The embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin has been preserved inside a glass case at his mausoleum in Moscow since his death in 1924. AFP Stringer/Getty ImagesThe body of Vladimir Lenin as seen in 1991, when it was photographed for the first time in 30 years. His eyes are closed, his hair is combed, and his mustache is neatly trimmed. He is dressed in a modest black suit, and his arms rest peacefully at his sides....
We might not even know the name Mafia today had this fledgling criminal group not narrowly defeated the rival Camorra gang in a bloody war on the streets of New York between 1915 and 1917. Wikimedia CommonsAlessandro Vollero’s Navy Street Camorra family. At one time, this could have been the organized crime group that became the face of the underworld in the United States. There are few organized crime groups as legendary and notorious as the Sicilian Mafia....
Plagued by overcrowding, Hong Kong has been exploring creative options to accommodate its burgeoning population. One such option? A retrofitted cement water pipe called an OPod. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis: Soaring Buildings And Rent In Wealthy Hong Kong, The Poor Are Living In Wire Cages 6 Future Homes For The Human Race...
The combined efforts of the British government, religious groups, and individual volunteers saved 10,000 Jewish and non-Aryan children from certain death. Getty ImagesPolish children rescued via Kindertransport arrive in London, February 1939. Great Britain was so disturbed by the events of Kristallnacht, the pre-war peak of open violence against Jews in Germany, that they opened their borders to Jewish children for refuge. Through trains and the occasional airplane, the British Kindertransport, or children’s transport, evacuated Jewish and other non-Aryan children from the Nazi regime....
Using 3D technology, scientists have now brought these expansive, 1,500-year-old mud glyphs to life. Photograph by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek.The glyphs are different from other American cave art examples, though researchers see familiar themes. For hundreds of years, the largest-known cave art images in the United States hid in plain sight. Made of mud and drawn onto a low ceiling 1,000 years ago, the figures were difficult to discern with the naked eye....
One of the most effective uses of this technology was in solving a double murder in North Carolina. New technological tools are being developed that allow forensic scientists to create a police sketch from a DNA sample. This new technology, known as DNA phenotyping, uses the genetic code in a sample of DNA to reconstruct what the owner of that DNA would look like. Every strand of DNA carries the instructions to make a whole person, so from one DNA sample researchers can recreate the appearance of the person it was taken from....
Ohio’s Hitler family includes Dr. Gay Hitler and George Washington Hitler. We kid you not. FacebookHitler Number 2 Road in Circleville, Ohio If you were to get a little freaked out while taking a tour of Circleville, Ohio, the residents would probably understand. After all, your hypothetical tourbus would have passed Hitler Number 1 Road, Hitler Number 2 Road, Huber-Hitler Road, Hitler Pond, Hitler-Ludwig Cemetery and Hitler Park. Maybe a few of the remaining Hitler descendants would have waved hello from their porches....
From his pet hippos roaming Colombia to the grisly details of his death, these Pablo Escobar facts reveal the story behind history’s most feared drug lord. If you haven’t yet seen the Netflix original series Narcos, stop what you’re doing and pull out your laptop right now. Narcos stars Wagner Moura, Maurice Compote, and Boyd Holbrook, and details the rise of Pablo Escobar, the devastating Colombian kingpin who ruled the world’s most complex and far-reaching drug trade — and killed thousands in the process....
From the tragic photograph of “Napalm Girl” to the invasion of D-Day, a stunning look at the five most iconic images of photography. Iconic Images Of Photography: Starving Child and Vulture, Kevin Carter, 1993 The most haunting image on the most iconic images of photography, Kevin Carter captured the devastating famine in Sudan with a photograph of a toddler crawling to a UN feeding center while a vulture stalks her as prey....
Between 1985 and 2000, four bodies were found crammed into barrels in the woods of Allenstown, New Hampshire, and authorities believe they were victims of “Chameleon Killer” Terry Rasmussen. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. The case stumped investigators for years: four bodies, found dismembered, skeletonized, wrapped in plastic bags, and stuffed in two 55-gallon steel drums in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire....
Beverley Allitt, also known as the “Angel of Death,” killed several children under her care. Her Munchhausen’s by Proxy syndrome had gotten out of hand, right as she became a nurse. TwitterBeverley Allitt, seemingly harmless, and smiling. Murder has been an inherent human fear ever since our ancestors could wield rocks and sticks well enough to commit the heinous act. Serial killers are even scarier due to the relentless carnage of their patterns and the unpredictability of their evil presence....
The ship was carrying marble for gravestones and other items when it sank in the 13th century likely during the reign of Henry III. Bournemouth University/Historic EnglandA diver inspects one of the Purbeck marble gravestones discovered amid the wreck. Seven-hundred-and-fifty years ago, a ship sank in Poole bay in Dorset, England. Now, the so-called “Mortar Shipwreck” has been declared England’s oldest, and given government protection. According to the BBC, the wreck was first discovered in 2020 by a diver named Trevor Small, of Rocket Charters diving group....
Woman buried with husband’s heart, important Harriet Tubman photo uncovered, ancient Roman artifact found in New York, pregnant dinosaur cousin unearthed, and fearsome female gangsters. 17th Century French Woman Buried With Her Husband’s Heart PLOS ONEThe lead container in which was sealed the heart of Toussaint de Perrien, husband of Louise de Quengo. Louise de Quengo, a 17th century French noblewoman was recently found to be buried with her husband’s heart, embalmed inside a lead container....
Mastodon jaw accidentally found, Tiananmen Square’s “Tank Man” honored, ancient beer yeast resurrected. Iowa Teenager Finds 34,000-Year-Old Mastodon Jaw While Walking Around Friend’s Farm A teenager went looking for arrowheads on a friend’s farm in Iowa. Instead, he found the bones of a 34,000-year-old mastodon — an elephant cousin that went extinct 10,000 years ago. The jaw bone, which measures 30 inches long, belonged to a juvenile mastodon — an elephant-like animal believed to have roamed Iowa tens of thousands of years ago....
Photo by Sijori Images. Source: Daily Mail UK In the United States, group recognition of death is typically a somber — and formulaic — affair: we wear black, head to the funeral, and watch as life slowly returns to earth or ash. This particular ritual is not one shared around the world, though, as evidenced in the following practices. WARNING: This post contains some graphic images. Sky Burial Photo by John Hill Source: Wikipedia...
An Intimate Look At New York City’s Punk Scene In The 1970s Legendary photographer David Godlis, commonly known as GODLIS, captured iconic shots of the punk scene at its height in New York City in the late 1970s. Before becoming a punk photographer, Godlis drew influence from Brassaï’s The Secret Paris of the 30’s, an evocative photo memoir that reveals a forbidden Paris — opium dens, brothels, prostitutes — and instantly wanted to reproduce this book with music history in the ’70s....
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a Jewish pianist living in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. He didn’t know that his musical abilities would save his own life. You may have heard the expression music saves. Well for Wladyslaw Szpilman, the expression took a literal meaning. Born in Poland on December 5, 1911, Wladyslaw Szpilman took his first piano lesson with his mother. He couldn’t have known at the time that this would be the first step in saving his life....
From the bog bodies of Europe to Jack the Ripper, we look at the mind-boggling unsolved mysteries left by our ancestors. The Greatest Mysteries Of Human History: The Lost City of Atlantis The Lost City of Atlantis is one of the oldest and greatest mysteries of the world. Since ancient times, people have been trying to locate Atlantis, which is believed to have submerged after an earthquake or tsunami. Greek philosopher Plato described Atlantis as a large island located near the Rock of Gibraltar, home of the most advanced civilization and being of unrivaled refinement with a glorious palace....
A bitter feud between German sneaker giants Rudolf and Adolf Dassler saw that their company split into the two behemoths we know today. The shoes that African American track and field star Jesse Owens wore to the first-place podium at the 1936 Olympics were crafted by none other than two German-born brothers. Those brothers, Rudolf and Adolf Dassler, had built one of the most successful athleticwear empires in Nazi Germany from inside their parents’ house....
The mosaic was first discovered in the 1930s and once formed part of the dance floor on one of Emperor Caligula’s giant party ships where he hosted lavish and debaucherous events. 60 Minutes/YouTubeThe mosaic was lost after Caligula’s assassination in 41 A.D. In the 1960s, antique dealer Helen Fioratti and her husband purchased a mosaic from an aristocratic family in Italy. And when they brought it home to New York, they put it on a base and made it into a coffee table that they used daily for nearly 50 years....
