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The children’s deaths came out in a report on euthanasia in Belgium stating that 4,337 people were euthanized in the country in total between 2016 and 2017. Pxhere A new report has brought to light two extremely controversial decisions regarding euthanasia in Belgium by revealing that two children, ages nine and 11, were given lethal injections, making them the youngest people in the world to ever be voluntarily euthanized. The nine-year-old had a brain tumor and the 11-year-old was suffering from cystic fibrosis....

After a Nova Scotia movie theater refused to let Viola Desmond sit in the whites-only section, she took the case to court and ignited the country’s civil rights movement in the process. Wikimedia CommonsA portrait of Viola Desmond, circa 1940. In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus for a white man. Parks’s act of civil disobedience helped spark the civil rights movement in the U....

Go inside the fascinating story of British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter and how he found King Tut’s tomb. The golden treasures found in King Tutankhamun’s tomb changed our understanding of ancient Egyptian history forever. But before the tomb was uncovered, the expedition that was hell-bent on locating it was almost disbanded after years of unsuccessful searches. Still, one persistent British archaeologist named Howard Carter refused to give up on the mission....

The earthquakes, weather events, and tsunamis caused by the Krakatoa eruption of 1883 were felt even thousands of miles away. Library of Congress The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 is considered the loudest sound ever. On the morning of August 26, 1883, the residents of the island of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia, then-Dutch East Indie, arose like it was any other day. They went about their business as smoke trailed from the three volcanic cones that dotted the island....

Hear the first-ever Mariana Trench recording and discover exactly how it sounds in the deepest point in any ocean on planet Earth. Hydrothermal vents like those above, line the depths of the sea floor at its lowest points. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Sunlight usually travels to just 680 feet below the ocean’s surface. At best, light can penetrate to depths of about 3,280 feet. Another six miles below that sits the deepest recorded point on Earth: a small depression in the Mariana Trench known as Challenger Deep....

From 1866 to 1868, Sioux Chief Red Cloud successfully fought the expansion of white settlers into Oglala Lakota territory in Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. Library of CongressChief Red Cloud is the most photographed Native American of the 19th century. Something unusual happened in 1868. After trying to bend Native Americans in the Great Plains to their will, the U.S. government instead gave up, sued for peace, and conceded to their demands....

Some say the Smiley Face Killer has taken 40 victims over two decades. Others say there is no killer. Here’s what the evidence says. Flickr Between 1997 and 2008, authorities pulled the dead bodies of more than 40 young white men out of rivers and lakes in more than 25 cities across 11 states. They’d mostly all been college-aged, popular, and athletic. Most had last been seen leaving bars of parties while inebriated....

Though a suspect was identified, tried, convicted, and executed, mystery still surrounds the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping of 1932. On May 12, 1932, the tiny body of one-year-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was discovered in the woods outside of Trenton, New Jersey. The coroner’s report stated that the child had been dead for over two months. The child’s skull had a hole in it as well as several other fractures, and the coroner ruled the cause of death as a blow to the head....

In the folklore of Plains and First Nations people, the wendigo was once a legendary hunter who turned to cannibalism — and became an insatiable monster. As the tale goes, the wendigo was once a lost hunter. During a brutally cold winter, this man’s intense hunger drove him to cannibalism. After feasting on another human’s flesh, he transformed into a crazed man-beast, roaming the forest in search of more people to eat....

Dinosaur-like carcass found with flesh seemingly intact, Earth’s oldest-ever fossils uncovered, dinosaur footprint defaced by vandals. Dinosaur-Like Animal Carcass Discovered With Flesh Seemingly Intact An electrician in India made an incredible discovery over the weekend, when he unearthed the carcass of what appears to be a prehistoric animal. The electrician was cleaning out an abandoned substation when he discovered the remains, which were extremely well preserved, and even had its flesh intact....

Gay rights around the world. Image Source: chersonandmolschky.com Gay rights are a flashpoint in what can be described as a global culture war, and in many ways a country’s stance on gay rights can serve as a somewhat reliable indicator of that nation’s overall quality of life. After all, it’s hard to build a successful economy in an environment where some citizens are more or less arbitrarily deprived of equal protection under the law—and when international investors, diplomats, as well as tourists are increasingly punishing nations that discriminate against gays....

One of the most revered and reviled streets in the world, Wall Street has shaped the course of modern history. Here’s a look at its early days. At first glance, this street could be just another 0.7-mile long stretch of road in the middle of a bustling city. But it’s so much more than that. Some consider it the heart of New York and, without a doubt, the city’s financial center (and some might say the world’s)....

Civil rights organizations have filed a lawsuit against the bill, with the first hearing taking place this week. Arkansas is working hard to make abortions inaccessible to women. With the passage of five new laws, the state has taken unprecedented steps to restrict the procedure, even in instances of rape or incest. Reproductive rights advocates are particularly riled up about House Bill 1566, or the Tissue Disposal Mandate. In the bill, which was sponsored by Arkansas State House of Representatives member Kim Hammer (R-28) and which was signed into law in March 2017 and set to go into effect this month, fetal tissue is considered part of a deceased family member....

The pageant called for women that are “pure-blood” and “love an honor” Adolf Hitler to enter via social media. HadashotThe “Miss Hitler 2018” beauty pageant, hosted by Nazi sympathizers via the Russian social media platform Vkontakte, was removed from the site by its administrators. Russia’s answer to Facebook, the social media platform Vkontakte, has removed and blocked pages on their site promoting the “Miss Hitler 2018” beauty pageant after receiving complaints from Israeli media watchdogs....

If there’s one thing that unites every country, it’s how nuts their advertising companies are. You’ll see what we mean when you look at these weird ads. Advertising is both a science and an art, as the true stories of the real “Mad Men” show. Given the wealth of products to buy and causes to support, advertisers know that for an ad to really stick, it needs to pull out all the stops....

There’s a reason that polls consistently show Americans’ surging distrust in the news media. The American news media has spent much of the last several decades in a tailspin thanks to its various lies. Polls consistently rank the mainstream media among the least trusted institutions of American public life, which is a bit of a problem for an industry whose motto is, essentially, “trust us.” The news outlets themselves, confronted with evidence that most American citizens would sooner take candy from a stranger than get their news from one of the corporate behemoths, have gone into a kind of defensive coma about the credibility issue....

The 6,000-foot mountaintop once held temples, the homes of rulers, and a games court. FacebookThe 2,500-year-old ruins found on Cerro de Peña include carved stones depicting animals and a woman that resembles a bat. The southwestern village of Santa Cruz Huehuepiaxtla in Mexico is fairly quaint and remote. At 6,000 feet high, the Cerro de Peña mountain has arguably been its most fascinating landmark. That is, until locals discovered ancient Zapotec ruins and carvings dating back 2,500 years on its summit....

The Mayor of Austin had some choice words for a man angered by women-only screenings at an Austin, Texas, movie theater. The Alamo Drafthouse is a quirky movie chain that likes to do things a little differently — like when they drove their customers into the middle of the woods after a horror movie. Last week they announced an all-women screening of the new Wonder Woman movie in order to celebrate the feminist figure....

With the help of Charles Manson, Bobby Beausoleil went from just another struggling actor and musician to a world-famous murderer. Bobby Beausoleil was arrested for the murder of Gary Hinman at the request of Charles Manson on August 7, 1969. The world of Charles Manson was populated with a cast of characters to rival Batman’s rogue’s galleries — not to mention the head honcho himself. But one of the most fascinating members had to have been Bobby Beausoleil: musician, part-time porn star, Haigh-Ashbury bum, and eventual Manson murderer....

The shoes belonged to a child named Amos Steinberg, who was deported to the camp with his mother in 1944. Neither survived. Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-BirkenauThis pair of shoes contained a child’s first and last name, mode of transport, and registration number. Experts at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum continue to uncover relics of the Holocaust to this day. Just this week, they found a pair of children’s shoes with a handwritten inscription detailing the child’s name, their mode of transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and their registration number....