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Once called “America’s Playground,” Atlantic City has become engulfed with crime and corruption — and the seeming death spiral of its casinos. A century ago, Atlantic City was a booming tourist destination — a rare location in America where you could gamble and drink to your heart’s desire. Prohibition never seemed to make it to the small New Jersey metropolis, and the lavish hotels and beachfront properties made the vacation spot a perfect place for pre-Depression wealth to be flaunted....

The shrine is located near a Neolithic campsite used by hunters during gazelle migration seasons. Jordan Tourism MinistryArchaeologists found two anthropomorphic stone figures within the shrine. Deep in the Jordan desert, a team of Jordanian and French archaeologists from the South Eastern Badia Archaeological Project (SEBAP) have uncovered a “unique” and “almost intact” Neolithic shrine. They believe that it’s about 9,000 years old. “The site is unique, first because of its preservation state,” explained Jordanian archaeologist Wael Abu-Azizeh, the co-director of the project....

This sewage system was constructed while the Roman Empire was in control of the city of Tripolis in the second century A.D., and it remains fully intact to this day. Wikimedia CommonsThe ruins of Tripolis on the Meander in southwestern Turkey. The ancient city of Tripolis on the Meander in western Turkey has provided historians with invaluable ruins to study. Also known as Neapolis or Apollonia, the town dates back to the third century B....

In addition to raping and abusing nearly 200 babies, toddlers, and children, Richard Huckle wrote a 60-page guide on his methodology called “Pedophiles & Poverty: Child Lover Guide.” AFPRichard Huckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport in 2014, as he was returning home from Malaysia to celebrate Christmas with his family. In 2016, British freelance photographer Richard Huckle was handed 22 life sentences for 71 charges of sexual crimes relating to 23 Malaysian children....

The boy’s mother is suing the private Christian school for $30 million. “Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” This is what Jesus is said to have told his disciples in the Gospel of Matthew. It’s also what the teachers at a prestigious private school in Tennessee told a 12-year-old boy after he was repeatedly raped by teenage students. The school apparently downplayed the attacks and refused to report them to authorities, according to a lawsuit filed by the victim and his mother on Friday, seeking $30 million from Brentwood Academy....

Footage of the dog was recorded in Monte Escobedo in Zacatecas, Mexico, which has been caught in the middle of a bloody turf war between rival cartels. TwitterPolice spent several hours searching for the dog and severed head. A shocking video surfaced online last week showing a stray dog running along a street in Mexico carrying a decapitated human head in its mouth. As VICE reports, the video was taken in the small town of Monte Escobedo, in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas....

George Psalmanazar was a French Caucasian who faked his way into an easy living by pretending to be from Taiwan. What does his success, even after he was exposed, say about human gullibility? Wikimedia Commons In the first years of the 1700s, an exotic man from the unheard-of land of Formosa took British society by storm. He wore odd clothes and frequently performed strange religious rituals. Once he learned English, the stories he told about the Far East – stories about human sacrifice, cannibalism, public nudity, and hunting tree snakes – made him a sensation and vaulted him to the top of polite society....

Despite outward appearances, famous suicides like these show us that we can never know what another person is going through — and sometimes not until it’s too late. Wikimedia CommonsThe suicide of Evelyn McHale, which Time magazine called the “Most Beautiful Suicide.” Too often headlines announce the death of a beloved actor, politician, or historical figure. Even darker so, sometimes the death comes at the person’s own hands. Each one of these 11 famous suicides has a unique personal story behind it, but many of them also have striking and sad similarities....

Babe Didrikson won medals at the Olympics, dominated professional golf, and excelled at track and field, basketball, tennis, baseball, cycling, swimming, and boxing. Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesBabe Didrikson during a 1951 tournament. When Babe Didrikson decided to try out for the 1932 Olympics, she qualified for a whopping five events. But women at the time were only allowed to compete in three. So Didrikson made those three count. As awed spectators looked on, she won medals in hurdles, high jump, and javelin competitions....

Built 600 years ago, the ruined medieval castle still stands in the Bas-Rhin département of France today — in all its crumbling granite beauty. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Wild History Of Predjama Castle, The Medieval Fortress Built Into The Mouth Of A Cave 33 Pictures Of Bellver Castle, Spain’s Majestic Island Fortress...

The man, dubbed Índio do Buraco, the “indigenous man of the hole,” resisted contact with the outside world for the past 26 years. “No outsider knew this man’s name, or even very much about his tribe – and with his death, the genocide of his people is complete,” Survival International Director of Research and Advocacy Fiona Watson said, according to CNN. “For this was indeed a genocide – the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth....

Pouncy was found slumped over on the stoop of a home across the street from the hot dog stand, bleeding profusely. In an ironic turn of events, a man robbing a wiener stand this Tuesday accidentally shot himself in the penis with his own gun. 19-year-old Terrion Pouncy was robbing a hot dog stand on West Pullman in South Side Chicago this Halloween when he accidentally shot himself in the penis, reports the Chicago Sun-Times....

Michael Jackson’s disgraced physician wasn’t saddened by the death of Joe Jackson, calling him one of the worst father’s in history. Page SixConrad Murray, Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson Joe Jackson, the patriarch and manager of the Jackson family including his late son Michael Jackson, died on June 27, 2018 at a hospice in Las Vegas at the age of 89. Now the disgraced personal physician of Michael Jackson, Conrad Murray, has spoken out, saying, “Joe Jackson was one of the worst fathers to his children in history....

While many have worshipped the bizarre specimen for its purported powers of everlasting life, others believe it’s a man-made creation. Kinoshita HiroshiThe mummy was allegedly fished from the waters off Shikoku island between 1736 and 1741. A mummified “mermaid” allegedly caught in the Pacific Ocean between 1736 and 1741 is now finally being studied for the very first time. The 300-year-old corpse had spent decades being prayed to at a Japanese temple for its believed powers of immortality — until Hiroshi Kinoshita, of the Okayama Folklore Society, found it in a box....

Though few know his name and his life ended in tragedy, Rod Ansell proved to be more incredible than “Crocodile” Dundee ever was. Movie-going audiences of the 1980s ate up movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Romancing the Stone, which depicted rugged alpha males navigating untamed jungles and rescuing beautiful women from peril. The 1986 Australian adventure movie Crocodile Dundee proved to be yet another success in this genre, becoming the second highest-grossing movie in the United States that year and the most successful movie that Australia had ever made to that point....

“This is the deepest fish that’s been collected from the ocean floor, and we’re very excited to have an official name.” Adam Summers/University of WashintgonA CT scan of the Mariana snailfish, showing a small shrimp in its digestive tract. Just when you thought there were no more fish in the sea, scientists have uncovered another one. The newfound species, known as the Mariana snailfish, is officially considered the world’s deepest fish....

We always knew spinach was healthy, but this discovery takes “super food” to a whole new level. If you look closely at the small veins stretching out from the stem of any spinach leaf in your salad, you’ll notice that they’re small and delicate — not unlike those that pump blood through our hearts. Scientists from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts have now used these similarities in an effort to overcome one of the main barriers to creating large-scale human tissue....

Because sometimes swimming in crystal clear water just isn’t luxurious enough – an awesome look at the coolest pools on earth. Source: Adelto Nestled on Chaweng Beach shore on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand, The Library Resort boasts minimalist-styled, luxurious suites, lush topiary, and an extensive collection of books for guests to peruse. Yet The Library’s most striking feature is the bright red pool situated against the ocean. Housing daybeds, Thai antiques, and a mini-library, The Red Pool is the resort’s most intriguing and appealing accommodation....

Sometimes product makers get things wrong — and sometimes, they knowingly risk lives for a quick buck. The worst product recalls of recent years will have you thinking twice about going to the store. An average of 30 class I and II recalls occur every week in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Image Source: Pixabay Developed countries usually have high standards for products available for sale within their borders....

Renaissance Masterpiece Worth $320,000 Found Gathering Dust On An Elderly Woman’s Bedroom Wall Dawsons AuctioneersBelieved to be created by Italian Renaissance artist Filippino Lippi or one of his followers, this 16th-century painting now dubbed “The Depiction of the Madonna and Child” shows Mary holding the baby Jesus. For decades, an elderly woman living in a small bungalow in north London kept an old oil painting of Mary and the baby Jesus above her bed....