10,000 Followers!

Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
3 min readAug 6, 2020

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We want to give a very big thank you to all of our readers that have supported this publication as well as to our writers who have worked hard to put out the best of content for you!

By hitting this milestone we also enter a new stage of this publication as we prepare a wider expansion which will come later on this year in order to interact even more with not only our writers but most importantly with you, our beloved readers.

This month we want to first of all present 10 articles (in no particular order) that stood out from the month of July.

A History of the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease

Rabies has terrified civilizations for thousands of years. (Click here to Read)

The Monk Who Burned Himself To Death as a Form of Protest

An act of Self-immolation that changed the world (Click here to read)

The Halifax Incident: History’s Largest Non-Nuclear Explosion

How one late steamship caused the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history (Click here to read)

The Curious Sex Life of Julius Caesar

Every woman’s man, every man’s woman (Click here to read)

The Dark Side of World War II Liberation

When French women had babies with German soldiers in World War II, their heads were shaved (Click here to read)

When the Pope Excommunicated the Communists

A world with religion being at power (Click here to read)

The Results of the Nazi IQ Tests

The Nuremberg psychological examinations of Nazi leaders were surprising, but certainly not shocking. (Click here to read)

The Man Who Was Stuck in an Airport for 18 Years

Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Click here to read)

The Worst Punishment Imaginable

An execution method so brutal it has captured the imagination for thousands of years (Click here to read)

Her African Buttocks were Exploited for Europe’s Entertainment

The Sarah Baartman story (Click here to read)

We hope that you will enjoy reading these selections from July and please feel free to give some feedback on them.

On other news, from September History of Yesterday is planning to start a live podcast which will be hosted by Andrei Tapalaga ✒️ and Calin Aneculaesei as well as accompanied by writers from the publication and various guests from the history field to discuss controversial events from history.

This podcast will be streamed on the History of Yesterday Twitch channel as well as on the YouTube channel and on Facebook.

Please tune in on the 5th of September for the premiere of this podcast which will allow us to interact even more with you!

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Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

Avid Writer with invaluable knowledge in Humanity! “You make your own life” atapalaga97@gmail.com