A hiker in the Mauna Loa Forest Reserve happened upon the two bombs, which had been used to divert a dangerous lava flow. Jack Lockwood/USGSThe bomb was dropped on Mauna Loa in 1935 and first photographed in 1977 (above), but is believed to have not been seen again until now. When Kawika Singson went for a hike on Hawaii’s Big Island in February, he surely expected nothing more than some scenic hiking around Mauna Loa volcano....
While the practice of burying chariots may not have been unusual for the time period, finding horses and a driver included in the burial is. TwitterA similar chariot and remains discovery at a construction site in England. A development company in Pocklington, England was shocked to discover a buried chariot while preparing for the construction of a new property. Not only did the company discover the chariot, but it also found that the remains of both the rider and the horses which pulled the chariot were buried with it as well....
After Lady Moody became the first woman to found a settlement in the New World in 1645, she then established one of the first “grid systems” in what would later become New York City. New York Public LibraryMap of Gravesend. 1873. She was branded a “dangerous woman,” but “persisting still,” she moved to Brooklyn and founded a community based on religious freedom and rational planning. Believe it or not, the year was 1645....
Shoji Morimoto provides a curious service to the lonely and socially anxious — and has been in especially high demand since the COVID-19 pandemic. @morimotoshoji/TwitterShoji Morimoto has done it all, from waving strangers goodbye to watching them busk in the rain. With more than 37 million residents, Japan’s bustling capital can be a daunting and lonely place. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, countless Tokyoites had difficulty navigating their social anxieties....
Not even a recorded video or police record seemed to have an impact on the sentence. Neha Rastogi, a former quality engineer for Apple, had been abused by her husband throughout their ten-year marriage. She says Abhishek Gattani would beat her arms, slap her face, punch her in the stomach and force her to stand for hours at the foot of their bed. She says he constantly called her derogatory names and psychologically abused her, convincing her that she was inadequate and had brought the torture on herself....
The Kanamara Matsuri festival is more than just penis-shaped candies, it’s a celebration of diversity and sex-positivity. Kiyoshi Ota/Getty ImagesPeople carry the pink mikoshi during the Kanamara Matsuri parade. Once a year, every April, thousands of people from around the globe flock to Kawasaki, Japan for Kanamara Matsuri, an ancient fertility festival that celebrates an age-old Japanese legend. At the center of attention? The famed mikoshi – a giant pink penis....
Built in the mid-1940s, the “Spruce Goose” was the largest flying machine of its time — and it was made entirely out of wood. During the 1930s, few men in America were as well-known as Howard Hughes. Though he was also a movie mogul and real estate investor, Hughes is perhaps best known for his career in aviation. Not only did he invest in aviation and aerospace companies, but he also flew the planes himself....
The popular TV show tends to gloss over women’s “monthlies” and the pains of wearing a corset. We bring you the real Downton Abbey. Edwardian Era Fashion + The Realities of The Female Menstrual Cycle Reality check: as any woman will tell you, your uterus doesn’t care how good you look in white. Periods are the number one way to ruin a pretty pair of panties, a nice dress or a pair of khakis....
“The only reason I’m here is because I had been messing around with a white lady,” Walter McMillian said from death row. Equal Justice InitiativeWalter McMillian spent six years on Alabama’s death row for a murder he didn’t commit. When Walter McMillian was a 12-year-old black boy in Monroe County, Alabama — where Harper Lee set To Kill a Mockingbird — a bullet-riddled black man was found hanging from a tree in nearby Vredenburgh....
The government has taken extraordinary measures to repopulate Banff National Park with bison. Parks Canada, the country’s national parks office, airdropped 16 young and pregnant wild plains bison into Alberta’s Banff National Park on February 1st in order to help repopulate the area with the threatened species. The bison in question were taken from Elk Island National Park, located near Edmonton, Alberta, and transported to a nearby ranch overnight. In the morning, a helicopter airlifted them to Banff National Park (see exactly how the operation went down above)....
Today, obesity is not so much a rarity as it is an international epidemic. 100 years ago, being the world’s largest couple meant belonging to a circus. We fret about obesity today in a way that few generations ever have. Human heft was once rare enough to go on tour; today, it’s become normalized. At yesteryear’s tawdry freak shows, gawkers would crowd around men, women, and couples claiming to be the largest in the region, the country, or the world....
In José Guadalupe Posada’s world, we must start by affirming one truth: we will all one day be skeletons. Life becomes a lot simpler once we accept that. Source: Library of Congress Though José Guadalupe Posada died over a century ago, the apparitions in his art still haunt the world. Posada was a cartoonist, and his work reached a fever pitch just as the Mexican revolution was beginning. The man who some call Mexico’s first modern artist was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 1852....
Humanity’s greatest thinkers couldn’t stop pondering these questions, and you won’t be able to either. Jean Jacques Rousseau “What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?” Lord Byron “What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?” Leo Tolstoy “Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.” Henry David Thoreau “What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?...
The chamois mummy is just a preview of the other animals, artifacts, and even humans that scientists expect to rise to the surface as glaciers continue to melt. Ciril Jazbec/FacebookThe mummified chamois was found in Gepatschferner, Austria’s second-largest glacier. A team of glaciologists working on the Gepatschferner — Austria’s second largest glacier — was elated to find a small, goat-like animal preserved inside a partially melted wall of ice while performing a routine check-in on a nearby weather station....
From George Washington and Alexander Hamilton to Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the men who forged the nation also committed some unspeakable acts. Even though America’s founding fathers have been mythologized into godlike figures, it’s important to remember that they were human and were, of course, subject to flaws. These men have been carved in stone, but they were anything like the perfect sculptures their resolute faces on Mount Rushmore suggest they were....
Whether in black and white or saturated with color and light, even the most commonplace of objects assume new, ornate features under a microscope. We’ve found seven ordinary objects that transform into incredible (and sometimes terrifying) images up close. 1. Alcohol Under a Microscope If you’ve been wondering what your favorite cocktail looks like under a microscope, look no further. Michael Davidson, from the company BevShots, captured these incredibly colorful images of alcohol under a microscope....
Van Gogh was a proponent of the plein air method of painting, where an artist depicting the natural world paints outdoors. Great works of art often hide secrets, but few are as odd as the real grasshopper discovered in a Vincent Van Gogh painting. Art curators at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. found the remains of a dead grasshopper embedded in the layers of paint in a Van Gogh painting, reported The Kansas City Star....
Albert Fish confessed to dozens of crimes after his arrest, each one of them more depraved than the last. Bettmann/Getty ImagesSerial killer Albert Fish claimed to have murdered a child in every state. By November 1934, 10-year-old Grace Budd had been missing for six years. There had been no promising clues or developments regarding her disappearance. That is, until her mother Delia Flanagan Budd received an anonymous letter. “Dear Mrs. Budd,” it read....
Alvin York’s moral code was strictly anti-violence. When he was forced to enlist in the army, he had to weigh his religious beliefs against his duty as a draftee. Wikimedia CommonsAlvin York at home with his mother and younger sister, 1919 / Battle scene painting depicting York’s bravery, 1918. From a wild drunk to a pacifist to a decorated war hero, Alvin York underwent several transformations. He grappled with religion and serving his country, ultimately having to decide what it meant to be a good man....
The Native American needles were carved from turkey bones, and originally found in 1985 — before researchers realized their significance. A. Deter-Wolf, T.M Peres, and S. Karacic/Journal of Archaeological ScienceThese sharpened turkey bones bear the traces of pigment used to make tattoos. Tattoos are generally associated with modern times, but their use stretches back thousands of years. In fact, according to a stunning new find, ancient people used tattoos much earlier than previously thought....
