“She had great respect for [Adolf],” said one man who spoke with Paula Hitler in 1959. “Had I asked her about anything that might’ve been critical of him, I think she would’ve protected him." Ullstein Bild/Getty ImagesAdolf Hitler’s sister Paula Hitler after her arrest by U.S. troops at the end of World War II. May 1945. In 1930, a woman named Paula Hiedler was fired from her job at an insurance company in Vienna, Austria....
At first, Natalie Richard thought her daughter just misunderstood, but after speaking with the teachers, she realized the insane rule was very real. Fox 13 NewsNatalie Richard, the concerned parent who attempted to change the rule. Parents in Weber County, Utah, are firing back at an elementary school after the principal told female students that they can’t say no when asked to dance. Natalie Richard first raised questions when her sixth-grade daughter came home and said she was told that she couldn’t say “no” if a boy asked her to dance at the Valentine’s Day dance....
A Pennsylvania teen has sued his high school for the “humiliating” experience of sharing space with a trans student. There has been a lot of talk about bathrooms as of late. Most of it centers on how to protect transgender people, who often feel unsafe when using facilities designated for a gender with which they don’t identify. The counter — and evidence-free — argument typically comes from Republicans, who insist that letting trans people use whatever bathroom they want will allow sexual predators to disguise themselves in order to assault little girls....
In “Goodfellas,” Joe Pesci’s Tommy DeVito is a complete psychopath. As it turns out, Tommy DeSimone was even crazier in real life. Warner Brothers/Getty ImagesRay Liotta as Henry Hill, Robert De Niro as James “Jimmy the Gent” Conway (Jimmy Burke), Paul Sorvino as Paul “Paulie” Cicero (Paul Vario), and Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito (Tommy DeSimone) in the 1990 film Goodfellas. Goodfellas is often considered one of the best Mafia movies ever made....
In the 1930s, Stalin’s forces slaughtered between 3 and 5 percent of the Mongolian population. Look back at the days, both gruesome and exuberant, before. Buddhist monks in the Mongolia capital as it was over 100 years ago. Nearly one hundred years ago, the Bolsheviks in Russia revolted. Mongolia, the cold, massive country lodged between Russia and China, had its own Communist revolution in 1921. Though Mongolia remained outside the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin brought Mongolia heavily under Soviet influence with violent incursions into Mongolian life and politics....
These microfossils are the oldest ever found on this planet. Scientists have found the earliest fossil record of life on Earth just outside an Inuit village in Quebec. Share Flipboard Email The researchers, who recently published their findings in Nature, say that they have found evidence of ancient microorganisms in rocks that are 3.8 to 4.3 billion years old (the Earth itself is only 4.5 billion years old). According to Motherboard, not only are these the oldest rocks on the surface’s crust but these “microfossils” are the oldest fossils ever found as well....
Albert Anastasia’s bloody end was fitting considering the life he lived. Wikimedia CommonsThe mugshot of Albert Anastasia, the man behind Murder, Inc. The Greek word anastasis literally means “to rise.” It’s a fitting base for the name of Albert Anastasia, who went from a poor, fatherless boy in Italy to New York’s most feared gangster — a man so bloodthirsty that he was called “Lord High Executioner.” Albert Anastasia Comes To America Wikimedia CommonsThe New York docks where Albert Anastasia and his brothers worked....
Due to the religious significance of Saint Eanswythe’s bones, scientists could only analyze them in the church. Mark HourahaneResearchers were not allowed to take Saint Eanswythe’s remains out of the church. When workers discovered human bones behind a church wall in southern England in 1885, they couldn’t confirm what they’d found. But upon analysis more than 100 years later, it’s become clear — the bones belonged to one of England’s earliest saints....
“If cannabis was one of the main ingredients of the ancient anointing oil and receiving this oil is what made Jesus the Christ and his followers Christians, then persecuting those who use cannabis could be considered anti-Christ.” GettyA depiction of Mary Magdalene anointing the feet of Jesus Christ. Jesus and his apostles might have used cannabis oil to perform his healing miracles — a controversial theory that is being championed by a number of experts....
No one could believe that mild-mannered Charlie Brandt had mutilated his wife and niece until they discovered his grisly past. Wikimedia Commons Charlie Brandt Charlie Brandt always seemed like a normal guy — until one bloody night in September 2004. At the time, Hurricane Ivan was barreling toward the Florida Keys, where the 47-year-old Brandt lived with his wife, Teri (46). They evacuated their home on Big Pine Key on September 2 to stay with their niece, 37-year-old Michelle Jones, in Orlando....
“Literally your on my mind almost every single day since you were in the news.” RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesChris Watts sits in courtroom during his sentencing in November 2018. The story of Chris Watts has been a wild rollercoaster ever since he first begged the public on national television to help him locate his missing wife and two daughters on August 14, 2018. A day after that cry for help, the 33-year-old Colorado man was arrested as a suspect in the murders of his wife Shannan, 34, and daughters Bella, four, and Celeste, three....
Dina Sanichar was raised by wolves in India’s Uttar Pradesh jungle until hunters found him in 1867 and brought him to an orphanage. He would later serve as Rudyard Kipling’s inspiration for the character of Mowgli. Wikimedia CommonsA portrait of Dina Sanichar, widely known as the real-life Mowgli, taken sometime between 1889 and 1894. Rudyard Kipling’s novel The Jungle Book tells the story of Mowgli, a boy who was abandoned by his parents and raised by wolves....
The hyakusecchin — or “hundred-person toilet” — is about 600 years old and located in the Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto. Kyoto Prefectural Board of EducationThe 30-year-old driver accidentally reversed onto the toilet. A member of the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association, whose job is to maintain the city’s history, accidentally did the opposite this week, when he smashed through the wooden doors of Japan’s oldest existing toilet at the Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, with his Toyota WiLL Vi....
President Richard Nixon meets with Elvis Presley at the White House on December 21, 1970. Presley was there, many sources say, in hopes of getting a badge from the federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, so that he, as he believed, could carry firearms and drugs as he pleased, wherever he pleased.National Archives/Handout/Getty Images This photograph of the devastating impact of a napalm attack on June 8, 1972 remains the most iconic image of the Vietnam War....
James Stern has thus far managed to convince the group’s former leader to retire swastikas and other over Nazi iconography — and also to make him the group’s new president and director. BITA HONARVAR/AFP/Getty ImagesMembers of the National Socialist Movement march toward Greenville Street Park in Newnan, Georgia on April 21, 2018. On the heels of Spike Lee’s latest film, BlacKkKlansman — a historical reimagining of a black man who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan from within — comes a shockingly similar real-life story in Detroit....
Since its 1958 birth, the iconic Muppet franchise has revolutionized the field of puppetry — and it’s not showing any signs of stopping. This fall, Jim Henson’s puppet crew returns to TV for the first time since 1998. Co-created by Bill Prady and Bob Kushell, the latest incarnation of the Muppet Show has already seen its share of controversy, with some deeming the show unsuitable for children. “The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s are now weighing in on inter-species relationships and promiscuity,” wrote Christian fundamentalist group One Million Moms in its campaign to have the show canceled....
An infamous punishment used to maintain order at sea in the 17th and 18th centuries, keelhauling was when sailors would be dragged under ships as punishment. Ancient forms of torture are notorious for their cruelty and creative ways of inflicting excruciating pain. The practice of keelhauling is no exception. Said to be used by the navy and pirates in the 17th and 18th centuries, keelhauling is a form of punishment in which the victim is suspended by a rope from the mast of the ship, with a weight attached to his legs....
Son of a Revolutionary War veteran, a Civil War veteran himself, and one of the first frontiersmen of the West, Kit Carson became an American legend during his own lifetime. Kit Carson became a larger-than-life figure during his own lifetime, to the point that many people who met him were surprised by his unassuming manner. American frontiersman, Indian scout, trapper, and altogether total mountain man Kit Carson became something of a legend in his time for his outlandish stunts and stories featured across the country’s news articles....
From 1854 until her death in 1904, British explorer Isabella Bird traveled the world — and defied traditional gender norms of her time. Wikimedia CommonsIsabella Bird stood just 4’11” tall, but she had an outsized impact on the travel writing genre. She circled the globe in the 19th century. She climbed the Rocky Mountains, scaled a Hawaiian volcano, and snapped pictures of China’s Forbidden City. And, in so doing, Isabella Bird became one of the most iconic female explorers of the Victorian era....
A study in Rome revealed that 75 percent of new mothers had microplastics in their breast milk a week after giving birth. Getty ImagesScientists say that, despite the finding, breastfeeding is still an optimal way to feed infants. In recent years, microplastics have been found in everything, from the ocean to human blood. Now, scientists have detected the presence of microplastics in the breast milk of new mothers in Italy....
