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After Guy Fawkes plan to kill King James I was foiled, he was sentenced to the worst kind of execution. One he managed to escape. Well, sort of. Wikimedia CommonsGuy Fawkes caught during gunpowder plot. Breaking your neck is obviously never ideal. Except in the case of Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes, along with 12 other English Catholics, was part of the famed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a plan to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords....

Judith Love Cohen, the mother of actor Jack Black, helped design the critical Abort Guidance System that allowed the Apollo 13 astronauts to safely make it back to Earth. Wikimedia Commons Judith Love Cohen at work, circa 1959. As a teenager, Judith Love Cohen went to a guidance counselor to talk about her future and professed her deep love of math. But the counselor had other advice. She said: “I think you ought to go to a nice finishing school and learn to be a lady....

Led by Abba Kovner, the Nakam group of Jewish vigilantes hatched an audacious plan to kill 6 million Germans as revenge for the Holocaust. Wikimedia CommonsOne-time Nakam leader Abba Kovner with members of the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah in southern Israel. 1948. For many Jews, the end of World War II was not the end of their war with Nazi Germany. Many felt that the upcoming trial of some prominent Nazis wasn’t enough to account for the crimes of the Holocaust....

Results of a recent study made the rounds on the Internet this past week, tantalizing (and angering) social media users with the idea that women are “never straight,” but either bisexual or lesbians. In a recent study meant to learn more about female sexuality, researchers at the University of Essex showed 345 female participants clips of naked men and women, and documented their responses — such as if their pupils dilated while watching the clips....

After Isaac W. Sprague developed a mysterious condition that caused his weight to drop to skeletal levels, he endured a life of exploitation in P.T. Barnum’s museum of human curiosities. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve CollectionIsaac W. Sprague was afflicted by a mysterious ailment all his life which kept his weight dangerously low. One of the most enduring traditional sideshow acts was the living skeleton. An impossibly thin performer, born with a rare genetic disorder or who deliberately kept their weight dangerously low, would be shown to audiences to alarm, titillate, and make a living for those with few alternatives....

In the 19th century, Lucretia Mott made her mark on America as a trailblazing abolitionist and suffragist — who demanded equal rights for all. National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia CommonsLucretia Coffin Mott (1793 – 1880). Painting by Joseph Kyle. In the Quaker religion, men and women are considered equal in the eyes of God. So it came as quite the surprise to a teenaged Lucretia Mott that the Quaker boarding school she attended paid the male teachers more than the women....

For a growing segment of India’s nationalists, Gandhi is seen as a villain rather than a hero. BBCThe memorial was defaced with “deshdrohi”, or “traitor,” written in green paint. On what would have been his 150th birthday, vandals defaced a memorial to Mohandas K. Gandhi (or Mahatma Gandhi). “Traitor” was scrawled in neon green across his picture, and according to The New York Times, some of his ashes may have been stolen....

While her sister Anne was married to King Henry VIII of England, Mary Boleyn not only had an affair with him, she may have also bore him two children. Wikimedia CommonsThe daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard, Mary Boleyn held considerable power during the reign of Henry VIII, the husband of her sister Anne. Anne Boleyn was a force to be reckoned with: a courageous and driven woman who wanted to be queen and pushed King Henry VIII to risk everything by revolting against the Catholic Church....

In 2005, 26-year-old Kerri Rawson found out from an FBI agent that her father Dennis Rader was the BTK Killer who murdered 10 people, many of whom were young women just like her. Kerri Rawson was raised by loving parents and had a beautiful childhood. Her father regularly took her fishing, hiking, and helped her decorate the Christmas tree. But in 2005, when Rawson was 26, she found out he was the BTK Killer who had been binding, torturing, and killing people for years....

During his 26-year reign at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Henry Cotton performed over 645 twisted operations in which he tried to “save” the mentally ill. American psychiatrist Henry Cotton had an interesting insanity theory. He was convinced that by removing the infected teeth of mental patients he could cure them of their insanity. The doctor, who was the protégé of the great psychiatrist Adolf Meyer of John Hopkins, was convinced that insanity resulted from untreated infections in the body....

1. DNA It’s a well-known fact that the discoverer of DNA’s double-helix structure was under the influence of a little hallucinogenic drug called LSD. The Nobel Prize winner and pioneer of the genetics research, Francis Crick, admitted to fellow scientists that he enjoyed dabbling in LSD to strengthen his mind and used it during his discovery of DNA. On a personal level, Crick was enlightened by Aldous Huxley’s accounts of experiments with LSD and other drugs, and was even a founding member of a group dedicated to the legalization of cannabis in the 60s....

From lush forests made of broccoli to minions composed of rice, food art reminds us that we don’t have to sacrifice our childhood imagination for great art. Source: Daily Mail Although their parents warned them not to play with their food, the following five artists never listened to that piece of advice. And surprisingly, we’re thankful for that. Using rice, chocolate, salmon and grains as their mediums of choice, these “childlike” individuals create incredibly complex pieces of art....

The fattest states also rate as among the worst for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type two diabetes. In the last couple of decades, the United States has been largely associated with obesity across the world, but which states give our nation this reputation? A new study from the personal finance website WalletHub, has ranked all 50 state, and the District of Columbia, in a number of metrics related to weight and health....

“…something out of a movie scene, where you have bills, loose bills flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping, people getting out of their cars.” Fox59 News People jumped over fences to fill their pockets, but could be charged with theft The Brink’s Company is an American security and protection company, which could be considered ironic considering what happened on the morning of May 2, 2018. Those going westbound on I-70 near Holt Road in Indianapolis likely witnessed bags of money falling out onto the interstate as the back door of a Brinks armored truck swung open, allowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to flow free....

The two men were spotted by a tanker crew 214 miles off the coast of Delaware after drifting for a week and a half. Crew of the Silver MunaWhen asked if they would try to sail from New Jersey to Florida again, Joe DiTomasso responded, “No… I’m staying in sight of land,” while Kevin Hyde said, “Sure, why not. I’m not dead yet.” When Joe DiTomasso, 76, and Kevin Hyde, 65, set out from New Jersey on a sailboat called Atrevida II with a dog named Minnie, they were looking forward to traveling south and enjoying the Florida sunshine....

Patricia Davies decided there is no time like the present to live out your dreams. A World War II veteran living in Leicestershire, England has come out to the world as a woman. Although The New York Post reports that Patricia Davies knew that she was a woman ever since she was a toddler, Davies only began transitioning now at the age of 90. Davies kept her identity secret for such a long time because she was scared of the repercussions that would befall her if she told the truth....

In this extremely rare case, three of the recipients died and only one survived. The breast cancer was found in three women and one man who all received transplants from the same donor. Four people in Europe developed breast cancer after receiving organs from a donor who was unknowingly infected with the disease. A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation revealed that three women and one man all developed breast cancer following organ transplants from the same donor....

Though some bog bodies discovered in northern Europe over the years belonged to people who fell into the bogs and accidentally drowned, researchers suspect that many were deliberately sacrificed. Lea Mohr Hansen, ROMUArchaeologists are hopeful that DNA can be extracted from the bog body’s 5,000-year-old teeth. While examining the site of a future housing development near Stenløse, Denmark, archaeologists came across 5,000-year-old human bones. Sunk into a former bog, archaeologists believe that this “bog body” may have been a victim of Neolithic human sacrifice....

These DNA results have changed the way scientists are thinking about the migratory patterns of ancient populations. Sikora et al.Scientists discovered human baby teeth in Siberia that contained the oldest genetic material yet retrieved from the country. Two remarkable discoveries in Siberia recently have revealed the existence of two previously unknown groups of ancient peoples. As it turns out, one of these lost Siberian populations is believed to be the ancestor of modern Native Americans....

The tortoise likely sought refuge beneath the shop to lay her eggs and probably perished before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii Archaeological ParkArchaeologists carefully dig out the remains of the tortoise, whose shell is still visible after 2,000 years. Over the years, archaeologists have found a number of stunning artifacts in the doomed city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. But archaeologists recently came across an especially peculiar find while excavating the Stabian Baths — the 2,000-year-old remains of a pregnant tortoise....