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These poignant Titanic sinking photos capture the disaster that took 1,500 lives one April night in 1912. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Rare Titanic Photos From Before And After The Sinking The Wreck Of The Titan Told Of The Titanic’s Sinking — 14 Years Before It Happened How Big Was The Titanic — And How Did Its Grand Design Contribute To Its Sinking?...

From Thermopylae to Marathon, discover the most important battles of the ancient Greek wars, which helped set the course of European history for centuries. Wikimedia Commons The Ancient Greeks formed alliances like no civilization before them. sp This massive assembly of city-states led to the existence of massive armies that were mopersre coordinated and powerful than anything the world had ever seen. Here are five of the ancient Greek battles that forever altered the course of human culture and progress:...

Also known as inedia, breatharianism is a pseudoscientific practice promoted by gurus who insist that they can live off “pranic light” — which is contained in the air. What if you didn’t need to eat? What if all you need to survive was air and energy? That’s the philosophy put forward by Breatharianism. Believers in Breatharianism claim to follow a simple lifestyle: Instead of consuming food, they absorb the energy of the universe, which Hindus call Prana....

After Emperor Nero allegedly kicked his second wife Sabina to death in 65 A.D., he met a slave boy named Sporus who looked like her. So Nero had him castrated and took him as his bride. Wikimedia CommonsEmperor Nero took the young boy Sporus as his bride in 67 A.D. Like a figure in classical myth — Narcissus, Ariadne, Hyacinth, Andromeda, or Persephone — Sporus’s life took a tragic turn in the hands of the powerful....

Bob Ross was 52 years old when he died from lymphoma in Orlando, Florida. His company was worth $15 million — and his former business partners wanted it all. WBURBob Ross on the set of The Joy of Painting. He filmed more than 400 episodes. When Robert Norman Ross died in 1995, the headline of his New York Times obituary read simply, “Bob Ross, 52, Dies; Was A Painter On TV....

64-year-old Guy Gorney has a history of showing off his kills. The hunter has killed more than 70 wild animals for sport. FacebookGuy Gorney straddles a dead lion. A newly resurfaced video shows a trophy hunter shooting a sleeping lion in Zimbabwe, sending it to a painful death — and now eliciting outrage across the internet. According to the The Daily Mail, the hunter is 64-year-old Guy Gorney of Manhattan, Illinois....

Billed as a human-orangutan hybrid, Julia Pastrana made her stage debut in 1854. Though she eventually fell in love and got married, her life was isolated and cut tragically short. Wikimedia CommonsJulia Pastrana was a famous sideshow performer in her day, but her celebrity was marred by racism and bigotry. Nineteenth-century audiences recoiled at the sight of Julia Pastrana, the sideshow performer better known as the “Ape Woman.” One theater critic called her a “semi-human being” while another referred to her as a “Baboon Woman....

Discover the intriguing evidence that Jean-Marie Loret found to prove that he was actually Adolf Hitler’s son. YoutubeJean-Marie Loret, purported to be Adolf Hitler’s son. In June 1917, Charlotte Lobjoie met a German soldier. She was chopping hay in the fields in Fournes-in-Weppe, a small town west of Lille, with some other women when they noticed an attractive German soldier, standing across the street. He was drawing on his sketch pad and caused quite the stir amongst the young ladies....

Discover why the true story of John Rolfe and Pocahontas was “too complicated and violent for a youthful audience.” Wikimedia Commons19th-century rendering of John Rolfe and Pocahontas together. A respected settler and planter, John Rolfe played a crucial role in the survival of England’s first permanent American colony at Jamestown, though his own accomplishments have ultimately been overshadowed by the historic legacy of his wife, Pocahontas. Nevertheless, there’s more to the story of John Rolfe and Pocahontas than you might realize....

On May 31, 1889, the Johnstown Flood killed more than 2,200 people in southwestern Pennsylvania when the long-neglected South Fork Dam suddenly gave way. Like many other towns in the Rust Belt, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a bustling community in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the steel industry was at its height. Tragically, the Johnstown Flood of 1889 wiped out nearly ten percent of the area’s booming population. Located 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, Johnstown was built on a plain between the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek Rivers, which made the city prone to frequent flooding....

La Granja de San Ildefonso, the 18th century royal palace is always stunning, but takes on a chilly, sparse beauty as temperatures drop. After visiting Spain for the commemoration of the nation’s 60-year membership with the United Nations on October 30th, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon took a private tour of the city of Segovia. Located in central Spain, the small, walled city makes for a wonderful trip for history lovers, with its medieval castles and the best-preserved Roman aqueduct in the world....

Just months after leading the independence of India from the British in 1947, Gandhi was shot three times at point-blank range by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty ImagesOne of the last photos taken before Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948, shocked the world. Just the year before, the nonviolent activist achieved his life’s goal when the British withdrew from India and the country celebrated their first ever Independence Day....

Robert Tincher III told police that he heard “numerous bones break” when he put his 82-year-old grandma in the freezer. Floyd County Police DepartmentThough 29-year-old Robert Tincher III stands accused of leaving his grandmother to die in a freezer, they apparently had a good relationship before her death. When 82-year-old Doris Cumming took a fall in her Armuchee, Georgia home in December 2021, her grandson could have called 911 for help....

The discovery included armored doors, a staircase to Hitler’s personal barracks, and a barrier made to withstand a chemical attack. Underground Passion/YouTubeSeveral new artifacts were uncovered at Hitler’s notorious “Wolf’s Lair,” his military HQ on the Eastern Front during World War II. When the Nazis first prepared to invade the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa in 1941, they built a covert military headquarters deep inside Poland’s Masurian woods. They nicknamed it Wolfsschanze or “Wolf’s Lair....

The state’s legalization of psilocybin is a historic breakthrough for advocates of alternative treatments, but don’t expect it to go the way of recreational cannabis anytime soon. Wikimedia CommonsOregon became the first state to legalize the use of psilocybin, the chemical compound in “magic” mushrooms, for therapy treatment. Even as the final results of the presidential race still hung in the air, Oregon became the first state to legalize “magic” mushrooms after the majority of residents voted in favor of the law....

The horrifying 12 days that made up the 1916 shark attacks along the New Jersey coast spawned a mass fear and paranoia for sharks that we still feel today. Brian Donohue | NJ.comThe front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer celebrates the capture of a large shark days after the last of four deaths in a series of attacks along the Jersey Shore in 1916. A series of fatal and near-deadly shark attacks in 1916 New Jersey scared thousands of people out of entering the ocean....

The Jamison family of Eufaula, Oklahoma disappeared on October 8, 2009, and though their bodies were found four years later, their case remains a mystery. YouTubeThe Jamison family, including Bobby (44), Sherilynn (40), and Madyson (6), not long before their disappearance. Bobby Dale Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson were living what appeared to be normal lives in Eufaula, Okla. — until Oct. 8, 2009. That day, all three of them mysteriously disappeared from their home with no indication of where they could have possibly gone....

Most people skip over the Philippines when they think about stunning Asian landscapes. The Philippine Rice Terraces remind us why that thinking is wrong. Photo credit: Jon Rawlinson For at least two millennia, the Ifugao people have sculpted the sides of mountains into usable farmland. Located in the heart of the Cordillera mountain range in the northern Philippines, these rice terraces rise like wide, monumental staircases. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added these feats of ancient engineering to its list of World Heritage Sites in 1995....

While you might think your apartment is too small, your mind might be changed after taking a look at the world’s smallest living structures. World’s Smallest Living Structures: Little House Boasting a mere 312 square feet, this famous miniature miracle is located in Toronto, Canada. Wanting to utilize space in between two bigger houses, contractor Arthur Weeden built the commonly coined “Little House” in 1912 and thus lived in it for the next 20 years....

Priceless Chinese vase languishing in a cupboard finally uncovered, 2,500-year-old Mexican ruins found, well-preserved woolly mammoth remains unearthed. Priceless Vase Found After Somehow Surviving In An Unsuspecting Woman’s Pet-Filled House For 60 Years Sotheby’sThe vase was made in the 1700s specifically for the Qianlong Emperor, who praised it for its exquisite design. For 60 years, a “lost masterpiece” Chinese vase made for the Qianlong Emperor in the early 1700s languished in the home of an unsuspecting woman....