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Summer Butler, 37, is accused of killing Ishman Edwards, 54, in a drunken collision on January 14, 2022. North Las Vegas Police DepartmentSummer Butler, 37, was driving at 73 miles per hour just one second before the crash. In January 2022, a woman accused of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol crashed her car into another, killing the second vehicle’s driver. The speeding car was driven by 37-year-old Summer Butler, who is now facing charges for DUI resulting in death, reckless driving, and possession of an illegal substance....

Isidor and Ida Straus were a well-to-do German-American couple who passed up seats on lifeboats and instead chose to stay together on the RMS Titanic as it sank on April 15, 1912. Wikimedia Commons Isidor and Ida Straus on their wedding day in 1871. One of the most tragic scenes from the 1997 movie Titanic depicts an elderly couple who quietly tuck themselves into bed and wait for death together as the ship begins to flood....

From an early age, Albert Francis “Sonny” Capone struggled under the weight of his father’s last name. So he decided to change it — and then he disappeared to California. Bettmann/Getty Images Albert Francis Capone (middle) receives a baseball signed by Chicago Cub Gabby Hartnett (left) as requested by his father (right). 1931. When an elderly resident of Auburn Lake Trails, California died in 2004, his neighbors were in for a shock....

The massive telescope is designed to sit within a crater measuring between 1.9 to 3.1 miles in diameter. Saptarshi BandyopadhyayPreliminary concept art for the LCRT — the proposal for which is currently at Phase 1. NASA recently doled out additional funding for projects in its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. Chief among them — the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT). Though it resembles the Death Star’s laser cannon, the spyglass would peer into the early days of the cosmos....

Using laser-mapping technology, researchers measured China’s Miao Room cavern at 380 million cubic feet, making it the world’s largest cave by volume. The world is full of enormous caves, but China’s Miao Room cavern just earned itself the title of the world’s largest cave chamber by volume. This supercave was first documented in 1989 by a Chinese-European geology team, but it wasn’t until 2013 that researchers revealed its true size....

“It is disconcerting that we have found microplastic in the gut of every single animal we have investigated in this study.” Jedimentat44/FlickrA dolphin, entangled in plastic. Researchers in the U.K. recently examined 50 marine mammals that washed up on Britain’s shores — and found that every single one of them had ingested plastic at some point in their lifetime. The University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) teamed up on the project, which examined 50 individual animals across 10 species of dolphins, seals, and whales....

The 4,197-foot butte in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest will likely be renamed Mount Halo after a historic Indigenous leader. U.S Forest Service – Umpqua National Forest/FacebookTucked in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest, Mount Swastika has escaped notice for years. For over a century, an isolated butte in Oregon has been saddled with a peculiar name: Swastika Mountain. Now, thanks to a local woman, the 4,197-foot hill in Umpqua National Forest will be renamed....

Every day between 1925 and 1935, Hachikō the dog waited at Tokyo’s Shibuya train station in hopes that his dead master would return. Hachikō the dog was more than a pet. As the canine companion to a university professor, Hachikō patiently waited his owner’s return from work at their local train station each evening. But when the professor died suddenly one day at work, Hachikō was left waiting at the station — for nearly a decade....

“Fake news” in Noah’s Ark story discovered, history of canine domestication upended, trove of ancient shipwrecks found. God Used ‘Fake News’ And Puns To Trick Everyone Into Building The Ark, Ancient Tablet Proves Wikimedia CommonsA 15th-century German illustration of the Noah’s Ark story. An English Assyriologist named Martin Worthington recently uncovered hidden meanings in the 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that tells the original version of the Noah’s Ark story. The shocking new analysis shows that, when God commanded everyone to build the ark, he was using crafty puns and double meanings to trick everyone into thinking that a rain of food was coming, when in fact it was a deadly flood....

As much as we’d like to see Kim Jong-un out of power, there were plenty of reasons for the US not to take him out when it had the chance. Video has surfaced from July 4 showing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un hanging out on a launch pad prior to the firing of North Korea’s first ICBM test later that day. In the video, you can see Kim Jong-un casually (or nervously) smoking cigarettes as he paces around the landing site for 70 minutes in an open field with little defense....

Humans have interacted with the planet in a number of bizarre ways, and the national border is definitely one of them. Image Source: National Geographic Italia The human race has come up with some odd ideas over the millennia, and national borders are one of them. Sometime during the early Renaissance, rulers essentially decided that the best way to strengthen the state and preserve its wealth was to define it spatially, carving up chunks of land into blocks of varying sizes, where everything from the rules of the road to which government officials are allowed to shoot you changes the second you cross an imaginary line....

“More than exceptional it’s epochal, one of those discoveries that marks the course of history.” MiBAC/FacebookThe crack in the stone jar revealed the hundreds of ancient Roman gold coins that were inside of it. Archeologists conducting a dig underneath the Cressoni Theater in Como, Italy on Sept. 5 were surprised by the astounding discovery of hundreds of gold coins that date back to the late Roman imperial era in the fifth century....

20-year-old model Chloe Ayling was released unharmed after six days of being tied to a wardrobe and threatened by sex traffickers. 20-year-old British model Chloe Ayling. A British model was allegedly kidnapped by a Polish national in Milan, stuffed into a suitcase, handcuffed to a wardrobe in a remote mountain cabin, put up for sale in an online auction, and then released without injury six days later. It’s an absolutely astounding story that’s been covered by almost every media outlet from here to Australia, but first, some background:...

As these eerie Edgar Allan Poe facts reveal many elements of the gothic writer’s life were just as mysterious and intriguing as his work. It is quite possible that Edgar Allan Poe is named for the character Edgar in William Shakespeare’s King Lear (depicted above). Poe’s parents were both actors and were in a production of the play shortly before his birth.Wikimedia Commons Poe’s middle name, Allan, was not given to him by his biological parents, but instead came from John and Frances Allan – who took him in at the age of two after his father abandoned him and his mother died....

From 1590 to 1610, Elizabeth Bathory allegedly tortured and killed hundreds of poor servant girls and women in Hungary. But was she actually guilty of these heinous crimes? In the early 17th century, rumors began to circulate around the village of Trenčín in present-day Slovakia. Peasant girls looking for servant work in the Csejte Castle were disappearing, and no one knew why. But before long, many locals began to point their fingers at Countess Elizabeth Bathory....

Hallgrímskirkja church is weird, rugged and totally Iceland. Iceland is known for its rugged landscapes, and apparently the same can be said for its churches. Visible for over twelve miles, the tower of Hallgrímskirkja rises out of the center of the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík like a concrete geyser. Even before construction concluded in 1986, this Lutheran church had become the city’s most iconic building, an austere and otherworldly example of modern religious art....

The city of Timgad was built by Emperor Trajan in 100 A.D. Though it was sacked by Berber tribes shortly after Rome fell, its ruins still stand in Northern Africa today. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Researchers Use Lasers To Map Buried Ancient Roman City That Dates Back 2,300 Years Archaeologists Just Found The Ruins Of A Chinese City Built 5,300 Years Ago...

“It has always been assumed that the tradition of figurative painting arose in Europe… This shows the tradition does not have its origins in Europe.” Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years old. Two years ago, an Indonesian archaeologist named Hamrullah — who is also an avid caver — climbed up a fig tree to access the narrow entryway of a cave in southern Sulawesi....

Willie Murphy didn’t just turn the tables on the home intruder — she literally picked up her table and hit him with it. YouTubeBodybuilder Willie Murphy struck the home intruder several times before jumping on him. A man up to no good got more than he bargained for when he broke into the home of an 82-year-old grandmother. Turns out, the little old lady was an award-winning bodybuilder. According to local news station WHAM-TV, Willie Murphy was enjoying a quiet night at home last week when a stranger appeared on her house porch....

The number of foreign nations unpaid parking tickets totals over $16 million. Since Kim Jong-Un is dropping every last penny he can find on nuclear bombs; it may seem like he has expendable income. However, there’s one thing he’s certainly not using his money on — his country’s parking tickets. According to NBC New York, the country has racked up roughly $156,000 in unpaid parking tickets in New York City, and has yet to pay up....