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‎ Inside the Story of Barack Obama's College Love — the Woman He Proposed to Twice Before Michelle ‎ ‎Before Barack Obama became a global icon and US president, he shared a deep, formative relationship with a woman who didn't become his wife. An old biography uncovered the little-known story of the woman he asked to marry him, twice. ‎ ‎While many people view former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama as the epitome of true love, love didn't initially go his way. Before Barack got down on one knee to ask Michelle to marry him, he was interested in another woman ‎ ‎In David J. Garrow's biography, "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," the author reportedly reveals that the former president was once in love with Sheila Miyoshi Jager. Their relationship occurred while Barack was living in Chicago during his early 20s. ‎ ‎Like the politician's mother, Jager, a woman of Dutch and Japanese descent, also studied anthropology. Accordi...

On 5 April, 2019, 47-year-old Holly Barlow-Austin was arrested in Texarkana, Texas, for a misdemeanor probation violation and taken to the Bi-State Justice Center, a for-profit jail run by LaSalle Corrections. Holly was HIV-positive, and her husband delivered her prescriptions to the jail three days after her arrest. Jail staff withheld some medications and gave others sporadically. By June, Holly had developed an infection that left her completely blind. Surveillance footage from her final 48 hours shows her crawling on her hands and knees, feeling blindly for water or food. She was emaciated, filthy, and repeatedly soiling herself. Video shows her clutching her head in agony. During those 48 hours, she had only three small cups of water. No one checked her vital signs. Staff falsified observation logs . On 10 June, a nurse finally checked her vitals and discovered her pupils no longer reacted to light. She was hospitalized the next day. Holly died on June 20, 2019, f...

This photograph was taken in 1943, during World War II. Standing calmly among his trainees is Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. — a U.S. Army colonel, elite close-combat instructor, and one of the most formidable hand-to-hand fighting experts of his era. Moments after this image was captured, the lesson truly began... This photograph was taken in 1943, during World War II. Standing calmly among his trainees is  Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr.  — U.S. Army colonel, OSS instructor, and one of the most feared hand-to-hand combat teachers of the war. Moments after this image was captured, the lesson truly began. Without warning, Biddle gave a quiet command. “Attack me.” The men laughed — they thought it was a joke. He was relaxed, hands loose, posture casual. No fighting stance. No tension. Then they moved. What followed lasted only seconds. Using brutally efficient techniques — chin jabs, throat strikes, balance breaks, joint destruction — Biddle dropped his attackers one after another before ...

  Zookeeper eaten alive by lions after he went into their cage 'to impress his girlfriend' A shocking video shows the moment a zookeeper is fatally attacked and eaten alive by lions after going inside their cage to 'impress his girlfriend'. The guard, named as F. Iriskulov, 44, unknowingly caught his final moments on camera as he filmed himself entering the lions' cage before being mauled. The footage shows him unlocking a padlock to the enclosure where he works at a private zoo in Parkent, Uzbekistan at 5am on December 17 during his night shift. The three beasts appear passive at first, sitting calmly in the far corner of the enclosure.  Suddenly, the beast springs up and the man steps back in evident surprise before the animals approach him slowly. He repeatedly calls the name of one of the lions: 'Simba,' before telling the animal: 'Simba, be quiet.' He seemingly recorded the video to send to his girlfriend, defiantly flipping the camera to show h...

 In April 2023, Texas high school teacher Sherri Moody faced a life-changing ordeal when she underwent a quadruple amputation after her arms and legs turned black and “mummified.” It all began with what seemed like a mild cold during a class trip. Sherri initially brushed it off, but her condition rapidly deteriorated. She developed a high fever and severe breathing difficulties, prompting her to seek urgent medical care. Doctors diagnosed her with double pneumonia, where the whole problem started.  Texas teacher Sherri Moody was perfectly healthy when she developed what seemed like a mild cold. Within days, it turned into Group A strep, triggering septic shock.  Doctors placed her in a medically induced coma to save her life. When she woke up two weeks later, she had lost all four limbs — her hands and legs amputated to stop the infection from killing her.   Sherri was a healthy and mentally during individual, who worked out 5 ...

 Was Called “Unusual.” Her Son Called Her Mother. Grace McDaniels was born in 1888 with a rare facial condition now believed to be Sturge-Weber syndrome, a neurological disorder that can cause facial vascular malformations. From the moment she entered the world, Grace lived under stares, whispers, and judgment. In an era with little medical understanding and even less compassion, people did not look past her appearance. But Grace never hid. Survival in a Cruel World During the Great Depression, survival itself was a daily struggle. Jobs were scarce. Social support was nearly nonexistent—especially for women with disabilities. Grace made a choice that was never about fame. She worked in sideshows and street exhibitions, not because she wanted attention, but because it was one of the few ways she could earn money in a world that had closed nearly every other door. Every coin she earned went toward one purpose: Raising her son. She clothed him. She fed him. She edu...