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Johann Rehbogen was not even 21-years-old when he served as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Now, more than 70 years later, he is being held accountable for his actions. Getty ImagesJohann Rehbogen, whose face is obscured on court order, attends his trial in Germany on Nov. 6, 2018. A former Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during the Holocaust is now on trial for his alleged role in hundreds of murders that happened on his watch....

The former state GOP chairman was found peering into the windows of his estranged wife’s home while donning a woman’s wig and touching himself. Idaho Republican Party/ADA County Sheriff’s OfficeJonathan Parker was arrested for masturbating while stalking his ex-wife — who already had a restraining order out against him. In late May, police in Boise, Idaho responded to a complaint regarding a disturbing man in a woman’s wig staring into the windows of an apartment complex while fondling himself....

See the world’s very first computer and compare its now laughably limited capabilities with those of the amazing supercomputers of today. The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), the modern age’s first computer. It’s virtually impossible to imagine what the world would look like today without the computer. Though you might not think it, everything from the food we eat to the football helmets we wear to the rockets we send into space needed a computer’s help in some way....

“I don’t know if he was crazy, but he got some kind of orgasm. I wanted to leave during the show. The man was creepy.” A newly released book detailing the sexual experiences and sex life (or lack thereof) of Adolf Hitler describes an incident involving Hitler having “some kind of orgasm” while watching a violent movie depicting French soldiers dying at the hands of his fellow Austrians. Volker Elis Pilgrim, the best-selling German author and psychologist, has just released a book detailing the sexual life of Adolf Hitler that includes a passage detailing this sexual cinematic experience....

The farmers wanted to increase the fertility of their own pigs as Danish hogs produce more pigs per litter, but in so doing, they ran the risk of introducing Australian pigs to foreign diseases like pig plague. FreeStockPhotos.BizPig semen from revered Danish hogs was transported in hand lotion and shampoo bottles. Two Australian pig farmers have been jailed for their involvement in an illegal racket that has spanned years and endangered the public with viral diseases like pig plague (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome), African Swine Fever, and Foot and Mouth Disease....

Suspected Nazi spy Inga Arvad was simultaneously linked to both Adolf Hitler and John F. Kennedy. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesInga Arvad around the time of her competition in the 1931 Miss Europe pageant. Denmark. January 27, 1931. Her letters to him are typed on yellowing paper featuring the Washington Times-Herald letterhead. They run through a few pages of minor gossip; the romantic parts are kept until the end. “I have made up my mind to turn out a few stories – and when I get time a few babies – hope illegitimacy becomes a fadd (sic) after the war, as I only know one man worth reproducing a perfect copy of,” she writes....

In 1919, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas tried to organize for better wages — until a white mob and U.S. troops murdered hundreds of them. In the Jim Crow South, many Black farmers knew that white landowners were taking advantage of them. But in 1919, the Black sharecroppers of Elaine, Arkansas had had enough. So they met to unionize. But when local white men heard that the Black sharecroppers were planning to fight for fairer wages and better working conditions, they claimed that they were actually plotting to murder all the white people in town....

After four white police officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King in April 1992, protests turned violent as the LA riots left 53 dead, 2,000 injured, and thousands incarcerated. On April 29, 1992, the streets of South Central Los Angeles erupted into chaos. Four white officers of the LAPD had just been acquitted by a nearly all-white jury in the violent, videotaped beating of a black man named Rodney King — and the city’s black community was now incensed....

In any society, peculiar institutions tend to grow up that only have relevance—or make any sense at all—within the context of that society. The unique subculture of Drag, for example, came out of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, and it developed so rapidly into its own little universe—with its own rules and taboos, customs and conventions—that even somebody born just a generation earlier would have a hard time understanding it....

Laura Bullion worked as a prostitute before falling in with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch — and riding alongside them in the Old West until her arrest in 1901. Public DomainLaura Bullion was one of five women who spent time with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch outside of Fannie Porter’s brothel. In November 1901, the Pinkerton Detective Agency finally tracked down the man they’d been hunting for months: Ben Kilpatrick, a member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch who was responsible for stealing banknotes from a train in Montana five months earlier....

Lawrence Michael Handley faces up to 35 years in prison for the kidnapping scheme gone spectacularly wrong — that ended with the two abductors dead. Lafayette Sheriff’s Department53-year-old Lawrence Michael Handley faces up to 35 years in prison. Facing a bitter divorce, Michael Lawrence Handley made a shocking choice. The Louisiana millionaire paid to have his wife kidnapped so that he could foil the simulated plot himself and return to her good graces....

Known only as Alexander, the victim was mauled and dragged into a brown bear’s den as food for later. When found, he resembled a mummified corpse. Wikimedia CommonsThough it’s rare for brown bears to attack and then drag prey into their dens, it does happen. Alexander just happened to be part of that unlucky minority. Update: Recent revelations reported by The Independent have strongly suggested that this story was fabricated by a well-known syndication service that routinely couches its news in Russian tabloid sources....

The prehistoric drawings clearly depict five red deer, including two with fully-grown antlers. They predate any similar images of animals by about 2,000 years. Historic Environment ScotlandThe carvings have been dated to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, and are between 4,000 and 5,000 years old. A Scottish archaeology student accidentally made the discovery of a lifetime while taking an evening walk. Hamish Fenton was cutting through Kilmartin Glen, a prehistoric Scottish landmark known for its mound tombs and geometric carvings, when he thought to look inside a cairn tomb on the outskirts of the ancient site....

Born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, serial killer Richard Ramirez became infamous as the “Night Stalker” after killing 13 people between 1984 and 1985. On August 31, 1985, serial killer Richard Ramirez walked into a convenience store in Los Angeles. At first, the man known as the “Night Stalker” seemed like any ordinary shopper. But then, he noticed his own face on the cover of a newspaper — and ran for his life....

They say Mary Fields had “the temperament of a grizzly bear” and a quick hand on the draw, but it would be her devotion to her community that made her a legend across the Wild West. Aloft on a stagecoach pulled by a team of horses, Stagecoach Mary Fields covered over 300 miles every week to deliver mail across the West at the turn of the 20th century. The six-foot-tall courier was said to have “the temperament of a grizzly bear” and kept a revolver and a rifle on her person....

From 1998 and 2004, the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal collective and satanic cult whose members were convicted of killing two teenagers and burying a 27-year-old woman alive. Tollis FamilyThe Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal collective and Satanic cult responsible for at least two ritual murders in Italy in 1998. Pictured at the center is Fabio Tollis, one of their victims. In 2004, the Beasts of Satan and their shocking murders dominated the Italian headlines....

The raging controversy over GMO foods has both sides up in arms. But does either one truly understand what they’re even debating? Image Source: modernfarmer.com Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, have been looming over the public as one of the prominent evils of the United States’ food industry for over two decades. The first green light for production of a genetically modified crop, Calgene’s Flavr Savr tomato, was given by the US Department of Agriculture in 1994....

These famous KKK members reached the highest ranks of power in the U.S. government and shaped our history. Internet message boards have been hot this month with Anonymous’ alleged hacking of the Ku Klux Klan’s Twitter account. As befits an Internet phenomenon, much of what has been published so far is unsubstantiated, but several prominent public figures have been accused of secret membership in the KKK, including several pro-civil rights mayors and Representative John Cornyn (R-TX), the current House Whip....

Elvis Presley’s grandson Benjamin Keough bore an uncanny resemblance to the King, but he never managed to escape his shadow before dying by suicide at just 27. FacebookElvis Presley’s grandson Benjamin Keough with his mother, Lisa Marie Presley. As the grandson of Elvis Presley, Benjamin Keough grew up in wealth and luxury. He shared his iconic grandfather’s rock star good looks and seemed destined for fame. Unfortunately, he also felt increasing pressure to match his grandfather’s meteoric success....

Though they were only married for two years, Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil had a turbulent six-year relationship that ultimately put Winehouse on the path to her total self-destruction. Joel Ryan/PA Images/Getty ImagesBlake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse’s boyfriend and eventual husband, was in prison when the singer died at age 27. With an unassailable voice and the temperament of a firecracker, Amy Winehouse became a modern music icon. While she shook up the homogenized landscape of mainstream pop, her success was tragically short-lived....