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In the height of the gold rush, South Pass City, Wyoming, and the surrounding mining camps were wild and dangerous.
It was not uncommon to learn that someone had died unexpectantly from everything from a bad play at a poker game to an Indian attack.
When men went missing, it was so commonplace that it took some time before it was discovered that the cause for 22 missing men was one young woman with a supply of arsenic.
James L. Sherlock had grown up in the mining town of South Pass and heard the story of the murders from his uncle and others who witnessed the wild times for themselves.
His family met many characters of South Pass, including Old Jim Bartlett, the father of Polly Bartlett, who would later become known as the "Deadly Damsel" and the "Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch."
Sherlock shared the story of this young serial killer in his book "South Pass and Its Tales," and claimed quite adamantly that every word is true.
Knowing the nature of just how wild that town was, the 22 murders could very well have happened just as Sherlock claims.
They also make her the worst serial killer in Wyoming state and territorial history.

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The site of the 101st Headquarters in England during WWII.

I visited here in June 2024 during my 42 day WWII European trip

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Did you enjoy driving around the magic roundabouts?

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Medieval pettiness is on another level.

The Catholic Church literally put a DEAD POPE on trial?
In 897 AD, they exhumed Pope Formosus's rotting corpse, dressed it in full robes, sat it on a throne, and held a full on trial.
This actually happened. It's called the Cadaver Synod. pic.twitter.com/iubGhy59rt

— Thatveryboy🍄 (@Qlinton_n) January 17, 2026

Over a 1000 pipers died during WWI. These extraordinary men were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. Piper Harry Lunan was the last surviving piper and he said, “I just played whatever came in to my head.

During the first world war, military… pic.twitter.com/rAcElSnd9P

— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) January 19, 2026

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Quisling saw his moment. Rather than rally resistance or seek power to defend his nation, he chose silence in the face of Norway's sovereignty and betrayal over courage. On the day of the invasion, he staged a coup, proclaiming himself leader via radio and urging Norwegians to accept German occupation as inevitable. He believed this was pragmatism, a way to avoid bloodshed and secure a place in the new order. In truth, it was cowardicethe avoidance of the hard fight, the refusal to wield power against a monstrous enemy. His "peacefulness" was not virtue; it was surrender, born of personal inadequacy and a failure to confront the moral weight of his choices.

The consequences of Quisling's actionsand Norway's broader failure to embrace powerwere devastating. Norway fell in two months, one of the swiftest defeats of the war. The German occupation was brutal: resistance fighters were executed, Jews were deported to death camps, and the Norwegian economy was bled dry to fuel Hitler's war machine. Quisling, installed as a puppet leader, became a symbol of collaboration, his name synonymous with treason. His vision of "peace" through submission brought only suffering, proving the chapter's point that silence is not peaceit's complicity.

The ripple effects were profound. Norway's lack of preparedness and Quisling's betrayal delayed Allied efforts in Scandinavia, allowing Germany to secure vital resources like iron ore. The Norwegian people, betrayed by their own, endured five years of oppression, their national pride scarred. Quisling's "virtue"his claim to be saving Norway by avoiding conflictwas exposed as a sham, a product of his inability to act with true power or courage. His inadequacy didn't just fail him; it failed an entire nation.

Contrast this with the Norwegian resistance, who embody the chapter's call to be dangerous. Ordinary citizensfishermen, teachers, studentstook up arms, sabotaged German operations, and smuggled intelligence to the Allies. They had little training, but they had resolve. They refused to stay silent or avoid the fight, even at the cost of their lives. Their power, though limited, was real, forged in action and sacrifice. They didn't win the war alone, but they preserved Norway's soul, proving that true virtue requires the capacity to confront chaos, not appease it.

After the war, Quisling faced justice. Tried for treason, he was executed in 1945, his name forever a byword for betrayal. His story is a stark warning: the consequences of choosing weakness over power, silence over truth, and avoidance over action are not abstractthey are measured in blood, in lost futures, in the erosion of everything worth defending. Quisling's "peacefulness" was not a choice for good; it was a failure to be good, a failure rooted in his personal inadequacy. He lacked the strength to resist, the courage to fight, the vision to see that power, wielded rightly, is the only bulwark against tyranny.

Norway recovered, thanks to those who refused to be harmlessthose who, like the chapter's ideal, became dangerous in defense of what mattered. But the scars of Quisling's betrayal linger, a reminder that the world does not forgive the weak who masquerade as virtuous. It punishes them, and it punishes those who depend on them.

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🇳🇴VIDKUN QUISLING: THE COST OF COWARDICE🇳🇴

In the late 1930s, Europe was a powder keg. Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, was a rising juggernaut, annexing territories and spreading fear like wildfire. Norway, a small, neutral nation with a modest military, sat on the edge of… pic.twitter.com/bLZQJMOeu6

— Good Fellow (@Tickles00) January 25, 2026

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