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Recognizing that the right to vote wouldn’t come without a fight, these women looked to the martial arts as a guide. For the most part, British suffragettes looked like fairly non-threatening people. Many of them were petite older women wearing long dresses and big flower-covered hats. Their hair was always perfectly coiffed, their high-collared shirts wrinkle-free, their sashes expertly calligraphed. But don’t be fooled by those proper-English-grandma vibes, most of those ladies could almost certainly kick your ass....

As early as the 1940s, Pauli Murray began to challenge segregation, sex discrimination, and gender norms. She later became a pioneering lawyer and an Episcopal priest. Wikimedia CommonsIn addition to being a civil right’s activist and women’s right’s activist, Pauli Murray also became an Episcopalian priest. Pauli Murray defies categorization. A legal scholar, civil rights activist, women’s activist, and poet — among other things — Murray’s quick mind and stubborn disposition arguably changed American society....

With their endless expanses of snow, blue ice, and crystal clear surfaces, glaciers are an incredibly breathtaking natural wonder. If you’re looking for a less poetic way to describe them, these astonishing bodies of icy mass are essentially large bodies of ice formed over centuries, when the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation). A combination of weight and gravity cause the glacier to deform and move, also creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features....

Possible Michelangelo fingerprint discovered, cathedral linked to lost Nubian kingdom unearthed, ancient Egyptian slab filled with hieroglyphics found. 500-Year-Old Fingerprint Likely Belonging To Michelangelo Just Found On One Of His Sculptures Victoria And Albert MuseumEntitled “A Slave,” this statue depicts a young naked figure with his arm thrown across his face. More than 500 years after it was created, a statue made by Michelangelo just revealed a fingerprint believed to belong to the artist himself....

Haunting Pompeii skeletons unearthed, Salem witch trials house goes up for sale, mysteries of Egypt’s pyramids unlocked. Skeleton Family Killed By Vesuvius Blast Found Huddled Together In A Room In Pompeii Ciro Fusco/ANSA via APThe skeletal remains found at the Pompeii archaeological site. Even after nearly 2,000 years, the ruins of the great city of Pompeii continue to serve as a treasure trove for archaeologists. Their latest discovery is the remains of a family who were huddled together when they lost their lives in the deadly Vesuvius eruption of 79 A....

Raffaela Weyman and her friend were strolling to a friend’s party when they stopped to smell the roses. Unfortunately, they weren’t roses at all — but a dangerous hallucinogen. PixabayIt was the large, colorful beauty of Angel’s Trumpet that Weyman and her friend were drawn to. In 1956, golfer Walter Hagen urged us all “to smell the flowers along the way.” That axiom later changed to “stop and smell the roses,” but has served as a reminder to enjoy life just as well....

Mysterious circles have “appeared” on farms since the mid-1970s. But the most interesting thing about crop circles is our reaction to them. YouTube/Danny Aliyev In 1678, a strange woodcut pamphlet appeared in England. Titled: “The Mowing Devil, or Strange News Out of Hartford-shire,” the short document recounted a story about a farmer who argued with his hired help, telling one worker that he’d rather that the Devil mow his corn than pay him to do it....

Bimini road is made up of limestone blocks with most of them cut in a rectangular shape. Wikimedia CommonsNorth Bimini Island, where Bimini Road is located. For hundreds of years, the story of the sunken city of Atlantis has graced the pages of novels and captured the attention of historians and fantasizers alike. The famed lost city makes its first appearance, in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, as the antagonistic opposition to the Athenians....

While most of us use flatware to eat, Gary Hovey has a much better use for forks, knives and spoons. Check out his incredible flatware animal sculptures. Source: Gary Hovey Sculptures From chocolate paintings to cross-stitch metal artwork, artists are always coming up with innovative ways to make art from everyday objects. Take, for instance, Gary Hovey, who uses cutlery to make awesome sculptures of animals and wildlife. To create each sculpture, Gary Hovey must cut, weld and shape numerous stainless steel forks, spoons and knives....

From monsters to ghosts, these scary urban legends and myths have been spooking out the masses for years — and for good reason. Urban legends have existed as long as people have been telling stories. In hushed voices, humans would warn each other of nefarious forces and bloodthirsty entities, like the bloodsucking Chupacabra of Puerto Rican lore or the horse-faced and bat-winged Jersey Devil of the New Jersey Pine Barrens....

After shooting his grandmother in the head, he turned the gun on himself. ABC NewsThe crime scene in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Kids often throw temper tantrums when they’re forced to do things that they don’t want to do. But one 11-year-old in Arizona took his tantrum to a shockingly macabre place that left both him and his grandmother dead. According to CNN, the boy lived with his grandparents (none of whom have been named) in Lichfield Park, Ariz....

From actors to baseball stars, these celebrities risked their careers to serve in WWII and fight the Axis powers. Imagine a career filled with fame and fortune arriving at your doorstep, only to have your country threatened by war. ‘Uncle Sam’ wants you to drop everything you’ve worked for and serve your country- and that’s just what these 12 stars did. Clark Gable Ted Williams Joe Dimaggio Henry Fonda Jimmy Stewart Joe Louis Warren Spahn Patty Berg Jackie Coogan Hank Greenberg David Nevins Stan Musial These Hollywood actors and professional athletes were unsure if they’d come back to the careers they’d worked so hard for - or even come back at all....

Susan Lund left her home in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Christmas Eve 1992 to get some groceries and was never seen again. Public DomainLund’s head was found in Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park in Ina, Illinois. Twenty-nine years after a severed head was found in an Illinois state park, investigators have identified the victim as Susan Lund. The mother of three left her home in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Christmas Eve 1992 to go to a grocery store....

Part of the inscription appears to mention bronze that was pillaged after King Mesha’s conquest of the ancient city of Ataroth, a war explicitly mentioned in the texts of the Hebrew Bible. Adam BeanThe 2,800-year-old stone altar and its inscriptions appear to mention the pillaging of ancient Ataroth by King Mesha of Moab. A new discovery in the ancient city of Ataroth — now known as Khirbat Ataruz — in Jordan may shed light on an ancient war described in the bible....

Ironing while jumping out of planes. Jumping out of planes in general. Bizarre hobbies like these prove that nothing is too arcane for human interest. Once primitive man overcame the need to search endlessly for food, a bit of a gap opened up in the average human’s schedule. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the advance of modern medicine has given most of us seven or eight decades to fill up with distractions....

Telling women that they can’t do things seems to be one of man’s most beloved pastimes. 1899 1905 1889 1907 1900’s 1934 1913 1914 1915 1916 1918 1920 1926 1928 1930 1936 1940 1944 1945 1950’s 1954 1956 1960 1961 1962 1966 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1970’s 1976 1983 1984 1977 1981 1989 1992 1993 1996 1997 2001 2007 2008 2014 2016 2017 You can’t eat that apple, you can’t vote, you can’t play sports, you can’t run for office, you can’t serve in the military, you can’t be a scientist, you can’t go to space, you can’t wear that outfit....

North Korea tends to grab the headlines as the world’s favorite ideological basket case, Turkmenistan offers just as much potential for lulz. North Korea tends to grab the headlines as the world’s favorite ideological basket case, but there’s another Asian dictatorship with just as much potential for absurdity. Turkmenistan erupted from the Soviet Union in 1991, and immediately got taken over by one of the craziest people in the world. Saparmurat Niyazov came from the slums of Stalin-era Turkmenistan and clawed his way to the top of the local Communist party....

After the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown in 1986, Soviet leader Boris Shcherbina found himself supervising the cleanup of one of modern history’s worst catastrophes. Wikimedia CommonsBoris Shcherbina was the one responsible for evacuating all residents of Pripyat in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster. HBO’s five-part mini-series Chernobyl reminded millions of viewers just how cataclysmic the 1986 nuclear disaster was — and how much worse it could have been....

While the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy has fascinated the minds of Americans for decades, what do we know about his wife, Carole Ann Boone? Ted Bundy is one of American history’s most infamous serial killers. His expertly masked sociopathy allowed him not only to terrorize some 30 women across seven states but to earn the affections of and even wed a young divorcee named Carole Ann Boone while he was on trial for the murder of these women....

Shirako, which translates to “white children” in Japanese, is the raw or cooked sperm of the cod fish. Wikimedia CommonsShirako, garnished with green onions and roe. The locals refer to it as “shirako,” which, in Japanese translates to “white children.” Fitting, when one realizes that shirako is fish sperm, though many first-timers don’t. You can’t really blame them, after all, once you see it. It looks nothing like you’d expect and, from what the locals say, doesn’t taste like what you’d expect either....