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For 35 years, Don Cornelius and Soul Train brought Black music, dancing, fashion, and culture into living rooms across the country with the longest-running syndicated show in American television history. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 30American funk band Cameo belting it out on Soul Train’s 491st episode on Nov. 30, 1985.Soul Train/Getty Images 2 of 30After joining the U....

Built in 1914, Pittock Mansion was nearly razed to create a subdivision in the 1960s before Portland residents came together to save it. Nestled in the Portland, Oregon’s West Hills neighborhood is Pittock Mansion, a Victorian chateau-style abode — with a haunted history. Built by Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock, the home once symbolized the heights of Portland’s wealthy elite, but after just four years in its gilded walls, both of homeowners died....

After Kathleen Peterson died after falling down a staircase in 2001, her husband was convicted of her murder — but did Michael Peterson really kill his wife? NetflixKathleen Peterson and Michael Peterson in an undated photograph. On December 9, 2001, Michael Peterson found his wife, Kathleen Peterson, dead at the bottom of the back staircase in the 11,000-square-foot mansion that they shared with their children in Durham, North Carolina. She was lying in a dried pool of her own blood....

“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation. “We’re only seeing a fraction of the actual losses.” Hundreds of leopard sharks have died in the San Francisco Bay Area over the last two months, and scientists aren’t quite sure why. Since mid-March, leopard sharks have been washing up on the shores of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and elsewhere in numbers that haven’t been seen in years....

First, Big Nose George was hanged. Then things got much worse. Wikimedia CommonsGeorge “Big Nose George” Parrott George Parrott was a man of many names. He went by George Warden, George Manuse, Big Beak George, and Big Nose George, to name a few. But the only title that stuck the whole way through was that of “outlaw.” And while this 19th-century outlaw’s life is interesting, it is perhaps not as interesting as his death....

Emmett Till’s story was a rallying cry for civil rights activists after his 1955 murder. Now, his memorials are targets for racist vandalism. A historical marker meant to memorialize Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American boy murdered by a lynch mob in 1955, was destroyed this week in Mississippi. And not for the first time. Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in the summer of 1955. When a 21-year-old white woman said he bothered her at a grocery store, Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, mutilated, and finally thrown into a river with his feet tied to a cotton gin by a lynch mob....

Though Alaska’s Northern Lights are some of the most beautiful natural occurrences in the universe, relatively few people have observed their beauty, and even less understand how and why they appear. People can see the auroral lights above the magnetic poles in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Known as the aurora borealis in the North, and the aurora australis in the South, these beautiful lights are created when ions, or charged particles, interact with solar winds....

Before this discovery, only the bones of cave bears had been found. NEFUThe wholly-intact teeth of a prehistoric cave bear whose species went extinct about 20,000 years ago. The Siberian permafrost is known as a treasure trove of prehistoric artifacts where Ice Age animals lie perfectly frozen in time. And one such remarkable specimen was just discovered: the mummified carcass of a 39,500-year-old cave bear. According to The Siberian Times, the cave bear was found by reindeer herders on the Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, which is the largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands belonging to the New Siberian archipelago....

Researchers determined what the chewer looked like, their gender, their diet, and their lifestyle — all from this piece of multi-millennia-old gum. Theis JensenThis ancient gum is made out of the bark of the birch tree and was found at the archaeological dig site of Syltholm, on the Danish island of Lolland. Archaeologists in Lolland, Denmark unearthed a piece of 5,700-year-old chewing gum made of birch bark and found to their great surprise that the ancient artifact contained DNA....

If this year’s science news is any indication of next year’s, then bring on 2019. NASA JPLScience news was graced with these unprecedented pictures of the stormy planet this year. The news in 2018 wasn’t always great. But science did make leaps and bounds in the fields of archaeology, biology, and more. Indeed, science news this year has been both eclectic and astounding. 2018 saw the beginnings of mind-reading, the first baby born to be born from a uterine transplant of a deceased woman, and so much more....

Real-life Atlantis nearly discovered, Queen Emma’s bones possibly found, Nazi Enigma machine auctioned off. Scientists On The Verge Of Finding Real-Life Atlantis Beneath The North Sea PixabayA fossilized forest underneath the North Sea has led scientists closer to recovering the lost human settlement. Doggerland covers a vast swath between the eastern coast of Britain and mainland Europe. Looking at it now, you would never think that it was once home to a settlement of Mesolithic humans some 10,000 years ago — because the region is submerged beneath the North Sea....

Three House Democrats who represent areas where testing occurred have come forward to demand greater government transparency on the issue. A recently released book details the experiments the US government undertook, over decades, on their own unknowing citizens to test the effects of radiation. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a recently published book by Lisa Martino-Taylor, an associate professor of sociology at St. Louis Community College, reveals the experiments the US government conducted to determine the dangers of radioactivity on its own populace....

Otagi Nenbutsu-Ji is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan that features over 1,200 stone figures representing Rakan, or disciples of the founder of Buddhism. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 26Stone carvings surround the Otagi Nenbutsu-ji temple in Kyoto.Raymond Ling/Flickr 2 of 26The temple itself stands tall, despite its tumultuous history. nahemaparis/Flickr 3 of 26The beauty inside the temple is undisputed, but it’s what’s on the outside that makes it famous....

From her sharpshooting to her activism, these Annie Oakley facts reveal how she defied the odds to rule the Wild West. Throughout the often violent history of the Wild West, few women are remembered as the stars of the show. That is, with the exception of professional sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Presenting herself as harmless and coy (when she could probably shoot your eye out from miles away), Annie Oakley was “America’s Sweetheart” with a big gun and deadly aim....

While the house only sustained minor damage, the fire was serious enough that the man’s two trapped relatives climbed out of a second-story window to get to safety. DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department Food is a unifier — a universal common ground that has brought people together for millennia. For a 61-year-old mother in Lithonia, Ga., however, food is what caused her son to try to burn their house down....

From lifelong friendships and those first innocent crushes to long days spent outdoors, these photos from summer camps of yesteryear will make you feel like a kid again. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 55 Vintage Photos Of Your Parents Being Cooler Than You Will Ever Be Vintage Hollywood In 48 Photos 22 Vintage Photos Of Your Favorite Summer Pastimes...

Just before Leo, Brad, Charlize, and Keanu became untouchable, they partied their hearts out in an L.A. free of TMZ and camera phones in every pocket. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Vintage Hollywood In 48 Photos Hollywood’s Old Loves: Vintage Celebrity Couples That Time Almost Forgot 33 Photos From The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 And The Other Wild Early Years...

They’re the most endangered whale on Earth with only 500 left alive. And now they’re dying at alarming rates. NOAA/FlickrNorth Atlantic right whales. In recent weeks, six whales of the critically endangered North Atlantic right variety have turned up dead, leaving scientists perplexed as they struggle to figure out why. All of the massive creatures’ bodies were found in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence in the Northwest Atlantic, which used to be home to tens of thousands of this particular species, the world’s rarest type of whale....

From Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia to the 400,000 hippies in attendance, these pictures from Woodstock 1969 capture the free spirit of this historic event. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Complete, Unadulterated History Of 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival Naked Hippies And Raging Fires: 55 Crazy Photos From History’s Most Iconic Music Festivals 33 Photos From The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 And The Other Wild Early Years...

Source: Flickr Sorry, Edwin Starr. It turns out that war is good for absolutely…something. The life-or-death havoc of war electrifies human creativity in a powerful way. A number of the world’s most useful inventions have come from the military. Some appeared by accident, others as solutions to particular problems that seem much more urgent when the enemy’s tanks are rolling in. Ever had green beans from a can? You can thank Napoleon....