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Encountering just a speck of fentanyl can be fatal, officials fear. Billy Hathorn / Wikimedia Commons A 10-year-old is one of Florida’s youngest victims of the opioid crisis, a state prosecutor said on Tuesday. On June 23, Alton Banks visited a local swimming pool. When the fifth grader left, he fell violently ill and lost consciousness, and died soon after at the hospital the Miami Herald reported. Now, an early toxicology report shows that fatal opioid exposure caused his death....

As Native American tribes were increasingly wiped out at the turn of the 20th century, a few photographers were determined to preserve their history. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Photos Of Early 20th-Century Native American Masks Brought To Life In Color 44 Striking Portraits Of Native American Culture In The Early 20th Century...

From a woman who sliced off her husband’s penis to a serial killer who gleefully confessed to murdering 21 people, these vintage mugshots are just as unsettling as they are compelling. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Vintage Mugshots That Bring The Past To Life 63 Wild West Mugshots That Prove They Don’t Make Criminals Like They Used To...

Automats were efficient vending machine-style restaurants that signaled to many Americans that the future in dining had arrived. So what happened to them? At the turn of the century, New Yorkers rushed to a new kind of dining establishment, one they felt represented all the sleekness and efficiency of a future in chrome: the Automat. As a sort of ancestor of the vending machine, Automats were a wall of coin-operated cubbies that contained hot food and beverages behind a glass window....

This 2,700-year-old Cypriot goddess could provide new clues about early Mediterranean civilization. Dokuz Eylül University Turkish researchers have found the lower half of a 2,700-year-old ceramic sculpture of a Cypriot goddess lying deep in the Aegean Sea. Researchers from the Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) Marine Science and Technology Institute state that the statue, discovered 141 feet below the surface, dates back to the archaic period, one of the earliest periods of Mediterranean culture (800 BC–480 BC)....

Surviving and thriving is the name of the game in the animal kingdom. Predator or prey, their varying survival methods continue to baffle humankind. That can especially be said about camouflage, or natural selection’s way of saying that if you want to survive in this world, you must not stand out. Animals that are often hunted by predators use camouflage in order to hide in plain sight, and predators will use camouflage in order to sneak up on prey without giving them a chance to do much protesting....

The mummy lived even before the Incas and was buried according to funerary customs at the time. Universidad Nacional Mayor De San MarcosThe mummy is estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old. Archaeologists in Cajamarquilla, Peru, weren’t looking for mummies. But that’s what they found during their excavation — an 800-year-old mummy, bound with rope, with its hands pressed against its face. “The whole team was really happy because we didn’t think this was going to happen,” said Yomira Huamán Santillán, one of the leaders of the team of archeologists from the National University of San Marcos....

After two years, Ethan Couch — whose lawyers claimed his wealthy upbringing caused a condition in which he was too spoiled to feel remorse — is being released from jail. www.nbcdfw.comEthan Couch Wealthy people often receive get-out-of-jail-free cards. It’s a common accusation and criticism of the U.S. justice system. But the concept is not always used as literally as it was in the case of Ethan Couch, better known as the “affluenza teen....

The data that Elisha Kane recorded in his journal proved to be an invaluable resource for understanding the Arctic conditions. For centuries, Europeans dreamed of a way to cut short the route to Asia by sailing through the Arctic. They called this theoretical path the “Northwest Passage.” In 1845, the British dispatched famed navy commander and explorer John Franklin to finally find it. But after three years went by with no word from Franklin, the British decided to send a rescue party after him....

As the water level of Lake Mead has dropped to its lowest point in 85 years, visitors have discovered the skeletal remains of two people whose corpses once rested below the surface. Alex Stephens/Bureau of ReclamationLake Mead with a portion of the Hoover Dam visible on March 2, 2018, when the water level was 1,088 feet. Since then, the surface has dropped another 33 feet and revealed two corpses. When the Hoover Dam created Lake Mead out of the Colorado River in 1936, it opened up a sprawling recreational area and boaters’ paradise just 30 miles east of Las Vegas....

10 million Congolese were killed and millions more enslaved and mutilated during King Leopold II’s brutal reign. Now, King Philippe is the first member of the royal family to acknowledge the atrocities. Wikimedia CommonsKing Philippe is a distant nephew of Leopold II. King Philippe of Belgium sent his “deepest regrets” for the country’s past atrocities in a letter to President Félix Thisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday....

The sarcophagi found under Notre Dame come from different eras, and the older of the two contains the remains of a man with an oddly deformed skull. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty ImagesOne of the two sarcophagi discovered beneath Notre Dame in Paris. In 2019, people across the world watched in horror as fire consumed the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. But the tragedy has produced unexpected archaeological delights. While preparing for the site’s restoration, experts came across two ancient sarcophagi — and one set of the remains has them scratching their heads....

The page belongs to a 700-year-old Catholic prayer book called the Beauvais Missal, and its new owner has no plans of selling. Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty ImagesAn unrelated page from the Beauvais Missal, one of 114 out of 309 which have been recovered. Will Sideri went to a local estate sale in Maine with the vague hope of picking up a cake mixer. Instead, he stumbled across a page from a 700-year-old medieval manuscript valued at between $5,000 and $10,000....

Although two-faced cats — known as Janus cats — don’t typically live for long, the owners hope to keep the kitten if it survives. BJ KingBiscuits and Gravy, the two-faced tabby born in Oregon in May 2020. When the King family of Oregon woke up on May 20, 2020, they were greeted with a miraculous surprise. Among their family cat’s new litter of kittens was one dark-furred tabby with what appeared to be two faces — that’s right, two faces on one cat....

According to Aboriginal Australian folklore, the bunyip waits in billabongs and riverbeds for passing livestock to devour — as well as women and children. Rumored to lurk in the swamps, billabongs, and creeks of Australia is none other than the bunyip, a cryptid with a cute little name but a terrifying appearance. Amphibian-looking and almost entirely water-dwelling, the creature has been baffling residents of the great Down Under for centuries....

Paula Dietz knew her husband as a caring father, church council president, and Cub Scout leader, but after 34 years of marriage, she suddenly learned that he was also a serial killer. Left: Bo Rader-Pool/Getty Images; Right: True Crime MagPaula Dietz had no idea that her husband Dennis Rader (left and right) enjoyed binding himself while masturbating, fantasized about torturing helpless women, and killed 10 innocent people. For decades, Paula Dietz of Kansas was simply a bookkeeper, wife, and mother....

Karen Boes was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her daughter in 2002. But 16-hour interrogation footage reveals something different. change.orgA younger Robin Boes with her mother, Karen. 14-year-old Robin Boes was killed in a house fire in 2002 and investigators quickly discovered that this was no accident. The fire was set intentionally, either by the teenager herself or by her mother. Robin’s mother, Karen Boes, initially pled guilty to her daughter’s murder....

On the Rocky Mountaineer, you’ll experience the Canadian Rockies, five-star-dining, and according to the line’s website, even a Sasquatch sighting. For those who crave being truly “unplugged” while on vacation, the Canadian rail-line, Rocky Mountaineer GoldLeaf, may be the answer. The luxurious glass-domed train winds through the Canadian Rockies providing nearly unobstructed views of the passing nature and wildlife. RockyMountaineer/InstagramBreathtaking views from the Rocky Mountaineer GoldLeaf. There are four different routes aboard the Rocky Mountaineer GoldLeaf with 65 possible packages....

With Beethoven-like precision, even while blind, Tom Wiggins was able to master a piece of music after hearing it just once. Wikimedia Commons“Blind” Tom Wiggins Imagine yourself in a packed opera house in Chicago in 1866. On stage is a prodigy of the piano who tickles the ivories with the deft touch of a master. He finishes his own composition, The Battle of Manassas, with a flourish. You stand alongside the rest of the cheering crowd and give the maestro a standing ovation....

BJ Price blends art and nature in his first-ever underwater art gallery, inspired by the Great Barrier Reef. Source: BJPriceArt Close your eyes and picture an art gallery. If you’re anything like us, you might have pictured a museum-like room filled with paintings, sculptures and other artwork. What you probably didn’t picture is a wall-less, underwater space whose floor is not granite or wood but rather sand. To enjoy this 13-feet deep underwater art gallery, you’ll need a snorkel, an oxygen mask and a brief understanding of underwater diving....