While white flight reduced the Bronx’s population by 30 percent during the 1970s, much of the borough literally burned to the ground. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Death, Destruction, And Debt: 41 Photos Of Life In 1970s New York 8 Street Artists Turn Urban Blight Into Beauty Before Brunch, There Were Riots: 1970s Harlem In Photos...
En Esur is an astounding feat of urban planning, complete with flood-proof roadways and massive silos for food storage. Daily MailEn Esur encompassed a quarter mile and was fortified by 65-foot-long walls that were six and a half feet high. For the past two and a half years, archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have tirelessly worked to uncover the 5,000-year-old city of En Esur. According to Newsweek, experts believe that the ancient city was about 10 times larger than Jericho, and because of this is being described as the “Early Bronze Age New York....
Often abandoned by their parents or forced to escape abusive situations, these feral children grew up in the wild and in some cases were literally raised by animals. Facebook; Wikimedia Commons; YouTubeFrom children who were raised by wolves to victims of severe isolation, these stories of feral people are tragic. If the history of human evolution has taught us anything, it’s that the most human trait of all is our ability to adapt....
“I felt something rubbing my hand, like the presence of God. I felt a sense of peace like everything was going to be OK.” Billy Owen, cancer survivor Billy Owen can put his finger in his mouth and poke it out of his eye socket. It’s not something he was born with, but it’s something he’s embraced. And why wouldn’t he when his other option was death? Billy Owen Gets A Life-Threatening Diagnosis In 2009 Owen was a happy motorcycle mechanic, married with a six-month-old son, living in Oklahoma....
Humans are incredibly variable, with institutions changing across cultures and throughout time. These bizarre human mating rituals are testament to that. Source: Inilah Duniakita Humans are enormously variable. Just about every institution we have is subject to endless modification across cultures and throughout time. Even the underlying assumptions behind things we take for granted, such as democracy, money, or the use of money to undermine democracy, are subject to change from one country to the next....
Conservationists and biologists alike are optimistic that these findings could help revive what was once thought to be a lost species. Ron WootenOften mistaken for coyote, these wild dogs possess the genes of a species of wolf thought to be extinct in the wild. Red wolves were declared extinct in the wild in the 1980s, but a new discovery shows that their DNA persists in a roving pack of feral dogs on Galveston Island, Texas....
From the criminal foiled by his own pants to the man who tried to barbecue child molesters, these are some of the most outlandish Florida man stories that you’ll ever read. While there’s no shortage of Florida-based antics that populate the news week in and week out, there’s no denying that the storied “Florida man,” in particular, has absolutely redefined what it means to represent the Sunshine State at its worst....
“It’s just sad because I worked so hard for four years to walk across that stage.” Dress codes are a contentious topic in America today — mainly because they normally affect female students. But while many reports of friction between young women and their school administrators have spread through the media cycle, seldom do we see an instance with disciplinary measures as serious as those recently employed by one North Carolina principal....
The system is not only inexpensive, but it has also been proven to be highly effective. YouTubeA sound system that plays the buzz of honey bees has been installed at over 50 known “elephant crossings” in India. For some Indian railroad officials, herding elephants away from the tracks is just part of the job. Unfortunately, they’re not always successful. That’s why the Moradabad Railway Division installed audio systems that play the sound of buzzing bees along the train tracks....
On the Big Major Cay island in the Bahamas, Pig Beach is a tropical heaven for 20 hogs who call this place home. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Explore Aoshima, Japan’s ‘Cat Island’ That’s Been Taken Over By Felines 38 Million Pieces Of Trash Found On Shores Of Uninhabited Henderson Island Inside Rat Island, The Only Privately-Owned Island In New York City...
On June 4, 2008, Jodi Arias butchered her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander just after they had sex. His body was found days later with 27 stab wounds and a gunshot to the head. When Travis Alexander first met Jodi Arias, he thought he’d met the love of his life. Instead, he’d met his killer. Less than two years later, Arias stabbed him at least two dozen times in the shower and shot him in the head....
For many, the term “moonshine still” conjures up images of mountain men in overalls, huddled around crude metal tanks under a full moon, drinking liquor out of jugs with “XXX” on the side. Share Flipboard Email This image isn’t entirely without merit, as a great deal of the moonshine produced in the United States during the first half of the century was indeed made deep in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains....
From the Vampir to the Fire Lilly to the Sun Gun, these outlandish Nazi weapons would have been devastating if they’d ever seen much action. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Joachim Ronneberg, The Resistance Fighter Who Sabotaged Nazi Nuclear Weapons, Dies At 99 21 Of The World’s Most Bizarre Weapons Nazi Propaganda Posters: Controlling Minds Through Lines And Color...
“I am extremely pissed off that this happened,” the museum’s director said candidly at a press conference announcing the burglary. AP Photo/Peter DejongA Van Gogh painting was stolen from the Dutch Singer Laren museum that was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. With the Netherlands on lockdown due to coronavirus, an art thief or thieves saw an opportunity for mayhem. On March 30, the Singer Laren museum in the Dutch town of Laren reported that a priceless Van Gogh painting had been stolen....
Archaeologists are certain that the remains belong to a Roman-era slave but can only speculate about why someone buried him in shackles. Museum of London ArchaeologyThe skeleton was discovered to have been buried in a ditch some 200 feet away from a formal Roman cemetery. As workers in Rutland, England, cleared land for a conservatory, they came across an alarming find — a skeleton in shackles. Although the bones turned out to be over 1,000 years old, archaeologists call the discovery “desperately grim....
The world’s best GoPro videos, from inside a grizzly’s mouth to the edge of a volcano crater to a 24-mile free-fall from space and beyond. Experience a skydive from space, explore the inside of a volcano, get catapulted off a cliff and more in these jaw-dropping GoPro videos… Two years ago, four guys launched a camera tied to a weather balloon into outer space over the Grand Canyon. It climbed to nearly 100,000 feet before crashing back to earth....
The golden-colored silk of the banana spider — the aptly named golden silk orb-weaver — is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar. The golden silk orb-weaver, also known as the banana spider, is easily identifiable by its long lanky legs, brown or yellowish hue, and unique golden web. The golden-colored silk that the banana spider produces is one of the most impressive biological materials known to man. Its silk is five times stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar, and more flexible than nylon....
In many ways, Polly Adler’s rags to riches tale is exemplary of the American Dream. Who was she? When Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other members of The Roundtable left the Algonquin Hotel, they could often be overheard saying they’d be “going to Polly’s” later that evening. To the untrained ear, it might have sounded like they were headed to a friend’s for a dinner party. In a way, that was true: the Polly of whom they spoke was Polly Adler, and she did throw lavish parties almost nightly, entertaining not just writers like Parker and Benchley, but celebrities, mob bosses, and other New York City elite....
Source: Stuart Franklin A Single Man Stops an Entire Army In 1989, perhaps due to the global collapse of communism or their exhaustion with their own version of it, students and citizens of China organized nation-wide sit-ins for democratization. As tensions grew higher, Chinese government officials enacted a series of martial laws in order to curb the tide against the ruling Comuunist Party. By June 3rd, these tensions culminated and the government sent its military into Beijing to squelch the protests and their participants by any means necessary....
The ‘Sultana’ was carrying some 2,000 freed Union soldiers from Confederate prisons when three of its four boilers blew, sending the ship into flame and chaos. On April 27, 1865, the United States experiences its worst maritime disaster in history. Mere weeks after the Civil War came to an end, the steamboat, Sultana exploded and sank in the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,200 to 1,800 Union soldiers who were released from prison and on their way home....
