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The iceberg wall is meant to mimic the one the Titanic hit in 1912, triggering a devastating sinking that killed 1,500. Titanic Museum Attraction/YouTubeVisitors touch the iceberg wall, long before the collapse. Visitors to the Titanic Museum Attraction in Tennessee may have hoped to visit the historic catastrophe at a safe distance. But they got frightfully close to the real disaster when the museum’s iceberg wall suddenly collapsed this week....

Though Tiger King star Carole Baskin has denied any role in the 1997 disappearance of her husband Don Lewis, police have reopened the case. While the Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness left viewers obsessed with Joe Exotic, he wasn’t the only larger-than-life character on the screen. His arch-nemesis, animal sanctuary rival Carole Baskin, had her own astounding story — including her possible murder of her first husband, Don Lewis....

Obama then and now, vintage celeb selfies, the Obama girls’ first White House experience, gay life in the 1960s, the worst U.S. presidential inaugurations. Barack Obama, Then And Now On Friday, the nation will say farewell to Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. While time always manifests itself in the form of wrinkles and greying hair, its effects are always much more pronounced on the head of the Executive Office....

His mother said, “I wanted him to study and make a name for himself, but destiny had something else in store.” In an incredible feat of flexibility, a Pakistani teenager can turn his head 180 degrees. Muhammad Sameer Khan, of Karachi, Pakistan, is a 14-year-old teenager capable of turning his head 180 degrees with the help of his hands, reported the Daily Pakistan. He is also able to rotate his shoulders 360 degrees....

With more than half a million dead in just four years, the Civil War was America’s bloodiest conflict and the first to be extensively documented through photography. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 47 Colorized Old West Photos That Bring The American Frontier To Life 44 Colorized Photos That Bring The Streets Of Century-Old New York City To Life...

When it was first built in 1821, the Eastern State Penitentiary stood as the future in prison reform. Now, the fortress stands in decay. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 45Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison located at 2027 Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can visit it today.Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images 2 of 45shinyasuzuki/Flickr 3 of 45The Penitentiary was meant to revolutionize the prison system and actually inspire penance in its inmates through solitary confinement....

The baby mammoth, dubbed Nun cho ga, likely died more than 35,000 years ago, but she’s so well-preserved that scientists can see what she ate for her last meal. Government of YukonA miner stumbled upon the baby mammoth while digging for gold in the Klondike. When a gold miner working in the Klondike region of Canada’s Yukon territory struck something with his bulldozer on June 21, 2022, he called his boss over to check it out....

These vintage crime scenes are a reminder that history is indeed fluid, and what you might see as picturesque today has a bloody history. Unarguably the center of American capitalism as we know it, it should come as no surprise that New York City is constantly reinventing itself. What may have been the site of a brutal shoot-out a few years ago could be a quiet residential neighborhood today, and eventually the site of a slew of rowdy bars or cosmopolitan boutiques tomorrow....

According to local legend, a dissertation wasn’t the only thing Oleg Mitasov lost on the train: he also lost his mind. The interior of Oleg MItasov’s apartment in Kharkov, Ukraine. It was the day that Oleg Mitasov was to receive his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. With his dissertation typed up and in hand, Mitasov headed out to give his defense at the university in Kharkov, Ukraine. Mitasov hopped on a tram to the university, but when he arrived, his dissertation did not....

Who built Stonehenge? And why? Some unusual corpses found there may have finally solved this mystery. Adam Stanford/Aerial-CamExcavation team near Stonehenge. Plenty of mystery has always surrounded Stonehenge — and new discoveries about the origins of human remains found buried at the structure are now raising even more questions. Study of Stonehenge typically focuses on its structure rather than the people buried at the site, but a new study published on Aug....

Delegates from 189 countries coalesce at the U.N. this week to call for the illegalization of cultural appropriation. Traditional headdresses and indigenous-inspired garb have become something of a fixture at music festivals like Coachella over the past several years — and now indigenous advocates are meeting in hopes of putting a stop to it. This week, delegates from 189 countries have traveled to United Nations Headquarters in Geneva to demand a ban on the appropriation of indigenous cultures, the Canadian Broadcasting Company reported....

When Drew Peterson’s ex-wife Kathleen Savio turned up dead in 2004, it was ruled an accident — then his fourth wife Stacy Peterson vanished three years later. For years, Kathleen Savio told anyone who would listen that her ex-husband, Drew Peterson, might hurt her. Tragically, when she turned up dead in a bathtub in 2004, her death was ruled an accident. But then Peterson’s new wife, Stacy, disappeared — and that changed everything....

Queen Emma of Normandy navigated both political instability and Viking usurpers on her way to becoming the richest and most powerful woman in England. Wikimedia CommonsThe Ordeal of Queen Emma (1779) by William Blake. It has been said that behind every great man is a great woman, and Emma of Normandy was no exception. And at times, she was well ahead of them. Married to two kings of England, her political maneuverings helped guide the country through the Viking age and ensured that her sons would maintain the crown....

“You only need to look at the events in Charlottesville to be reminded that not too long ago rallies such as those resulted in the lynching of innocent African Americans.” TwitterRep. Bobby Rush introduced the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act legislation in 2019. Four members of the House voted against it. It was 1900 when America’s only black congressman at the time, Rep. George Henry White of North Carolina, proposed the first federal anti-lynching bill amid waves of racially-motivated vigilante killings of thousands of African-Americans....

RIP, Great Lake Champlain. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesTourists sit on a dock and swim July 30, 2017 at a Lake Champlain beach in Charlotte, Vermont. The Adirondack Mountains can be seen across the lake in New York state. Some lakes are born Great. The rest… they just have to stay average. That’s what poor Lake Champlain learned when its Great Lake status was ripped away only 18 days after it had joined the “popular kid group” of America’s freshwater reservoirs....

When New York’s crime went through the roof, the Guardian Angels took matters into their own hands and took back the streets. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 26A Guardian Angel peeks out of a subway car in search of activity. Circa mid-1980s. Oliver Morris/Getty Images 2 of 26Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa hands out flyers promoting the community’s goal to “crack down on crack....

Let’s just say, Piero Manzoni’s concept art truly stinks. Wikimedia CommonsA can of Piero Manzoni’s shit, circa 1961. Categorize this artwork beyond avant-garde and into the status of truly weird. In the tradition of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ photograph, discover the story behind a man’s homage to human feces. In 1961, one Italian artist named Piero Manzoni decided to fill tin cans with his excrement and call them art. You read that right....

He was named “Little Lord Fauntleroy” after a well-dressed character in a classic children’s book, but nothing about this murdered child’s story was innocent or entertaining. A century ago, middle America was confronted with a tragic mystery: the discovery of a dead young boy in a quarry pond. Besides his expensive clothes, the police couldn’t determine anything about his identity. But he would be dubbed the Little Lord Fauntleroy after a dapper young character featured in a classic children’s book of the time....

During the “No Lackin” challenge, you’re supposed to pull out a gun and point it at a friend’s face. In this case, things didn’t go as planned. Grimes County Sheriff’s OfficeRaul Garcia Jr., 17, who shot a friend in the face as part of the No Lackin challenge. This week in Texas, a 17-year-old shot a 16-year-old in the face — all because of the social media-fueled No Lackin challenge....

The recent discovery of Homo floresiensis makes the story of human evolution all the more interesting. Source: The Guardian Way out in the South Pacific, near no place in particular, lies the tiny island of Flores. It has about as much land area as the Willamette Valley and has been covered with tropical rainforest for as long as anybody can tell. Insofar as the place is known at all, it’s mainly as a jumping-off point for tourists who want to visit the island of Komodo and watch big lizards eat goats....