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19 Historians Share Important Events That Most People Don’t Know About

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The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 which was a secret treaty between Britain and France during WWI to divide up the middle east arbitrarily and set up puppet governments. The resulting fall out is one of the most important causes of the last 100 years of instability in the area. It contributed to the establishment of Israel, in a betrayal of Palestine and a complete political overhaul of Jordan, Syria, Iraq etc.

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The Holodomor. 7 million Ukrainians were starved to death by the Soviet Union (Russia) during the years of 1932-33.

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The Barbary Pirates ….were African muslims who kidnapped 800,000 to 1.25 million people as slaves. The predominant victims were white christian Europeans taken during coastal raids.

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One of the most significant things where I’m from is definitely the Earthquake of 1811-12. It hit the south and Midwest so hard that the Mississippi River flowed backwards, entire farms sank under ground, and hot mud geysers sprang up in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. This christing thing rang church bells in Boston, yet no one seems to know about it. The people that live near the New Madrid Fault have a very real fear of it happening again since none of the buildings in that area are ready for another 9.5 earthquake.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.