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By age 23, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland had been attacked by white supremacists, disowned by her family, and imprisoned for supporting civil rights as a white woman in the American South. Wikimedia CommonsJoan Trumpauer Mulholland after her arrest in 1961 for joining the Freedom Riders. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland didn’t look like a civil rights activist. Young, white, and from the South, she was even descended from slave-owners. But Mulholland was keenly aware of the systemic racism that surrounded her — and as a teenager, resolved to do something about it....

For 381 straight days, virtually no people of color rode on Montgomery, Alabama buses — and it helped catalyze the entire American civil rights movement. Following Rosa Parks’ December 1955 arrest, upon refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, the black community of Montgomery, Alabama — which comprised approximately 75 percent of the city’s bus-riding population — organized a movement that would hit the city right in the pocketbook....

“If it’s not your puppy and if you’re living in a society where you don’t have the same assumptions of dogs and cuteness…it’s a cheaper investment.” Archaeological Research in AsiaA sacrificial pit in Zhengzhou. Long ago, human and animal sacrifices were a predominant ritual in many cultures. Now, according to Live Science, researchers have found that puppies as young as six months old were sacrificed and buried — sometimes alive — in human tombs during China’s ancient Shang Dynasty....

Built in 1769, King Alfred’s Tower was meant to commemorate the end of the Seven Years’ War and honor King George III. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Inside The Amber Room, The 18th-Century Russian Marvel That Vanished During World War II Inside The 18th-Century ‘Compendium Of Demonology And Magic,’ An Illustrated Guide To Hell...

In 2010, 17-year-old Mackenzie Cowell fell victim to a disturbed classmate named Christopher Scott Wilson who had a morbid fascination with murder and a tattoo of Hannibal Lecter on his arm. FacebookMackenzie Cowell was just 17-year-old when she was murdered by a disturbed classmate in 2010. Mackenzie Cowell was a 17-year-old cosmetology student in Wenatchee, Washington. On February 9, 2010, she left class for a short break, driving away in her car, but a fellow beauty school student was just behind her — with dark designs....

Local legends suggest that there is a “watery labyrinth” beneath the Mayan pyramid. El Castillo, or “The Castle,” is a pyramid that stands over 100 feet tall on the Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá and was built over a thousand years ago. Yet many of its innermost secrets remain a mystery to archeologists. Archeologists believe that hidden chambers reside within the pyramid, while local legend suggests that there is a “watery labyrinth” beneath it, according to National Geographic....

At 5'9" in length, this enormous Australian specimen has topped the record books. Australian researchers digging in the area known as “Australia’s Jurassic Park” have found the world’s biggest dinosaur footprint yet to be discovered. According to their findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the University of Queensland and James Cook University paleontologists found 20 more dinosaur footprints while digging around the Kimberly area in Western Australia. “There were five different types of predatory dinosaur tracks, at least six types of tracks from long-necked herbivorous sauropods, four types of tracks from two-legged herbivorous ornithopods, and six types of tracks from armored dinosaurs,” said Steven Salisbury, one of the lead researchers, in a statement, according to Smithsonian....

“I am broken, broken mainly because of the lack of respect of people who are observant, who observe tradition and Shabbat, who took this issue a step too far.” Wikimedia CommonsAn El Al Airlines plane. A flight scheduled to depart from JFK in New York to Israel was delayed due to a snowstorm, and as a result, was forced to land in Athens after inciting violent fear in a group of Orthodox passengers of violating the Jewish holy day of Shabbat....

The giant caiman known as Purussaurus was the apex predator of the Miocene epoch as it stalked the wetlands of South America, equipped with the strongest bite of any creature to ever live. Pinterest/Velizar SimeonovskiPurussaurus was so enormous that its head alone was larger than the entire bodies of today’s caimans. Creatures beyond our wildest imagination walked this planet long before humans ever arrived. Perhaps scariest among them was the purussaurus: a prehistoric crocodile longer than a school bus — and mightier than even the T....

The suspect is described as a six-foot-tall black male, with a thin build and a light complexion. The recent murder of a 60-year-old man is believed to be the latest work of the Seminole Heights Killer, a suspected serial killer in Tampa, Fla. WFLA News reported that Ronald Felton, 60, was shot in the head while crossing a street in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa early Tuesday morning. Police were called at 4:51 a....

The tense and extravagant Baroque movement defined the art of the 17th century. The Baroque Period was distinguished by exaggerated dynamism and clear detail that aimed to create drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting and architecture. The style is said to have started around 1600 in Rome before spreading across Europe. It was heavily influenced and encouraged by the Catholic church, which used it to communicate religious themes, war imagery, and aristocrats who appreciated the exuberance....

The gravesite in southern Sweden is part of a mesolithic settlement that was once inhabited by a group of hunters. Carl Persson/Blekinge MuseumThe remains of a man and his dog were uncovered in a graveyard dating back to the Stone Age in modern-day Sweden. They say a dog is a man’s best friend. This saying was evidently true even in the Stone Age when, about 8,400 years ago, a man was buried with his dog in a village’s graveyard....

“What does back to school have anything to do with getting guns?” said one local who snapped a picture of the gun store’s promotion. KTRKA Texas shooting center thought it was a good idea to offer cheap guns just before school starts. It’s only been a little more than a week since the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which together killed 32 people and injured 51 more....

A new laser-based technique has found that the Anchiornis might have soared through the Jurassic skies. Researchers have recently used laser imaging to discover that a certain chicken-like dinosaur may have been capable of flight. According to National Geographic, the foot-high, late Jurassic dinosaur is called an Anchiornis and had drumstick-shaped legs and long forearms, with a thin tail and scaly feet. Moreover, researchers found that Anchiornis a patagium — a skin membrane connecting fore limbs and hind limbs that aids in flight — which is leading them to believe that the creature could fly, and further blurring the line between dinosaurs and birds....

Stunt performer Ryan Dunn was just 34 years old when he died in a fiery car crash in 2011 — and the details were nothing short of horrific. Dave Benett/Getty Images The death of Ryan Dunn cast a dark shadow over the Jackass franchise. Around 3 a.m. on June 20, 2011, Ryan Dunn crashed his Porsche into a guardrail in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. His vehicle then landed in the nearby woods, where it burst into flames....

After suddenly disappearing from the spotlight in 1957, Bettie Page’s later life was shrouded in mystery — but then she resurfaced years later in a series of violent scandals. Hialeah Police DepartmentIn the 1950s, Bettie Page was the most famous pinup girl in America. By the 1960s, she was a recluse. Though Bettie Page was the most famous postwar pinup girl in American history, her later life proved to be far less glamorous....

Ancient Iraqi palace uncovered, World War II servicemen’s remains found, biblical mosaics from 1.600-year-old synagogue brought to light. Drought Reveals Stunning Ancient Palace In Dried-Up Water Reservoir In Iraq University of Tübingen eScience Cente/Kurdistan Archaeology OrganizationArchaeologists discovered ruins of the Kemune Palace after a severe drought hit Iraqi Kurdistan. There is no arguing that climate change has impacted the environment for worse, but it has also had some unexpected consequences for researchers and scientists in their quest to dig up history....

A trio of mermaids helped the unconscious diver after noticing that he had blacked out off the coast of Catalina Island in California. Darren Joshua Leonardi/NATIV Productions/Instagram Elle Jimenez and her students Elaina Garcia and Great Chin Burger are professional mermaids. Towards the end of a scuba dive off the coast of Catalina Island in California in October 2022, Pablo Avila blacked out and began foaming at the mouth. He was drowning, and if it weren’t for the three mermaids that came to his rescue, he might not have survived....

Besides grooming, vampire bats form stronger social bonds by sharing what researchers describe as ‘French kisses’ with mouths full of animal blood. Mark Dumont/FlickrResearchers discovered that vampire bats share meals of blood through ‘french kisses’ to form social bonds. There are all sorts of strange habits that animals do to form and strengthen social bonds. Elephants use watering holes. Birds dance. Vampire bats share blood-drenched “French kisses.” That’s right, according to IFLScience, researchers found that a social ritual among blood-sucking vampire bats involved sharing mouthfuls of blood....

These Harry Houdini facts reveal that this master illusionist’s life was even more exciting and mysterious than you imagined. Harry Houdini was not actually Harry Houdini: The famed illusionist was born as Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. When he and his family relocated to the United States, his name was ‘Americanized’ to Ehrich Weiss on his immigration papers.Wikimedia Commons Houdini falsely claimed to have been born in Appleton, Wisconsin....