Paracultural Calendar for May 24

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *1943*, Nazi "Angel of Death" *Josef Mengele* becomes chief
medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he performed
atrocious *medical experiments*
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengele#Human_experimentation> on inmates,
especially children and twins. After the end of the war, despite being one
of the most hunted human beings in history, he manages to evade arrest,
moving from Europe to South America under assumed identities, and some
allege he continued his experiments, going so far as to create a "*town of
twins*"
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4307262/Nazi-angel-of-death-Josef-Mengele-created-twin-town-in-Brazil.html>
in
Brazil.

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On this day in *1970*, drilling of the *Kola Superdeep Borehole* begins in
the Soviet Union. Workers soon put down their tools and run off, however,
when a microphone dropped down the miles-long shaft reveals *the screams of
the damned* <http://amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm> being tormented
in Hell... or *did it*? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax>

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On this day in *1991*, Israel conducts *Operation Solomon*, evacuating
thousands of Black Ethiopian Jews to Israel... where they are promptly *treated
like shit
<http://thedailybanter.com/2013/01/israels-disgustingly-racist-behavior-towards-ethiopian-jews/>*
and
forced to submit to sterilizing *birth control injections
<http://www.salon.com/2013/01/28/israel_admits_ethiopian_jewish_immigrants_were_given_birth_control_shots/>*
.

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On this day in *1994*, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center
in New York in *1993* are each sentenced to 240 years in prison, making the
WTC's Twin Towers totally safe for one and all, forever after.

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On this day in *2001*, the floor of the third floor of the Versailles
wedding hall in Jerusalem, Israel, falls away, killing 23 and injuring over
200. It is the worst civil disaster in Israel's history.
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