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Before Carrie Bradshaw and Hannah Horvath, New York was host to the 1980s. And trust us, it wasn’t all that pretty. The 1980s greatly tested New York City’s strength: residents fled the city in record numbers, government mismanagement caused near bankruptcy of the city, and the introduction of crack-cocaine unleashed an unprecedented wave of drug addiction and violence. Below, we look at the decade that came to define the city as the ‘Rotten Apple’ for a generation of Americans:...

These animals on the beach know how to have a good time. Source: Video Bash As Labor Day hits, one thing becomes clear: summertime is nearly over. If you’ve made the mistake of spending it indoors, try to live vicariously through the galloping horses and yoga-loving French bulldogs who know how to hit the beach for a good time. Browse through the photos for your daily dose of silly penguins, swimming pigs and crazy-eyed crabs....

These twenty-three heartrending Maya Angelou quotes are the definition of words to live by. Through her award-winning poetry and her civil rights activism, Maya Angelou became the voice of so many who were unable to make themselves heard. The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings inspired countless people around the world and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, just three years before her death at age 86....

The Airlander 10, the long-awaited behemoth that is now the world’s largest aircraft, has finally been unveiled. Join us in a first look. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Airlander (@airlander_official) If 300 feet doesn’t sound like a lot to you, remember that that’s about the size of the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, and some of the largest giant sequoias ever measured. Then imagine something that long — and a whole lot wider — flying through the air....

“Anglo-Saxon crosses of this kind are exceptionally rare, and only one other — much less elaborate — is known from the ninth century.” National Museums ScotlandThe cross before (left) and after (right) restoration work began on it in 2017. In 2014, treasure hunter Derek McLennan made the discovery of a lifetime. Noticing a bit of silver protruding from the dirt in a Scottish field, he and two friends began to dig....

“Under” is the world’s largest underwater restaurant that sits submerged 16 feet in the North Sea. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: This Arctic Hotel in Norway Is The Frozen Hideaway Of An Introvert’s Dreams Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Announces Plan To Build $135 Million Underwater ‘Space Station’ World’s Largest Underwater Cave Discovered In Mexico 1 of 16Moody mist envelops the outer shell of Noway’s new underwater restaurant....

This incredible photo comparison shows how archaeologists restored the abandoned Mayan temple of El Castillo in Chichen Itza to its former glory. El Castillo, 1892. (See present-day photo below.) Today, the majestic El Castillo temple looms proudly over the remains of the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza. But not all that long ago, it looked as if those historic remains would never live to see the 21st century at all....

In 1872, Elijah McCoy created a tiny device that automatically lubricated steam engines while they were running — and revolutionized the railroad industry in the process. One year before the Civil War broke out, Elijah McCoy crossed the Atlantic to attend a Scottish university. McCoy’s parents were born enslaved, but they escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. That gave the 15-year-old the freedom to pursue his dream of becoming a mechanical engineer....

Australian megafauna, like giant kangaroos and car-sized lizards, coexisted with humans for at least 15,000 years before perishing. Rochelle Lawrence/Queensland MuseumResearchers uncovered at least 13 species of extinct megafauna that once roamed in prehistoric Australia. Between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, the land that we now call Australia was populated with gigantic creatures of all kinds, including kangaroos twice the size of man and dragon-like goannas. And according to a new study, early humans actually co-existed alongside these humongous beasts for tens of thousands of years....

“You could look at it two ways,” Frane Selak said. “I was either the unluckiest man in the world, or the luckiest. I preferred to believe the latter.” CENFrane Selak poses with lottery tickets following his reported jackpot win circa 2002 (accounts vary). He claims to have survived seven brushes with death — before winning the lottery. But are the stories of the world’s luckiest/unluckiest man true? Frane Selak’s Astounding Stories Of Survival Frane Selak had never been on a plane before, but desperate times called for desperate measures....

For 30 years, Boy Scout troop leader and church council president Dennis Rader was secretly the BTK murderer — while looking like the perfect family man to his neighbors in Kansas. Dennis Rader was the president of his church congregation as well as a loving husband and a doting father. Altogether, he seemed to be a reliable and responsible man to all who knew him. But he was leading a double life....

On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot after being chased by up to 30 white youths in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. Storm Over Brooklyn/InstagramSixteen-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death by a white mob in Brooklyn in 1989. In 1989, a Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins was gunned down in a racist attack while walking in the predominantly white neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. A gang of white teenagers ambushed Hawkins following rumors that a teenage girl in the neighborhood was bringing Black and Hispanic friends over....

The controversial new punishment’s goal is to reduce the sexual urges of the sex offenders, thus reducing their chances of committing another sex-related crime. They will join several other major countries in the practice.Frank Bienewal / Global Look Press Kazakhstan is set to initiate a new, controversial punishment for some of the country’s convicted pedophiles: chemical castration. An unidentified sex offender from the Turkestan region will be the first to receive a chemical castration, which will be administered under the supervision of Kazakhstan’s health ministry, News....

Meet Myra Hindley, once considered the evilest woman in Britain and the chilling killer behind the infamous Moors Murders. She was known as “the most evil woman in Britain.” But Myra Hindley, who in the 1960s helped sexually assault and murder five children in what would come to be known as the Moors murders, maintained that her abusive lover made her do it. Where does the truth lie? Between 1963 and 1965, Myra Hindley and her lover Ian Brady lured four children — Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, and Lesley Ann Downey — into their car under the pretense of giving them a ride home....

More than 150 years ago, the U.S. government signed two treaties granting land to the Muscogee tribe. Now, the Supreme Court is holding America to its word. Library of CongressA map outlining the various Native American territories within Oklahoma. 1892. According to a landmark Supreme Court decision, about half of Oklahoma is technically Native American land — and has been for more than 150 years. On July 9, 2020, the justices declared that most of the state’s eastern half falls within an Indian reservation, leaving Oklahoma’s government concerned about the impending fallout of this historic finding....

On July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield twice at a railroad station in Washington, D.C. — but it took him two months to die of his wounds. The president simply didn’t notice the man with the gun. Striding toward his train in a Washington, D.C. railway station on July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was deep in conversation with his secretary of state when a 39-year-old failed lawyer named Charles Guiteau raised an ivory-handled ....

Before federal food safety regulations really existed in the U.S., one man made it his duty to prove that food additives were harmful to human health – and he did so in a rather unconventional way. ATI Composite; bhofack2/Getty Images At the turn of the 20th century, Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, started inviting people into the basement of his office building for extraordinarily well-prepared meals....

From isolated islands in the South Pacific to the chilly confines of northern Canada, these are the most remote places on Earth. Most Remote Places In Human Civilization: Alert, Canada The small village of Alert lies on the tip of the Nunavut territory in Canada a mere five hundred miles below the North Pole. With a year-round population of five people, Alert is one of the most treacherous and remote places in the world....

Even though their livelihoods and customs are being lost to time, Burano’s rich history can be seen on its very technicolor walls. Source: Bored Panda photo by Kamil Tamiola The Venetian island of Burano, Italy is the home to a shockingly bright and intricately planned city. Originally drenched in highly-saturated tones so local fishermen could see them to navigate through fog, the colors are now part of Burano’s appeal as an oft-visited retreat from Venice....

Experience the most outrageous stories and photos from the Weathermen a.k.a. the Weather Underground, the Vietnam War-era radicals that made their protests with bombs. David Fenton/Getty ImagesYoung men raise their fists during the “Days of Rage” anti-Vietnam War demonstrations organized by the Weathermen in Chicago. Oct. 11, 1969. “Our intention is to disrupt the empire… to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks.” — From the Weather Underground’s 1974 manifesto, “Prairie Fire”....