Sam O'Nella

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    Sam is someone with a bit more of a crass and somewhat offensive type of humor but still stays within the guidelines of YouTube. He uses stick figures to give images and faces to the characters or events he covers. he mostly covers odd, weird, or disturbing parts of history, giving some pretty deep detail on some disturbing things while trying to add humor to them. Do some of the things he covers need to be known or remembered in short? No, probably not, but they're here anyway. 

Uncontrollable hunger

https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc?si=1G6p5tHb-yXU3jqx 

    Tarrare was born in 1772 in France. he had a biological disorder causing him to be uncontrollably hungry. By his teens He could eat an entire quarter of a cow in a single day. He only weighed 100 lbs. Appearance-wise Tarrare had a huge, stretched-out mouth with horrible teeth. His stomach would be inflated when full; the rest of the time would be a flap of stretched-out skin. He would be kicked out of his home and would end up as a street performer in Paris. In 1792, he decided to enlist in the war of the First Coalition, where he was granted quadruple rations; he would still be digging through the trash for scraps of food. After suffering from horrible exhaustion, he was sent to the military hospital in Soultz-Haut-Rhin. Where he became basically a case study, one experiment, they put him in a room with a meal prepared for 15 people, and he ate it all, no problem. Then, he ate a raw eel. Also, Tarrare reportedly tore a cat in two, drank its blood, eat everything but the bones, and gagged up the fur. The military decided to use his unusual condition by testing if he could be used to transport information by consuming a wooden box and passing it. After he was sent behind enemy lines as a spy, there were problem's he only knew French, and he couldn't keep a low profile, scavenging through garbage and mutilating animals. So, he was captured, he spilled the beans, then got chained till he passed the information out of his system. After that, the Prussians mock executed him and let him go. He went back to the hospital in France to try to get a cure for his condition, but no dice. During this time committing some really disturbing acts, finally getting kicked out after eating a baby, then died of the white death. Overall, a pretty disturbing part of history. Watch the video at your own peril. 

The Dogmeat General

https://youtu.be/wQmKqqsS-vs?si=cfeHbaexd4fS9cVK

    Zhang Zong Chang, also known as the Dogmeat general, was born into poverty in 1881 in Shandon, China. His dad was an alcoholic head shaver, and his mom was a practicing witch and exorcist. At age 20, he joins a group of bandits. This was around the Xinhai Revolution, when the Qing Empire collapsed, making way for the Republic of China, which proceeded to become an empire again, after that emperor died in 1916, leading to the warlord era. Zhang ended up becoming one of these warlords ruling over his home region. Zhang was someone who firmly used the carrot and stick approach to leadership, even causing an army to defect from another warlord. promising those troops, they would keep their rank, but his troops weren't too happy, so he ranked all of them up, but he ran out of gold stars, so he used cigarette paper. One battle, he promised to return home in his coffin or victorious; he ended up retreating and would have his men parade him around in a coffin. Well, he was a man of his word, I guess. he had the three don't knows, including the money he had, the concubines he had, and the number of troops he had. As the warlord governor, most of the taxes he collected went to himself and his own riches, printing money to pay his troops and fund his wars. In 1927, there was a bad drought people prayed to a folk deity. This didn't sit well with Zhang, resulting in his artillery bombing multiple temples of that folk deity. eventually, in 1928, after suffering major defeats, he fled to Beppu, Japan. In 1932, he came back to Shandon as a visitor and was promptly assassinated.