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This newly authenticated photograph of Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid, bought for $2 at an antique shop, could be worth around $5 million. A detail of Billy the Kid (left) in the original tintype. It’s not every day you’re told you can make a profit of approximately $5 million from a purchase in a junk shop. But this is just what happened to collector Randy Guijarro. This newly discovered image of Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, is currently making its rounds on the internet, becoming just the second authenticated photo of the Wild West outlaw and possibly the most valuable....

Frustrated with his low-paying job guarding armored cars for Loomis, Fargo & Co., Philip Noel Johnson made off with $18.8 million of the company’s money one day in March 1997. Public Domain.Philip Noel Johnson’s mugshot after he stole an armored car from Loomis, Fargo & Co. Armored car guard Philip Noel Johnson was sick of earning a pittance from the cash handling company he worked at, Loomis, Fargo & Co. So on March 29, 1997, he initiated the ultimate labor protest....

For roughly seven months in what’s known as the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia exercised a more lax form of communism, provoking the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact to invade in August 1968. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Fall Of The Soviet Union, In 36 Rarely-Seen Photos Where Al-Qaeda Began: 48 Photos From The Soviet-Afghan War...

This particular Enigma machine used to confound Allies with encrypted messages has virtually all its original components intact — save for a battery and one internal lamp. Nate D. Sanders Auction HouseThis German Enigma machine is in impressive condition, with only minor wear and tear after more than half a century. A few years ago, somebody mistook a German Enigma machine for a mere WWII-era typewriter and sold it at a flea market for a pittance....

You don’t need to head to Netflix to experience the creepiest places in the world. Stuffed animals strewn about Jazzland. Certain places on Earth are best left alone. Whether they have been made by nature or by man, these locales can scare the hell out of you. This, bizarrely, is what makes them so appealing to certain people in the first place. We enjoy that adrenaline rush that comes out of primal fear, and these are some of the best locations in the world to experience it....

One crew member of the Lady Be Good was found 200 miles away from the crash site. Wikimedia CommonsThe Lady Be Good as it appeared when discovered from the air. (U.S. Air Force photo) You’d think that it would be difficult to lose a bomber that’s nearly 20 feet tall with a wingspan of more than 100 feet. But, that’s what happened to a U.S. bomber during World War II. For 15 years, a B-24D Liberator called the Lady Be Good was missing, and no one had the slightest clue what had happened to it....

According to the Phantom Time Hypothesis, Charlemagne never existed along with 297 years that were just made up. YouTubeHeribert Illig, creator of the Phantom Time Hypothesis. In a world where every idea seems divisive, it can help to know there are at least a few things that the world as a whole agrees on. Time, the calendar, and the basic idea that history as we know it happened pretty much like historians say it did are just a few of those things....

An international team of experts located the Russian warship Dmitrii Donskoi that reportedly went down with 5,500 boxes of gold still aboard. CNBCThe Dmitrii Donskoi. Off the coast of an island in South Korea, a team of explorers found a Russian warship that was sunk 113 years ago during the Russo-Japanese war. They believed that the ship held 200 tons of gold bullion and coins worth $130 billion, the Telegraph reported....

Was Jesus white, Black, or another race entirely? Go inside the complicated history of what color Jesus of Nazareth may have been. Public DomainA 19th-century depiction of a white Jesus Christ by Danish painter Carl Heinrich Bloch. Jesus Christ has been an object of veneration and worship for nearly 2,000 years. As the central figure in Christianity, images of him fill churches, homes, and museums around the world. But why is Jesus white in most of these depictions?...

The mysterious Flying Dutchman has been spotted at sea since the late 1700s. However, there’s more science than ghosts at work. The legend of the Flying Dutchman goes back to the late 18th century when sailors allegedly saw a ghost ship that foretold imminent doom or disaster. Reports of a spectral ship persisted for the next 250 years despite there being no definitive proof that the ghost ship exists. The first written accounts of the Flying Dutchman date back to the late 1700s, although stories began to circulate near the Cape of Good Hope....

“We realize that we have made some terrible parenting decisions, and we just want to make things right,” mother Heather Martin now says. Mike and Heather Martin are screaming and cursing at their son for spilling ink on the carpet. “I didn’t do that,” the boy cries. “I swear to God I didn’t do that.” After a few more minutes of tearful pleas and accusations, the parents reveal it was all a trick....

According to a local anthropologist, “the tallness and massive build of skeletons” indicate their Viking background. Sławomir Moździoch/Polish Academy of SciencesOne of the skeletons discovered by archaeologists. If you are looking to discover a Viking burial ground, one of the last places you might think to find one would be in southern Italy. But that’s exactly where Polish archaeologists recently discovered the remains of Viking descendants. In a new paper published in the journal Science in Poland, archaeologists reveal that the skeletal remains they discovered while completing excavations in Sicily belong to descendants of Vikings, also known as Normans....

The class had a better chance of winning the Powerball or getting struck by lightning twice than they did of surviving this long together. The Des Moines RegisterThe class of 1958, then, and now. A graduating class from a small town in Iowa has beaten incredible odds, by all surviving long enough to attend their 60-year high school reunion. The Ringsted High School class of 1958 all had a better chance of winning the Powerball than being alive to attend the reunion, as well as being struck by lightning — twice....

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In 2014, a photo of Devonte Hart hugging a police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest went instantly viral. Just four years later, he made headlines again — for a tragic reason. TwitterDevonte Hart’s photo made him famous in 2014. Then, he made headlines again in 2018 when he was killed in the Hart family crash. In 2014, Devonte Hart captured the hearts of millions after a picture of him hugging a police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, Oregon, went viral....

Go inside the brutal murder of Gabriel Fernandez at the hands of his own mom — and the horrific abuse that preceded his death in May 2013. Often, child abuse happens behind closed doors. But the abuse of Gabriel Fernandez was far from a secret to teachers and social workers. Though some adults attempted to help him, they didn’t do enough, and Gabriel Fernandez was tragically murdered at the age of eight....

In 1849, Henry Brown shipped himself 250 miles to the free state of Pennsylvania. Though it took him 27 grueling hours, he lived the remainder of his life as a free man and a traveling performer. Library Of CongressIn this lithograph published around 1850, Henry “Box” Brown emerges from a box in the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Henry “Box” Brown was a man that had everything torn from him....

Freddie Mercury died in his home in London on November 24, 1991, at the age of 45 — just four years after he had been diagnosed with AIDS. Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty ImagesFreddie Mercury in 1985, two years before he was diagnosed with AIDS. Late on Friday, November 22, 1991, Freddie Mercury released a statement to the press that he had been diagnosed with AIDS. Newspapers ran it Saturday morning. Then, on Sunday evening, Freddie Mercury died in his home in Kensington, London, at 45....

King Tutankhamun’s mask was first unearthed when Howard Carter opened the Egyptian pharaoh’s coffin in 1925 — and some believe that the ancient tomb unleashed a curse. When British archeologists cracked open Tutankhamun’s gold coffin in 1925, they found themselves face-to-face with the unseeing eyes of the boy king’s death mask. Since then, King Tut’s mask has fascinated the world. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty ImagesKing Tut’s mask on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015....

Joran van der Sloot was a key suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance from Aruba in 2005, but it took the murder of another woman, Stephany Flores, to put him behind bars. To some, there are few figures as notorious as Joran van der Sloot. In less than a decade, the Dutch national stood accused of abducting and murdering 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba and was later found guilty of killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Peru....