A city of over 300,000 people, Yakutsk is just 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle and becomes so cold in the winter that residents don’t wear eye glasses outside because they freeze to the skin. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Here’s What Life Looks Like In Oymyakon, The Coldest City In The World...
From the sudden demise of blonde bombshells Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield to the traumatizing murder of pregnant starlet Sharon Tate, these notorious deaths are Tinseltown’s worst nightmares. Hollywood conjures visions of celebrity and glamour, but underneath the twinkle of Tinseltown lies a sinister underbelly that has led some of the brightest stars to their tragic ends. Indeed, these famous celebrity deaths are particularly haunting. For instance, there is the notorious death of Hollywood stud James Dean, who was unexpectedly killed in a car crash just months before the premiere of Rebel Without a Cause, which would cement his A-list status....
“It probably had not been in the store an hour before the first person came in and walked up to it and looked at it and said, ‘I think this is a real de Kooning.’" University of ArizonaThe stolen de Kooning painting, Woman-Ochre, is inspected at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Rita and Jerry Alter were a quiet couple and generally kept to themselves. Their neighbors in their small New Mexico town never would have suspected that they were actually harboring a massive secret in their room — a stolen Willem de Kooning painting with an estimated worth of $160 million....
Standing 7 feet and 4 inches tall and weighing 550 pounds, Andre the Giant possessed a superhuman ability to consume massive amounts of alcohol that would kill anyone else. André René Roussimoff was known as many things: Andre the Giant, the Eighth Wonder of the World, WWF Champion, to name a few. But he had another claim to fame: “The Greatest Drunk on Earth.” In the 1970s and 1980s, the French-born pro wrestler was mostly famous for his size and for his skills inside the ring....
Source: Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus NP3, 2012, digital C-type print on dibond, 125×185 cm, courtesy the artist and Ronchini Gallery Imagine working numerous hours to accumulate the perfect combination of both moisture and dust. Eventually, a faint white fog forms, and you snap a photo of the pale indoor cloud. Moments later, the formation is gone, and you’re left in an empty room. Although meticulous and drawn out, this is life for Berndnaut Smilde, the brilliant artist who is well known for his stunning indoor cloud formations....
So, New Pope has been irritating a lot of people lately. Conservative Catholics seem to be rather—ahem—cross with him over his support of progressive economic policies, while more liberal Catholics feel betrayed because he hasn’t come right out and started ordaining married lesbians as priests, or at least he hasn’t yet. Honestly, for all the carping on both sides, it’s hard not to feel that the quality of papal controversy has fallen off somewhat from the golden age of the 11th century....
She became one of the most decorated pigeons of World War I. Wikimedia CommonsWar pigeons like Cher Ami were especially useful during wartime to send messages from hard to reach places. Wartime stories are often filled with tales of unlikely heroes. The underdogs who rise to the top when their battalions need them most, or the motley crew that bands together in the face of adversity tend to make for some of the most enthralling tales....
Descended from German nobility, von Stauffenberg thought it his duty to defend his nation against threats both inside and out. Hitler became one such threat. Wikimedia CommonsCount Claus von Stauffenberg, Operation Valkyrie lead conspirator. Born into nobility, Count Claus von Stauffenberg felt it his innate duty to serve and protect his nation. He initially believed that Hitler could be the man to do it. After rising the ranks in the German army, von Stauffenberg became disillusioned by Hitler’s vision and joined a coup against the regime....
A woman in the small village of Whiteparish used the slab for nearly a decade as a step-mount for her horse before she saw its inscription hiding beneath a layer of mud. Woolley & WallisThe 1,900-year-old stone slab that was found in the garden of an English home in the village of Whiteparish. Nearly two millennia after it was first forged, an ancient Roman artifact was found hiding in plain sight in an English garden....
“They tend to go for the neck, face, and any exposed areas first, and then, if not discovered in time, they may proceed to eat the rest of you.” YouTubeThe Forensic Investigation Research Station in Whitewater, Colorado laid out human corpses to study their decomposition. They didn’t expect to be accosted by scavenging cats. We domesticated cats millennia ago, but their predatory instincts are still very much ingrained in their DNA — just ask anyone who’s owned a cat....
In 1945, a group of five U.S. Navy aircraft collectively known as Flight 19 disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. They’ve never been found. On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy bombers collectively known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for what should have been a routine training exercise. The planes involved in the exercise were each helmed by two or three experienced military personnel. The Training Mission They took off a little after 2 p....
Rather than accept defeat, up to 20,000 die-hard Confederates moved to the slaveholding Empire of Brazil to establish colonies of Confederados. Their descendents still honor them today. In April 1865, the American Civil War was over and the former states of the Confederacy were in ruins. Astounding damage to infrastructure and the economy greeted Southern soldiers after the conflict. As Confederate President Jefferson Davis languished in prison, his former cabinet members dispersed to their homes in defeat....
The pigeon was wearing an anklet inscribed with a series of numbers when it was captured on the Indian side of the India-Pakistan border. FacebookThe pigeon was spotted by locals before it was captured. Tensions between India and Pakistan have been boiling since their independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, and those tensions were strained this week when Indian police arrested what they believed to be a Pakistani spy pigeon carrying coded messages across the border....
Some of the most dangerous battles of the civil rights movement weren’t fought by adults. They were instead fought by African-American children who walked into the first integrated schools in their communities. Share Flipboard Email They had to walk, sometimes alone, past mobs of people screaming in their faces. Then they had to spend hours sitting next to white students, many of whom had spent the morning listening to their parents teach them to hate....
Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) recently released a proposal on conflict resolution between spouses. According to the bill obtained by Pakistan’s Express-Tribune and confirmed by the Washington Post: The CII drafted the proposal in response to a recently approved law which would grant women protection from abusive husbands. The law was passed in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populated province. The council, which bases its recommendations on Sharia law, also advocates for the legalization of domestic violence if a woman “interacts with strangers; speaks loud enough that she can easily be heard by strangers; and provides monetary support to people without taking consent of her spouse,” the Express-Tribune wrote....
The man had multiple sinus infections and nosebleeds before a CT scan finally revealed the forgotten bag of weed. BMJ Case ReportsThe man had forgotten about a bag of pot he tried to smuggle into prison almost two decades ago. A man who shoved a bag of pot up his nose while he was in prison finally got the illicit stash removed — 18 years later. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the man was 30 years old and a prison inmate when he first received the bag of marijuana from his visiting girlfriend....
The man claimed he had supernatural control over the crocs and that they would not hurt him. A shaman from Kalimantan, Indonesia is dead after entering crocodile-infested waters to search for the body of a local teen. The man, named Suprianto, claimed he had supernatural control over the crocs, and that they would not hurt him, allowing him to search for the teen’s body. The teen, Arjuna, had gone missing the day before after a suspected crocodile attack....
A former sailor in the British Royal Navy, Henry Every led a mutiny on the Charles II ship in 1694. Soon after, he made a name for himself as one of the most feared pirates on the high seas. Henry Every had led a rambling, violent career by the time he signed onto an ill-fated trading expedition. Deciding to take his chances — even if it meant defying the law — he gathered a crew and struck out for the Red Sea to loot the fabulous riches of India in the 1690s....
Hof’s posthumous victory apparently comes as no surprise to his campaign manager. DennisHof.comDennis Hof’s election banner for Nevada’s 36th District State Assembly seat. Dennis Hof, the outspoken brothel proprietor from Nevada, has won his election bid for a state assembly seat in the state’s 36th Assembly District despite the fact that he’s been dead for about three weeks. Hof beat out his Democratic opponent, educator Lesia Romanov, on Nov. 6 during the 2018 midterm elections by more than 7,000 votes....
Hyalinobatrachium yaku, a new species of glass frog, has such clear skin that researchers can observe its tiny heart beat through its chest. Jaime Culebras and Ross Maynard; CC-BY 4.0The newly discovered glass frog species (Hyalinobatrachium yaku). There are 150 species of glass frogs — but researchers announced this week that they may have discovered the coolest one yet. Though many of these tiny amphibians have see-through skin in parts — providing a view of their organs, bones, blood vessels, and even the eggs inside females — the new Hyalinobatrachium yaku is the clearest yet....
