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Weird history facts

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"Strangely, our very “intelligent” ancestors of the Elizabethan era (1500s) used Belladonna as part of their daily cosmetic routine. They used drops made from the plant as eye drops, to dilate their pupils, which was considered attractive and gave the user a dreamy look. Not being very knowledgeable at the time, the women also drank cyanide, or “bled” themselves to obtain a pale, translucent skin color, in addition to painting their faces white with a lead based paint called cerise."---http://listverse.com/2011/07/02/top-10-p...-kill-you/
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"In 1948, the SS Ourang Medan sent numerous distress calls to ships in morse code that were extremely eerie. "All officers, including captain, are dead lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead." The following message simply said, "I die." When the ship was found, all of the passengers were dead, frozen with their mouths open and facing the sky with contorted looks on their faces. There were no signs of injury on their bodies."---http://www.viralnova.com/weird-history/
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(Jun 16, 2017 06:26 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: "In 1948, the SS Ourang Medan sent numerous distress calls to ships in morse code that were extremely eerie. "All officers, including captain, are dead lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead." The following message simply said, "I die." When the ship was found, all of the passengers were dead, frozen with their mouths open and facing the sky with contorted looks on their faces. There were no signs of injury on their bodies."---http://www.viralnova.com/weird-history/


http://skittishlibrary.co.uk/the-myth-of...ship-1940/

by Estelle (December 29, 2015): [...] The tale had apparently originated from a surviving German crew member of the Ourang who swam ashore to Toangi atoll in the Marshall Islands. There, he told his story to a missionary, who in turn told it to Silvio Scherli of Trieste, Italy. Mr Scherli was the source of the story in the Dutch newspaper.

The reason the crew member gave for the mystery was that the ship had been carrying an illicit load of sulphuric acid, and fumes escaping from broken containers had overpowered the crew. There have since been many other theories about what other top secret cargo the ship may have been carrying instead – being not long after the end of the Second World War, a cargo of poisonous gases has been suggested.

There are a few issues with the story – not least that there is no official registration for a ship named the Ourang Medan and, while the Silver Star did exist, by 1948 it was renamed the SS Santa Cecilia and more often to be seen around Brazil, not the Strait of Malacca.

[...] 1952 was the earliest known mention of the story in English – that is, until now. If the incident occurred in 1947-48, the first reporting of it was in 1948, and the first mention in English was in the US in 1952 – then how come I’ve found British newspaper articles on the subject from 1940? Written at least 7 years before the tragedy was even supposed to have happened. Peculiar, eh? I’ve found mentions in two UK newspapers – The Yorkshire Post and The Daily Mirror, dating from subsequent days in November 1940. Here they are...
[But there's no actual date on the small segment of the first photographed newspaper which the following is taken from.]

[...] the steamer Ourang Medan off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific [...] found bodies of sailors lying about the deck. "[...] could find no sign of a wound on any of them," said an officer of the rescue party yesterday. "Death seemed to have taken them by surprise at their posts [...] We decided to search the captain's quarters but at that moment we heard an explosion in the ship. We abandoned the ship immediately and rowed back to our own. The explosions were repeated. Soon nothing was left of the Ourang Medan but a blazing hulk [...]"


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