have
a pathogen and when these three things meet, we see diseases that may not have been a problem
100 years ago.
Again you have environmental contamination or degradation, including exposure to this
type of environment. Then the host is immunosuppressed probably related to the environment so they
have decreased cell counts, decreased cell function and then they have an increased susceptibility
to pathogens that normally wouldn't affect them in that way and, in some cases, you get
neoplasia, which is cancer. So that's what we're seeing with this disease and you can
see that, again, it fits in really nicely with this paradigm so we have the host, which
is immunosuppressed probably due to a degraded environment and then we have a pathogen, which
historically didn't cause disease and now it does. In rehabilitating turtles FP is a
huge problem. It's infectious. It's horrific for an individual animal. It tends to necessitate
special husbandry conditions, including quarantine, like stringent quarantine.
The tumors can influence clinical progression, extend rehabilitation duration and complicate
prognoses and here are some examples. This turtle came in. I think she was hit by a boat.
This is at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and she was in rehab for over a year and she was
doing fine, getting ready to be released. She was quite robust and then the staff noticed
a bulge in her plastron. They did an MRI and it turns out she had a huge internal tumor
and she was euthanized.
This is another turtle who came in with a boat-strike wound on the carapace and was
progressing quite nicely and then developed these tumors within the boat-strike lesion
and the turtle was euthanized. So I got interested in around 2010 during an externship. When
I was in vet school at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center I had some patients. Some of these
turtles I just showed you were some of my patients and I became really interested in
this disease and so I started out my journey of this research doing a retrospective case-series
analysis of all of the turtles that had or developed FP tumors at the Georgia Sea Turtle
Center since it opened. So that's over a five-year period and we looked at the occurrence, clinical
presentation and outcomes of disease. There were 25 turtles overall, which was – represented
12.6 percent of all the green turtle patients at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, which is
not insignificant. In sea turtles we age them by looking at their size. Generally it's called
the straight carapace length so the bigger they are, the older they are and you can see
that it's pretty consistent that the juvenile turtles, these smaller animals are the ones
who are most affected by the disease.
In the study we also a modified tumor scoring system, based on tumor number, size, location
and severity so, like, how aggressive the tumors are and the tumor-scoring system ranges
from zero, which is unaffected, 1 mildly, 2 moderately and 3 severely affected . We
found that 48 percent of these turtles develop tumors over one week after entering rehab
and that ten of them did so during the warmer months so again there's a temperature component
to this, to the tumor outbreak and also probably – so they developed tumors after they entered
rehab so they were either infected when they entered rehab or they became infected in rehab
and what I think is most likely is that they were already infected and the stress of whatever
brought them into rehab and the stress of being in captivity led to them developing
tumors. FP tumors were most often first observed in the inguinal regions here so we can advise
rehabilitators to focus on these areas, looking for new lesions and we came up with this estimation
that overall about 10 percent of rehabilitating green turtles may develop FP within 90 to
120 days of rehab, which hadn't been described before. We found that ocular tumors, these
eye tumors, were observed in about two fifths of the tumor turtles and turtles with ocular
tumors were over 8 times less likely to survive rehab than tumor turtles without ocular tumors
so basically having tumors in your eyes is bad [laughs] and we also found that 10 out
of 25 of the turtles had these – only had these – plaques, these flat plaques, which
histologically and molecularly were consistent with FP but these turtles were significantly
more likely to survive rehab and over 50 percent of them had spontaneous tumor regression whereas
none of the other turtles that had the other types of tumors had spontaneous tumor regression.
So if you have flat, plaque-like tumors it's good. Laser surgery is the treatment of choice
for tumor removal and we found in this study that the number of surgeries is not significantly
related to case outcomes so a turtle could have up to 6 tumor-removal surgeries and it
wouldn't necessarily affect the outcome of the case.
So here's a good example. This turtle had severe FP. This is a patient at the Marathon
Sea Turtle Hospital. You can see she was blind. This is a pretty nasty case so here she is
having her tumor-removal surgery and then this is the same animal.
So just because they look horrible doesn't necessarily mean that they're gonna have a
bad outcome. I think that's important to note. However we also found in that study that 38.5
percent of turtles that had their tumors removed experienced tumor regrowth within 36 days.
So here's a turtle. These are the little FP lesions just developing in the inguinal regions.
This is the day that they were removed right after surgery and then 15 days later you can
see the tumors are back and they're even worse than before and this fits in with what we
know about herpes biology, right? So herpes is for life as we all know [laughs] and just
because you remove the tumors you're not removing the virus and so that's why it's so important
to bring the health of the turtle up as well as removing the tumors because the turtles,
their immune system has to be able to combat the virus as well.
Because of this study – this little study – we came up with a lot of recommendations
for rehabilitators, including – for green turtles – trying to release them within
90 days, if at all possible, to avoid tumor development in captivity because once they
develop tumors then you're in for the long haul. The animal has to be able to survive
in its current condition, like I told you guys before. But we also came up with the
recommendation that mild, stable, cutaneous FP that's not progressing and the animal's
otherwise healthy, eating on its own, healthy blood values, they can still be candidates
for release and this wasn't recommended before but because of what we know about herpesvirus
we know that they're not gonna get rid of that disease and the most important thing
is that the turtle overall is healthy so not – just because they have tumors doesn't
necessarily mean they can't be released. We recommend that they're released where they're
found to avoid introduction of a new disease into a naïve population, water temperature
over 18 degrees preferred and, if possible, it's important to track the patients just
like I told you before. We did this same thing for loggerhead sea turtles in the southeastern
United States. I looked at 3 rehab facilitates.
Just basically, briefly, we found that FP is not really a problem for loggerheads. They
do get tumors but they're typically incidental or mild. They are usually not that aggressive.
Interestingly they get these oral tumors that green turtles, in this area, don't really
get. They get a lot of ocular tumors but they're usually mild and exposure to green turtles
is a risk factor for loggerheads in captivity. So we recommend that green turtles are kept
quarantined away from all other species and then green turtles with FP are kept in an
even higher level of quarantine away from all other green turtles as well. However we
did find in this study that for individual loggerheads, FP can be a huge problem just
kind of like how diseases in people could be. So we had this one patient who had severe,
severe FP.
She was really sick. This is from her intestinal tract. She was euthanized and – but she
– we actually learned a lot about this turtle and there – so far there have been three
studies and I'm involved in a fourth just on this one turtle alone so she provided us
with a lot of information even though she died. So ongoing research: What I'm doing
now to follow up with this is I'm doing it again. I'm doing a case series analysis but
on a much bigger scale and including all species, not just green sea turtles, involving the
Marathon Turtle Hospital, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, the Whitney Lab, the Brevard
Zoo and the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, hopefully. And we think we'll have hundreds of cases
in this study so hopefully we'll get a lot more of this type of information that can
then be passed on to rehabilitators. And the questions that we're asking are "Does FP Tumor
Score accurately predict rehabilitation outcome? What percent of surgically-removed tumors
regrow? In what timeframe do the regrowths occur?" and "Is there a seasonality?", so
again looking at temperature. So changing gears I did a follow-up study of rehabilitating
green sea turtles using molecular biology to try to get a better idea of the herpesvirus
itself. For this study I developed validated and optimized PCR assay.
PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction. It's just a way for us to detect and quantify
pathogen DNA. In this method we can provide absolute quantification of viral DNA. The
assay is extremely specific. It's very sensitive and it's repeatable and robust. And using
this assay I evaluated the relationship between Chelonid herpesvirus DNA loads and clinical
disease in rehabilitating turtles. So we looked at 351 samples taken from 67 turtles, 23 with
FP tumors and 44 without FP tumors.
We analyzed their blood, their plasma, cloacal and oral epithelial swabs, feces, urine and
skin biopsies and this is the data that we got, we found. So red is turtles with FP and
blue is turtles without FP and then these are the sample types where we got some results.
If the sample types aren't mentioned that's because none of them were positive. Interestingly
we found viral DNA in urine samples, which has never been described before. We found
viral DNA in blood, which has never been described before for this disease and cloacal swabs,
again, a novel finding. And we found that in a lot of skin biopsies so, which is something
that we had found with previous studies but it just supported the data. And you can see
that turtles with FP had a lot more samples that were positive but it was pretty interesting
that we had these asymptomatic animals that also had positive samples so basically telling
us we have asymptomatic infections in some green turtles. When we look at the level of
agreement between the different sample types taken from an individual turtle I thought
it was really interesting that there was 100-percent agreement between blood and urine taken from
the same turtle. We know that urine is a filtrate of the blood so this points to the potential
that urine is a method of transmission of this virus.
The fact that we found it in normal skin in this and another study of free-ranging turtles
points to normal skin being a potential route of transmission as well. And from non-tumored
animals as well as from tumored animals. I followed up this study by taking extensive
samples from 10 green sea turtles at necropsy, 5 of them had tumors. Five did not. We took
samples of all of their major organs, their neurological tissues, including optic nerves,
nerves innervating their front flippers and nerves innervating their hind flippers, skin,
tumors, blood and urine. These are some of the animals just to give you a picture and
this is a tumor that was on the kidney of one of the animals.
This is the tumor on cut surface. You could see the kidney was still trying to make urine
and we took samples of this fluid and did PCR on that as well for viral DNA. Interesting
results: We found again the urine samples were positive for viral DNA and then this
was really surprising or to me it was surprising that a lot of the kidney samples were positive
for viral DNA and also some of the nerve samples were positive for viral DNA, which has never
been described before. We know that alphaherpesviruses tend to go latent within nerve cells and so
this pointed to a potential site of latency, which has not been described for this virus.
So there's a lot of stuff that we don't know about this virus and I think by understanding
the basic biology of the virus then we can understand more about the disease process.
So this study gave me more questions than answers but basically made me wonder if the
kidneys are a site of persistent viral infection probably related to the presence of the viral
DNA in urine, pointing to a renal urinary route of viral excretion. Also the presence
of the viral DNA in nerves points to again potentially a site of latency of this virus,
which is typical of this type of virus. And the sites where we found virus-positive nerves
were nerve cells that innervated parts of the body that had tumors so we found an ocular
nerve, an optic nerve that was positive for the virus in a turtle that had a tumor in
that eye.
We found brachial plexus nerves that were positive for the virus in turtles that had
tumors in those flippers and so it supports that idea. So when we put all this information
together we can kind of get a sense of this Chelonid herpesvirus infection cycle whereby
the virus – this is our little virus – enters the skin, enters the host. We're not sure
of all the transmission routes at this point. The virus undergoes primary replication and
then disseminates throughout the body via blood and/or nerves probably to the kidneys
and potentially other sites of persistent secondary infection. The virus probably establishes
latency maybe in nerves, maybe in other things.
The virus is then shed. We know the virus is shed through the skin and through tumors
and maybe through the urine as well. And then to follow up on this research now I'm doing
a study with the University of Florida and the Brevard Zoo where we're looking at abnormal
kidney samples from green sea turtles so you can see this top turtle, this is a normal
kidney sample here and then this is in situ or in the turtle. And then this is an abnormal
kidney we have generalized severe fibrosis tract through medullary regions and this lesion
is extremely common in green – in juvenile green – turtles in Florida to the point
where it has been called normal because it's so common and we're wondering if maybe it's
due to herpesvirus infection. And so for this study what we're doing is again molecular
biology paired with histology to see if maybe this – these types of lesions – test positive
for the Chelonid herpesvirus and maybe that's why we're seeing those lesions even though
these turtles don't have tumors. And throughout this research we've found a lot of subclinical
disease carriers so you guys may not realize it but subclinical disease carriers are really
important within the epidemiology of a disease. So the fact that we have animals that are
infected but asymptomatic points to an environmental and/or host factor that plays a role in tumor
development, like I've said before. It also suggests that this virus is endemic in some
populations. These animals serve as a reservoir so you can see in this diagram these are the
subclinical infected animals.
They serve as a reservoir that can lead to infections in susceptible animals just as
clinical animals can serve as a source of infection and so they can be a source of viral
dissemination within a population and this, actually, probably explains why there was
one study where they looked at the exposure – viral exposure – of this virus in green
turtles in Florida and found really high percentages of exposed turtles in populations that had
zero tumor prevalence. So how did they become infected if none of the turtles have tumors?
So this is a likely explanation for that. To follow up on that study right now I'm doing
a study on loggerhead and green sea turtles in North Carolina. Historically FP has not
been a problem for sea turtles in North Carolina, however it's becoming more and more prevalent,
either because the water is getting warmer or the sea turtles are transmitting it northward
or both.
We're not sure but we're just doing a survey of free-ranging turtles, working with NOAA
to get samples from them and also rehabilitating turtles at the Karen Beasley Rehab Facility
to see if we can identify the prevalence of this virus in asymptomatic turtles or subclinical
turtles. I'm doing another study – so in all these pictures you may have realized or
you may have noticed that the tumors can take lots of different types of appearances. They
can be these flat plaques. They can be sessile and smooth. They can papillomatous.
This is the most common presentation in Florida or they can be polypoid and smooth like grapes
and, in another study, they noticed that there are four different variants of this virus
in Florida. There's A – where's B – B, C and D. These have only been reported in
loggerheads and A, B, and C have been reported in greens and so it got me to wondering are
these viral variants related to tumor morphology so is the – does the – variant identity
predict what the tumor looks like and therefore its virulence within the host? So we're doing
a study now with the Marathon Sea Turtle Hospital where we're looking at using molecular biology
to look at virus variant identity in loggerheads and greens, again, and statistically evaluating
those relationships between morphology or tumor morphology, species and variant and
looking at both free-ranging and rehabilitating turtles and comparing the results. So just
to summarize, overall, I think I tried to make it clear that wildlife rehabilitation
has both benefits and drawbacks. It can have conservation benefits in cases of threatened
or endangered populations but the most important concept to me is that access to wildlife provides
an excellent avenue for disease research and education. And I just wanna thank all of my
collaborators.
I work with a lot of people, certainly could not have done any of this stuff alone, including
the rehab facilities and University of Georgia and Harbor Branch and I'll take any questions
and also this is my email address if you have other questions or wanna email me, have ideas
you wanna share, please feel free. So thank you very much.
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Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About Ancient Egypt! - Duration: 13:20.
Here are the most amazing facts you probably didn't know about ancient egypt!
9 – Equality has been around, I told you!
Seems like the society of ancient Egypt was well ahead of its time on this issue, because
men and women were equal under the law!
That meant women were free to live without a legal male guardian and could make their
own decisions.
There were however, certain limits in occupations.
For example, a woman wouldn't be allowed to hold a position in the army nor would a
man be expected to be in charge of a household.
However, everything else was equal.
For example, women could marry whomever they wanted and later on divorce if things didn't
work out.
Women could also buy and manage their own property, meaning a woman could inherit things
down the female line in her family.
Another fun fact was that neither sex was favored when it came to childbearing, as both
sexes were seen as equal.
The Ancient Egyptian gods and goddess are another proof of how far the equality went,
as each sex was determined to be as important as the other, and that each sex had a unique
set of skills.
Hey, that makes total sense to me, I KNEW men and women are different!
Also, you might be surprised to learn that both sexes wore make-up, something that was
more of a social norm rather than gender right.
8 – Who really built the pyramids?
The pyramids are as grand and mesmerizing as they can be.
Majestic establishments of up to 455 feet built in order to offer shelter for the part
of the dead king's soul that stayed behind.
Let's just keep in mind the different technology available at the time, so it's just utterly
amazing how these structures were built.
Having structures as grand as pyramids proves just how advanced of a civilization existed
on earth back in those times.
If you try and think about the construction process, you probably get instant flashes
of that Cleopatra movie where slaves are laboring their lives away while a supervisor slashes
his whip on their backs.
As it turns out, that is an extremely common misconception, and the one responsible for
conjuring the myth is the Greek historian Herodotus, all the way back in the fifth century
BC.
While it is true that there were slaves in ancient Egyptian society, they were mostly
used for domestic labors or for field work, tasks fairly easier compared to the tiring
construction of the pyramids.
Actual construction workers who were rather skilled were used for the pyramids – it
was considered a huge honor to work on the pyramids and workers took pride in their work.
Most of them were paid workers who took two or three-month shifts at the construction
site and used to sleep and eat near the building area.
In fact, they were entitled to so many rights, that they actually could do labor strikes
if they didn't get paid on time.
One method of payment included beer, meaning that a day of work was worth almost a gallon
and a half of beer!
Hey, I think I know a few people nowadays who'd still sign up for this agreement!
7 – Hair?!
Get outta here!!
In many paintings and hieroglyphs dating back from Ancient Egypt, Egyptians are depicted
with thick black shoulder-length hair, very often garnished with some golden details.
However, don't get it twisted, because it turns out that they actually despised hair!
In fact, they hated hair so much that they removed every single hair on their bodies
except for their eyebrows.
Fun fact, they even removed their eyebrows in times of great grief, such as the occasion
of a beloved pet cat dying!
Ancient Egyptians, especially those in the upper layers, shaved off their heads and wore
wigs instead.
A pharaoh didn't allow for anyone to see him without his what are called 'nemes'
on, a headpiece that covered his hair.
Some data suggests that Egyptians shaved off their hair and opted for wigs instead in order
to protect their head from the blazing sun.
Wigs acted as hats and were made either from natural human or horse hair – how did a
wig made from other's people hair make them feel less hot rather than their own hair is
still a mystery to me, so I'm not quite sure I'm buying this one.
What do you guys think?
Anyways, hair removal from the body was also connected with maintaining a good level of
hygiene and protection against lice, which gives lice less surface to move around, right?
Young children would wear their hair tied up and once they'd reached a certain age,
their hair would be cut off.
As a matter of fact, anyone with hair was associated with the lower levels of society
and with poor personal hygiene.
Well then!
6 – I'll take 2 dabs on top please While today there are a variety of birth control
methods, I'd think that a good majority of you guys know that that wasn't the case
in the ancient world.
I hope.
Anyways, since the birth control issue was a burning topic even millenniums ago, ancient
Egyptians took the problem in their own hands!
In order to avoid pregnancy, various solutions were used.
One extremely popular method was the following recipe: a bit of mud, honey, and mix it all
up with a tad of crocodile sh*t!
Then, this was to be inserted into the woman's vagina right before the actual uhhh….work
in that bedroom took place.
Supposedly the crocodile poo acted as a powerful spermicide…..uhhh do we have anyone in the
audience that wanna test that theory now?
They also found a way to test for pregnancy as well.
A woman would be told to urinate on a sample of barley and wheat every day for a certain
period of time – if pregnant, barley and wheat would grow.
Modern science was actually able to confirm this to some extent apparently; barley can't
grow if watered with the urine of a non-pregnant woman.
Holy f*ck, how the h*ll did they figure that out?!
Seriously guys, this is a real scientific paper that can be found in the journals of
National Institute of Health.
5 – Hieroglyphs?!
Hieroglyphs are probably the first thing that comes to mind whenever Ancient Egypt is mentioned,
as there are walls and walls covered with colorful pictures of people and animals, with
each telling a different story.
The hieroglyphs are definitely fascinating to look at, and you may wonder how they managed
to use letters like that every single day.
Well, the truth is….they didn't!
They only used the hieroglyphs when the writing was supposed to be pretty to look at, such
as for example the pyramid walls.
Actually, the majority of the population in Ancient Egypt didn't even know how to write
hieroglyphs because they were extremely complicated.
Instead, there were writing specialists known as scribes who did all the hieroglyphic writing.
Those men were chosen as kids and were most often from the upper levels of society.
They would train for years before even reaching a decent level of writing!
Other literate members of ancient Egyptian society used the Hieratic script and the Demotic
script, which are simplified versions of the hieroglyphs, where the letters are actually
in the shape of letters and not objects.
Hieratic script was used mainly for everyday writings, such as accounting and letters,
while Demotic script was favored for court and document use.
Makes sense, since it wouldn't be very practical to have to draw a goddamn picture each time
you wanted to write something down, now would it?!
4 – How You Like Me Meow?
Cats were highly appreciated in ancient Egypt, and were literally almost on the rank of a
God, and almost EVERY family had a pet cat.
Their love for cats was so strong, that if you happened to harm or kill a cat, even on
accident, you'd be facing a harsh sentence and maybe even death!
So naturally, when a cat died, the whole family would go into mourning, and as said before,
this was a deeply tragic event that required some eyebrow shaving.
It wasn't that uncommon to have your pet mummified as well!
They'd be buried in special tombs alongside mice and milk for the, you know, dat kitty
cat afterlife.
Before you think that cat mummification happened in rare instances, hear this: In Beni Hasan,
an ancient Egyptian cemetery site, a cat tomb was discovered with more than 80,000 feline
burials inside.
Really?
Just 80,000?
Pfffffffffffffft!!!!
3 – Snippity Snip Snip Let's just snip right into it.
A circumcision is a procedure in which the foreskin of a penis is removed so the head
of the penis is exposed.
While the procedure itself seems a bit unusual and unnecessary for some to say the least,
others still practice it today for a variety of reasons.
You might be surprised to find out where its roots go back to – it was first practiced
in Ancient Egypt!
It's still not clear why the Egyptians started doing this, many scripts point out that it
was mostly done because it was thought it would keep good hygiene levels for men.
Considering the living conditions of the ancient world, as well as the ways of the not-so-safe
sex practicing, they might've been right.
Let's just say that there wasn't a lot of antibacterial soap to be found around.
Others depict the circumcision as an official passage from childhood into adulthood, to
prove a boy were to become a man by stoically surviving through the pain.
The procedure itself was mostly done in public and in large groups; up to 100-150 boys at
a time and the more silent you managed to stay, the braver you were.
It was performed by priests who used stone blades.
Are you f*cking kidding me?!?!
It goes without saying that there were zero pain-killers involved.
However, circumcision was far from mandatory in Egypt, not everyone had to go through with
it and it was mostly aimed towards the upper classes of the society and especially towards
the priests.
It is worth mentioning that there were exceptions even in this case – some mummies of kings
with exceptionally well-preserved genitals have been examined and it was more than obvious
that their foreskins were been left intact.
2 – Paint around my gut could ya?
There's a common saying that history is oftentimes told by the winners, or in this
particular case, by the rich and powerful.
If I know one thing to be true, it's that.
Well, that and taxes.
And oh yeah, death.
Anyways, remember how all of the hieroglyphs and paintings show tall, slender, and athletic
men and women, running around doing the daily tasks in Ancient Egypt?
Well… turns out that not everything is as it has been told, or rather, painted.
Painters were told to follow the ideal proportions and show pharaohs as what was seen ideal for
the time, even though that might not have been the real case.
Considering the diet common for that particular time, obesity wasn't that rare in Ancient
Egypt.
This was especially true among the upper levels of the society, whose diet was rich in sugar.
They'd eat a lot of honey, dried fruits, and drink plenty of beer and wine.
Since the upper society members didn't do any laboring or better said, nothing at all,
they'd often spend their days indulging in tasty, sugary food without even moving
a finger.
Their laziness went so far that they were even fed by their slaves.
The remains found from the pharaoh Hatshepsut showed that she was so obese, she probably
suffered from diabetes, something that was rather difficult to achieve in ancient times
of obscure feeding!
1 – Cleopatra did it with the lights off?!
For many centuries, Cleopatra has been shown as the ideal woman, a real beauty with her
strikingly thick, black hair, red lips, and perfect eyeliner, so she didn't have to
think twice before using her sex appeal as her most powerful weapon.
However, recent data show that maybe that was not the real case , and she might have
actually been the beast in the story!
Newer proof shows that actually, her facial features were strong and similar to that of
a man.
Her nose was bigger than average and was greatly hooked, something which wasn't seen as bedazzling
among the much-wanted long and sleek noses.
One theory says that this depiction of herself as ugly was a part of her well-thought propaganda,
so she did it on purpose so she would seem stronger and harsher as a ruler.
However, she was so educated, that she completely changed the way kings and queens should be
seen.
Cleopatra was fluent in at least ten languages and with an extensive knowledge of mathematics,
philosophy, and astronomy.
Evidence shows that she was extremely charismatic and used her oratory skills to the maximum.
This was how she used to capture all of that men's attention.
Hey, remember that one ladies, oratory skills
to the maximum!
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8 Deadliest Forest Fires Ever - Duration: 13:14.
Forest fires: fast, deadly entities of heat consuming everything within their path; be
it trees, wildlife, or humans.
Here are the 8 deadliest forest fires ever that left behind terrible paths of destruction.
Number 8: The 2010 Russian wildfires Russia's summer of 2010 was the hottest in
the country's recorded history.
The season's high temperatures and drought resulted in several hundred wildfires breaking
out in Russia's western region, burning down 740,000 acres of land and destroying
2000 buildings.
This cost the nation about 15 billion dollars in damages.
The heavy smoke from the fires produced a large blanket of smog that covered entire
urban areas.
Combined with the resulting heat wave, Russia's healthcare system was heavily stressed out.
54 people perished in the wildfires, and about 56,000 more died from the effects of the resulting
smog and heat wave.
A state of emergency was declared in many regions by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev,
and in order to prevent panic, censorship was imposed on local mass media as not to
provide real-time information to the public.
Information about several villages affected by the fires was not available for weeks,
and Muscovite doctors were forbidden to diagnose people with heat illness.
About one-third of Russia's wheat harvest was burnt down, causing the government to
impose a ban on grain export.
This led to panicking on the global markets, and according to some experts, triggered the
Arab Spring as high food prices made poverty stricken people rise up against their autocratic
leaders.
Number 7: The 2007 Greek Forest Fires During the summer of 2007, a series of massive
forest fires broke out across Greece's Peloponnese region.
The extreme summer was unprecedented in the nation's modern history, with three consecutive
heat waves reaching over 40 °C (105 °F).
This resulted in about 3000 forest fires breaking out across the nation that destroyed a total
of 670,000 acres of forest and farm land.
Over 2000 buildings were destroyed, and 84 people were killed in the blaze.
The Greek Prime Minister declared a state of emergency for the entire nation, and requested
help from fellow European countries.
Over 20 countries responded to the call, and the Greek Army even deployed 1000 of its soldiers
to be involved in the fire fighting.
The flames came dangerously close to several historical sites in Olympia, the place which
hosted the ancient Olympics games.
The yard of Olympia's iconic museum was scorched by fire, but fortunately, the famous
statue of "Hermes of Praxiteles" and nearby ancient structures were spared.
Investigations revealed that some of the fires were the result of arson, as gasoline bottles
were found in the affected areas.
Several people were caught and convicted for the crime.
Number 6: The 1997 Indonesian Forest Fires In 1997, a group of forest fires in the Indonesian
regions of Kalimantan and Sumatra occurred simultaneously, burning a total of 37,000
square miles of forest.
For years, local Indonesian farmers have been intentionally setting forest trees ablaze
in order to clear lands for agriculture and settlement.
Known as the "slash and burn" technique, it is done extensively as the easiest and cheapest
means to clear lands within a short period of time.
In 1997, the practice led to uncontrollable fires as hundreds of thousands of acres in
the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan got burned.
It resulted in 2.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere, with the haze
travelling thousands of miles and covering all countries in Southeast Asia.
This greatly affected the countries' economic activities, while millions of people suffered
from air pollution.
People were forced to wear masks outdoors and hundreds of deaths were reported in Indonesia
as a result of the declining air quality.
Desperate for a solution, Malaysia's Prime Minister sent a team of Malaysian firefighters
across borders to Indonesia to help put out the flames.
Known as Operation Haze, it is the biggest cross border firefighting mission in history.
For 25 days, Malaysian firefighters fought a desperate battle against the raging forest
fires until the haze became reduced significantly.
Also, with the help of the monsoon rains, the fire and haze crisis came to an end.
Number 5: The Black Saturday Bushfires of 2009
Because of Australia's climate that is mostly hot and dry, the country is frequently subjected
to bushfires during the hotter months of the year.
During droughts and heat waves, some of the most intense firestorms are seen, resulting
in extensive damages and human casualties.
To date, Australia's deadliest wildfire - also commonly regarded as its worst natural disaster
ever - was the Black Saturday Bushfire of 2009.
A week before the event, Australia's southeastern region was affected by an exceptional heat
wave that broke records, reaching a peak temperature of 45.1 °C (113.2 °F).
Then, on 7 February 2009, a series of fires ignited and burned across shrub-lands and
forested areas in the state of Victoria.
The swarm of fires burned over 1 million acres of land and killed 173 people.
Some victims tragically died in their cars and on roads while trying to outrun the flames.
More than 3500 buildings were destroyed.
Although natural factors like heat, drought, and wind are the usual causes of bushfires
in Australia, arson was also heavily suspected in this case.
Some arsonists were initially arrested in connection with several fires in the region,
but none were charged.
Looters also took advantage of the situation by breaking into houses that had been evacuated.
Following the tragedy and its aftermath, Australians refer to this day as Black Saturday.
Number 4: The Great Miramichi Fire of 1825 One of the largest and deadliest wildfires
in Canadian and North American history was the Great Miramichi Fire in 1825 which devastated
large forest areas and communities throughout New Brunswick.
In all, about 3 million acres was consumed.
The preceding summer was particularly hot, with wildfires being common.
On October 7, 1825, a conflagration was ignited which roared itself through northern New Brunswick,
Moorefield, Napan, and Black River Bridge.
Newcastle Town in New Brunswick suffered the most.
The town of 1000 people was reduced to ruins, with only 12 of its original 260 buildings
remaining.
At least 160 people died, but the number is assumed to be much higher since an unknown
number of lumberjacks were in the forest at the time.
The death toll also included prisoners in the Newcastle Jail who had nowhere to run.
Many escaped the blaze by taking refuge in the Miramichi River, together with livestock
and wild animals.
Number 3: California's Cedar Fire of 2003 California is no stranger to forest fires,
with each wildfire season seeming to top the last.
They usually occur in October towards the end of the long dry season, with the worst
fires occurring in highly populated coastal areas between San Francisco and San Diego,
which are subjected to strong easterly winds.
The biggest wildfire in California's modern history was the Cedar Fire of October 2003.
The fire started in the evening of October 25 in the Cuyamaca Mountains within the Cleveland
National Forest.
The flames moved extremely fast, burning over 100,000 acres of land and hundreds of homes
overnight.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency and the US National
Guard was activated to assist in disaster relief.
In the end, the flames consumed 280,000 acres of land in San Diego, destroying nearly 3000
buildings, and killing 15 people, including one fireman.
Investigations revealed that the fire was started by a novice hunter who got lost in
the woods, and started a fire to signal rescuers.
However, the fire quickly got out of control.
The man was charged in federal court the following year for setting the fire and lying about
it.
Number 2: The Great Fire of 1910 Sometimes referred to as the Big Blowup, the
Great Fire of 1910 is believed to be the largest forest fire in US history.
The wildfire burned for over two days and consumed three million acres of forest in
Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
In all, about the size of Connecticut got burnt down.
That summer was unusually hot that year, and the drought resulted in forest trees becoming
dry fuel.
Small fires were occasionally set by lightning, train sparks and backfiring crews.
On August 20, a cold front brought strong winds that whipped several small fires into
one large blazing inferno.
This was made worse by the boiling hydrocarbons present in the resinous sap of Western White
Pine trees, creating a flammable gas cloud that covered large areas of forests which
then detonated spontaneously many times over.
This created tongues of flames that flew high into the sky every time, and created highly
destructive rolling waves of fire on the ground.
Smoke was said to have been seen as far south as Denver, Colorado, and as far east as Watertown,
New York.
At night, ships that were 500 miles into the Pacific Ocean were unable to navigate by the
stars as they were not visible due to the smoke.
The US Forest Service was still young at the time, and had insufficient manpower to deal
with the crisis.
At the behest of President William Howard Taft, the US Army was brought in to help.
The fire was finally extinguished with the arrival of steady rain, but not before entire
towns had been destroyed.
87 people were killed, 78 of them firefighters.
The fire went on to cement the future of the US Forest Service, and shape their future
policies in battling wildfires.
Number 1: The Peshtigo Fire of 1871 The Peshtigo Fire was a deadly wildfire that
occurred on October 8, 1871 in and around the forests of Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
The death toll of those perished in the event is estimated to be between 1500 to 2500 people,
making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded history.
On the day of the event, powerful winds blew from the west, brought on by a cold front.
This fanned the fires, causing them to escalate out of control and ravage across the Wisconsin
countryside.
According to survivors, a fire whirl was generated, sending vehicles and houses flying into the
air.
Many people escaped by jumping into the cold Peshtigo River, an act, which caused some
of them to die from hypothermia or drowning.
In the end, the firestorm consumed 1.3 million acres of forest.
To put that into perspective, that's about twice the size of Rhode Island.
Entire communities were destroyed, along with official records, making an accurate death
toll impossible to find out.
Hundreds of charred dead remains could not be identified, and a mass grave was made to
bury them all together.
Interesting to note, during the event of the Peshtigo Fire, a devastating wildfire was
also occurring at the same time in Michigan, while an urban fire was burning down the city
of Chicago in Illinois.
Known respectively as the Great Michigan Fire and the Great Chicago Fire, both incidents
left hundreds dead and at least 100,000 more homeless.
They are believed to have been caused, or at least reinforced - by the same southwest
winds.
Another theory is that together with the Peshtigo Fire, all three tragic events in October 1871
were caused by the impact of fragments from Comet Biela.
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