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In March 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courtroom and killed Klaus Grabowski — the man on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter. On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courthouse in what was then known as West Germany. Her target was a 35-year-old sex offender on trial for her daughter’s murder, and he died after taking six of her bullets. Immediately, Bachmeier became an infamous figure....

Archaeologists have uncovered the skeleton of a warrior in northern Italy from the 6th century who after having his hand amputated, used a knife as a prosthetic hand. Ileana Micarelli et al.The skeleton with the knife and buckle displayed. Archaeologists have uncovered something pretty incredible in Northern Italy. Found in a Longobard necropolis, the skeleton of this medieval Italian warrior dates back as far as the 6th century. And long before Captain Hook, this man from the Lombardy region appears to have used a cap, buckle, and leather straps to attach a prosthetic knife to the stump of his amputated hand....

Duane Hansen has been described as a “longtime Nebraska resident who enjoys growing large pumpkins, gourds, and other vegetables as a hobby.” City of Bellevue/FacebookDuane Hansen celebrated his 60th birthday by breaking the record for “longest journey by pumpkin boat.” On Aug. 27, 2022, Nebraska native Duane Hansen hauled an 846-pound pumpkin down to the banks of the Missouri River, climbed inside it, and paddled his way to a world record....

Whether you know it or not, you have given plenty of Duchenne smiles throughout your life. They are, after all, the most joyous and genuine kind of smile. Share Flipboard Email What sets the Duchenne smile apart from the other kinds is not in the mouth, but instead in the eyes. While a polite, calculated smile (known as a Pan Am smile, named for the superficial smiles that that airline’s flight attendants were required to give each passenger) engages only the zygomatic major muscle to raise the corners of the mouth, a Duchenne smile engages both the zygomatic and the orbicularis oculi muscle to raise the cheeks and form crow’s feet around the eyes....

Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both suffered agonizing deaths after making minor slips of the hand while working on the plutonium orb known as the “demon core” at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. Los Alamos National LaboratoryA reconstruction of the 1946 experiment with the demon core that killed physicist Louis Slotin. To the survivors of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the close of World War II, these unprecedented explosions were nothing short of hell on earth....

Before Paris and Nicky were Violet and Daisy Hilton. Unfortunately, life for these Hilton sisters was far from charmed. The talented but lonely Hilton sisters. Source: Wimp For many today, the Hilton sisters are simply Paris and Nicky. Decades before the hotel heiresses became household names, though, there was another pair of well-regonized Hilton sisters: Daisy and Violet. The conjoined twins were born in 1908 in Brighton, England to a poor, unmarried barmaid named Kate Skinner, who believed the girls’ condition was a punishment from God for her indiscretions....

As it turns out, the iconic photo was nearly never published in the first place. Arthur Sasse/AFP It’s the iconic image of Albert Einstein. Sometimes it’s a wide-perspective shot that shows his companions in a car in the background. In other versions, it’s cropped to just show Einstein. Both versions capture the great physicist of the 20th century, white hair akimbo, sticking out his tongue in a moment of lighthearted fun before he heads home after a tiring night....

With Western humanity’s increasing appetites and waistlines, the food industry has found ways of delivering familiar products on a massive scale. And because most of us never see how every day grocery list items get to the supermarket, advertisers can draw our attention from the reality of the processes and methods behind popular foods. Orange Juice Non-concentrated orange juice brands would love you to believe that theirs is a far superior and much more natural product than their lesser competitors....

Courts said the statute of limitations for wrongful imprisonment expired while the man was still imprisoned. People arrested by immigration officers have no right to a court-appointed attorney. If they did, officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement would have noticed sooner that a man they’d been detaining and trying to deport for three years was, in fact, a U.S. citizen. In 2007, Davino Watson pled guilty to selling cocaine. When his sentence ended in May 2008, he was immediately arrested by ICE agents....

Warren Jeffs was the prophet and president of a polygamist Mormon sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — until he was convicted and sentenced to life for child sexual assault. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Ex-Child Bride Elissa Wall Seeks Millions From Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs 25 Haunting Photos Of Life Inside New York’s Tenements...

Sigmund Freud had a lot to say about the human mind. How much of it holds up today? Sigmund Freud at his desk in London, 1938. Imagno/Getty Images IN HIS 83 YEARS OF LIFE, Sigmund Freud cultivated a body of work so contentious that he has been called everything from a chauvinist to one of the 20th century’s most brilliant minds. Throughout the 20th century, the Austrian neurologist endeavored to dig deep into the human mind to understand our being....

What has been dubbed the world’s worst police sketch actually helped to identify the suspect in a theft case New York PostWitness’s sketch of suspect A picture’s worth a thousand words. Or in this case, a suspected thief. Authorities in Lancaster, Pa. were able to identity a man accused of stealing cash from a market stand after they released a witness’ hand-drawn police sketch. The sketch, which was posted to the Lancaster Police Department’s Facebook page, immediately garnered attention and mockery because of its less than stellar details....

After the stock market crash of 1929, a young Todd Webb was left jobless and broke. Share Flipboard Email He ventured out in search of gold and dabbled briefly in firefighting before returning, defeated, to Detroit in 1938. That’s when the amateur artist bought his first camera. After attending a workshop with photography icon Ansel Adams, Webb was hooked. He became a Navy photographer during World War II before moving to New York....

Alexis Neiers was arrested in 2009 due to her involvement with the “Bling Ring,” a gang of young Los Angeles thieves who broke into the homes of celebrities. Between October 2008 and August 2009, $3 million in cash and personal belongings was stolen from some of Hollywood’s most famous figures, including Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Lindsay Lohan. But as the public later discovered, the burglaries weren’t committed by some master criminal or band of thieves — they were the work of a group of kids from the Valley, nicknamed the “Bling Ring” by the media....

Archeologists first noticed a duct in 2019 that opened up into the ceremonial chamber since dubbed the Condor Gallery. Antamina/TwitterThe ceremonial gallery beneath the Chavín de Huántar temple complex. A team of archeologists exploring Chavín de Huántar, a 3,000-year-old temple complex in the Peruvian Andes, have made a stunning find. Beneath the ancient temple, they’ve uncovered hidden tunnels leading to a chamber, which contains artifacts left by the Chavín people....

Setting out on June 20, 1970, Dave Kunst walked 14,450 miles around the Earth — but not without experiencing hardships along the way. Dave Kunst/FacebookDave Kunst with a donkey named Willie Makeit II in France. 1971. After watching astronauts land on the moon in 1969, Dave Kunst felt desperate for adventure. He kicked around a couple of ideas and landed on an ambitious one: circumnavigating the globe by foot. On June 20, 1970, less than a year after the Apollo mission, he put his plan into action....

From buying political favors to dodging the draft, we look inside the hypocritical and scandal-ridden history of Donald Trump. Image Source: People Magazine Every four years, the United States gives the world one hell of a show in the form of the seemingly endless presidential campaign season. While the last few months of this spectacle are usually characterized by cautious maneuvering between two very serious candidates, the first nine months of every campaign season are marked by cranks, eccentrics, and clowns from both parties elbowing each other aside to get to the microphone and bark comically extreme remarks at the base in order to secure the all-important unhinged-lunatic vote in the primaries....

Emma Lazarus was a renowned Jewish-American writer whose most famous poem, ‘The New Colossus,’ is immortalized on the Statue of Liberty. WIkimedia Commons/Getty ImagesEmma Lazarus’ mighty words in ‘The New Colossus’ hang on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus’ deeply powerful work was very much influenced by her own family background, which consists of a long line of influential figures, and the suffering of the masses of Jewish refugees escaping persecution in Europe....

Though it’s covered in a layer of downy fuzz, the “hairs” of the gympie-gympie plant deliver a sting so toxic that the pain can last for years. Wikimedia CommonsThe unsuspecting leaf of the gympie-gympie stinging tree. Although the leaves of the gympie-gympie plant may look soft and fuzzy, one touch will make anybody regret they ever saw it. That’s because this stinging bush delivers one of nature’s most painful experiences. In fact, this native to the Australian rainforest has a sting that’s so intense, it’s driven soldiers to suicide ⏤ and the British government once considered using it as a biological weapon of war....

This doctor’s experiments tortured poor cancer patients, and he got away with it. Known as an early leader in the field of nuclear medicine and radiation research, Eugene Saenger’s work came at the expense of desperate cancer patients in search of relief. A Harvard graduate who spent almost 40 years at the University of Cincinnati, Saenger contributed to our knowledge of “biologic indicators of dosimetry, categorization of various acute radiation syndromes, and the development of triage procedures for radiation accident victims,” according to Dr....