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© Alamy Did Incas really
sacrifi ce people

to the Sun?
Hayler-King, Bath
Many cultures in Ancient Mesoamerica
practised sacrifice, such as the Maya, Aztec
and Moche civilisations. The Incan people
also offered sacrifices to their deities, of
which the Sun god Inti was the highest.
The Aztecs participated in brutal mass
sacrifices of war prisoners, but in the Inca
culture to be sacrificed was a great honour.
Incas only sacrificed children, as they were
seen as pure, and healthy, strong, beautiful
children were prized. The children could
be chosen years before they were killed
and were seen as messengers to the gods.
WALT ELIAS DISNEY On the day of sacrifice a great feast would
American, 1901-1966 be held and the child was dressed in fine
clothes and jewels. The sacrifice victim
would then get intoxicated before they
One of five children,
Brief Disney showed an were taken up a mountain to meet their
aptitude for art from
death, usually by a blow to the head or
Bio an early age. Disney strangulation. The places of sacrifice were
made his fortunes honoured as eternal holy places.
when he moved to Hollywood
to set up his own studio. Now
a legendary name, Walt Disney
Studios went on to produce
some of the successful animated
films of all time, as well as
opening a host of lucrative The character of WALL-E in
theme parks worldwide. the film of the same name was
named after Disney
Was Walt Disney’s body frozen?

Ollie Dooner, Cheltenham
Walt Disney was a chain smoker Caribbean ride at Disneyland, enough, his body was cremated on
all his life and suffered from perhaps to be awoken in the future 17 December 1966 and placed in
lung cancer that eventually led when a cure had been found. This the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
to his death on 15 December urban myth can be disproved as California. His family have outright
1966. Rumours quickly spread the first known human cryogenic denied the rumour and a Disney
that Disney’s body had been freezing was over a month after publicist stated that the legend was
cryogenically frozen and stored Disney’s death on 19 January 1967. made up by Disney animators with
underneath the Pirates of the And if that’s not convincing a bizarre sense of humour. The process of Inca sacrifice was
known as capacocha

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The young usurper The Battle of Dunkeld Britain claims Australia O Slaves rebel The Lawrence Massacre
After months of anarchy Jacobite clan supporters of James Cook, a British Nat Turner, an African- The town of Lawrence
the king of Serbia, Stephen James VII fight government explorer and navigator, American slave, leads a in Kansas is attacked by
Uroš III is overthrown covenanters supporting formally claims the east band of rebel slaves in the Confederate guerrillas in
by his own son, Stephen William of Orange in coast of Australia for Great American South. Although the American Civil War. The
Dušan. Uroš III had Dunkeld, Scotland. The Britain. The region is also the rebellion only lasts a raiders set fire to the town,
previously excluded Dušan government win with the given its new name – New few days, they kill between destroying a quarter of the
of his inheritance. loss of 300 Jacobites. South Wales. 55 and 65 white people. buildings, killing 164 civilians.

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