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The Manson Family was about 100 strong in 1969 when a group of them went on a killing spree — but what’s happened to them since? Forty-eight years after orchestrating a series of brutal murders, notorious cult leader Charles Manson died, but the trail of blood he left in his wake remains a stain on American history. Manson, who spent 48 years in prison for ordering members of his cult, the Manson Family, to commit two bloody and brutal murders, was able to live to the ripe old age of 83....

There are currently no more than 10,000 of these mesmerizing Asiatic cats left on the planet. One of them just got killed for “likes.” AsiaWireThe estimated total population of clouded leopards across the globe currently sits at a meager 10,000. The mesmerizing clouded leopard has long walked the rainforests of Indonesia. But, according to National Geographic, its listed as “vulnerable” today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. And according to the Daily Mail, a group of poachers just posted photos of themselves laughing as they hold a clouded leopard’s corpse....

Opponents remind Rep. Mike Ritze that it’s unconstitutional to deny public education to any child regardless of immigration status. When confronting a $900 million hole in the Oklahoma state budget, Republican Rep. Mike Ritze came up with a controversial solution. Republicans don’t like raising taxes, he reasoned, and they don’t like undocumented immigrants. So, they should round up the state’s 82,000 non-English-speaking students and hand them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement....

Camelus knoblochi lived out its final days in Mongolia — and may have been prey for our human ancestors. PixabayC. knoblochi was a shaggy, two-humped camel that was twice the size of its modern relatives. New research by archaeologists in Mongolia, Russia, and the United States is revealing previously unknown information about the ancient giant camels that once roamed the Central Asian grasslands. Recently published in Frontiers in Earth Science, the study looks at Camelus knoblochi, a species of giant camel that scientists now believe coexisted with early humans and other wild camels that still live in Asia today....

Mr. Rogers always wore long-sleeve sweaters, which made some people convinced he was hiding tattoos underneath them. Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty ImagesThe rumors about Mr. Rogers’ tattoos first began circulating sometime before the 1990s. If urban legend is to be believed, Mr. Rogers had a bunch of secret tattoos on his arms — and he hid them extremely well with his signature long-sleeve cardigan sweaters. This story often goes hand-in-hand with the rumor that the host of the children’s TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was once a badass military sniper....

The noose in the National Museum of African American History and Culture is only the latest in a wave of hate-fueled incidents since November. It’s likely that the person who left a noose in an exhibit on segregation was aware of the irony. Though the National Museum of African American History and Culture focuses largely on exhibitions about the past — it’s curators and patrons are very aware that our country still has a long way to go in terms of race relations....

If not for the indomitable Queen Olympias, Alexander the Great may never have conquered half the world during his historic reign. Wikimedia Commons Queen Olympias (in red) bargaining with the Greek king Cassander. They say that behind every great man is a great woman. That’s definitely true of Macedonian king Alexander the Great — who conquered most of the known world in the fourth century B.C. — and his mother, Queen Olympias....

The freezing environment preserved some of the penguins so well that they still had feathers attached to them. Steven EmslieMany of the 5,000-year-old penguins in this “graveyard” were remarkably well preserved. Rapidly melting polar ice caps have revealed that thousands of years ago, there was a thriving penguin community in the Antarctic that has since been reduced to a “graveyard” of frozen mummies. According to Live Science, an Adélie penguin colony was discovered frozen in the ice at Cape Irizar, which is located south of the Drygalski Ice Tongue on the Scott Coast of Antartica in 2016....

These Studio 54 photos will take you inside the dance club that defined a generation and hosted celebrities from Andy Warhol to David Bowie. Known for its raucous parties and A-list guests, the first three years of Studio 54’s existence were the most exclusive and enticing — and that was by design. As Rubell said, “the key to a good party is filling a room with guests more interesting than you....

From 1943 until the end of the war, these brave men and women risked everything to sneak into German-held territory and aid the resistance. Wikimedia Commons/Yad VaShem ArchiveNearly 40 Jews volunteered to serve with Britain’s Special Operations Executive behind enemy lines in World War II. In 1943, the slaughter of millions of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe became frighteningly clear to the rest of the world. But the Allies focused most of their fighting power on targeting German military resources, having neither the interest in nor the ability to enable oppressed Europeans to fight back against their occupiers....

French charmer and serial killer Henri Landru got his nickname from the old French folktale of Bluebeard. In French folklore, there is a character named Bluebeard. As the legend goes, Bluebeard and his wife lived in a castle in the French countryside. One day, Bluebeard had to leave for a business trip and left his wife, Fatima alone at the castle. He gave her a set of keys, that went to each door of the castle, but warned her not to use the last one, as it went to a secret closet in the basement....

David Hahn caught the attention of the FBI and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after he attempted to build a “breeder” reactor in a Michigan potting shed in the mid-1990s. YouTube/Weird HistoryDavid Hahn, the so-called “Radioactive Boy Scout,” pictured in front of the shed in which he tried to build a nuclear reactor. In 1995, a teenage boy scout in Michigan named David Hahn attracted the attention of local authorities in his Detroit suburb....

An unsuspecting Uber customer couldn’t believe what he was witnessing in the front seat. https://www.facebook.com/aner.martino/videos/o.120945717945722/10213985424574864/?type=2&theater Asked to comment, Uber told tech site Gizmodo that it had terminated the driver. “The behavior of this former driver is appalling and is not tolerated on the Uber app,” said a spokesperson. “As soon as this situation was reported to us, we immediately removed this driver’s access.” Manuel told Esquire, “I think he assumed at that time of night I was too intoxicated to notice what was going on....

Photographer Provides A Breathtaking Glimpse Of “Untouched” Romania From economic disaster to war to the rise and fall of competing ideologies, Romania has seen it all. And now, some 20 years after its bloody fight to get out of the clutches of the iron curtain, Romania has made its way into the European Union and begins to process its past–as well as its future. In his photo series on the former Eastern Bloc member, Hungarian photographer Tamas Dezso seeks to capture the relationship between Romanians and land, as well as its “awkward democratization that for the time being is burdened with the unprocessed past”....

On March 10, 1945, the U.S. Army Air Forces conducted history’s deadliest air raid on civilians in Tokyo — leaving 100,000 people dead. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Why The Victims Of Agent Orange Are Still Suffering To This Day 28 Haunting Photos From The Battle Of Kursk: The Clash That Changed WWII ‘A Harvest Of Death’: 33 Haunting Photos Of The Battle Of Gettysburg...

Sherry Johnson’s family tried to protect the members of their church congregation that raped her by forcing her into marriage. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty ImagesA young actress plays a child bride in a protest by Amnesty International to denounce child marriage. At least one child under the age of 16 gets married in Florida every few days. That’s because what many would call underage marriage is still legal in every state in America — typically with the consent of parents or a judge....

During the counterculture era, a tiny Indian state became home to European and American hippies who wanted to flee the West. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Height Of Hippie Power: 55 Photos Of San Francisco In The 1960s 39 Vintage Hippie Photos That Capture Flower Power In Full Bloom Society’s Dropouts: 31 Eye-Opening Photos Of America’s 1970s Hippie Communes...

“Bitcoin has a big problem, and it is growing fast.” Ars Technica“A single transaction uses as much electricity as an average household in the Netherlands uses in a month.” It seemed like, overnight, everyone was talking about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Questions like, should I invest in Bitcoin? Is cryptocurrency a good idea? Or even, how does it work? dominated conversations on the topic. Financial economist and blockchain specialist Alex de Vries, who works at the Experience Center of PwC in the Netherlands, has focused on a less common point of conversation: The amount of energy Bitcoin uses, a topic he extensively wrote about in a May 16, 2018 article for Joule....

From starting Big Cat Rescue to coming under suspicion for Don Lewis’ disappearance, this is the story of Carole Baskin only hinted at in Tiger King. Carole Baskin likely never imagined that her participation in Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness would result in her becoming a household name. But the seven-part documentary series did just that — and renewed a decades-old investigation into her missing husband, Don Lewis....

Archaeologists suspect that all 142 dogs died at the same time — but there are no signs of violence on their remains. Centre for Egyptological Research of the Russian Academy of SciencesThe remains of the child alongside 142 dogs. The sands of Egypt are rich with historical discoveries, but archaeologists working near Cairo recently came across a puzzling find while excavating a necropolis. There, they unearthed the ancient remains of an eight-year-old child laid carefully across the bodies of 142 dogs....