Whether it was celebrations in Shanghai or riots in San Francisco, Victory Over Japan Day sent people around the world into a frenzy. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Inside The Epic Battle Of Okinawa, The Bloodiest Conflict In The Pacific Theater Of World War II Inside The Pacific Theater: The World War II Horror Show History Wants To Forget...
These drawings of sea creatures show how naturalists of centuries past first documented their discoveries — and they’re as magical today as they were to the scientists who first saw them. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 40These so-called butterfly fish were drawn by ichthyologist Mary Margaret Smith for her 1949 textbook The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa....
From Malcolm X and Albert Einstein to the Civil War and the Great Depression, these colorized old photographs bring history to life like never before. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 44 Colorized Photos That Bring The Streets Of Century-Old New York City To Life 32 Colorized World War I Photos That Bring The Tragedy Of The ‘War To End All Wars’ To Life...
Despite its formal ending twenty years ago, apartheid’s damning legacy persists in South Africa. When attempting to understand our present, it is vital to begin with the past. This very much applies when examining contemporary political, economic and cultural struggles in South Africa. While racial discrimination and segregation had existed in colonial South Africa for centuries, it was officially codified into law in 1948 so that minority whites could hold onto power....
What to do with the property has long been the subject of tense discussion. After decades of uncertainty, the Austrian government has finally made a decision. Wikimedia CommonsThe property was formerly a day-care center for people with disabilities. Adolf Hitler’s childhood home in Braunau am Inn has been the subject of discussion for years. The Austrian government rented the building from its former owner for decades to stop far-right tourism. According to the BBC, officials have now decided to turn it into a police station....
Jeremy Skibicki’s online presence was allegedly rife with antisemitic, misogynistic, and white supremacist vitriol. FacebookJeremy Skibicki was chargedm with the murder of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois in May 2022. A Winnipeg man who was charged in the death of an Indigenous woman earlier this year now faces charges relating to three additional deaths. The alleged serial killer, 35-year-old Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki, is in police custody and has been since May 18th, CNN reports, following a homicide investigation into the death of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois of the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi, or Crane River, First Nation....
Ron Smith and his girlfriend both died due to blunt head trauma while riding with a group of bikers through Pinellas County, Florida in August 2022. FacebookA friend described Ron Smith as a man who didn’t like being told what to do. In the late 1990s, attorney Ron Smith fought vigorously to repeal Florida’s motorcycle helmet laws. On Aug. 20, 2022, he and his partner died while riding a motorcycle without a helmet....
Actor Bob Crane was savagely bludgeoned to death in Scottsdale, Arizona, just two weeks before his 50th birthday — and the murder remains unsolved to this day. Wikimedia CommonsBob Crane was found bludgeoned to death at 49 years old. In the 1960s, actor Bob Crane became a household name seemingly overnight. Cast as the titular jokester in the popular sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, his mischievous face and wisecracking antics onscreen were cherished by millions....
They sold the boy, now just nine, to dark web pedophiles on at least 50 different occasions. THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty ImagesThe defendants, Christian L (right) and Berrin T (fourth from right), face sentencing in Freiburg, Germany on Aug. 7. A woman in Germany — identified in accordance with German privacy law only as Berrin T — who sold her own son to pedophiles on the dark web on at least 50 occasions was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in jail by a German court in the city of Freiburg on Aug....
…yum? No one likes the person who brings a fruitcake to the Christmas party. But what if it was a perfectly preserved 106-year-old fruitcake? I can’t decide if it would make it better or worse, but conservationists from the Antarctic Heritage Trust now have that option. They recently discovered what they approximate to be a 106-year-old fruitcake, left wrapped in paper, inside a metal tin, on a shelf, inside a Cape Adare hut that was used by explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s crew in 1911....
In November 1967, John “Chickie” Donohue snuck into Vietnam and braved actual firefights — just so he could bring his army buddies from back home some cold beers. Pabst Blue Ribbon/YouTubeDonohue eating rations (right) with friend Rick Duggan (opposite, with box in front) and members of the First Air Cavalry’s Bravo Company. John “Chickie” Donohue served four years in the Marines but had missed the war. He had only ever been to Vietnam twice as a merchant seaman, but knew dozens of soldiers risking their lives overseas....
Since joining the al-Shabaab terrorist organization, Samantha Lewthwaite has perpetrated attacks that killed 400 people, leaving the authorities desperately wondering where the “White Widow” is now. Unlike her parents, militant Islamist Samantha Lewthwaite never experienced life in conflict-torn Northern Ireland in the 1970s and ’80s. It was precisely this — her traditional upbringing as a middle-class child in Margaret Thatcher’s England — that made her transformation into a terrorist so confounding....
The Sossusvlei is an ancient salt pan in Namibia’s Namib Desert that transforms into an oasis once or twice every decade. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Photos That Will Take You Inside The Serene Beauty Of The Montréal Botanical Garden 41 Photos That Reveal The Otherworldly Beauty Of Socotra 1960s Paris: 44 Striking Photos of Reconstruction and Upheaval...
After the war ended, Klaus Barbie pretended to be a hobo until he was picked up by the CIA to spy in Bolivia and fight against communism. Wikimedia CommonsA younger Klaus Barbie. The Nazis were infamous for their cruelty and cold efficiency, and Gestapo operative Klaus Barbie was no exception. Known as the “Butcher of Lyon” for his reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Lyon, France, Barbie not only sent Jews to concentration camps but also brutally tortured French Jews and Resistance fighters....
Leslie Van Houten joined the Manson Family in 1968. The next summer, she stabbed Rosemary LaBianca to death. Before Leslie Van Houten stabbed Rosemary LaBianca in the back 16 times, she was a normal, middle-class girl who was homecoming queen at her high school. She was the second eldest child of an all-American family and was born on August 23, 1949, in Altadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Van Houten was an athletic young girl and outgoing enough that being crowned homecoming queen only made sense....
In 1929, a mass poisoning plot was uncovered in a rural Hungarian town that saw 40 people murdered — and 34 women implicated as the so-called Angel Makers of Nagyrév. Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesThe Angel Makers of Nagyrév poisoned their husbands, children, or brothers en masse in a small Hungarian village in 1929. Between 1914 and 1929, a band of women now known as the Angel Makers of Nagyrév, Hungary, poisoned an estimated 40 men and children in their small village — though some estimate they killed closer to 300....
It is believed the Saltmen were working in a mine over 1700 years ago when it collapsed on them. Wikimedia CommonsThe head of Salt Man 1, on display at the National Museum of Iran. In 1993, miners at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Zanjan province of Iran discovered a body. Clearly a man, the body had flowing white hair and a beard and was sporting a single gold earring. Though he didn’t initially appear that old, carbon dating showed he had died in 300 A....
The manufacturer of Agent Orange has been sued by countless plaintiffs alleging their weedkiller caused them harm. These released emails showcase how indifferent Monsanto is. FlickrA former groundskeeper was awarded $289 million (later reduced to $78 million) in 2018, after a jury found that Monsanto actively obfuscated Roundup’s health risks. Monsanto — your friendly neighborhood provider of highly toxic pesticides — isn’t only cool with poisoning kids. It wants to “beat the shit out of” moms....
These tiny marine fossils date back 460 million years, when an ocean covered the entirety of Wales. National Museum WalesA depiction of the new species, dubbed Mieridduryn bonniae. While excavating a sheep field in Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales, researchers came across two delicate, 460-million-year-old fossils that date back to when an ocean covered the country. Though scientists believe that they resemble an extinct marine life form called opabiniids, they think that the fossils represent a brand new species....
In 2018, Tahlequah embarked on a heartbreaking 1,000-mile “tour of grief” to mourn her dead calf. Now, her pregnancy has brought new hope to her pod. Ken Balcomb/Center for Whale ResearchTahlequah, pictured here, without her firstborn calf. In 2018, the heartbreaking story of Tahlequah the orca resonated with people around the world after she was reported carrying the corpse of her dead calf for over two weeks. Although researchers confirmed that Tahlequah has since rebounded from her tragic ordeal, the story of her journey swimming 1,000 miles on a “tour of grief” to mourn her lost baby has lingered in the public’s memory....
