According to one former Marine and CIA officer, Ernest Hemingway worked for both US and USSR intelligence during and after World War II. He’s perhaps as famous for his adventurous life as he is for his Nobel Prize-winning writing. And now, a new book claims that Ernest Hemingway’s adventures may have included time as a spy for both the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II and into the Cold War....
“This item touches a chord with people with the fact the Nazis would have chosen to implement a ‘Final Solution’ in Canada and the U.S., and reminds us conflicts and human tragedies are not as far away as they seem.” Library and Archives CanadaThe 137-page report detailing North America’s Jewish population. Library and Archives Canada recently acquired a 1944 book previously owned by Adolf Hitler that detailed the blueprint for a North American holocaust....
Ivan IV Vasilyevich rose to power in the 16th century to become the first tsar of Russia — and earned the nickname “Ivan the Terrible” along the way. From 1547 to 1584, Ivan the Terrible reigned as the first tsar of Russia — and made a mark on the country that still endures to this day. Consolidating more power in the region than any ruler had ever seen before, Ivan Vasilyevich was known for waging bloody wars against his enemies and massacres against his own people....
Slaughterhouse worker Katherine Knight became the first woman in Australia to receive a life sentence without parole after she decapitated and cooked John Charles Thomas Price. Most lovers’ quarrels end with an apology. But for Katherine Knight, murder and mutilation were the end result. Not only did this Australian abattoir worker stab her lover with a butcher knife at least 37 times in February 2000, she then chopped him up, cooked him, and prepared to serve him to his own children....
Over the years, due to the practices and the treatment of the members, the church has been referred to as a cult. On a rainy day in August of 1995, 10,000 couples stood side by side. Each of the men was dressed in neat black suits with red ties. The women all wore matching white wedding dresses, their matching veils drawn over their faces. Together, they stood looking up at the man on the podium before them awaiting his orders....
The 66-year-old civil servant allegedly stopped showing up to work in 2005 and threatened his manager to prevent her from telling on him. Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/Getty ImagesThe Arnaldo Pugliese Ciaccio hospital in Italy’s Calabrian city of Catanzaro. Taking a day off from work can be a rejuvenating experience, particularly after a series of long shifts at a hospital. One Italian hospital worker in the Calabrian city of Catanzaro, however, turned his break into a lifestyle — and skipped work for 15 years....
Deputies arrested him as he was standing right next to the stolen car while wearing a welder’s mask and looking up at the sky. Like the millions of Americans who made yesterday’s solar eclipse the most-watched in history, Jocsan Feliciano Rosado stopped what he was doing in order to gaze skyward. But unlike everyone else, Rosado was, at the time, in the middle of committing a crime. Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies in Kissimmee, Florida arrested the 22-year-old man in a parking lot as he was standing right next to the car that he had just stolen and viewing the solar eclipse, reports the Miami Herald....
“The investigation showed that the only true victim in this was the unborn baby. It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby.” APMarshae Jones’s mugshot. In December 2018, Marshae Jones of Birmingham, Alabama was shot in the stomach when she was five months pregnant. The fetus died and the shooter was promptly caught. In this type of case, one would expect the shooter to be charged and sentenced for attacking an unarmed pregnant woman....
Mary Anning’s discoveries shook the very foundations of science but she battled constant misogyny and rarely received credit for her work while she was alive. Mary Anning spent her life uncovering treasure. Not gold — fossils. Along the beaches near her home in Dorset, England, Anning hunted for prehistoric secrets. Her thrilling finds contributed to the growing understanding of geology and paleontology throughout the early 19th century. But, as a woman, Anning rarely received credit for her discoveries — and she was forbidden from attending meetings of the Geological Society to discuss them....
Mary Brunner immediately fell under Charles Manson’s spell. She bore his son, aided in a murder, and attempted to hijack a plane in his name. Marioche. Och. Mary Och. Mary Theresa Manson. Linda Dee Moser. Christine Marie Euchts. Mother Mary. Mary Brunner went by many names and had nearly as many roles in the Manson Family. John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes FoundationMary Brunner (right) in court. From young librarian to murderess to star witness to attempted hostage-taker, Brunner’s life ran parallel with that of Charles Manson, the cult leader, murderer, and father of her child....
When the Auschwitz guards condemned a man to die, Maximilian Kolbe took the man’s place and sacrificed his own life. Wikimedia CommonsMaximilian Kolbe In 1906, a 12-year-old Polish boy named Rajmund Kolbe claimed to receive a strange and life-changing vision. In the vision, he said the Virgin Mary presented him with two crowns, one white and one red, and asked him if he was willing to accept either of them. He later said that if he accepted the white crown, it would mean that he would “persevere in purity,” while his acceptance of the red crown would mean that he would become a martyr....
The infamous peacocks of Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood are known to squawk into the night, scratch up the sides of residents’ cars, and leave piles of poop everywhere. Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesThough Coconut Grove’s residents are fairly divided — some detest the loud animals while others cherish their presence — city commissioners voted unanimously to reduce the bird population. Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood is lush with both tropical foliage — and 60 to 80 peacocks that roam about freely....
“Tragedy struck and the bullets penetrated Adoezuwe, resulting in his death.” The MirrorChinaka Adoezuwe had confidence that the charms he created would prevent a bullet from injuring him. A native healer in Nigeria, Chinaka Asoezuwe, died after allegedly asking one of his clients to test out the “bullet-proof” charms he had prepared. It happened in a village called Umuozo Ugiri in the southern Nigerian state of Imo. A villager, Chukwudi Ijezie, went to the 26-year-old Asoezuwe seeking charms that would prevent bullets from penetrating his body, the Nigeria-based Punch Newspaper first reported....
One historian called Oskar Dirlewanger “an expert in extermination and a devotee of sadism and necrophilia.” Wikepedia CommonsOscar Dirlewanger It’s no secret that the Nazis were sadistic. As a whole, they captured, imprisoned, and tortured hundreds of millions of Jews in the name of Hitler. Individually, there were some that were more dangerous than others, including Josef Mengele, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Eichmann. However, there was one person who was even more sadistic than the rest, a person who somehow escaped infamy as a household name: Oskar Dirlewanger....
Satellite images of penguin poop in Antarctica allowed researchers to make an important discovery about the Adélie colonies there. FlickrAdélie penguins covered in their own pinkish-colored poop. There’s a specific species of Antarctic penguin that has uniquely-colored feces. In fact, that penguin poop has such a unique color, and is so plentiful, that it can actually be seen from space. Adélie penguins that live along the coast of Antarctica and on the nearby islands have a diet that consists of tiny pinkish crustaceans called krill....
Quinta Da Regaleira is a major tourist attraction in Sintra, Portugal, known for its mystical quality and its abundant use of secret societies’ symbolism and iconography. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 21 Enchanting Photos Of Paronella Castle, The Australian Party Palace Abandoned In The Jungle 27 Stunning Photos Of McDermott’s Castle, The Irish Palace With A Haunting Secret...
The research took two years and resulted in that largest human-made genome ever. They created synthetic life from E. coli bacteria, which could help in manufacturing medicine. HandoutA team of scientists took two years to comb through the E. coli genome and edited it to produce this synthetic variety. In a historical precedent, scientists at the University of Cambridge have created the world’s first living organism from fully synthetic, redesigned DNA....
From the story of “the Brooklyn Vampire” to the tale of “the Pig Farmer,” these are the best serial killer documentaries guaranteed to keep you up all night. Ed Kemper: In His Own Words (1984/1991) This extremely candid collection of interviews features Ed Kemper, also known as “The Co-ed Killer,” who kidnapped and murdered at least eight people — including six college students, his abusive mother, and his mother’s friend. The intelligent, six-foot-nine Kemper is known as a lust killer who decapitated his victims and often used their severed heads for sexual acts....
That’s right — chicken. FlickrFried chicken, humankind’s future legacy. In Ernest Becker’s landmark 1973 philosophical work The Denial of Death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author asserts that we as humans strive to leave some sort of significant legacy behind us. We want to ensure that our symbolic or spiritual self lives on beyond death. But for the greater human civilization, the legacy we’ll leave behind will most likely be chicken bones....
Source: World’s Most Amazing Things We’ve all seen them at one point or another – in a park, at a festival, or practically any place where tourists gather in large numbers. Some of us walk right past them as if they were actual statues while others might stop and stare a while. Eventually, we all end up thinking the same thing – “I could do that!” After all, this has to be the cushiest job in the world....
