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On April 8th 1820 the famous ancient greek sculpture the Venus de Milo (created between 130 and 100 BC) was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.-

It represents the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite and so has been called the ‘Aphrodite of Milos’. He found the statue in the ancient city ruins of Milos in two main pieces along with fragments of the arms and a plinth which revealed the sculptor to be Alexandros of Antioch. The arms and plinth have since been lost. Kentrotas and French naval officer Olivier Voutier dug around the area and uncovered the statue and had it bought to the Louvre in Paris where it remains today.-
 
77.6 billion people born, 969 million people killed -
Everyone Ever in the world is a visual representation of the number of people who have lived vs people who have died in wars, massacres and genocides in recorded history.-

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Civil War soldiers often relied on outdated and even medieval weaponry.-
In 1862 the state of Georgia authorized the manufacture of 10,000 steel pikes as a cheap alternative to muskets.-
Meanwhile, the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry became known as “Rush’s Lancers” after they spent the early stages of the war armed with 10-foot-long Austrian-style lances.-
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Among all 1,177 crewmen who died on december 7, 1941 in the sinking of USS Arizona, were all 21 members of the Arizona’s band, known as U.S. Navy Band Unit (NBU) 22.-
Most of its members were up on deck preparing to play music for the daily flag raising ceremony when the attack began. They instantly moved to man their battle positions beneath the ship’s gun turret.-
At no other time in north american history has an entire military band died in action.-
 
The Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation estimates that approximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the conflict.-
Nearly all of them were volunteers, and 90 percent served as military nurses, though women also worked as physicians, air traffic controllers, intelligence officers, clerks and other positions in the U.S. Women's Army Corps, U.S. Navy,-
Air Force and Marines and the Army Medical Specialist Corps. In addition to women in the armed forces, an unknown number of civilian women served in Vietnam on behalf of the Red Cross, United Service Organizations (USO), Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian organizations, or as foreign correspondents for various news organizations.-
 
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