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Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, confessed to abducting and killing seven-year-old Athena Strand after making a delivery at her Texas home. FacebookOfficials have not yet revealed how Athena Strand was killed. A search for a missing girl ended in tragedy last week. After seven-year-old Athena Strand disappeared from her Paradise, Texas, home on Wednesday, November 30th, her body was recovered by investigators on Friday, December 2nd. Police in Texas have since charged a FedEx driver, 31-year-old Tanner Lynn Horner, with her kidnapping and murder....

In the last three months, bees in Brazil have been dying en masse after being exposed to toxic pesticides that are banned elsewhere. Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty ImagesLab results show that many of the dead bees in Brazil died from pesticides containing neonicotinoids and fipronil. A mass wave of dead bees in Brazil has sparked concern among environmentalists. As reported by Bloomberg, roughly 500 million bees have dropped dead in the Latin American country over the last three months....

“The cannabis revolution that’s going on here in the U.S. has the power to completely revitalize communities in the same way gold did during the 19th century.” American Green, one of the country’s largest cannabis companies, has bought an entire town for several million dollars. Though Nipton, California is currently an unremarkable, 80-acre desert town, American Green plans to turn it into a sort of pot paradise. https://twitter.com/lloydjbl/status/721132301929742336 While the Golden State was the go-to destination for the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, as one of the main states leading the charge in legalized recreational marijuana, it’s now home to a different colored rush....

The poachers were killed after a 30 minute shootout with wildlife services troopers. YouTubeKWS troopers on duty. Three elephant poachers are dead following a lengthy shootout with wildlife service troopers at a Kenyan wildlife reserve. Last Thursday, troopers with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) at the Mount Elgon National Park on the border between Kenya and Uganda encountered a group of five poachers armed with AK-47 rifles. After a shootout that lasted 30 minutes, three of the poachers were killed while the remaining two escaped with injuries....

During the Holocaust, 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrück — most of whom never walked back out. Rescued women from Ravensbrück. Among the horrors of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Mauthausen-Gusen, the story of Ravensbrück often gets overlooked. Perhaps it’s because it was one of the only camps exclusively for female prisoners — perhaps a strange concession to propriety in the middle of a genocide that killed men, women, and children indiscriminately — and people mistakenly assume that a women’s camp was a kinder, gentler place....

The March on Washington: why John F. Kennedy opposed it, why Martin Luther King Jr. almost didn’t “have a dream,” and everything else your history teacher never told you. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is probably best remembered as the event in which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. But King almost didn’t even say those words that day. In fact, there’s much more to the story of this crucial civil rights moment than you learned in school....

From swimming with sharks to leaping off a cliff during a rockslide, the best GoPro photos show you the world from angles you didn’t think possible. Photography used to be a painful process, with even simple portraits requiring the subject to sit still for hours. But over the years, we’ve seen monochrome turn to color, film turn to digital and, recently, drone photography become its own popular genre, while Instagram users (even the reprehensible ones) compete for hundreds of millions of fans....

Vintage images help reveal the surprising origins of the first guide dog school ever that still operates in New Jersey to this day. The first graduating class of the first seeing eye dog school in America, The Seeing Eye, in February 1929. The first class had two students and two dogs, Tartar and Gala. Image Source: The Seeing Eye Although they’re now an inextricable part of so many of our lives, no one knows exactly where and when humans first domesticated dogs....

In most industrialized societies, just about everyone has a memory about playing Nintendo. In fact, Nintendo’s impact was so powerful that during the 1990’s, children were more likely to recognize Super Mario than Mickey Mouse. Source: Before Mario Founded in the autumn of 1889, Nintendo Playing Card Co. was the opportunistic endeavor of Fusajiro Yamauchi, who capitalized on a lifted ban on playing cards. Foreign card games had long been banned by the Japanese empire as subliminal Western imperialism, but an exception was made for a regional picture deck called hanafuda, or “flower cards....

Graham Askey visited 91 nations in search of the world’s worst toilet and claims to have found it in Tajikistan. Graham AskeyGraham Askey’s search was inspired by an experience he had with a toilet in Morocco. Some people travel the world in search of adventure. Others hope to discover new foods or experience foreign cultures. But 58-year-old blogger Graham Askey had a slightly different motivation. He traveled 75,000 miles in search of one thing: the world’s worst toilet....

Sgt. James Hines slammed Maggie Thomas onto the concrete — in front of her four-year-old daughter — and punched her in the face. Nineteen seconds later, he deployed his stun gun. A local news segment on Maggie Thomas’s brutal encounter with now-former Atlanta Police Sgt. James Hines. Per ABC News a video surfaced recently showing a white Atlanta police sergeant dragging a black woman out of her car, slamming her to the ground, and tasing her....

M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart is no stranger to hiking long distances, having walked between California and Chicago as well as the Florida Keys and northern Quebec. Nimblewill NomadM.J. Eberhart, right, accepts an engraved hiking stick from Dale Sanders, the previous record holder. In February 2021, M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart started to walk. And walk, and walk. Now, the 83-year old nicknamed “Nimblewill Nomad” has become the oldest person to hike the Appalachian Trail....

Whether these creatures are truly horrifying is in the eye of the beholder, but they are all undeniably fascinating. Twitter It only makes sense that scientists would choose to share the most disturbing real-life images of creatures of the deep in honor of Halloween this year, as life in the oceans continues to be of the most mysterious and unexplored. Indeed, if there were monsters anywhere, they’d be here. Scientists that specialize in the depths have demonstrated that it is truly the spookiest place that exists....

From a fear of wind to the fear of peanut butter getting stuck on the top of your mouth, these ten weird phobias are strangely real. Weird Phobias: Nomophobia Topping the list for bizarre and unusual phobias is the modern affliction, nomophobia. The phobia is characterized by feelings of anxiety that arise from being out of a phone’s range of service, not having one’s phone charged, having no credit on one’s phone or misplacing it....

In 1908, former New York City elementary school teacher Lewis Hine became an investigator and photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), an organization dedicated to “promoting the rights, awareness, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working.” Share Flipboard Email Hine then traveled the country for decades documenting child labor conditions in factories, while also hitting the streets, alleys, and tenements of New York City, photographing young newsies, gum vendors, bowling alley “pin boys,” messengers, and others forced into work by the absence of any meaningful child labor laws....

Look inside the era of warehouse parties and PLUR during the blossoming of rave fashion and culture in the 1990s. In the early 1990s, a nascent culture coalesced around electronic dance music and their concerts, referred to commonly as raves. Home to eclectic and diffuse genres like house, trance, and techno, the rave scene evolved into a subculture bound together with a distinctive ethos, a unique fashion sensibility, and an adventurous spirit to drug use, particularly ecstasy....

Experts originally thought the jugs were funerary urns, but 12 years of restoration and testing have shown that they were actually meant for beer. FacebookThis is one of the six fermentation jars. It weighed around 220 pounds — and would’ve weighed twice as much when filled with beer. In 2008, archaeologist Rodrigo Esparza discovered a plethora of artifacts near the 2,000-year-old Guachimontones circular pyramids in Mexico but was unable to determine what exactly they were — until now....

Despite being tried by two juries, Byron De La Beckwith was not convicted of murdering Medgar Evers in his own driveway in 1963 — until 30 years after the crime. In the early morning of June 12, 1963, tragedy struck in the driveway of 2332 Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. At around 12:30 a.m., white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith emerged from a patch of honeysuckle and gunned down civil rights leader Medgar Evers as he exited his car in his driveway....

Megan Hess and her mother operated a funeral home in Montrose, Colorado — but they secretly sold body parts behind the scenes. Montrose Daily PressMegan Hess outside her Colorado funeral home in an undated photo. For eight years, Megan Hess appeared to serve her community of Montrose, Colorado, as the owner of a local funeral home. But unbeknownst to her clients, she was actually selling their loved ones’ body parts, charging them for cremations that never happened, and giving them random sets of ashes instead of their relatives’ remains....

After serving prison time for smuggling marijuana, “Boston George” Jung graduated to cocaine and helped make Pablo Escobar the wealthiest drug lord in the world. Few drug dealers have ever had the same level of connections, charisma, and influence as American drug smuggler George Jung. Even fewer have managed to escape death or life-long prison sentences the way “Boston George” has. Joining forces with Pablo Escobar’s infamous Medellín Cartel, Jung became largely responsible for about 80 percent of all the cocaine smuggled into the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s....