The mystery of what happened in room 1046 of the Hotel President remains unsolved to this day, despite endless files of evidence. YouTubeRoland T. Owen On January 2, 1935, at 1:20 PM, a lone man checked into the President Hotel in downtown Kansas City. He had no luggage besides a comb and a toothbrush and asked for an interior room on a high floor of the hotel. He checked in under the name Roland T....
Ancient Pompeiian food stands uncovered, last known African-born survivor of the transatlantic slave trade identified, Albert Einstein’s letters detailing Nazi fears auctioned off. 2,000-Year-Old Fast Food Stands Called Thermopolia Discovered In Pompeii Wikimedia CommonsA thermopolium with jars used to hold dried meats. It might seem as though our modern-day appreciation of food trucks and portable snacks is entirely contemporary. As it turns out though, even residents of Pompeii were grabbing meals on the go....
Thanksgiving is already an odd holiday, but these vintage advertisements make Thanksgiving seem even weirder. Thanksgiving is already an odd holiday, built as it is on the fraudulent belief that settlers were at peace with indigenous populations before the genocide began. These vintage advertisements make Thanksgiving seem even weirder, though. Let’s take a look back at the good old days, when children gleefully slaughtered turkeys, casual chauvinism made the dinner extra tasty, and the Joneses’ Thanksgiving cards cranked the racism against Native Americans up to 11:...
Venture back to the 1980s in this photo gallery, when the New York City subway was the most dangerous mass transit system on the planet. The New York City subway of today is what one might lightly call “starkly different” from its predecessors. In the 1980s, over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world....
See the inspiring New Deal WPA posters that helped bring America back from the brink of collapse. On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president of the United States, and inherited one of the worst economies in American history. Share Flipboard Email The U.S. was in the throes of the Great Depression, an enormous economic collapse that left most Americans struggling just to get by. At its nadir, as many as one in four Americans was out of work....
Discover the complete history of France’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, an endurance race that has been the world’s most iconic grand prix since its 1923 founding. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 46 2 of 46The famous Chaparral 2F car, with its movable wing, during the 1967 Le Mans race. Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images 3 of 46Spectator’s view at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race....
From farms to factories, these colorized Great Depression pictures help reveal what American history’s worst economic catastrophe was like for those who lived through it. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Color Photos That’ll Make You Glad You Didn’t Live Through The Great Depression Stunning New Deal WPA Posters That Helped Lift America Out Of The Great Depression...
At times, simplicity can convey the most meaning. Explore the posters for your favorite movies, reimagined brilliantly without text. At times, simplicity can convey the most meaning. Explore the posters of your favorite movies, brilliantly reimagined without text: Labyrinth Back To The Future Part III The Goonies Escape From New York The Exorcist Raging Bull Alien Nightcrawler Tremors A Nightmare On Elm Street Pulp Fiction It Follows Beetlejuice Last Action Hero...
Albert Cashier was born Jennie Hodgers and would become a top-notch private for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Wikimedia CommonsAlbert Cashier’s portrait as a soldier. On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump tweeted an announcement that trans people would no longer be able to serve in the United States military. The response was overwhelming from across the political spectrum. But the fact of the matter is that trans people have always contributed to civic life and collective security — what has changed, however, is popular acknowledgment of it....
Archaeologists have found two temples that they believe were used by Roman soldiers as early as the first century C.E. along with altar stones and carvings of deities. RAAPArchaeologists uncovered a stone well in addition to sculptures, painted plaster walls, and remnants of armor. Amateur archaeologists digging at a clay extraction site in the Netherlands came across the find of their lives in late 2021 when they unearthed a nearly-intact Roman temple complex....
William Wallace dragged wife Za’Zell Preston into the living room with sunglasses on her head, propped her body on the couch, and told his kids that “she got drunk and ruined Christmas.” FacebookZa’Zell Preston was an aspiring domestic violence counselor when husband William Wallace killed her. On Christmas morning of 2011, William Wallace of Anaheim, California watched his kids unwrap their gifts alongside his wife Za’Zell Preston. The couple had just added a newborn son to their family seven weeks prior, and the scene in their living room that morning appeared to be the very picture of Christmas bliss....
Charles Domery had such a bottomless appetite that he’d devour grass, candles, and sometimes even live cats — making him the subject of numerous science experiments. TwitterCharles Domery’s appetite was so voracious that he’s rumored to have eaten 174 cats in a single year. History is rife with intriguing individuals who defy traditional human limits and decency. For Charles Domery, also known as Charles Domerz, a Polish-born soldier serving in the Prussian and French armies, it was his insatiable hunger that eventually brought him worldwide fame — and proved to be his downfall....
When Woody Harrelson was a kid, his father was just a normal dad. But by the time Woody was an adult, Charles Harrelson was a twice-incarcerated hitman. Houston Police DepartmentCharles Harrelson, Woody Harrelson’s father, in a mugshot from 1960. Sometimes, the most interesting actors come from eccentric parents or broken childhoods. The latter is undoubtedly the case with Woody Harrelson, whose father, Charles Harrelson, was a professional hitman who spent most of his life in prison....
Believe it or not, the idea of owning dogs for the sole purpose of companionship is actually a new one. Data show that no matter the economic downturn, people consistently shell out money on their pets. While domesticated dogs these days can by and large count on their owners to take care of them for nothing but companionship in return, this kind of man-dog relationship is in fact relatively new. Dogs were once not companions, but workers....
The zookeeper claims that the allegations are a lie, but the pictures speak for themselves. A zoo in Cairo, Egypt allegedly tried to pass off a donkey as a zebra by painting black and white stripes on the animal. Mahmoud Sarhan was visiting the animal sanctuary at the International Gardens Park in the Egyptian capital when he noticed that the “zebra” looked a little suspicious. Sarhan said that “when he [the “zebra”] came near to me, I realised from the first look that it was a painted donkey not a zebra....
When a resident of Ailuk saw an abandoned boat in the waters, he tried to carry it ashore. Oddly enough, it was far heavier than it looked — with 1,430 illegal reasons why. Marshall Islands Police DepartmentThe abandoned boat bore a reversed Nike “swoosh” symbol and three stars. As a series of coral and volcanic atolls between the Philippines and Hawaii, the Marshall Islands are a natural wonder to behold. It’s likely because of their remote nature that the latest news to wash ashore was such a shock....
Years after he killed hundreds at the Alamo, Antonio López de Santa Anna accidentally helped create chewing gum as we know it today. Wikimedia CommonsAntonio López De Santa Anna If you’re familiar with Antonio López de Santa Anna, it’s because he was the Mexican dictator whose forces killed hundreds of rebellious Texans at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. While the story of this battle has long been a subject of fascination for Americans, there is another story about Santa Anna that is less well-known but perhaps just as fascinating....
An aerialist in the circus at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Wagner broke barriers by both giving and receiving hundreds of tattoos. At the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, an aerialist named Maud Wagner struck a deal with a tattoo artist. She would go on a date with him — if he taught her how to tattoo. Thus began the two most important love affairs of Wagner’s life: the tattoo artist and tattoos themselves....
Known informally as the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza are a 400-year-old criminal syndicate that carries out everything from human trafficking to real estate sales. When news broke that the Yakuza were among the first on the scene after Japan’s devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, it caused a minor sensation in Western media outlets, which tended to view the Yakuza as the Japanese mafia, more akin to John Gotti than to Jimmy Carter....
Mexican American singer Jenni Rivera was just 43 years old — and on the cusp of superstardom — when her Learjet unexpectedly went down in Mexico in 2012. On December 9, 2012, a plane took off from Monterrey, Mexico, en route to the city of Toluca. But shortly after takeoff, the aircraft suddenly plummeted toward the Earth, plunging almost vertically and reaching speeds of over 600 miles per hour before it crashed....
