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Following reports that a Black drifter assaulted a white woman, a racist mob razed the town of Rosewood, Florida in 1923 and killed as many as 150 people. Getty ImagesThe aftermath of the Rosewood Massacre in Rosewood, Florida. January 9, 1923. In the early 1920s, the town of Rosewood, Florida was a small but thriving Black community. But in 1923, a white mob destroyed the entire town — all because a white woman claimed that a Black man assaulted her....

After Dashrath Manjhi’s wife was killed traversing a steep mountain path in 1959, he decided he would make a safer one — by hand. TwitterDashrath Manjhi finished carving his inimitable path in 1982. He died in 2007 and was given a state funeral. Even though many have never heard of “Mountain Man” Dashrath Manjhi, he’s revered across India as a symbol of perseverance and sheer will. Born into a lower caste, Manjhi spent every waking hour as an impoverished day-laborer....

When the Black Panthers took up arms to protect their communities, governments passed new laws stripping their gun rights — and used military tactics to enforce them. Vimeo/The New York TimesIn response to police brutality against black Americans in the 1960s, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California, to challenge and confront police abuse against African-Americans. The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous decades in living memory and nowhere was that more evident than in the American Civil Rights Movement....

The true story of Pocahontas, tourists headed to the Titanic, Jesus’ tomb reopens, Cold War nuclear footage declassified, Lindbergh baby case detective unmasked. New Documentary Reveals The True Story Of Pocahontas Wikimedia Commons For centuries, the myth of Pocahontas has endured while the history has languished. While we can all recall the story of her dramatic rescue of English explorer John Smith, how many of us know, for instance, that Pocahontas wasn’t even her actual name (it was Amonute)?...

New evidence about what caused Jesus’ death uncovered, record-breaking underground city excavated, dinosaur killed the day the asteroid struck unearthed. Astonishing New Study Claims That Jesus Actually Died From A Dislocated Shoulder Wikimedia CommonsThe new study suggests that the injuries suffered by Jesus while carrying the cross were so severe that he would have died anyway even if he hadn’t been crucified. First mentioned in extant literature in 1354, the Shroud of Turin is a large piece of linen that’s said to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ....

From beer to dishwashers to Kevlar, these women’s inventions have changed the way the world works. Wikimedia Commons Imagine this: Researchers at a prominent academic institution conduct a study and find that all else being equal, scientists are more likely to prefer a male candidate for a science faculty position than a female candidate. If that sounds like the distant past to you, think again — Yale University researchers conducted the study in 2012....

Turns out a ton of what we all learned in high school history class just isn’t true. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 55 Interesting History Facts You Won’t Learn Anywhere Else 32 Viking Facts That Uncover One Of History’s Most Misunderstood Civilizations 33 Ancient Rome Facts That Will Change The Way You See History...

From murder or suicide, these disturbing live deaths stunned millions of unsuspecting viewers. FlickrThe shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald is considered one of the first live deaths ever caught on camera. Note: Some pictures and videos in this post are graphic. Whether it’s the Japanese politician run through with a samurai sword during a debate or the slapstick comedian who keeled over in front of an audience that thought it was just part of the act, these are the murders, suicides, and other shocking deaths that were caught by unsuspecting cameras and stunned television audiences around the world....

From fighting poachers and outlaws to doing battle with Native American tribes, the Buffalo Soldiers of the Western frontier left behind a complex legacy. You may have heard the term “Buffalo Soldier” from the famous Bob Marley song of the same name. But the real “Buffalo Soldiers” were the men of the all-Black U.S. Army regiments who served in the Western frontier after the Civil War. Library of CongressBorn out of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the U....

A sickly dentist and gambler turned deadly gunman, Doc Holliday made history in Tombstone during the iconic Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. When Doc Holliday died in 1887 at the age of 36, his friend Wyatt Earp solemnly and succinctly summed up his fallen comrade’s short life: “He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew....

Though it’s hard to believe that Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov actually made a two-headed dog, these surreal photos are the proof. Calling Soviet doctor Vladimir Demikhov a mad scientist may be undercutting his contributions to the world of medicine, but some of his radical experiments certainly fit the title. Case in point — though it may seem like myth, propaganda, or a case of photoshopped history — in the 1950s, Vladimir Demikhov actually created a two-headed dog....

They thought the contents of this sarcophagus were mummified hawk remains. What it actually contained was a stillborn fetus. Maidstone Museum UK/Nikon Metrology UKWhat was thought the a mummy of a hawk was actually a stillborn fetus. In the United Kingdom’s Maidstone Museum, there sits a tiny Egyptian mummy labeled as ‘EA 493 – Mummified Hawk Ptolemaic Period.’ Due to the size and the bird-like decorations, it was long thought to be an entombed hawk....

Ted Bundy’s girlfriend Elizabeth “Liz” Kendall not only survived her relationship with him, she later wrote a tell-all book about their time together. NetflixElizabeth Kendall, a.k.a. Elizabeth Kloepfer met Ted Bundy at the Sandpiper Tavern in Seattle in 1969. He asked her to dance and before long, she was Ted Bundy’s girlfriend. Ted Bundy’s notorious series of murders in the 1970s has immortalized him as one of the most terrifying figures in American history....

Sometimes, the punishment really doesn’t fit the crime. As anyone who has watched a case unfold on live TV (or online) knows, legally satisfying rulings are not always morally satisfying. Indeed, the legal system is fraught with loopholes, prejudices, and technicalities that can make common interpretations of justice — theoretically an easy concept to understand and administer — hard to actually attain. Here are five cases, each a shocking miscarriage of justice, that exemplify that truth:...

Several times per year, if not more frequently, a major brand comes under fire for running an advertisement that the public widely — and almost always justifiably — deems to be racist. Share Flipboard Email Just last month, this happened to both Nivea and Sony. And in the latter case, the ad in question was more than a decade old and only ran in the Netherlands. But the internet never forgets, and a Twitter storm quickly brought the controversy surrounding this old ad back to life....

Revisiting the crack-smoking, drunk-driving, inexplicable political career of Rob Ford. Shaun Merritt/FlickrRob Ford holds a finger puppet of himself. 2010. Your city has probably had some crazy politicians over the years, right? Most cities have. But odds are, they had nothing on Rob Ford. Rob Ford was the Mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014, and over the course of his political career, he made numerous racist and homophobic comments, saw his polls go up after it came out that he had been arrested for drunk driving, and was filmed smoking crack:...

Called sea pigs for their pinkish hue, these creatures are actually a type of sea cucumber that scavenges for decaying organisms on the ocean floor. Down in the pitch-black depths of the ocean, an alien-like creature roams across the seafloor — the sea pig. While the sea pig is not related to terrestrial swine, its pink-tinged body and plump shape do resemble its namesake. Though these “living vacuum cleaners” might look cute, they spend their lives in darkness scavenging for decaying carcasses....

Ted Bundy described himself as “the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.” His crimes certainly prove that statement true. During the spring and summer of 1974, police in the Pacific Northwest were in a panic. Young women at colleges across Washington and Oregon were disappearing at an alarming rate, and law enforcement had few leads as to who was behind it. In just six months, six women had been abducted....

When a 14-year-old girl told police she was being haunted by the ghost of a woman, they didn’t believe her. But when she explained who the woman was, they were horrified. The Hello Kitty Murder mermaid doll, in which the skull of Fan Man-yee was found. In May of 1999, a 14-year-old girl made her way to a Hong Kong police station. She told officers that for the past several weeks, she’d been constantly plagued by the ghost of a woman who had been bound by electrical wire and tortured to death....

Jihad is a very modern problem, but its roots reach back to the beginnings of Islam. What has this term historically meant, and what does it mean today? Wikimedia Commons “Jihad” is to the 21st century what “blitzkrieg” was to the 1940s — a term of terror that imparts images of unstoppable chaos and war. Muslim terrorist groups around the world claim to be waging a sacred struggle against their enemies, and they often choose jihad as their galvanizing banner....