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Once revered as the first woman in space, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova has since become a contentious figure as she has fought to keep President Vladimir Putin in power. Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesSoviet cosmonaut and first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in the Vostok 6 capsule in June 1963. In June 1983, Americans gathered around their televisions to watch Sally Ride make history as the first American woman in space — but she was not the first woman to go into space....

Check out these vintage circus photos from the early 20th century, when audiences crammed into tents to witness spectacles of danger. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Before-And-After Photos Of Plastic Surgery’s Early Days 33 Thrilling Images From The Wild Early Days Of Flight 24 Raw Photos From The Wild Old Days Of Women’s Wrestling...

From her time as Bruce Lee’s wife to her work as a teacher and philanthropist, Linda Lee Cadwell has lived a life marked by great triumph and great tragedy. Linda Lee Cadwell is many things: a devoted wife, a caring mother, and a proud life-long learner. Those who’ve heard of her know she was Bruce Lee’s wife, but the now-widowed philanthropist can’t — and shouldn’t — be solely described as such....

Zvi Ben-David was on a hike with his family near the Besor River when he suddenly noticed a strange object. When he picked it up, he realized that it was a ceramic figurine of a woman. Facebook/Israel Antiquities AuthorityAlthough time has sanded away some details, the amulet appears to depict a woman. While on a hike with his family in Israel’s Negev region, 11-year-old Zvi Ben-David noticed something unusual near the banks of the Besor River....

“For me it’s just amazing because I’ve been aspiring to be a paleontologist for as long as I can remember.” Terri Trembath/CBC/NCC12-year-old Nathann Hrushkin found a dinosaur fossil while hiking with his father in Alberta. A lot of kids dream of becoming dinosaur experts when they grow up. But one kid in particular just got a glimpse of what it would be like to work his dream job as a paleontologist after he discovered the bones of a 69-million-year-old dinosaur....

Authorities in Birmingham, England have identified neither attacker and are now appealing to the public for help. British authorities are now appealing to the public for help in locating the two perpetrators behind what police are calling a “horrifying ordeal.” Some time between 7 PM on July 25 and 2 AM the following morning, a 15-year-old girl was raped at Witton train station in Birmingham. She had walked there with a friend, only to be led away by a man who then assaulted her in a secluded part of the station....

Originally designed as a Nazi war vessel, the Amphicar 770 made a splash as the only amphibious car ever mass-produced. Jim Nightingale/Newsday RM via Getty ImagesA reporter test drives an Amphicar in the water with Al Bodkin, the general sales manager for Amphicar Corp. in the back. The Amphicar was a short-lived amphibious car manufactured in West Germany during the 1960s. Originally devised as a military vessel for Nazi operations during the war, it went on to become a fad among car drivers in the U....

Rare photographs of the world’s most famous landmarks when they were still under construction. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Long History Of The Crazy Horse Memorial, The Unfinished Monument To The Sioux War Hero 50 Famous Photos That Changed Our World From Celebrities To Serial Killers: 48 Famous Mugshots Brought To Life In Vivid Color...

These warships from the Battle of Leyte Gulf were found in late November by a team led by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. In October of 1944, the United States and Japan fought the largest naval battle of all time in the waters surrounding the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar and Luzon, in what would be known as The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Now, 73 years later, researchers have discovered five of the Japanese warships sunk in this battle on the seabed off the coast of the Philippine island Surigao, reported the Asahi Shimbun....

With Halloween just around the corner, check out these haunted bed and breakfasts for a fear-filled weekend. When most think of “getting away from it all,” the last thing that comes to mind is a weekend in The Shining hotel. But since vacationing is really about re-awakening the senses, for some there is no better a way to achieve that than by getting a little scared. If you fall into that camp, you might try these haunted destinations:...

New York Mafia boss Frank Costello survived gang wars, police scrutiny, and an assassination attempt on his way to becoming one of the city’s wealthiest mobsters. As far as mob bosses go, there were three things that set Frank Costello apart: he never carried a gun, he testified at a Senate hearing on organized crime without the protection of the Fifth Amendment, and despite his multiple arrests and assassination attempt, he died a free man at age 82....

“This is a unique discovery of the first ever remains of a fully grown Pleistocene wolf with its tissue preserved.” Albert ProtopopovScientists estimate that the wolf lived 40,000 years ago. You never know what you might encounter during a casual stroll in Siberia. Local resident Pavel Efimov was walking along the Tirekhtyakh River in the Russian Republic of Sakha when he came across something bizarre: a severed wolf head. But upon closer examination by experts, they found that it wasn’t just the head of any kind of wolf, but that of a prehistoric predator which lived 40,000 years ago during the Ice Age....

How did El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, wind up with the highest per capita murder rate on Earth? JOSE CABEZAS/AFP/Getty ImagesA police investigator examines the body of a man killed in a targeted attack on a bus in the town of San Luis Talpa on May 23, 2014. Over the last few years, the small Central American nation of El Salvador has become the murder capital of the world thanks to a terrible confluence of factors ranging from political instability and the war on drugs to a bleak history and personal rivalries between powerful gang members....

It’s falsely believed that Jayne Mansfield died when she was beheaded in a fatal June 1967 car accident, but the truth is even grislier — and much sadder. Like her rival, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield died tragically young, leaving a rush of rumors in her wake. On June 29, 1967, around 2 AM, a car carrying Jane Mansfield and three of her children, including actress Mariska Hargitay, slammed into the back of a semi-truck on a dark Louisiana highway....

When John Wojtowicz robbed a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover’s gender-reassignment surgery, he inspired the classic film “Dog Day Afternoon” — which only begins to tell the whole story. Dan Cronin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesWhile in the middle of the Brooklyn bank robbery depicted in Dog Day Afternoon, John Wojtowicz points at cops and tells them to back off. “How many times do I have to tell you guys to get out of here!...

When a New South Wales resident hired two men through Facebook to stroke his semi-naked body with a broom, he did everything right — except give them the correct address. PixabayThe machetes weren’t part of the initial role-playing agreement, but fortunately didn’t cause any harm. In a shocking sexual roleplay gone wrong, two men armed with machetes entered the wrong house in New South Wales, Australia in July 2019. While the client who hired them was eager to be tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom — the baffled homeowner who woke up to find them was not....

The man was allegedly experiencing a bipolar episode when he attempted to drown himself in a pool. Now, he’s suing the lifeguard who saved him for not acting fast enough. The IndependentMateusz Fijalkowski is suing the lifeguard and officers who saved his life. A man who attempted to drown himself in an apartment complex’s pool is now suing the lifeguard who rescued him, not because he intervened in his attempt, but because he took too long to do so....

Known among the Nazis as “the girl with the red hair,” 24-year-old Hannie Schaft was so deadly that Adolf Hitler personally ordered her capture. Hannie Schaft was only a teenager when the Nazis invaded Poland. Less than a year later in 1940, German tanks rolled into the Netherlands. Schaft knew that the Nazis would terrorize her country — so she dedicated the rest of her life to taking down the Nazi occupiers....

“Princess Caraboo” was actually Mary Baker Willcocks, an English cobbler’s daughter who fooled an entire town near Bristol, England into believing she was royalty from the Pacific island of “Javasu.” Edward Bird/Wikimedia CommonsThe artist Edward Bird painted Princess Caraboo’s portrait in 1817. On the Thursday before Easter in 1817, a strangely dressed woman walked into Almondsbury, a village eight miles north of Bristol. Carrying no more than soap and a few coins, the mysterious woman began knocking on doors, calling herself Princess Caraboo....

Valeria Lukyanova and Justin Jedlica have spent untold dollars to look like real-life Ken and Barbie dolls — and they’ve caused plenty of controversy along the way. Like it or not, Barbie and Ken’s exaggerated proportions have shaped popular conceptions of physical beauty for decades. This has led some to go to extreme lengths to turn themselves into human dolls — or even the real-life Barbie and Ken. Two such people are Valeria Lukyanova and Justin Jedlica....