Which celebrity/historical figure has a dark past that everyone seems to ignore?

 

• Abraham Lincoln.
  He is known as the president who abolished slavery in America in 1865. But many people do not know that he did this solely for the political stability of the country.
  In a presidential debate in 1858, he himself had stated that he did not believe in racial equality or that Black people should be allowed to vote.

• Winston Churchill.
  In Europe, everyone sees him as a good man who played an important role in stopping World War II.
  After the First World War, the Ottoman Empire fell apart, and the British controlled a few parts of it in the Middle East at the time due to conflict.
  And this is what he had written in a memo: "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes" when the British were there in 1919.
  Also, under his leadership, millions of Indians died of famine when the British still held India.

• Nelson Mandela,
  the former South African president, is a massive symbol of civil rights who spent nearly three decades in prison protesting against the apartheid regime. While
  most people believe his imprisonment was due to mere racism, the fact is that Mandela belonged to a terrorist splinter group of the African National Congress that employed sabotage, torture, and rigid tactics in their operations and was collectively responsible for over 130 deaths.
  In 1961, he broke with fellow African National Congress members who advocated non-violence, creating a terrorist wing.
  Mandela even proposed cutting off the noses of Black people considered collaborators.

• Mahatma Gandhi
  is known for making India independent from the British in a loving and peaceful way.
  However, he did not always practice what he preached.
  Despite this, he had many affairs with women.
  He is said to have slept right next to underage girls.
  And he also said racist things about Black South Africans.

• Martin Luther King
  had prostitutes and relationships with as many as 40 women.
  And he also plagiarized a number of works.

What images remind us of almost forgotten aspects of our past?

 1. Road washing machine in 1905.

2. For those who thought the use of face masks was something new, I regret to inform you that it's a technique from decades ago. Here we see actors Stanley Morner and Betty Furness rehearsing a masked love scene, 1937.

Just like the kissing rehearsals during the flu epidemic. The scene was rehearsed 20 times before the cameras were pointed at the actors. During the filming of the scene, of course, the masks were removed.

3. Fiat factory, on whose roof there was a track where cars were tested, Turin, Italy.

4. Measurement judges at the Tokyo Olympic Games, 196.

With their help, before the introduction of videocassettes, winners were identified in races and other team speed competitions.

5. Airline reservation service before computers, 1945.

6. Kites from the past. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his assistants fly a four-sided kite, 1908.

7. In 1902, people in Alaska weren't sculpting snowmen, but snow titans.

8. Removals, San Francisco, 1908.

9. How soldiers had to practice inside the trenches, exercising with their pet fox Rusty, 1943.

10. Good citizens are undoubtedly even more so. A policeman stops traffic so a cat can take its kittens, New York, 1925.

Which Bollywood celebrity had the scariest secret life in the past?

 If I had to suggest one name, then it would be Lucky Ali

The soulful singer of "O Sanam" has a "dark" past, but his relationship with his father, the legendary comedian Mehmood, was incredibly strained. As a young man, Lucky Ali struggled deeply with marijuana addiction, which caused a massive rift in his famous family.

His father was so frustrated that he wrote and directed a film called Dushman Duniya Ka (1996), which was essentially a public "call out" of his own son’s drug habits. The film depicted a drug addict named Lucky who destroys his family.

Lucky Ali felt betrayed by this public exposure. He eventually left the industry, lived on an oil rig, and moved to a farm to practice "agritecture," avoiding the "disrespect" he felt in Bollywood.

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Who was bhishma in his past birth?

 Bhīṣma was Dyau (Dyou) Vasu, one of the Aṣṭa Vasus, in his previous birth. The eight Vasus were cursed by sage Vasiṣṭha (Apava) for stealing his divine cow Nandinī.

Among them, Dyau was identified as the principal offender and was therefore sentenced to a prolonged human life, while the other seven Vasus were released shortly after birth.

Gaṅgā narrates to King Śantanu the story of the eight Vasus and their curse -

‘”In the evening, Varuna’s son returned to the hermitage with the fruit he had collected. He did not see the cow and her calf in that supreme wood. Then the one blessed with the power of austerities looked for her in the forest. But though he searched, the sage could not find her. Through his divine sight, he then found that she had been stolen by the vasus. His anger arose and he cursed the vasus. ‘Because the vasus have stolen my cow which yields sweet milk and has a handsome tail, there is no doubt that they will all be born as men.’ O bull among the Bharata lineage! Thus did the illustrious Apava, supreme among sages, curse the vasus in his anger. Having cursed them, the illustrious one returned to his austerities. O king! Thus, in his wrath, did the one blessed with the power of austerities curse the eight vasus. The rishi was immensely powerful and knew the nature of the brahman. As soon as they knew that they had been cursed by the rishi, the gods went to the hermitage of the great-souled one. O bull among kings! The vasus tried to pacify the rishi. O tiger among men! But they failed to obtain the grace of Apava, who was learned in all dharma and was supreme among rishis. The righteous sage said, ‘O Dhara! You and the other vasus have been cursed. But you will all be freed from your curse within a year. But Dyou is the one whose act has led to your being cursed by me. Because of his own deeds, he will have to live in the world of men for a long time. Though uttered in anger, my words cannot amount to a falsehood. However, the great-souled one will not have offspring in the world of men. He will be devoted to dharma and will be skilled in the usage of all weapons. He will be engaged in doing that which brings his father pleasure and he will forsake pleasure with women.’ Having addressed all the vasus in this way, the great rishi went away. And all the vasus then came to me together.

‘“O king! They craved a boon from me. ‘O Ganga! As soon as each one of us is born, you should yourself throw us into the water.’ O supreme among kings! I agreed and acted accordingly, in order to free them from a life in the world of men, a consequence of the curse. O best of kings! O descendant of the Bharata lineage! O king! Dyou alone will have to live in the world of men for a long time, because of the rishi’s curse.”’

• 93, Sambhava Parva, Mahabharata