Andy Warhol is best remembered–and most reviled, pending your taste–for his screen prints, specifically those of Campbell’s soup cans. We have all seen the ways that Warhol has souped up the soup cans–the next time you’re at the Museum of Modern Art, check out his 1962 piece, aptly titled “Campbell’s Soup Cans”–but we haven’t all seen Warhol in the grocery store, coveting the cans for himself before reproducing them on canvas....
The bull managed to leave a “Coke can-sized” hole in the hunter’s leg — but died shortly after. Chris Mcsherry/FacebookChris Mcsherry was not put off by the incident and claimed that he will return to hunting after recovering. A trophy hunter in Australia suffered the brutal revenge of a wild buffalo when he was gored twice in the leg by a 1,700-pound bull that he’d just shot for sport. The incident left him with a “Coke can-sized” wound in his right leg and an eight-inch gash below his buttocks....
The founders of the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed And Lorraine Warren investigated America’s most infamous cases of haunting and demonic possession. Before Hollywood turned their ghost stories into blockbuster movies, Ed and Lorraine Warren made a name for themselves by investigating cases of paranormal hauntings and happenings. In 1952, the married couple founded the New England Society for Psychic Research. And in the basement of their research center, they created their very own Occult Museum, horrifyingly adorned with satanic objects and demonic artifacts....
Discover the real story of Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, the “stoner arms dealers” from Miami Beach whose 2007 weapons contracts inspired the movie War Dogs. When War Dogs premiered in 2016, its true-life tale of two gunrunners who struck it rich when they were no older than your average frat boy seemed downright inconceivable. But the true story of War Dogs is actually even more astonishing than the movie let on....
Elsa Einstein was Albert Einstein’s wife. She was also his first cousin. And he cheated on her — a lot. You don’t have to be Einstein to make a marriage work. In fact, you probably shouldn’t be. Elsa Einstein is often thought of as her husband’s trusted companion, a woman who knew how to handle the brilliant physicist. Albert Einstein’s wife nursed him back to health in 1917 when he fell seriously ill and accompanied him on trips once he gained global celebrity status....
The tumultuous relationships of Evelyn Nesbit proved to be disastrous… and deadly. Wikimedia CommonsEvelyn Nesbit in 1901. Her affair with Stanford White and her marriage to Harry Thaw would thrust her into the spotlight by the time she was 20 years old. IT WAS DUBBED “THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY” at the time. A sordid tale of love and jealousy culminating in a public murder in the heart of New York gripped the nation and left the woman at the center of it surprisingly unscathed....
Nevertheless, women work an average of 39 days more per year than men, the new findings show. A new report reveals that if current trends continue, women around the world won’t receive fair pay for approximately 170 years. Today, the World Economic Forum released their annual Global Gender Gap Report, which found that the global gap in earnings between genders will not close until 2186 unless the world really turns things around....
Until a few years ago, Indiana had few if any black vultures. Now, farmers are seeking federal permits to shoot the birds, which they say are eating their animals alive. Flickr/Mark WatsonA black vulture swooping in on a dead cow. While it’s ghastly to watch vultures feed on dead animal carcasses, these swooping terrors are an essential part of the ecosystem by eating carrion that could spread disease to other animals....
The insidious pathogen invades a frog’s skin cells, and quickly begins multiplying. The animal’s skin begins to peel off, and it grows weary, and dies — but not before spreading. Jonathan E. Kolby/Honduras Amphibian Rescue & Conservation CenterThe mossy red-eyed frog is one of the 500 species currently threatened by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. When scientists discovered a plague killing frogs all over the world, they were concerned. Unfortunately, the problem is far worse than they thought, as this amphibian fungus is now being called “the most deadly pathogen known to science....
After her husband was executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson set off on a quest of piracy and bloody justice. YouTubeJeanne de Clisson and her “Black Fleet” plundered French ships in the English Channel during the Hundred Year’s War. In the mid-1300s, black ships with red sails struck terror into the hearts of French sailors. This was the ‘Black Fleet,’ and though comprised of only three ships, these pirates plundered the French king’s warships leaving only two or three sailors alive to tell the tale....
Meet Marcel Petiot, the French doctor who promised Jews safe passage from Nazis, only to rob and murder them. Paille/FlickrMarcel Petiot’s mugshots. The inherent grisliness of murder makes it hard — if not impossible — to describe any murderer as “better” or “worse” than another. Still, Marcel Petiot was truly superlative in his horror, mainly because of the circumstances and motivations behind his acts: he promised safety and freedom to those leaving Nazi-occupied France, only to strip them of their possessions and lives....
He’s been accused of everything from buying an entire airline just for trafficking heroin to selling nuclear weapons, yet somehow Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich lives free. Semion Mogilevich had been a colossal — and elusive — figure in the international criminal underworld since the 1990s. As the ruthless leader of the so-called Red Mafia of Russia, he has been described as “the world’s most powerful gangster” — and for good reason....
This extremely rare albino sea turtle was just found on a beach in Queensland, Australia. Image Source: Facebook This tiny white turtle may not be large, so take a close look, because there likely won’t be another picture of a newborn albino sea turtle for quite a while. Five volunteers from the Coolum and North Shore Coast Care group in Australia first saw the albino anomaly while gathering research data on turtle nests on Castaways Beach in Queensland on Sunday....
When Nick and Bobbi Ercoline traveled to Woodstock in 1969, they had no idea they were about to become one of the most famous couples of the hippie generation. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesBobbi and Nick Ercoline are the couple that became famous after gracing the cover of the Woodstock album. When Nick and Bobbi Ercoline headed to Woodstock in 1969, they were just a couple of young kids in love....
In the last nine years, the Huqoq Excavation Project has found mosaics depicting Noah’s Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, and more in a 5th century synagogue. Jim Haberman/UNC-Chapel HillThe mosaic depicts the story of Elim, in which exiled Egyptians sought refuge at a campsite after days of wandering without food or water. An excavation led by professor Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has uncovered a 1,600-year-old biblical triptych mosaic made of tiny stone cubes (or tesserae) at a synagogue in the Galilean ancient village of Huqoq in Israel....
NASA’s InSight lander has picked up seismic activity on Mars for the first time ever, recording more than 20 “marsquakes” since April. Wikimedia CommonsAudio recordings of seismic activity on Mars — known as marsquakes — were just released by NASA. Earthlings can now listen to the sound of seismic activity on another planet for the first time. This week, NASA released two audio recordings of the ground rumbling on Mars — known as a marsquake — that were recorded by a seismometer attached to NASA’s InSight lander, which touched down on the red planet last November....
After the hikers heard about the group that died there 60 years ago and were left with eyes and tongues missing, they decided that they wanted to make the trek there too. Public DomainMembers of the original group of hikers, not long before they were last seen alive. A group of tourists recently vanished without a trace at the infamous Dyatlov Pass, the same stretch of Russia’s Ural Mountains where nine hikers mysteriously died in February 1959....
Scientists have found a “missing link” in human evolution - suggesting that the first hominids evolved in Europe, rather than Africa. A new discovery may have changed how scientists see our evolutionary family tree — suggesting that the human branch and ape branch split much longer ago than previously thought. And in a different place. By observing 7.2 million-year-old fossils uncovered in Greece and Bulgaria, researchers recently suggested that humankind originated in the Eastern Mediterranean instead of in Africa, as has been long accepted....
Some experts believe that wild animals are striking back against those poachers who traumatized them — in other words, getting their revenge. After centuries of poachers breaking into their protected wildlife areas, cutting off rhino horns or elephant tusks, and leaving their bodies rotting in the sun, the animals are fighting back. Share Flipboard Email Poaching has horrific consequences on the long-term survival of wild animals, and in some cases has contributed to the dwindling of endangered species....
At more than 1,000 miles from civilization in all directions, Point Nemo is unlike any other place in the world. Wikimedia CommonsThe locaiton of Point Nemo. People often vaguely refer to “the middle of nowhere,” but as it turns out, scientists have actually figured out precisely where that point is. Point Nemo, the most remote location on Earth, is so far removed from civilization that the closest humans to that location at any given time are likely to be astronauts....
