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For nearly two centuries, Australia pursued deliberate policies of extermination against the native people that have left scars visible to this day. Wikimedia Commons Writing about the two months he spent in Australia during the around-the-world voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin recollected this about what he saw there: Darwin happened to visit Australia at a bad time. During his 1836 stay, all of the indigenous people of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand were in the midst of a catastrophic population crash from which the region has yet to recover....

Legendary Jewish-American mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel helped develop the Las Vegas Strip — before he was brutally gunned down in 1947. In the 1930s and 1940s, Bugsy Siegel thrived as one of America’s most notorious gangsters. He ran gambling and bootleg rackets in New York, rubbed shoulders with movie stars in Los Angeles, and poured money into building hotels in Las Vegas. But his violent delights had violent ends. More than anything, Siegel is famous not for how he lived — but for how he died....

In 1865, Constance Kent confessed to murdering her three-year-old brother, Francis, when she was just 16 — but that was just the beginning of this disturbing tale. Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesConstance Kent was 16 years old when her brother’s body was found behind her house. It was known as the Great Crime of 1860. On June 29, 1860, an unknown assailant murdered 3-year-old Francis Savile Kent in a brutal fashion. Scotland Yard investigated....

Insects comprise about 90% of all living things in the world, but you’ll wish they didn’t after you see these five creepy insects! Source: Wikimedia Sometimes truth is stranger than the fiction seen on the silver screen. Case in point? Insects. Between six and ten million insect species live on Earth, representing more than 90 percent of differing animals on the planet. Their sheer numbers can be daunting for humans to comprehend, especially when estimates say that for every living human being there are 1....

Millionaire John du Pont was certainly eccentric, but Dave Schultz never anticipated that he could be a murderer. John du Pont and Dave Schultz. On Jan. 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, one of America’s most accomplished Olympic wrestlers, was murdered in cold blood by John du Pont, the heir to one of America’s greatest fortunes. The 2014 Oscar-nominated film Foxcatcher, chillingly, was not so far off from the true story. John E....

These images have given researchers new insights into the previously unknown civilization, but have also raised many questions. BBC MarathiSome of the rock carvings found in Maharashtra. A new discovery in western India has stunned archaeologists and hinted at the existence of a previously unknown ancient civilization. According to the BBC, a pair of explorers found thousands of rock carvings (known as petroglyphs) in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra. The images, which date back to 10,000 B....

The as-yet-unnamed rhino calf weighed in at 150 pounds and will weigh some 5,100 pounds when it grows up. Walt Disney WorldKendi and her yet-unnamed baby are recuperating after a 16-month pregnancy. A southern white rhinoceros calf born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park has conservationists cheering for this near-threatened subspecies. According to CNN, the pregnancy took 16 months — and saw the first rhino born at the park in 1999 become a mom....

For better or worse, many tend to view strength as a masculine trait, and thus often consider strong leadership as something that men exclusively possess. The historical record, however, belies such a claim. Wu Zetian Indira Gandhi Golda Meir Bidhya Bhandari Sheikh Hasina Elizabeth I Hatshepsut Queen Seondeok Indeed, though history’s most-widely remembered leaders are typically men, many female leaders have demonstrated that genetics alone do not determine strength or political acumen – and that you don’t need a king to be a queen....

Source: The New York Post Much has been said and written about Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” the film adaption of an 1853 autobiography by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. and sold into slavery in 1841. A realistic depiction of the brutality of slavery, the film has been hailed as long overdue, especially because it’s based on a memoir that McQueen said kept him wondering why he had never heard of it before....

When the first Neanderthal skull was discovered with a hole carved in it, paleontologists thought it was a sign of ritual cannibalism — but now know hyenas were the predators. Italian Ministry of CultureMany of the bones showed signs of being burnt and featured cut marks or clear signs of gnawing. In 1939, workers at a beachfront hotel to the south of Rome accidentally discovered the mutilated skull of a Neanderthal in a long-sealed cave underneath the property....

Idaho teenagers Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik plotted the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart for weeks in an effort to “be just like ‘Scream.’” Reddit via family handoutCassie Jo Stoddart was just 16 when she was brutally murdered by two of her classmates. High school student Cassie Jo Stoddart had the world ahead of her when her life was cut short by two of her classmates, Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper, who wanted to become world-famous killers....

Here’s a look at what’s expected to be when the JFK assassination records are released. Decades have passed since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, yet the truth behind what happened is still mired in secrecy, and conspiracy theories abound. Everyone from the C.I.A. to the U.S.S.R. to the Illuminati have come under scrutiny from conspiracy theorists. But next month, due to a little-known act called the President John F....

In 1953, Duane Mann and Peggy Yamaguchi started planning their lives together before the end of the Korean War tore them apart. KETVDuane Mann and Peggy Yamaguchi, both 91, reunited on June 1, 2022 near Yamaguchi’s home in Michigan, just a 14 hour drive from where Mann has lived in Iowa since he returned from the Korean War. For almost 70 years, U.S. Navy veteran Duane Mann lived with a weight on his heart....

A report attached to photos of alleged UFO sightings stated that the aircraft could be legitimately considered as originating from “alien” or “non-human” technology. EPA/US Department of Defense handout; Handout/US Department of Defense/AFP via Getty ImagesImages from an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots showing interactions with “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAPs. Two allegedly classified intelligence reports from the Pentagon about UFOs, including photos of an “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP, have reportedly been leaked to the public....

The Megatherium roamed South America for some 5.3 million years before it fell victim to mass extinction — though some rainforest natives claim to have seen a similar creature roving through the trees. Wikimedia CommonsAn artist’s rendering of a now-extinct Megatherium. The year is 9,000 B.C. Humongous cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, and massive-antlered Irish elk roam the grasslands and forests of South America, but the biggest of all is the Megatherium, an elephant-sized ground sloth....

He may look creepy, but he’s actually said to be a “fatherly” figure. FlickrA depiction of Papa Legba on American Horror Story. Practitioners of Haitian Vodou believe in a Supreme Creator, Bondye, which translates in French into “Good God.” However, the Supreme Creator does not intercede in human affairs. For that, there are loas, subservient spirits that act as intermediaries between Bondye and the human world. Perhaps the most important loa in Vodou tradition is Papa Legba....

In 1972, Patrizia Reggiani married Maurizio Gucci and joined a world of fashion royalty. Two decades later, she hired a hitman to kill the magnate outside of his Milan office. When Patrizia Reggiani married Maurizio Gucci, it seemed like a match made in heaven. She was a wealthy, young socialite who resembled Elizabeth Taylor. He was the heir to a fashion empire, the likes of which Italy had never seen. Their marriage not only crumbled in divorce, however, but saw a jilted Reggiani order her husband’s murder....

Pedro Rodrigues Filho isn’t exactly Dexter, but he is a serial killer who murdered other criminals. Which would make him one of the “nicer” serial killers. Pedro Rodrigues Filho is one serious serial killer. He’s responsible for at least 70 murders, 10 of which he committed before he reached the age of 18. When it comes to Pedro Rodrigues Filho though, being a good guy can actually pay off. Rodrigues targeted victims who, for the most part, weren’t just average everyday people....

As the civil rights movement brought attention to Black Americans’ struggle for equality, whites across the country launched a brutal counter-movement. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Inside The Anti-Civil Rights Movement That Drew Support From Boston To San Francisco To Montgomery Reliving The Civil Rights Movement, In 55 Powerful Photos 33 Powerful Photos Of The March On Washington That Changed Civil Rights In America...

It’s the first full 3D skull of a land-based snake species that sported hind legs during prehistoric times. Fernando Garberoglio, et alA rare well-preserved skull of Najash rionegrina, an ancient hind-legged serpent. It’s not every day that aspiring scientists stumble upon something groundbreaking, but it happens. In February 2013, Fernando Garberoglio — then still an undergraduate paleontology student from the Universidad de Buenos Aires — found a 95-million-year-old skull of an ancient snake....