ELEGANT FLOW, Rayong dam Thailand

ELEGANT FLOW, Rayong dam Thailand 

ELEGANT FLOW at the Rayong dam, Thailand by Anan Charoenkal flow-dam-in-rayong-thailand-Anan-Charoenkal-nature-travel-photography-great-atmosphere-amazing

In the photographer’s words:

“In the rainy season, the Dam is used to irrigate crops. I used the wide angle lens (Nikon 16-35 F4) for my D700. The perspective of the wide angle lens makes the image look more elegant and powerful. I used a shutter speed of 30 sec. to get the silky appearance of the water.The fishermen in the frame added a point of interest. Many shots were needed because the fishermen kept moving and were blurry in the image. This one came out just right. I decide to crop 1:1 ratio. This resulted in a classic look.”

-Anan Charoenkal

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Top Of The World, Baatara Gorge Waterfall

Top Of The World, Baatara Gorge Waterfall

Discovered in 1952 by French bio-speleologist Henri Coiffait, the waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by the Spéléo club du Liban. The cave is also known as the "Cave of the Three Bridges." Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the village of Balaa, and the "Three Bridges Chasm" (in French "Gouffre des Trois Ponts") is a five-minute journey into the valley below where one sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and overhanging a chasm descending into Mount Lebanon. During the spring melt, a 90–100-metre (300–330 ft) cascade falls behind the three bridges and then down into the 250-metre (820 ft) chasm. A 1988 fluorescent dye test demonstrated that the water emerged at the spring of Dalleh in Mgharet al-Ghaouaghir.

Source:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baatara_gorge_waterfall

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ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO

ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO

Dependence on anything becomes a habit when followed or practiced repeatedly. The habit of being dependent, at one stage, becomes impossible to break, making it an addiction. The more a person tries to break that habit, the weaker he becomes in will and the more dependent he becomes on that habit.

BAD EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL 

It corrodes the linings of the liver, intestines and stomach.
It weakens the memory, lowers the intellectual and reasoning powers.
It reduces the ability to do ordinary work and decreases muscular power, depressing the heart and circulation.
Prolonged alcohol intake also causes impotency in a few cases.

BAD EFFECTS OF SMOKING/TOBACCO

Patients who tend to smoke a lot or take a lot of tobacco are prone to:
Cardiovascular problems like Ischaemic Heart Disease.
Respiratory troubles like Chronic Bronchitis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Vascular disease like Thromboangitis Obliterans.
Dental staining and decay.
Oral and Bronchiogenic Carcinoma.
Impotency.

SOME MEASURES AND HOME REMEDIES TO BE TAKEN TO OVERCOME ALCOHOL ADDICTION 

Angelica herb -This herb is taken in the form of tea or in tincture form, thrice daily, after meals. This helps reduce craving for alcohol.

Apple - Have two to three apples a day to reduce the craving for wine and other intoxicating liquors. It is also useful to reduce any intoxicated feeling caused by alcoholic beverages.

Date (khajoor)- The person should drink half a glass of water in which four to five dates have been crushed. Do this twice daily for a few months.

Fruit juice - The best drink as a substitute for alcohol is a glass of fresh fruit juice. The patient or the alcoholic should drink lots of juices and eat a candy or other snacks whenever he has a craving for alcohol.

Grapes - Grapes contain the purest form of alcohol and are a healthy substitute for alcohol. Alcoholics should take fresh grapes or grape juice at five-hourly interval, i.e. three times a day. Eating a few raisins daily for a few months also helps in reducing the craving for alcohol.

Milk - Drink two large cups of milk daily.

Orange- Eating two to three oranges or drinking one glass of orange juice just before breakfast helps to lessen the craving for alcohol.

Water and alcohol - Add eight parts of pure water to one part of alcohol  and drink it in gulps. Do not sip it. Then drink two or more glasses of water after it. If you tend to vomit, it is excellent. This will help the alcoholic to break the habit of drinking.


WAYS TO OVERCOME THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS

To reduce the toxic effects of alcohol, a tablespoonful of honey is given to the patient thrice daily.

Drink cold water frequently.

Application of a cloth dipped in cold water around the head, abdomen and loins reduces the effects of intoxication.

Three teaspoonfuls of juice of leaves of bitter gourd (karela) should be mixed with a glass of buttermilk and taken every morning for a month. This is an effective antidote for alcoholic intoxication.

Have two to three apples to overcome the complications due to chronic alcoholism.

Half a glass of juice of raw celery leaves mixed with an equal quantity of water should be taken once daily, for a month. This acts as an effective antidote to alcohol  intoxication and helps reduce damage done  by alcohol to liver and pancreas.

In cases of vomiting and retching following alcohol intake, give hot black coffee to the person as much as he can take.

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10 Amazing Facts About Brain Part I

10 Amazing Facts About Brain Part I

1.  You have a finite amount of willpower each day because to exercise your willpower  you need energy in the form of oxygen and glucose. That’s why it’s harder to say ‘no’ when you are tired or not feeling yourself.
You can artificially boost your willpower by drinking an energy drink packed with sugar and caffeine, but a good night’s rest is a much more useful and healthy option. Well, that and also having enough awareness not to put yourself into situation where you will need lots of willpower when you know your resources will be low.In other words if you’re trying to quit drinking, avoid bars. If you are wanting to lose weight, don’t drive down fast food alley every day and if you want to stop smoking, avoid people (wherever reasonably possible) who do smoke.

2. A thought is a physical pathway in the brain. The more you have that thought, the more you groove and strengthen that path and the easier it is to have it again and again. That’s why having the thought “Why do I suck?” is never a great idea because you start to create a self fulfilling prophecy as it becomes harder and harder to shake the belief that you suck.
Your brain hates holding two contradictory opinions at once because it creates cognitive dissonance, so when you tell yourself you suck, your brain seeks out information to back up what you are saying. And trust me, it will find it and ignore contrary evidence.
And by the way, you don’t suck.

3. Speaking of which, you have approximately 70,000 thoughts per day, although many will be the same ones looping round and round on your grooved cranial superhighway. And that is why we know that the quality of your thoughts is highly correlated to the quality of your life.

Think great thoughts and you’re way more likely to lead a great life; it really is that simple if sometimes difficult to actually implement. As the great William James once said, “The greatest breakthrough in my life time is the realization that man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”

4. Even if you consider yourself a creative right-brained person, your brain will increase blood circulation to the left of your brain side every 90 to 120 minutes, giving you a greater ability during those times to think linearly. That’s why even left-brained people can have times of the day when they are more creative and right-brained people can sometimes get their taxes in order.If you want a fascinating tip on how you can tell which side is in control at any one time do this (unless you have a cold, in which case it probably won’t work):Close your mouth and take a deep breath through your nose.

Did you notice how your breath flowed up the nasal cavity more easily on one side than the other? If not, do it again, only this time hold down one nostril and breathe in and then do the same with the other. One flows in easily and unencumbered, but the other probably feels like you have a bit of a cold. That is due to vascular constriction and the side where the blood vessels are more constricted will allow air to pass through it much more easily. Vascular constriction is controlled by the autonomic nervous system, which is one of the few parts of the brain that doesn’t cross over. In other words, if your right nasal passage has constricted blood vessels, then so has the right side of your brain. Which means you that you are predominantly using the opposite hemisphere of your brain.
Cool eh?

5. Reading out loud to kids under the age of 5 accelerates their brain development and helps build neural connections. Those connections can then help with further learning as they grow older. So don’t throw your kids in front of the TV and turn on Sponge Bob Square Pants. Read them stories if you want them to grow intellectually and provide for you in your old age.

6. Scientists have proven beyond any reasonable doubt using fMRI’s, that reframing negative situations literally rewires your brain by creating new neural pathways and can make you a happier, more easygoing person.
Very briefly and in case you are unaware, a reframe is where you decide to look at a negative situation in a more empowering light. It doesn’t involve changing the actual event (that would be delusional) just adjusting
your view of it. If you want to get good at reframing, simply ask yourself the following two questions (or whichever is most pertinent at the time) when things aren’t going to plan.
What else can this mean?
What can I learn from this?

7. Your brain is approximately 75% water, but you should never drink it, even if you’re really thirsty, and anyway it probably wouldn’t taste very nice.

8. Your brain only weighs about 3lbs, yet the greedy bastard uses between 20% and 25% of your energy supplies each day, so make sure you stay hydrated and eat high quality food.

9. There are approximately 10 to the power of 60 atoms in the universe. Your brain laughs in the face of that figure however, as it has 10 to the power of 1,000,000 different ways it can wire itself up.
That’s the number 10 followed up with 1 million zeroes, which is to all intents and purposes (for anybody not called Stephen Hawking), is an infinite amount of ways.

10. Speaking of large numbers, there are approximately 1.1 trillion cells and 100 billion neurons in the average human brain.

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“OATsTAnDing” BREAkfAsT CEREAL

“OATsTAnDing” BREAkfAsT CEREAL

There’s a super grain that most households already have stocked in their cupboards…oatmeal.  Oats contain soluble fiber, which has been shown to help lower LDL (bad) cholesterol, help control blood sugar levels and control appetite.  new research has found oats have unique antioxidants that may play a role in maintaining artery health.  flavonoids found in oats may protect LDL from oxidation, which is thought to possibly lead to hardening of the arteries.  In addition, other studies have found flavonoids in oats have anti-inflammatory properties and may help reduce plaque build-up in the walls of arteries.An oatmeal bar is a great way to provide a breakfast to suit everyone’s taste.  Offer a variety of toppings to customize a bowl of oatmeal to personal preferences and tastes.  Because cook time for steel-cut oats is longer, cooking in a slow cooker is ideal.

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GRRRREAT Lion Facts:

GRRRREAT Lion Facts

Male[Lion]

Female[Lioness]

Source: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger.

1. Girl power 
Unlike any other cats, lions hunt in groups, and guess who does the hunting? The lionesses! Despite power in numbers, females are much smaller than the males, who are huge! They can weigh between 150 - 250 kg, and stand about 121 cm tall at the shoulder, 243 cm long, not including the tail, which averages about 91 cm long.

2. Daddy daycare 
The male lion usually stays and watches it's young while waiting for the lionesses to return from the hunt.

3. Mane event 
Lions are the only cat species that you can easily tell males and females apart males have a mane, females don’t.  

4. Spots check
Lions are born with brown rosettes (spots) like a leopard. These spots fade as they get older.

5. Chillin' together 
Lions are more social than any other cat, living in groups, called ‘prides’, of up to 30 individuals.

6. Muzzle id 
Dark spots on the muzzle are unique to each lion, like fingerprints of a human.

7. Hunting zzz's 
Lions may spend up to 20 hours a day resting or sleeping.

8. Hear me purr! 
Lion sounds include snarling, purring, hissing, coughing, meowing, woofing and roaring.

9. Incredibly loud 
Lions have the loudest roar of any big cat. They typically roar at night to announce their presence. A lion’s roar can be heard up to 8 km away.

10. Because male lions are so big and have a full mane, they are often too slow and conspicuous to be good hunters. The male lion protects the pride while the lionesses hunt. Male lions always eat first.

11. Lions are very social and are the only cats that live in groups, known as prides. The pride usually consists of  five or six related females, their cubs of both sexes, and one or two males who mate with the adult females.

12. Lions are the national animal of Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Singapore.

13. Lions are the largest cats of all in Africa. They are the second largest cat species in the whole world. Only the tiger is bigger.

14. Depending on where they live, lions range in color from nearly white to tawny yellow, ash brown, ochre or deep orange-brown.

15. Lions have been found in many countries from Greece, the Middle East to northern India. Today they are found in the sub Saharan climates, mostly in savannas of Africa and a few in northwest India. Lions can live in savannas, grasslands, dense bush and woodlands.

16. Lions are meat eaters.  They do not really chew their food they rather swallow it in chunks.

17. In Swahili the name for lions is Simba.

18. Sometimes a younger, fitter lion will overthrow an older king and take over. It is common for that male to kill off any cubs which are not his own. In this way, he makes sure that it is his genes that are passed on.

19. A lion can’t roar until it is 2 years old.

20. There is always a lot of fighting and squabbling going on during feeding time.

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Facts about Latitude and Longitude

Facts about Latitude and Longitude

Any location on Earth is described by two numbers-its latitude and its longitude. If a pilot or a ship's captain wants to specify position on a map, these are the"coordinates" they would use.

Actually, these are two angles, measured in degrees, "minutes of arc" and "seconds of arc." These are denoted by the symbols ( °,   ',   "  ) e.g. 35° 43' 9" means an angle of 35 degrees, 43 minutes and 9 seconds (do not confuse this with the notation (', ") for feet and inches!). A degree contains 60 minutes of arc and a minute contains 60 seconds of arc and you may omit the words "of arc" where the context makes it absolutely clear that these are not units of time.

Calculations often represent angles by small letters of the Greek alphabet, and that way latitude will be represented by l (lambda, Greek L), and longitude by f (phi, Greek F). Here is how they are defined.

Latitude
On a globe of the Earth, lines of latitude are circles of different size. The longest is the equator, whose latitude is zero, while at the poles--at latitudes 90° north and 90° south (or -90°) the circles shrink to a point.

Longitude
On the globe, lines of constant longitude ("meridians") extend from pole to pole, like the segment boundaries on a peeled orange.A lines of longitude is also called a meridian, derived from the Latin, from meri, a variation of "medius" which denotes "middle", and diem, meaning "day." The word once meant "noon", and times of the day before noon were known as "ante meridian", while times .after it were "post meridian." Today's abbreviations a.m. and p.m. come from these terms, and the Sun at noon was said to be "passing meridian". All points on the same line of longitude experienced noon (and any other hour) at the same time and were therefore said to be on the same "meridian line", which became "meridian" for short


1. Latitude lines circle the globe in an east-west direction. Latitude measure show far north or south a point lies from the equator. (Latitude lines are also called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator.)

2. The equator is at 0° latitude and separates Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres.

3. Locations north of the equator have latitudes between 0° (theequator) and 90° N (the North Pole).

4. Locations south of the equator have latitudes between 0° (the equator) and 90° S (theSouthPole).

5. Longitude lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.

6. Longitude measure show far east or west a point on Earth lies from the prime meridian. (Longitude lines are also called meridians.) .

7. The prime meridian,the line of longitude that passes through Greenwich ,England, is the 0° longitude line.

8. Longitude values to the east of the prime meridian can be specified by 0° to 180°E or by positive values 0° to +180°.

9. Longitude values to the west of the prime meridian can be specified by 0° to 180°W or by negative values 0° to -180°.

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Sweaters made from their Own dogs

Sweaters made from their Own dogs

Although these were made out of malted fur, I would have no problem if they had made them out of the deceased body of a dog who had died of natural courses. It does not show a lack of respect... Quite the opposite. These people don't just hoover up the fur and throw it away... They did something useful with it. Which shows a mindset that is much better than the person who buys clothes from the high street with no regard to the process of how they were manufactured. Even if their dog had died of natural courses and they made warm clothing out of it I still wouldn't object. People can't seem to grasp the idea that once a animal has died it still has many uses... Just as it had a use while it was alive (to keep the owner company and/or perform a specific task). They would much prefer to throw it in a hole in the ground and allow it to rot. In any culture than holds animals in a high regard this would be wasteful, and disrespectful to the animal.

Source:http://www.erwanfichou.org/

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Tattooed Pigs

Tattooed Pigs

by Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye, a Belgian artist, has inked nine pigs with different tattoo on their bodies in his Beijing Art Farm and it is a BioArt. Each tattooed pig can be sold for around one million RMB. The artist said this is art and the tattoo let those pigs become unique and have a higher value then being eaten. Even after they were died, their tattooed skin can be preserved. Moreover, the other reason is they do this because of aesthetic. Also,
nowadays, many ethnic groups think tattoo can prevent disasters or they can be the identity of members.

Those pigs need be tattoo every two weeks to ensure the colour in their skin remains and it means that they need to be in pain every two weeks. After that, they can still feel the pain but they can’t express their pain and fear to human. The fact is cruel that the human is hunting the pig as they can’t get the permission from the pigs or knowing their willing. The human is making a huge profit by hunting some animals that they don’t have
the ability to fight back.

Source:   http://www.wimdelvoye.be/

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Amazing Portraits Made out of Junk

Amazing Portraits Made out of Junk

by Zac Freeman

American artist Zac Freeman forms unique portraits out of all kinds of small and used materials. Each of his objects comes from scraps of trash that are leftover from the things that we regularly consume. From colored buttons and plastic bottle caps to metal tabs from soda cans, Freeman puts all of the unused and unwanted objects to use in a fresh new way.

American artist Zac Freeman forms unique portraits out of all kinds of small and used materials. Each of his objects comes from scraps of trash that are leftover from the things that we regularly consume. From colored buttons and plastic bottle caps to metal tabs from soda cans, Freeman puts all of the unused and unwanted objects to use in a fresh new way.

To build each portrait, Freeman glues the pieces together on a wooden canvas, compiling all of these unwanted pieces into a stunning representation of a person's face. From up close, viewers can enjoy the unique significance of the individual pieces, while from a distance, the objects all blend together into one realistic portrait.Freeman uses actual garbage in his pieces because he says, "I feel the junk is more powerful being present. It is an actual thing to be reckoned with that existed in this time and place and carries energy in and of itself. The result is a time capsule of objects that reflects our culture." 13 more images after the break.

 Source:   http://www.zacfreemanart.com/

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Top 20 Most Evil Humans

Top 20 Most Evil Humans

This list looks at the last three years of lists of evil men and women, and combines and ranks the worst of the worst. Children are excluded as the evil children don’t rank anywhere near the evil of adults seen in the past. I have also added one entry who has not appeared on other lists, but is definitely worthy of inclusion. If you disagree with my ranking (as no doubt many will) be sure to tell us in the comments – perhaps include your own ranking, too. Also, tell us if you think someone else should be on the list.

1.Delphine LaLaurie

 LaLaurie was a sadistic socialite who lived in New Orleans. Her home was a chamber of horrors. On April 10, 1834, a fire broke out in the mansion’s kitchen, and firefighters found two slaves chained to the stove. They appeared to have started the fire themselves, in order to attract attention. The firefighters were lead by other slaves to the attic, where the real surprise was. Over a dozen disfigured and maimed slaves were manacled to the walls or floors. Several had been the subjects of gruesome medical experiments. One man appeared to be part of some bizarre sex change, a woman was trapped in a small cage with her limbs broken and reset to look like a crab, and another woman with arms and legs removed, and patches of her flesh sliced off in a circular motion to resemble a caterpillar. Some had had their mouths sewn shut, and had subsequently starved to death, whilst others had their hands sewn to different parts of their bodies. Most were found dead, but some were alive and begging to be killed, to release them from the pain. LaLaurie fled before she could be bought to justice - she was never caught. You can read a more indepth article on Delphine LaLaurie here.

2.Ilse Koch

Known as The “Bitch of Buchenwald” because of her sadistic cruelty towards prisoners, Ilse Koch was married to another evil Nazi, who served in the SS, Karl Otto Koch, but outshone him in the depraved, inhumane disregard for life which was her trademark. She used her sexual prowess by wandering around the camps naked, with a whip, and if any man so much as glanced at her she would have them shot on the spot. The most infamous accusation against Ilse Koch was that she had selected inmates with interesting tattoos to be killed, so that their skins could be made into lampshades for her home (though, unfortunately, no evidence of these lampshades has been found). After the war she was arrested and spent time in prison on different charges, eventually hanging herself in her cell in 1967, apparently consumed by guilt.

3.Shirō Ishii

 Ishii was a microbiologist and the lieutenant general of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was born in the former Shibayama Village of Sanbu District in Chiba Prefecture, and studied medicine at Kyoto Imperial University. In 1932, he began his preliminary experiments in biological warfare as a secret project for the Japanese military. In 1936, Unit 731 was formed. Ishii built a huge compound - more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers - outside the city of Harbin, China.

Some of the numerous atrocities committed by Ishii, and others under his command in Unit 731, include: vivisection of living people (including pregnant women who were impregnated by the doctors), prisoners had limbs amputated and reattached to other parts of their body, some prisoners had parts of their bodies frozen and thawed to study the resulting untreated gangrene. Humans were also used as living test cases for grenades and flame throwers. Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape, then studied. A complete list of these horrors can be found here.

Having been granted immunity by the American Occupation Authorities at the end of the war, Ishii never spent any time in jail for his crimes and died at the age of 67, of throat cancer.

4.Ivan IV of Russia

 Ivan IV of Russia, also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy, from 1533 to 1547, and was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of Tsar. In 1570, Ivan was under the belief that the elite of the city of Novgorod planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to stop them, on January 2. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son. In 1581, Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, which resulted in Ivan striking his son in the head with his pointed staff, causing his son’s (accidental) death.

5.Oliver Cromwell

 The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649-53) refers to the re-conquest of Ireland by the forces of the English Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The consequence of this conquest (in order to displace Catholic authority) was 200,000 civilian deaths from war-related famine and disease, and 50 thousand Irish being taken as slaves. Cromwell considered Catholics to be heretics so the Irish conquest was a modern day Crusade for him. The bitterness caused by the Cromwellian settlement was a powerful source of Irish nationalism from the 17th century onwards. He died in 1658, and was so hated that, in 1661, he was exhumed from the grave and given a posthumous execution - his corpse was hung in chains at Tyburn, and he was later dismembered and his remains thrown into a pit, with his head being displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall for the next twenty-four years.

6.Jiang Qing

 Jiang Qing was the wife of Mao Tse-tung, the Communist dictator of China. Through clever maneuvering, she managed to reach the highest position of power within the communist party (short of being President). It is believed that she was the main driving force behind China’s Cultural Revolution (of which she was the deputy director). During the Cultural Revolution, much economic activity was halted, and countless ancient buildings, artifacts, antiques, books and paintings were destroyed by Red Guards. The 10 years of the Cultural Revolution also brought the education system to a virtual halt, and many intellectuals were sent to prison camps. Millions of people in China, reportedly, had their human rights annulled during the Cultural Revolution. Millions more were also forcibly displaced. Estimates of the death toll - civilians and Red Guards -from various Western and Eastern sources are about 500,000 in the true years of chaos of 1966-1969, but some estimates are as high as 3 million deaths, with 36 million being persecuted.

7.Pol Pot

 Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia, from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other “bourgeois enemies” for murder. The Khmer Rouge committed mass executions in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.

8.Heinrich Himmler

 Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the holocaust and final solution, and considered to be the biggest mass murderer ever, by some (although it’s really Josef Stalin). The holocaust would not have happened if not for this man. He tried to breed a master race of Nordic appearance, the Aryan race. His plans for racial purity were ended by Hitler’s vanity in making rash military decisions rather than letting his generals make them, thus ending the war prematurely. Himmler was captured after the war. He unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with the west, and was genuinely shocked to be treated as a criminal upon capture. He committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule he had bit upon.

9.Adolf Hitler

 Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, becoming “Führer” in 1934 until his suicide in 1945. By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April, 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule. Hitler ranks over Himmler merely for the fact that it was in his power to prevent Himmler’s policies being implemented

10.Josef Stalin

 Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee, from 1922 until his death, in 1953. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine (Holodomor) so great it is considered by many to be an act of genocide on the part of Stalin’s government. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine was caused by direct political and administrative decisions. In addition to the famine, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.

11. Attila The Hun

 Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. An unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night.

12. Maximilien Robespierre

 Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and it was his arguments that caused the revolutionary government to murder the king without a trial. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror, a 10 month post-revolutionary period in which mass executions were carried out. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people, with 1,900 being killed in the last month. Among people who were condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70 percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.

13. Ruhollah Khomeini

 Ayatollah was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. In that time he implemented Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women by Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups. Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:

    “Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God’s order and God’s call to prayer.”In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People’s Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner and kill those who would not repent anti-regime activities. Many say that thousands were swiftly put to death inside the prisons. The suppressed memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri reportedly detail the execution of 30,000 political activists.

After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 04, 1989, at the age of 86.

14. Idi Amin Dada

 Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown; estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000. On August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the 60,000 Asians who were not Ugandan citizens (most of them held British passports). This was later amended to include all 80,000 Asians, with the exception of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers. Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.

15. Leopold II of Belgium

 Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. With financial support from the government, Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese. The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous international scandals of the turn of the century. The area of land privately owned by the King was an area 76 times larger than Belgium, which he was free to rule as a personal domain through his private army, the Force Publique. Leopold’s rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt.

16.Elizabeth Bathory

 She was a Transylvanian princess of the late 16th and early 17th Century. Her brother was Price of Transylvania, and basically an Ottoman puppet, since the Ottoman conquest of Hungary in 1543. The Turks allowed a shadow independence in Transylvania and promoted Protestantism to divide the Christians.In order to improve her complexion and also to maintain her failing grasp on her youth and vitality, she slaughtered six hundred innocent young women from her tiny mountain principality...

17.VladIII the Impaler

 Most people are familiar with Bram Stoker's infamous book - Dracula.  What you may not know is that Stoker's famous writing was based upon a real-life character.  Although Bram's Dracula was indeed quite forbidding, the real life Dracula is the epitaph of evil.

Vlad's Banquet (16043 bytes)Impalement was Dracula's favorite method of punishment.  Not only was this method of punishment extremely painful, but Dracula seemed to derive sick pleasure from watching his people being tortured.  In fact, wood cuttings from this time period indicate that Dracula often dined surrounded by the decaying bodies of the dead.

Impalement was initiated by by taking a oiled stake about as wide as a burly man's arm, and inserting it through the victims buttocks, often until it protruded from their mouths.   The stake was purposefully kept dull to keep the victims from dying too soon from shock.  The victims legs were tied to two horses while the stake was placed in position.  Upon command the horses slowly pulled the victim's legs until the stake was impaled into the victims body.  Mother's often had additional stakes driven through their chests with their children and infants impaled on the extended portion of the stake.  After the stakes were in place, they were driven into the ground and placed around the outside perimeter of Vlad's castle.  Bodies were left in these positions for months, the stench of rotting bodies permeating throughout the kingdom.

18. Hirohito

Hirohito was the Emporer of Japan from 1926 to 1989. In 1937, Japanese troops committed the war crime that is now known as the Rape of Nanking (the then Capital of China, now known as Nanjing). The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938. During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread. The death toll is generally considered to be between 150,000 and 300,000. The Wikipedia article contains images and descriptions of the atrocities committed.

19. Talat Pasha

He was the Grand Vizier of the Sultan in the Ottoman empire from 1917 to 1918.  In 1915, Talat declared an order to wipe out the Armenian race.  People were whipped, tortured, robbed, raped and killed.  All of the Armenians were forced into concentration camps.  People were overloaded with supplies and forced to trudge miles with no food and they were killed if they couldn’t continue.  People were naked when they marched.  The whole male population of Angora was exterminated.  Many were forced to rape family members.  People were killed by bayonets, clubs, axes, hammers, spades, scythes, and saws.  Many had their private parts and sexual organs cut off.  Tens of thousands were burned, drowned, poisoned, dismembered, crucified, boiled and beaten to death.  Out of the population of 2.5 million Armenians, 1 to 1.5 million people were killed.  Talat was assonated in 1921 by a Armenian assassination squad.


20  .Genghis Khan

He was Khan of the Mongolian Empire from 1206 to 1227.  In that time he conquered most of China and all the land through the Caspian Sea.  He was ruthless, vengeful, cruel, and bloodthirsty.  He and his army destroyed countless numbers of cities, solders, civilians and children.  People were killed  by having molten metal and silver poured into their eyes and ears. In one massacre alone, 700,000 people were killed. At another place, the poor were decapitated and the rich were tortured to find out where their treasure was.  Women were sometimes raped in front of their families.  Hundreds of thousands had their lives ruined.  It is said that if his army of men had no water they would cut a horse’s vein and drink its blood.  He would use people as human shields.  Tens of thousands became slaves.  He would order you to be killed immediately if you were an enemy, if you betrayed him or if you were disloyal to him.  Genghis and his army killed  20 to 60 million people (or 10% to 30% of the known world’s population).  He killed three-fourths of the population of the Iranian Plateau which was 10 to 15 million.  He also killed his brother at age 13 just because his brother had stolen a fish from him.  Genghis Khan once said “The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.” Genghis Khan died of natural causes in 1227.

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