Operation Plunder

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Krampus, the Christmas devil, is the scary counterpart to Santa Claus, a half-man and half-mutant goat meant to scare naughty Austrian children into changing their ways.

Nat Turner was an educated and religious African American slave who claimed to hear commandments from God. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was a violent insurrection against white slave owners, killing between 55 and 65 white people, but ultimately resulting in the death of three times as many slaves.

Thomas Edison began his long career as an inventor to resolve his own hearing impairment, filing more than 1,000 patents on innumerable inventions. Edison continued to work into his 80s until his death at age 84.

After Joseph Stalin declared himself dictator in 1929, he began his Great Purge of former allies, Bolshevik enemies, or anyone perceived as a threat to Stalin’s power. Ultimately, the Great Purge extended into genocide of peasants, ethnic minorities and even children.

The modern history of Hong Kong is rooted in the Opium Wars, which resulted in Britain obtaining a 99-year lease on the territory, establishing a financial hub for decades before repatriating Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997.

The Mesolithic period is nestled between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and saw the rise of agriculture and animal husbandry to replace the prevailing hunter-gatherer culture, which archeologists and historians believe was an unevenly-embraced advance.

While the Articles of Confederation gave no federal rule to demand money or troops from the breakaway American Colonies, in May of 1787, state delegates convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention, creating the U.S. Constitution and later the Bill of Rights.