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“I never knew Marilyn Monroe… I knew and loved Norma Jean.” Wikimedia Commons James Dougherty and his new bride, Norma Jeane Mortenson. Although James Dougherty had a successful career in his own right – he was a well respected Los Angeles Police Officer and even helped invent the SWAT team – he is perhaps best known for the brief four year period of his life when he was married to Norma Jeane Mortenson, the woman who would become Marilyn Monroe....

The student at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College was caught during a surprise frisk before the exam and may face charges Google Street ViewThe cheater was taking his General Medicine exam at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College in Indore, India. The overwhelming competition in India’s medical universities has led to a rash of cheating scandals in recent years. Remarkably, one medical student was caught this week cheating on his test — with a Bluetooth device surgically implanted in his ear....

Soon after Milton S. Hershey established the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1894, he began giving back by sharing profits with his employees and founded a school for orphans that still exists today. Hershey Community Archives/Public DomainMilton Hershey made millions before using his riches for charity. Milton Hershey was an industrialist of the sweetest kind. Born surrounded by dairy farms in central Pennsylvania, he made a fortune by figuring out a way to mass produce milk chocolate at a time when such confections were a luxury good made in secret by the Germans and Swiss....

Researchers in Israel used artificial intelligence to determine that ancient people living at the Evron Quarry site burned flint and animal bones. EVRON QUARRY EXCAVATION ARCHIVEArcheologists excavating Evron Quarry. Circa 1976-1977. In Greek mythology, Prometheus gives fire to humankind, opening the door for human civilization itself. But when did our ancestors actually start building fires? A new study has used artificial intelligence to suggest that ancient people harnessed flames nearly 1 million years ago, far earlier than once thought....

The guide was meant to be inclusive and informative for teens interested in anal sex. Conservatives lost their shit (pun intended). In an effort to educate teens about all kinds of sex (since a lot of people aren’t into the whole penis-in-vagina thing), Teen Vogue published “A Guide to Anal Sex” this week. And parents are outraged. “Parents are rightfully angry and pushing back against this agenda to sexualize and sodomize our children,” Elizabeth Johnston, who calls herself the “Activist Mommy,” posted on Facebook....

The 70s was a pretty shameless decade and these terrible 1970s menswear ads bear testament to that. Let’s not bring any of these fashions back… please? If you were lucky enough to untangle yourself from the rainbow macramé that was the 1970s, then these photos of what was then considered “fashionable” will be a disco-dance down memory lane. If you are a post-’70s baby, looking at these images may cause some wincing and general discomfort....

Civilization started because of agriculture – that much is known. But what if agriculture started because of beer? Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Around 6,000 years ago, ancient Sumerians living in the Fertile Crescent recorded the first known instance of purposeful beer brewing. The grain-based beverage has since become integral to countless cultures around the world, inspiring men to risk their lives for distribution, inciting riots in the streets of New York City and bringing international renown to cultural events like Oktoberfest....

To this day, the Navajo code talkers’ language remains the only unbreakable code ever used by the Marine Corps. Navajo code talkers posing during World War II. The Navajo language is a complex beast, even for those who have grown up speaking it. Words, depending on their inflections when spoken, can have up to four different meanings, and the verb tenses are near-impossible to decipher. Until the late 20th century, the language didn’t even have an alphabet and didn’t exist anywhere in a written form....

As artists have grown more desirous of more dynamic means of expression, portraiture is no longer confined to the canvas. Welcome to the world of body art. Look closely; these images are not what they seem! Turning the human body into a dynamic canvas, the art of body painting has grown rapidly over the past 20 years, gaining popularity and acceptance along the way. Contrary to their title, body painters don’t use actual paint in their work, but high grade makeup....

Wildlife Services has used taxpayer dollars to kill millions of animals since 2000. Here’s what you should know about the organization, and why the problem is bigger than wildlife. THIS SEPTEMBER, the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) faced harsh public outcry when its advisory board recommended that, in order to save money and space for livestock grazing, the agency euthanize some of the 45,000 wild horses it had corralled over the years....

One of the nine thieves allegedly enjoyed the bag of stolen candy on a walk home through the woods following a burglary. Coweta County Sheriff’s OfficeOne of the discarded Milky Way wrappers that led police to the culprits. On Oct. 28, 2022, police in Newnan, Georgia arrested nine people accused of burglarizing multiple homes and cars in the area after following a trail of discarded Milky Way candy wrappers directly to one accused burglar’s mobile home....

Throughout World War II, Vera Atkins recruited and trained hundreds of secret agents to fight the Nazis for Britain’s covert Special Operations Executive. A Romanian-born British intelligence officer during World War II, Vera Atkins usually showed little emotion and was known for being tough, as well as caring, about her recruits. She took on many roles as a spy, including recruiting, training, and planning secret operations in France — and managed to decipher coded German messages that no one else could....

If there is any true winner of the 2016 presidential election, most signs are pointing to Vladimir Putin. Forbes has listed the President of Russia as the most influential person of the year, with Donald Trump – Putin’s latest admirer – immediately beneath him in the number two spot. Vladimir Putin May Have Gotten His Political Cunning From His Cook Grandfather Some People Think That Putin Was Adopted — And That He Wants To Keep It A Secret He Was A Bully As A Child According to Putin, Sports Saved His Life His Parents Nearly Died In The Siege Of Leningrad He Was 25 Years Old By The Time He Had His Own Bedroom Spy Thrillers Helped Shape Putin’s Approach To Politics Putin Says He’s Not A Diplomat — But Does A Scary Good Job On Studying Those With Whom He Meets No One Knows Much About His Daughters — Besides The Fact That They Are Obscenely Wealthy He Has Been Linked To The Murders Of His Critics His “Bromance” With Donald Trump Goes Back To 2007 — And Is Largely One-Sided He Has Amassed An Array Of Republican Presidential Fans He Ruined A Ukrainian National Treasure To Make A Political Point He’s Developed A Cult Of Personality Unseen Since Joseph Stalin One Of His Biggest Heroes Is A Mystic Poet He Doesn’t Seem To Care About Punctuality — So Much So That He Even Kept The Pope Waiting If Trump’s Rusky-loving cabinet picks and warm words for the massive country are to serve as any kind of guide, Russia will be a state whose actions Americans would be well-served to keep an eye on over the Trump presidency....

Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld was a German schoolteacher turned army officer who helped save a number of Polish Jews from the Holocaust before dying tragically in a Soviet prison. Wojtek Laski/NewsmakersWilm Hosenfeld in his military uniform. In 2008, Wilm Hosenfeld joined the esteemed ranks of those honored by the World Holocaust Remembrance Center for saving Jewish lives from the Holocaust. But unlike so many of his fellow honorees, Wilm Hosenfeld was a Nazi officer....

The New York Times Magazine asked their readers if they would kill baby Hitler. Here are the results of the heated exchange on Twitter. The New York Times Magazine caused an uproar on Twitter after posting the results of a “Could you kill a baby Hitler?” poll. Image Source: NYT Magazine Twitter Whenever questions of time travel arise, talk inevitably drifts toward killing Hitler and stopping the Holocaust. The New York Times Magazine ran with a twist on this popular hypothetical on a slow Friday news day in the form of a Twitter poll: Could you kill a baby Hitler?...

From September 2003 to July 2004, “Raincoat Killer” Yoo Young-chul killed at least 20 people in Seoul, making him South Korea’s deadliest serial killer ever. KIM MI-OK/AFP via Getty ImagesYoo Young-chul, the so-called Raincoat Killer. To the police, the sudden spate of violent murders across Seoul seemed puzzlingly different. But to the killer, Yoo Young-chul, they all made perfect sense. Harboring resentment for both women and the wealthy, Yoo Young-chul targeted both....

Just in time for World Zombie Day, enjoy these nineteen zombie facts to really wrap your braaaaains around. The recipe for a modern-day zombie is a healthy dose of folklore, a dash of science, and a heavy sprinkling of entertainment value. One of the most terrifying entities in the world of fiction, what we today call “The Walking Dead” has origins in folklore from several different cultures – dating back to Mesopotamia and even the Bible....

These surprising images and facts reveal what some of America’s most important presidents were like long before they took office. Most of us are familiar with the faces of those who have held the office of President of the United States. Though noble and powerful, almost all of those faces have one thing in common: they’re old (not to mention male and white). Considering that the youngest person to assume the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt at the age of 42, it’s no wonder that most of the photographs and portraits of past US Presidents lack a certain youthful glimmer....

The painting was displayed alongside the paint cans and brushes that the artists used to make it — which the couple took as an invitation to collaborate. FacebookA visitor inspects the newly-added splotches of black paint on John Andrew Perello’s “Untitled.” On March 28, a young couple in South Korea made the mistake of a lifetime. They spent their Sunday at the Lotte World Mall in Seoul and spotted a rather eye-catching painting in the Street Noise exhibit....

Called the Siren of the Shenandoah and La Belle Rebelle, Maria Isabella “Belle” Boyd was one of the Civil War’s most notorious spies. BELLE BOYD MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE A SIGHT TO BEHOLD. As she darted across the blood-soaked Fort Royal, Virginia battlefield one day in 1861, Lieutenant Henry Kyd Douglas caught sight of her, noting in his book I Rode With Stonewall that she “seemed…to heed neither weeds nor fences, but waved a bonnet as she came on....