The bed dates to the first century B.C.E. and was discovered alongside the remains of a wealthy woman who likely held a high position in ancient Greek society. Areti Chondrogianni-MetokiThe remains were found in the northern Greek city of Kozani. Archaeologists in Greece recently made the find of a lifetime when they unearthed the skeleton of a woman in a rare funerary bed in Kozani, near the ancient city of Mavropigi....
When Franchesca Esplin shared her experience of the reportedly lawful hunt online, she probably didn’t expect a flood of outrage and vitriol directed at her and her family. Franchesca Esplin/FacebookFranchesca Esplin showing off her bloody hands following her trophy hunt. Colorado hunter Franchesca Esplin has been on the receiving end of online outrage since she posted photos of herself smiling while holding the bloody carcass of a mountain lion she killed....
Lisa Renée Irwin went missing from her home in Kansas City, Missouri on the night of October 3, 2011, just hours after her mother put her to bed. Deborah Bradley/Wikimedia CommonsWhen Lisa Irwin’s father came home from his night shift, his wife was asleep and baby Lisa was nowhere to be found. Lisa Irwin was only 10 months old when she disappeared without a trace from her home in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2011....
Shark finning kills about 73 million of these animals each year just so we can make shark fin soup, a traditional dish that remains popular despite sometimes being toxic. An ancient Chinese dish that’s said to signify prosperity, shark fin soup remains a coveted meal to this day throughout many regions around the globe. It’s so sought-after that a single bowl can go for up to $100. But there is a dark side to this dish....
On September 6, 1949, Howard Unruh killed 13 people in 12 minutes. If he’d had enough bullets, he later said, he would have “killed a thousand.” In recent decades, the United States has become a world leader in gun violence — particularly mass shootings. Sadly, it seems like every few months that one troubled person will take out their anger or hatred on a large group of people and do so with a gun....
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin deported thousands of opponents and prisoners to a barren, isolated location that would become known as “Cannibal Island.” YouTubeNazino Island, also known as “Cannibal Island.” Nazino island is an isolated speck of land that sits in the middle of a river in Siberia. Nazino island is about as far from civilization as you can get, so little goes on there these days. But Nazino has a dark past....
The driest nonpolar desert on planet Earth, northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is like a Martian landscape that’s nestled between the Andes Mountains and South America’s Pacific coast. Right between Chile and Peru rests the Atacama Desert. Although it’s not exactly what you would call tiny (its area is over 41,000 square miles), in the public imagination, it often plays second fiddle to the Mojave and the Sahara. But the Atacama is more interesting than either, because it alone is the driest desert in the world — and very nearly the driest place on Earth....
When Malice Green — an unarmed Black man — was beaten to death by the police on November 5, 1992, many wondered if justice was even possible. FacebookMalice Green’s grieving mother. Malice Green was 35 years old when police in Detroit beat him to death. The unemployed steelworker had just driven his friend home when plainclothes officers approached and demanded to see his license. As he reached for the glovebox, they used their metal flashlights as weapons — and bashed his skull in....
Kamel Abdel Rahman was fixing up his family’s apartment when he fell from the second story — and onto an iron rod that pierced his skull. The complicated part was removing it. Kamel Abdel Rahman/Hadassah Medical CenterConcerns removing the rod could impact the patient’s speech or mobility were laid to rest after two lengthy surgeries. Kamel Abdel Rahman was doing construction on his family’s apartment when the accident occurred. They say no good deed goes unpunished....
Mary “Mae” Coughlin was mostly known for being Al Capone’s wife, but she was also his fierce protector when he fell gravely ill. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesAl Capone’s wife, Mae, tried to avoid photographers while visiting her husband in prison. December 1937. By all accounts, Mae Coughlin was like any other hardworking Irish American in the early 1900s. As the daughter of two immigrants, she was studious and ambitious. But her life would change forever when she met Al Capone....
See photos and hear the unlikely survival tale of the giant tree lobster insect, somehow the most romantic creature ever to terrify humankind. The Lord Howe Island stick insect, also known as the tree lobster. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons “It’s a very emotional story about an animal that most people don’t get emotional about,” Paige Howorth, the San Diego Zoo’s curator of entomology, told NPR. Given that she’s referring to the fact that the zoo recently brought an enormous black insect the size of a human hand back from near extinction, she speaks the truth — at least the latter half....
On June 6, 1944, now known as D-Day, the Allied forces landed on Sword Beach as a part of their invasion of Normandy — and nearly all but won it in two hours. “This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place,” said Sir Winston Churchill of the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion by the Allied powers on the shores of Normandy. Five sections of the Normandy shoreline were chosen for the invasion and codenamed: Gold, Sword Beach, Omaha, Utah, and Juno....
Elisa Lam’s death in a water tank at the notorious Cecil Hotel shocked Los Angeles in 2013. To this day, nobody knows how she died or how her body got there. “In 22 years plus of doing this job as a news reporter, this is one of those cases that kinda sticks with me because we know the who, what, when, where. But the why is always the question,” said NBC LA reporter Lolita Lopez in reference to the mysterious death of Elisa Lam....
They’re on track to hit net-zero emissions by 2050. Andrew Aitchison/In pictures/Getty ImagesThe Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in England. The station emits 8–10 million tons of CO2 annually. This week, the U.K. government announced that it had successfully performed a week-long run without any coal power. It’s a significant achievement given that coal powered more than a third of the British grid in 2013, according to the Sydney Morning Herald....
The telescope’s 3,200 megapixel camera is so powerful that it could spot a golfball from 15 miles away. SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryThe camera that captured the largest single photograph in human history is 13 feet long and five feet in diameter. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Telescope in Chile, which is currently under construction, will let scientists peer into space farther than ever before. Crucial to that effort is its 3,200 megapixel camera, which scientists have just tested on a piece of Romanesco broccoli — and that image is now considered the largest single photograph ever taken....
Million-dollar penny up for auction, Bronze Age prosthetic hand found, temple to pre-Aztec “Flay Lord” uncovered. $1 Million Penny Found In Young Boy’s Lunch Money Goes To Auction Heritage AuctionsThe 1943 Lincoln penny was found in a high-schoolers lunch money in 1947. In 1947, 16-year-old Don Lutes Jr. found a rare 1943 Lincoln penny in his lunch money while a high school student in Massachusets. The “most famous” coin is one of 20 accidentally minted copper coins, whose existence the government even denied for years....
A record $100 million worth of ancient artifacts from the Middle East and North Africa found its way to the U.S. last year. Luis Martinez/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement U.S. Census Bureau documents indicate that more than $100 million worth of artifacts were shipped to the United States from Egypt and Turkey in 2016 for personal use, Live Science reports. While these artifacts’ origins are difficult to determine, many of them were very likely looted from conflict-ridden areas in the Middle East and North Africa....
Can microdosing LSD enhance creativity and alertness as many in Silicon Valley now claim, or is this scientifically untested trend nothing but a passing fad? Wikimedia CommonsMicrodosing involves taking very small quantities of psychedelic drugs such as LSD (pictured). Much like the ancient Mesoamerican shamans believed to have used magic mushrooms to speak with their gods, modern artists and musicians have long used LSD and other psychedelics in an effort to obtain greater creative vision....
Had he so desired, the “Father of Relativity” could have been Israel’s second president. Wikimedia CommonsAlbert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey, soon after he fled Nazi Germany in 1933. As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the creator of the world’s most famous equation, Albert Einstein had an impressive resume. But there was one notable title he turned down: President of Israel. Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, said that Einstein was “the greatest Jew alive....
In times of crisis, call a woman. This maxim has been lived throughout history, but is certainly evident during World War Two. When American women weren’t building airplanes, ships and munitions to aid in the war effort, others were entering the baseball field. As the draft plucked many minor league players from the field in 1942, American baseball industry bigwigs feared that the war might also snatch away major league players and bring an end to America’s favorite (and financially lucrative) pastime....
