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Twenty-eight-year-old Alberto Sanchez Gomez will serve 15 years and five months for the gruesome murder of his mother in Madrid. Spanish PolicePolice arrest Alberto Sanchez Gomez for killing and eating his own mother. The Madrid neighborhood of Las Ventas is best known for its famous bullfighting ring. But its sunny, picturesque streets hid something horrible — a cannibal. A local man was just convicted of killing and eating his own mother....

Helen Viola Jackson was only 17 years old when she married 93-year-old James Bolin in 1936. According to Jackson, the veteran wed her so she could have a future during the Great Depression. FacebookJackson’s husband wanted her to collect his Union pension after he died, but she never did. The last known widow of a Civil War soldier has just died at age 101. According to HuffPost, Helen Viola Jackson passed away on December 16, 2020....

In December 2017, August Ames tweeted about her unwillingness to work with men who appeared in gay adult films. Days later, she would be dead by suicide. Adult film star August Ames was found dead by suicide in December 2017, mere days after she tweeted about not wanting to perform with male porn stars who also do gay porn. Her public refusal to work with “crossover” talent had been met with virulent accusations of homophobia....

Fetus in fetu is an extremely rare condition that occurs when one fetus is absorbed by its own sibling in the womb. PixabayMónica Vega’s baby Itzmara required a C-section after just one day of life. When an ultrasound revealed that Mónica Vega had two umbilical cords growing inside of her while she was seven months pregnant, the natural hope was that she was expecting twins. But according to news.com.au, one unborn child actually absorbed the other fetus....

On April 28, 1945, disgraced fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was brutally executed by Italian partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. When Benito Mussolini, the tyrannical ruler of Fascist Italy before and during World War II, was executed on April 28, 1945, it was only the beginning. Wikimedia CommonsBenito Mussolini, pictured before his brutal death. Angry crowds strung up his corpse, spat on it, stoned it, and otherwise desecrated it before finally laying it to rest....

Source: Blogspot Researching champions of women’s athletics on the internet is an exercise in patience. Scores of women will be touted as the “sexiest”, “hottest” or the “most popular” athletes, but when it comes to records of pure, physical accomplishments, such names prove rather difficult to find. Despite what a quick Googling might lead you to believe, female athletes continue to break barriers in many sports, and it’s possible that mixed leagues are in our immediate future....

From $62 million in grants to abolish the death penalty to $76 million in Obamacare support — Feeney donated about $8 billion to a wide range of causes. Atlantic PhilanthropiesCharles Feeney began his generous journey 40 years ago. Charles Feeney has had one goal for the last several decades — to give away his enormous $8 billion-dollar fortune before his death. According to Forbes, the retail giant and former billionaire has now officially succeeded in that effort — and he isn’t even 90 years old yet....

It may not be surprising that firearms are the deadliest weapons in the world, accounting for about four out of every ten global homicides. But perhaps that’s only unsurprising to those of us who live in the gun-riddled United States. And what is surprising, no matter where you live, is just how much the murder weapon of choice varies by region. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Study on Homicide (last issued in 2013), the deadliest weapons around the world vary wildly by region....

Did 16-year-old Grace Marks of Alias Grace fame actually help murder her employer and his lover — or was she unfairly locked away? Toronto Public LibraryGrace Marks and James McDermott One murdered pair of lovers and one supposedly murdering pair of servants dominated Canadian headlines in 1843 — and continues to fascinate countless people today. But did Grace Marks and James McDermott actually murder Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery? The truth about who actually committed this gruesome killing, recently at the heart of Netflix’s Alias Grace, may never be known for sure....

The Tolkien estate’s website includes drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien of the worlds he created for “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” Courtesy of the Tolkien EstateAn undated depiction of the “Misty Mountains,” a location that’s featured prominently in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In his life, J.R.R. Tolkien created the elaborate world of “Middle-earth,” where he set The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....

If it weren’t for the selfless help of two strangers and their own creative thinking, Curtis Whitson and his family may never have been found. CNNCurtis Whitson had traversed the route before, but torrential currents and lack of rappelling rope trapped him and his family. Curtis Whitson and his family might not have survived Father’s Day weekend if it weren’t for two proactive strangers. What started off as an adventurous backpacking trip in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in California quickly turned into a life or death situation....

Investigators found Satanic symbols and “significant” numbers in Nathan Gilmore’s house, as well as Snapchat messages that implied he’d killed someone. Iowa Department of Public SafetyNathan Gilmore allegedly murdered Angela Bradbury after the two met at the Cerro Gordo County Courthouse in April 2021. On July 12, 2021, a teenager wandering through Greenbelt River Trail Park outside of Mitchell, Iowa, came across a horrific sight — a human skull impaled on a stick....

After successful tests on rhesus monkeys, researchers are now looking to conduct clinical tests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has labeled the skyrocketing use of and overdoses from heroin as an epidemic — and it appears that scientists may have developed a vaccine that can keep human bodies from experiencing its addictive effects. Published this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) described how their treatment works and its results....

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison famously said that she and Jim Morrison were wed in June 1970 during a Celtic handfasting ceremony — where they drank each other’s blood. Tim Roney/Getty ImagesPatricia Kennealy-Morrison, circa 1990. Patricia Kennealy-Morrison was one of the first female rock journalists, a pioneer in the genre who paved the way for countless women in rock today. But she isn’t known primarily for her pioneering work. Instead, she’s known as Jim Morrison’s wife, who she says she married in a private pagan ceremony in 1970....

The two heads frequently fight over who gets to swallow the prey, which could lead to big problems for the animal in the wild. J.D. Kleopfer/Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland FisheriesThe two-headed snake. They say two is better than one but if you are afraid of snakes, this might be your worst nightmare. An extremely rare two-headed copperhead snake was recently found in Woodbridge, Va. and its startling appearance is a dream come true for herpetologists....

Sharon Tate was a rising Hollywood star and pregnant with her first child when she was brutally murdered by the Manson family on August 9, 1969. Sharon Tate is most closely associated with the Charles Manson murders that brought America’s optimistic, hippie-centric 1960s to a violent end. But though the death of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson family is what’s widely remembered, she was a fascinating star and beloved person in her own right....

“I literally have never seen anything like this.” Lida Xing/NatureThe tiny dinosaur known as Oculudentavis Khaungraae was so small that it was the size of a hummingbird. Archaeologists in Myanmar have discovered the preserved skull of the smallest dinosaur to ever inhabit the Earth entombed in amber. For nearly 100 million years, the half-inch skull filled with sharp little teeth remained frozen in time. “When I first saw this specimen, it really blew my mind,” said Jingmai O’Connor, senior professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing....

“The animals are emaciated, parasite-infested inside and out,” said a spokeswoman for the Human Society of North Texas. We’ve all heard of cat ladies, but this is something else entirely. Share Flipboard Email The Houston Chronicle reports that a north Texas woman has been charged with animal cruelty for keeping 111 dogs and cats in her home. Authorities were first alerted to the situation when neighbors complained about a foul smell emanating from the house of Deborah Thompson, 56....

According to ancient mythology, the Trojan Horse allowed the Greeks to finally capture the city of Troy, but historians differ on whether this famous wooden beast was actually real or not. Adam Jones/Wikimedia CommonsA replica of the Trojan Horse, in Dardanelles, Turkey. According to ancient Greek history, the Trojan horse allowed the war-weary Greeks to enter the city of Troy and finally win the Trojan war. Legend has it that the horse was built at the behest of Odysseus, who hid inside its structure along with several other soldiers to ultimately lay siege to the city....

Civil War daughter speaks out on Confederate monuments, two famous serial killers may have been the same person, footage of Japan’s WWII forced prostitution comes to light, monks find prescription from the father of medicine, scientists bring ancient family back to life. The Daughter Of A Civil War Soldier Weighs In On Confederate Symbols It’s kind of crazy to think that there are still people walking around this country who can truthfully say things like, “Back when my dad was fighting in the American Civil War,” but there are — at least a handful of them, anyway....