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Despite being born into slavery and orphaned at 16, Ida B. Wells became a renowned journalist, an anti-lynching advocate, and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. About 70 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, a Black woman named Ida B. Wells refused to leave her seat in the whites-only section of a Nashville-bound train. But after she was thrown off, Wells sued the railroad company — and won, kicking off a historic career in social activism that lasted the rest of her life....

On July 13, 1954, Frida Kahlo died at 47 at her home in Mexico, but suspicious details have some convinced that her death was a covered-up suicide. She’s been dead for decades but you’ve probably seen her around: on dishware, tote bags, and even socks. Frida Kahlo’s personal style and distinct artwork have made her one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century. Kahlo’s art deftly blended her personal reflections and her deepest insecurities with a vivid and surreal imagination....

In December 1992, Suzanne Capper endured a week of relentless torture in Greater Manchester, England. Then, she was burned alive. Suzanne Capper was only 16 when she died, but while the circumstances surrounding her death were horrific, her murder was largely overshadowed in the press by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger two months later. PA Images/Getty ImagesSuzanne Capper had asked to move in with her mother, but her mother needed a few weeks to prepare her new flat....

ISIS goes out of its way to destroy priceless archaeological sites, but this time, they may have discovered one. ISIS isn’t exactly known for respecting cultural artifacts, which makes its inadvertent aid to archaeologists all the more surprising. Back in 2014, when the militant terrorist organization took hold of Iraq, ISIS destroyed the Nebi Yunus shrine, which had contained what Muslims and Christians thought was the tomb of Jonah. It turns out ISIS did more than destroy things, however....

In 1981, Japanese murderer Issei Sagawa, the “Kobe Cannibal,” killed his friend Renée Hartevelt and ate her remains, yet he’s free to walk the streets to this day. Noboru Hashimoto/Corbis via Getty ImagesIssei Sagawa in his Tokyo home, July 1992. When Issei Sagawa murdered, dismembered, and devoured Renée Hartevelt in 1981, he was fulfilling a dream 32 years in the making. Sagawa, who was born in Kobe, Japan, was studying comparative literature in Paris at the time of his crime....

Toxeus magnus will nurse her spiderlings well into their “teens” with a protein-rich milk-like substance secreted from her birth canal. Chen ZhanqiToxeus magnus, the spider mom that nurses her babies until they’re teenagers. A Singapore-based species of jumping spider known as Toxeus magnus was recently spotted surrounded by a litter of spider babies, who she was nursing with a protein-packed milk secreted from her birth canal. The spider mom was found to be something of a helicopter parent as she nursed her spiderlings well into their “teen” years, and devoted most of her energy to her babies....

Archaeologists successfully uncovered the hidden city high in the Cambodian mountains using aerial laser scanning technology. Jean-Pierre Dalbéra/FlickrThe ruins of an ancient temple, built when the Khmer Empire ruled modern day Cambodia, sits near Phnom Kulen, the early seat of the empire. Sometime between the 9th and 15th Centuries AD, a Hindu-Buddhist regime known as the Khmer Empire ruled over what is now modern-day Cambodia. It’s early capital city, Mahendraparvata, has been shrouded with thick vegetation since the empire’s fall and was thought lost to history — until now....

Marie Laveau is famous for being New Orleans’ voodoo queen, but was she really as evil and mystical as she has been portrayed? In 19th-century New Orleans, Marie Laveau proved that Voodoo was much more than sticking pins in dolls and raising zombies. While the white world dismissed her as an evil occultist who practiced black magic and held drunken orgies, New Orleans’ Black community knew her as a healer and herbalist who preserved African belief systems while melding them with those of the New World....

The barreleye might look like a submarine, but its transparent head is necessary to navigate the 2,500-feet-deep waters in which it lives. At first glance, the barreleye fish might look more like an alien creature than anything earthly. But the elusive barreleye is very much a real creature and it lives deep in our oceans. The barreleye gets its name from the pair of tubular eyes embedded in its transparent head....

A new study shows alarmingly high levels of prescription drugs in the region’s fish. The United States doesn’t always have the cleanest waterways, but researchers were still shocked to find high buildups of antidepressants in fish living around the Great Lakes. A new joint Thai-American study discovered high concentrations of the drugs in human antidepressants in 10 fish species living in the Niagara River that connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, the Niagara Gazette reports....

In the 1980s, Philadelphia mob boss Nicky Scarfo presided over one of the deadliest periods in Mafia history and ordered the murders of nearly 30 members of his own organization. Bettmann/Getty ImagesPhiladelphia Mafia boss Nicky Scarfo with his nephew, Philip Leonetti, behind him after they were acquitted for murder in 1980. Nine years later, Leonetti turned state’s witness and helped put Scarfo in federal prison. Nicky Scarfo became the boss of the Philadelphia Mafia in 1981 after a long period of peace and prosperity within the crime family....

From killing journalists to bribing politicians, Pablo Escobar and Los Extraditables would do anything to not go to a U.S. prison. Wikimedia Commons/Getty ImagesGonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Pablo Escobar, and Fabio Ochoa Vásquez. A little before 7 a.m. on Sept. 3rd, 1989, the relative silence of the early morning on the streets of Bogota was shattered when a truck parked in front of the headquarters of El Espectador, the country’s oldest newspaper, and exploded with horrifying force....

The drug bust uncovered 3,000 pounds of marijuana, 1,300 pounds of cocaine, 86 pounds of meth, and 17 pounds of heroin. San Diego Tunnel Task Force/Department of Homeland Security via Associated PressAuthorities carried out a drug bust worth nearly $30 million from an underground tunnel at the U.S.-Mexico border. History has shown that no matter how challenging, people will do what they can to smuggle illegal things. Sometimes that means building a ventilated drug tunnel with lighting and an underground rail system that stretches across the U....

The Squamish Nation expects that Senakw will provide a revenue of up to $10 billion and provide housing for Indigenous Canadians. Revery ArchitectureA drawing of what the Senakw development will look like. In 1913, members of the Squamish Nation were forcibly removed from Senakw, a village in present-day Vancouver, Canada. Now, having won the land back, they plan to build an ambitious 11-tower development named for their lost village. “We want to bring our people back home to that part of our territory,” explained Khelsilem, a Squamish Nation councilor....

Tanaka Tatsuya’s work – taking every day objects and turning them into playful scenes – proves that imagination doesn’t have to die when your youth does. Tanaka Tatsuya approaches each day with a challenge in mind: to see mundane items in a new way. Maybe that broccoli is actually a mystical forest, or that discarded water bottle a submarine. This ever-evolving view of everyday objects has become a daily labor of love for over three years....

In the mid-19th century, after years of being ravaged by famine, Irish farmers were being forced out of their own homes. English landlords started evicting tenants across Ireland – but the farmers had had enough. They fought back – and started the Irish Land War. Share Flipboard Email Countless farmers across Ireland at the time lived on rented land owned by Englishmen, most of which were absentee landlords who would hire corrupt middlemen to squeeze every possible penny out of their tenants....

Mysteries of ancient humans’ love for ostrich eggs unlocked, history of Nazi camp on British soil revealed, remains of prehistoric rainforest in Antarctica discovered. Bronze Age Humans Risked Death To Steal And Decorate Giant Ostrich Eggs British MuseumTwo ancient ostrich eggs on display at the British Museum in London. Thousands of years before Easter, humans decorated giant ostrich eggs and shipped them all over the ancient world. Our Bronze Age ancestors created ornate designs featuring images like chariots and soldiers, then used ivory attachments as the finishing touches....

When a little girl and her family fed a sea lion bread in British Columbia, they got a firsthand lesson on why it’s illegal. The signs along the docks in Richmond, British Columbia say not to feed the sea lions. When a young girl and her family were doing just that on Saturday, they learned firsthand why the warnings were there. They had been tossing bread to a giant sea lion....

After 52 years, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has identified the murdered woman as Colleen Audrey Rice after a successful crowdfunded DNA genealogy test. Mohave County Sheriff’s OfficeColleen Audrey Rice’s high school photo. In January 1971, a group of hunters in the remote desert area of Mohave County, Arizona, stumbled upon a canvas sack. In it, they found the body of a woman that would go unidentified for over 50 years....

History may have forgotten them, but we haven’t. Meet 15 interesting people who never got the credit they deserved. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Who’s Someone Who Did Amazing Things That History Pretty Much Forgot? The Remarkable Story Of Prince Hall, The ‘Black Founding Father’ History Almost Forgot NYC Buried Thousands Of Black People Here And Forgot About It – Until It Was Rediscovered...