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This is a scene at the Human Zoo in New York in 1906, a little Filipino girl sitting on a log and her mother curled up on her side clothes, the two of them are not visitors to the zoo, but exhibits of the human zoo.
It may be hard to believe that this happened in the 20th century, and that the place where it happened was the United States, which is accustomed to being civilized, and that it is really full of benevolence and morality and doing shameless and despicable things.
Human zoo, as the name suggests, is a place to show humans to the audience, but the two terms human and zoo together are to put humans of different races in zoo-like places, display them like animals, and force them to perform like animals.
This kind of human zoo was very common in Europe and the United States in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and it was also a popular attraction in Europe and the United States, and these human zoos were usually built with the zoo and became part of the zoo, and the other humans locked up here were actually no different from other animals for display.
The captured people came from all over the world, with brown, black, red and yellow skin tones, different regions including Africa, the Americas, Australia and East Asia, among which blacks with albinism were the most sought after, followed by Chinese girls who were abducted in the past, famous for the mysterious three-inch golden lotus.
This is the scene when the famous American actor Kirk Douglas signed an autograph for a female fan on the beach, met the "dream lover" on the beach, and got the autograph of the idol, the female fan will be happy, it is estimated that it will take many days to take a bath.
Douglas is a famous tough guy superstar in the United States, who joined the United States Navy during World War II and returned to his acting career after the war, and was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards in 1949.
At that time, signing on the hips was really bold, but I was also curious, they were all vacationing by the beach, and they were all so sexy and cool, so where did the signature pen come from? Maybe it was carried with the assistant who took the photo.
In addition to his acting career, Douglas is also very enthusiastic about philanthropy, on February 5, 2020, Daglas died in Los Angeles, and of the $80 million inheritance he left behind, $50 million was donated to charity, but whether this is a trick for his inheritors to evade taxes, it is unknown.
This is a video from London Zoo in 1939, in which the hounds were bitten by our national treasure giant panda, one of the many giant pandas poached from the mainland by European and American poachers at the beginning of the 20th century.
Giant pandas, a rare species unique to the continent, have been wildly sought after by European and American countries since they were discovered by Western "explorers", who at the beginning hunted giant pandas and then made specimens to bring back to Europe or the United States for sale.
But seeing more specimens, I am more yearning for live pandas, many zoos in Europe and the United States have spent a lot of money to reward live pandas, in 1936, the American female "explorer" Ruth Harkness caught a juvenile panda and successfully brought it to the United States, which was the first time the Western world saw a live giant panda, which made her make a lot of money.
Another "poacher" Floyd Tangier Smith, under the guise of a missionary, went to Sichuan to poach, capturing 12 live pandas in two years, and finally four pandas were brought alive to the United States, Britain and Germany
The giant panda in the photos and videos, the smallest of several giant pandas, named "Ming", is in a very poor situation in London, England, and is exhibited even in wartime, and even used as a tool for training hunting dogs, because zoo people want to familiarize the hunting dogs with the taste of pandas so that they can be poached in China.
"Ming" also had to travel between zoos in the UK to earn tickets, and under various tortures such as running around and eating and drinking, "Ming"'s body quickly weakened, and in 1943 he suffered from a serious skin disease, but he was not well treated.
In a snowstorm in 1944, "Ming" was found frozen to death in a cage, when "Ming" was only seven years old, which was the prime of a panda, so he was tortured and died in a foreign country.
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