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As “Jane Roe,” she fought for the right to choose in the landmark Roe v. Wade case. As Norma McCorvey, she later took money to push an anti-abortion agenda. Bettmann/Getty Images Norma McCorvey sitting in her Dallas office in 1985. In 1973, the Supreme Court announced its ruling in the monumental Roe v. Wade case, which legalized abortion in the United States. “Roe” was “Jane Roe,” a pseudonym given to the pregnant woman who sued District Attorney Henry Wade of Dallas County, Texas....

William Walker believed in Manifest Destiny and that America needed to set its sights on Central America. Wikimedia CommonsWilliam Walker Modern-day filibusters usually happen in the U.S. Senate when a long-winded Senator feels like speaking out against an issue. Even the threat of filibustering may kill legislation, especially if more than one Senator gets together in protest. Back in the 1800s, filibustering meant something totally different. It meant killing people, not legislation....

Although he only owned it for three months before he died by suicide on the property, Kurt Cobain’s Seattle house has become a makeshift shrine to the Nirvana frontman. Etsy Ketsy/Wikimedia CommonsKurt Cobain’s house in Seattle became his after he bought it for $1.48 million in January 1994. Nearly three decades have passed since Kurt Cobain’s house in Seattle became the site of one of the most tragic scenes in music history....

The non-partisan U.S. agency showcased the iconic 2017 march in a heavily altered image, which obscured signs referencing the president and “female anatomy.” Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesThe original 2017 photo, taken by Mario Tama, shows Pennsylvania Avenue packed with protestors carrying signs critical of the Trump administration. The Archives blurred at least four of those signs. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration made several alterations to a photo of the 2017 Women’s March....

Ryan Poston was a promising young attorney from Kentucky with an obsessive girlfriend named Shayna Hubers — and on October 12, 2012, she shot him dead. Twitter/Poston familyRyan Poston was just 29 years old when he was shot dead by his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Shayna Hubers. Ryan Poston, a Fort Mitchell, Kentucky-born lawyer, received his law degree from Northern Kentucky University. Situated in Highland Heights, Kentucky, the city of Poston’s alma mater would also be where he would die at the hands of Shayna Hubers, his on–and-off-again girlfriend....

This mysterious pulse originating from the outskirts of a galaxy half a billion light-years away is the first to ever follow a consistent cycle. CHIME CollaborationInside the cylinder of the CHIME Collaboration radio telescope, which researchers used to detect the first-ever periodic fast radio burst originating in a galaxy 500 million light-years away. In a remarkable discovery sure to delight any fan of the final frontier, scientists have detected a deep-space radio signal unlike anything ever found before....

After a man from Georgia came across a mysterious sea creature on the shore, everyone was from locals to marine experts are weighing in on what the strange creature could be. The OlympianThe unidentifiable sea creature on shore of Georgia beach Jeff Warren of Waycross, Ga. was walking with his son along Wolf Island Beach in Georgia when he spotted something washed up on the shore. A heron bird was pecking at the carcass....

On August 13th, combustible chemicals in a Tianjin warehouse led to a wave of death, injury and devastation. Fire and smoke soar into the skies of Tianjin. On August 13th, a rash of violent explosions tore through Tianjin, China, leaving at least 50 dead and hundreds injured, according to state-run news outlet Xinhua. Hours later, those alive are coping with massive amounts of destruction: chemical odors penetrate the air; smoke replaces sky, and countless homes and vehicles are in states of colossal disrepair in the Chinese port city....

Allegedly conducted on the east end of Long Island during the Cold War, Project Montauk was a secret military experiment to develop psychological warfare with abducted children. The Montauk Project just might be the motherlode of lesser-known conspiracy theories. Time travel, teleportation, and mind control are all integral to the story, while contact with aliens and the staging of Apollo moon landings add color to an already wild yarn. Yet even after all that and the fact that it inspired the Netflix series Stranger Things, relatively few have even heard of the Montauk Project story....

Who knew so much beauty existed in our planet’s lakes? A beautiful photographic journey through the most beautiful lakes in the world! World’s Most Beautiful Lakes: Five-Flower Lake, China The pristine water of Wuhua Hai, or Five-Flower Lake, is the pride of Jiuzhaigon National Park in China. The shallow lake glistens different shades of turquoise and its floor is littered with fallen ancient tree trunks. Wuhua Hai is one in the legendary 108 haizi, or multicolored lakes, in the national park that according to legend, were created after an ancient Goddess dropped a mirror that her lover had given her, smashing it into 108 pieces....

Source: Tes One There are few events that captivate the world like the FIFA World Cup. And while the road to the 2014 tournament has been plagued with its fair share of civil unrest and World Cup controversies, these incidents have been largely overshadowed by worldwide excitement, incredible victories and hometown pride. The FIFA tournament has also had a huge impact on the art world. From metallic selfies to soccer ball paintings, this World Cup art is just as intriguing as the games themselves....

518 million-year-old sea creature fossil uncovered, evidence of early humans’ dwarf worship found, tourists taking disrespectful photos at Auschwitz called out. 518 Million-Year-Old Sea Creature Fossil Discovery Sheds New Light On Ocean Evolution Yang ZhaoThe 518-million-year-old Daihua fossil discovered in China. A University of Bristol research team recently discovered a series of startling fossils in China. The recent discovery of these fossils has shed new light on dozens of species, many of them previously a mystery to the scientific community....

A lawsuit claims that the nursing home knew of the woman’s affliction, and did nothing to stop it. YouTubeRebecca Zeni in her room at the nursing home, holding teddy bears as nursing staff surround her. In what a medical examiner described as “one of the most horrendous things” he’s ever seen in his career, a woman was literally eaten alive by millions of parasitic mites while the staff at her nursing home looked on, according to a shocking investigative report by WXIA-TV in Atlanta....

Darla Elizabeth Hise told officials at a psychiatric hospital that she was trying to send her daughter to heaven to protect her from evil aliens. VineLink/The Recorder via The Roanoke TimesDarla Hise (left), Abagail Hise (right) Earlier this year, a Virginia woman murdered her young child inside their home. Now, The Roanoke Times reports that new court documents filed this week reveal that 27-year-old Darla Elizabeth Hise told officials at a psychiatric hospital she was placed in after the murder that she killed her daughter, six-year-old Abigail, because the child had “aliens in her body and wanted them removed from her stomach....

Photos of the beatnik movement in 1950s Greenwich Village that was home to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the thriving Beat Generation. In the late 1940s, a new counterculture coalesced around the writings of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs that embraced nonconformity, sexual liberation, and a bohemian lifestyle. Known as the Beat Generation, they laid the philosophical foundations for a free-spirited expressionism that would evolve into the broader hippie movement in the 1960s....

Street art has been a unique form of expression since the 1800s. It is inherently populist and often used as a means to fight the establishment by rebelious movements. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Incredible World Of 3D Street Art 13 Shocking Examples Of Child Marriages Throughout The World And History 50 Incredible Examples Of Macro Photography In Action...

Over half the tigers were diagnosed with a common illness in cats and tigers, however, the animals were so inbred they were unable to fight off the disease. FlickrOne hundred and forty-seven tigers were rescued from the temple in 2016 and placed in two state-run sanctuaries. Unfortunately, they were bred in captivity and never developed a natural immunity to disease. Buddhist temple Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province had been a popular tourist attraction until 2016 when authorities seized 147 of its tigers on the suspicion of wildlife trafficking....

From the numerous factual errors in Dahmer to the brotherhood that never existed in Vikings, see how some of your favorite TV shows got historical events totally wrong. The streaming age has blessed us with some truly amazing, cinematic television shows, and with the wide range of content being produced, there is virtually no niche left untouched. Shows based on historical events have perhaps benefitted the most from this modern television renaissance....

The nearly mile-long structure was used to travel along trade routes between lagoons on the Fort Morgan Peninsula. University of South AlabamaA boggy area around the ancient canal nearly disguised it completely. Near Mobile Bay in Alabama, a local resident came across a strange structure and urged archaeologists to investigate — and it turned out to be a 1,400-year-old canal used by Native Americans. According to 1819 News, locals had been referring to the canal as the “Indian Ditch” as far back as the 1820s, but beyond that, it went largely ignored and forgotten about....

How the Cold War-era FBI took down countless U.S. citizens deemed to be enemies of the state and got away with it. Wikimedia Commons Counterintelligence is the term for any anti-espionage or surveillance activities aimed at spying on or breaking up domestic threats. In 1956, fresh off of the McCarthyite persecution of the early 1950s, the FBI perceived exactly this kind of threat from the Socialist Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA)....