10 Brutal Accounts Of Torture In Old Insane Asylums
Reports from the 1800s and early 1900s about the abuse of patients in insane asylums are enough to make the strongest person want to vomit. The patients were often kept in the most horrendous conditions and, in some cases, were treated far worse than any mistreated farm animal.
Even worse, the asylums fought back against the charges, claiming that none of the accusations against them should be believed because the patients were already insane. Newspapers took sides on the issues, with some papers reporting on investigations into horrendous forms of abuse and other papers saying that it was all just slander. Of course, the institutions wanted to protect themselves, but they did it at the cost of human suffering and, in many cases, committed murder.
Historic snowstorm in Des Moines breaks daily snowfall record previously set in 1895 Philip Joens and Tim Webber, Des Moines Register
Des Moines hasn t seen a winter storm like this week s that dropped more than a foot of snow since 2009. And the city had never recorded a snowier January 25 than Monday.
Snow started falling around noon Monday in central Iowa and didn t stop until about 10 a.m. Tuesday. The storm created hazardous conditions on roads across the state, disrupted flights into and out of Des Moines International Airport, and forced many school districts to dismiss early Monday and cancel or delay school Tuesday.
Iowa snow: Here are the largest single-day snowstorms in Des Moines history Philip Joens, Des Moines Register
Des Moines has experienced countless blizzards over the years, including nine storms that dropped a foot of snow or more in a single day, according to the National Weather Service.
Over the city s history, these whoppers have delayed train travel, scuttled major events and even created St. Patrick s Day surprises.
So let s take a look at Des Moines top 10 single-day snowfall totals in city history.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Brooke Hagenhoff cautioned that snow totals alone are not a great measure of a storm s severity. Other storms have produced more damage without dropping as much snow. And some storms produced more snow over more than 24 hours than the single-day storms listed below.
Lessons From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on How to Celebrate the Holidays Amid COVID-19 Time 12/21/2020
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On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu, the deadliest pandemic in the 20th century, as historian Christopher Nichols pointed out on Twitter. The current wave of COVID-19 infections is the worst it’s been nationwide and, as TIME reported, cases are expected to continue to rise after Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
The rapid spread today is in stark contrast to this time more than a century ago in 1918. After a first wave in the spring, a deadlier and more contagious second wave hit in early fall. Cities that quickly implemented control measures (mask mandates, closures of schools and public places, etc.) and kept them in place longer, saw lower death rates compared to cities that took fewer of these steps and for a