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Jurassic vomit unearthed in Utah, possible tomb of Queen Nefertiti found in Egypt, Dead Sea Scroll fragment located in Montana. Paleontologists Stumble Upon A Mass Of 150-Million-Year-Old Vomit From A Jurassic Predator In Utah J. R. Foster et al./PALAIOSKnown as regurgitalite or bromalite, prehistoric vomit like this has only been found a few times in history, and never before have researchers uncovered a Jurassic sample anywhere in North America. A long span of sedimentary rocks that stretches across Utah, the Morrison Formation is so rich with the remains of dinosaurs and prehistoric vegetation that it’s become known as the “Jurassic salad bar....

California is arguably the birthplace of surfing culture, which has always been one of the chief engines of beach culture as a whole. Share Flipboard Email In 1950, photographer Loomis Dean tracked a group of California’s newly emerging subculture of “beach bums” at San Onofre Beach for LIFE magazine, which later reported the following: The beach bum subculture only grew from there. In 1961, 100 miles northeast of San Onofre, Malibu Point was renamed Surfrider Beach....

A Vietnam veteran with CIA ties, Robert Rackstraw has been accused of carrying out an infamous plane hijacking in 1971. Was he really DB Cooper? In 1971, a businessman hijacked a plane flying from Portland to Seattle, demanding $200,000 and a parachute. After a successful air heist, the man, commonly known by the pseudonym DB Cooper, jumped from the plane, disappearing somewhere in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. The crime, which has captivated Americans for decades, remains unsolved to this day....

Rare Photos Of Legendary Artists And Entertainers As Young Children So carefully conceived and maintained are the images of the world’s most famous artists and entertainers that it’s truly disarming to see them as children, long before they invented their trademark visual brand. Indeed, to see David Bowie, John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and many others circa their kindergarten days is a strange and fascinating thing. View more photos at Vintage Everyday....

How do the residents of Whittier, Alaska live and – perhaps more intriguingly – why do they choose to live this way? If you have to go to the grocery store, the post office, the laundromat, or even the hospital or the police station, chances are that any one of those trips will involve a car, train, bus or bike ride. But if you’re a resident of Whittier, Alaska, not just one of those trips, but all of them can be done in a very short walk that doesn’t even take you outdoors....

Also known as Ip Man, Yip Man was a renowned teacher of the Chinese martial art Wing Chun — and Bruce Lee was his best student. Martial arts grandmaster Yip Man’s life was a Chinese hero’s journey with astonishing twists for decades. From police officer and refugee to family man and kung-fu master, his life packed quite the punch. Most notable of all, however, is that he taught none other than Bruce Lee everything he knew....

“Angel’s Glow” was a phenomenon of the Civil War in which soldiers’ wounds seemed to glow in the dark. It took 139 years to figure out why. Wikimedia One of the enduring mysteries of the American Civil War was a little-known phenomenon referred to at the time as Angel’s Glow — the glow seen on some soldiers’ wounds after the Battle of Shiloh. Doctors at the time noted that soldiers whose wounds had this strange emission of light seemed to fare much better than soldiers whose wounds did not....

The history of birth control - from ancient herbal concoctions to vaginal glow sticks - will make you thankful for modern contraceptives. For almost as long as humans have existed, we’ve been trying not to get pregnant, often in some interesting and creative ways. While abstinence is the only form of birth control that’s 100% effective, it’s not that interesting to write about. This journey through the history of birth control–from ancient herbal concoctions to glow sticks for your vagina–will make you thank your lucky stars that all the average American woman has to do to receive quality birth control today is buy health insurance, find a doctor who takes that health insurance, make an appointment, allow aforementioned doctor to stick things inside of her, pay her co-pay, bring her prescription to the pharmacy, wait for a pharmacist to fill the prescription, and then take one pill every day at the same time....

By dating an unprecedented amount of objects, researchers discovered that sudden crises are what led to the Mayan collapses. The collapse of the Mayan civilization has always puzzled archaeologists. However, recently unearthed clues that will soon be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may now shed some light. The University of Arizona research team behind the journal article took an unprecedented 154 radiocarbon date samplings at the archaeological site in Ceibal, Guatemala to establish a chronological timeline of the civilization....

Carlina White was snatched from a Harlem hospital as an infant in 1987 and raised as “Nejdra Nance” by her kidnapper Annugetta Pettway, who claimed to be her mother. On Aug. 4, 1987, Joy White and Carl Tyson rushed their newborn daughter, Carlina White, to the hospital due to a fever. Little did these new parents know, however, that this night would be the last time they would see their child for the next 23 years....

Jean McGuire has been fighting for equal opportunity in Boston for decades, and friends said her attacker “may have met the wrong person” that night, Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesJean McGuire, a civil rights advocate and the first Black woman elected to the Boston School Committee, survived a stabbing after she and her dog, Bailey, fought off the attacker. Ninety-one-year-old civil rights activist Jean McGuire was attacked in a Boston park while out walking her dog on October 11....

This ivory comb from 1700 B.C.E. has an inscription in the Canaanite language that offers instructions on how to avoid lice. Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities AuthorityThe comb contains the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an ancient language. In 2016, archaeologists in Tel Lachish, Israel, unearthed a 3,700-year-old broken ivory comb from an ancient trash pit. Though the find was set aside for years, researchers recently took a second look and made a surprising discovery....

Not all father figures conjure images of Ward Cleaver and Atticus Finch. But no matter what daddy issues you might have, be thankful you don’t have to call these men “dad.” Woody Allen While much beloved for his direction of lighthearted classics like Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s relationship with his daughters is a far cry from comedy. In the early 1990s, Allen lived with his then-partner Mia Farrow, with whom he had three children: Dylan and Moses, both adopted, along with their biological son Satchel, now known as Ronan....

The film will debut in France next week. Vincent Van Gogh is likely the world’s most famous painter — fascinating not only for his incredible creations, but for the tortured life he lived beyond the easel. It only makes sense, then, that a movie dedicated to exploring the troubling end to Van Gogh’s days should also be the world’s first fully painted film. “Loving Vincent,” which will have its world premiere at a French film festival next week, was created with more than 65,000 oil paintings on more than 1,000 canvases....

He participated in an infamous massacre of Union soldiers, but when he got to write his own story, Jesse James cast himself as the Robin Hood of the Wild West. While Jesse James is often the first man to come to mind when reducing the idea of the Old West to an individual, his image of being a hero is just a myth. Perhaps it is fitting that the mythic idea of Jesse James as a gunslinging frontier vigilante should represent the imaginary idea of the American Frontier as depicted in Hollywood....

The Notorious B.I.G. was at the height of his fame when he was murdered in Los Angeles in 1997. And to this day, no one knows who shot Biggie Smalls. A quarter-century ago, Biggie Smalls’ death in Los Angeles shocked the hip hop world. The rapper, born Christopher Wallace and also known as The Notorious B.I.G., was 24 years old when unidentified shooters fired four bullets into his body and peeled off into the night....

The father forced Karrie Neurauter into a tough spot – save her mother’s life, or his. Miami HeraldKarrie and Lloyd Neurauter Last August, a father from New York had had enough. He was sick of making child support payments and wanted custody of his youngest child. So, he went to his oldest daughter for help, giving her a startling ultimatum: help him kill her mother, or he’d kill himself. Lloyd Neurauter told his daughter Karrie, 20, that she had two choices....

When Mercy Brown’s family started dying off one by one, the town blamed her — even though she’d been dead for months. FlickrGravestone of Mercy Brown. In 1892, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States. Then known as “consumption,” its symptoms included fatigue, night sweats, and the coughing up of white phlegm or even foamy blood. There was no cure or reliable treatment for tuberculosis. Physicians often recommended that a patient affected by the disease should “rest, eat well, and exercise outdoors....

Igor Lanis had been struggling with his mental health after diving down the “Q rabbit hole,” and he died in a shootout with police after murdering his wife. FacebookThey were a “perfect” family until Igor (center) fell down the “Q rabbit hole.” Around 4 a.m. on September 11, 2022, 53-year-old Igor Lanis and his wife, Tina, got into an argument. Ten minutes later, their daughter Rachel called the police to report that she had been shot by her father....

Strung up to connect Glacier 3000 to the Scex Rouge, the Peak Walk by Tissot stands 9,800 feet above sea level. A trip across the world’s first peak-to-peak suspension bridge is by no means for the faint of heart. Strung up to connect Glacier 3000 to the Scex Rouge, the Peak Walk by Tissot stands 9,800 feet above sea level. Located in the Swiss Alps, the 351 foot-long walkway gives visitors a view of 24 surrounding peaks, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, and Jungfrau mountains....