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The Jane Collective helped more than 10,000 Chicago-area women get safe, affordable abortions between 1969 and 1973 while dodging law enforcement along the way. abortionfilms.org/HBOThe Jane Collective promised safe, low-cost abortions in a time when doing so was illegal. “Pregnant? Don’t want to be? Call Jane.” This advertisement stood out on the pages of Chicago’s underground papers. It was a time before 1973 when abortion was illegal. But “Jane” promised to help regardless of the consequences....

The town of Petersburg, Kentucky sits quietly at the mouth of the Midwest. The Ohio River snakes around the borders of the scant, 620-person town, separating it from the state of Indiana immediately north, and Ohio slightly northeast. Streaks of smoke hang lazily among the clouds, stretching into the sky from the coal power plant just south. Ranch and split-level homes stand plain before acres of flat pasture. The silhouettes of lonesome billboards dotting the highway are as close as the town comes to a skyline....

Ronald Reagan was President 30 years ago, but the long shadow he cast still covers American politics. Ronald Reagan was, in many ways, the American President. Born in a Midwestern town too small to hold him for long, he escaped into the glitz of Golden Age Hollywood and a glamorous career as a leading man. Not satisfied with money and fame, Reagan’s second career in politics shifted the tectonic plates of government forever....

Millions of meteors reach Earth daily, but since 1988, only 822 have been large enough to explode in the atmosphere causing meteorite showers. Bill Ingalls/NASATurkish records from the 19th century recount the unfortunate death of a man who was killed by a meteorite. In the early 19th century, a man in Iraq was hit and killed by a meteorite. Records of the event provide scientists with what is likely the earliest record of a death caused by being struck by a meteorite — and the only such death uncovered so far....

Almost 500 years after the society crumbled, researchers have finally discovered what happened to the Aztecs. The GuardianAn Aztec pyramid in Mexico. In 1545, approximately 473 years ago, the Aztec nation crumbled. People began coming down with high fevers and headaches. Shortly after, they began bleeding from the eyes, mouth, and nose. Then, they died. By 1550, 15 million people, 80 percent of the Aztec population, had been wiped out. For centuries, scientists have been struggling to understand just how such a deadly event could transpire, and how it could have arrived in Mexico....

Funds from the Gates Foundation are going to a company that creates mosquitoes with a “self-limiting” gene in hopes to control populations of the malaria-transmitting bugs. The SunBill Gates is partnering with a company to eradicate malaria through modified mosquitoes. Bill Gates has a plan to “eradicate malaria within a generation.” And he’s turning to science to do so, using genetically modified mosquitoes. Last week the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $4 million to a mosquito engineering company called Oxitec....

81-year-old Lacy Harber paid $275,000 for the right to kill this aging black rhino. Herald DemocratLacy Harber with his hunting crew and the rhino he killed. Texas billionaire Lacy Harber killed an endangered black rhino in southern Africa — and now he’ll be allowed to import his trophy back home. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) plans to approve the import of the trophy that Harber, 81, collected during a Feb....

The Indian Muslim girl was murdered for dating an Arab Muslim man. More details have been revealed in the brutal honor killing of London teen Celine Dookhran. The Times reports that two men in ski masks abducted the 19-year-old Indian Muslim and her cousin, whose name has not been released, last Wednesday. The assailants used tasers to subdue the women. Once comatose, the kidnappers bound them, wrapped them up in dust sheets and put them in their car....

Lemurs are small prosimians, or primitive primates, best known for their huge, adorable-bordering-on-creepy eyes. They’re native only to the island of Madagascar and the neighboring Comoro Islands, and the word “lemur” comes from lemures, a Latin word that means “spirits of the night.” While lemurs are related to modern primates, they more closely resemble an older ancestor of primates which existed tens of millions of years ago. According to Duke University Professor Elizabeth Brannon, lemurs are “deep thinkers....

In the 1950s and ’60s, Asa Earl Carter was a violent white supremacist. But years later, he tried to cover up his racist past — by pretending to be a Native American author. Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesAsa Earl Carter makes a fiery speech in opposition to school integration in Tennessee in 1956. Forrest Carter’s “memoir” The Education of Little Tree was a sleeper literary hit. Published in 1976, the heartwarming book about growing up with Cherokee grandparents really took off in the late ’80s and early ’90s....

In 2007, one Nazi officer’s photo album came to light and revealed the gleeful private lives of the SS guards who worked inside the deadliest extermination camp of the Holocaust. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Czeslawa Kwoka Died At The Hands Of The Nazis, But The Power Of Her Auschwitz Portrait Lives On 44 Tragic Photos Taken Inside The Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp...

The survey revealed that the Mayans modified way more of their landscape than researchers ever thought. PACUNAM/Estrada-BelliThe jungle of northern Guatemala where the lidar survey was conducted. Through the use of LiDAR laser technology, researchers in Guatemala have discovered over 61,000 ancient Mayan structures. These yielded new information about the agriculture, lifestyle, and day-to-day life of the Mayan people. The study, recently published in Science, involved a survey of 830 square miles of Mayan territory led by researchers from Tulane University....

Former FBI informant Lawrence “Larry” Ray was just charged with sex trafficking, forced labor, and extortion this week. These alleged crimes date back nearly a decade. Handout/Wikimedia CommonsSixty-year-old Lawrence Ray has been charged with multiple crimes against his daughter’s friends. A former FBI informant who reportedly moved into his daughter’s dorm and subjected her classmates to horrific abuse has been charged with multiple offenses. His alleged crimes include: sexual exploitation, forced labor, physical abuse, and extortion....

On May 3, 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family’s hotel room while on vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal — and the case remains unsolved to this day. When she was three years old, Madeleine McCann disappeared into thin air. The little British girl vanished from her family’s hotel room in Portugal in 2007. The confounding incident has since become “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history....

Thomas Traficante sent his ex-girlfriend threatening messages, had drugs delivered to her school address, and listed her information on a prostitution website. Rochester Democrat and ChronicleThomas Traficante. On June 20, 23-year-old Thomas Traficante of Long Island, N.Y. was sentenced to four years in prison on convictions of cyberstalking and distribution of a controlled substance. It all began after Traficante’s girlfriend ended their relationship in October 2017, when he relentlessly stalked and harassed her for two months, according to prosecutors....

The mods and the rockers of the 1960s tore the beaches of England apart. It was war: leather-clad rockers against the stylish mods. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The Zoot Suit Riots: When Fashion And Racism Erupted Into Violence 25 Rocking Images Of 1950s Britain’s ‘Feral Youth’, The Teddy Boys Meet The Mods: The Mid-Century Fashionistas Who Took Britain By Storm...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre has been described by historians as “the most hideous example of the human cost exacted by religious fanaticism in American history until 9/11.” There were 120 settlers camped in southern Utah on September 7, 1857, the day the Mountain Meadows Massacre began. Most of them were en route from Arkansas to California and were assured by a friendly Mormon leader that this spot in the Mountain Meadows of Utah would be a safe space for them to rest....

DNA research could finally identify the victims of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1848. Wikimedia CommonsGraves of Franklin Expedition members on Beechey Island. In 1845, the Franklin Expedition left England bound for the Canadian Arctic with two ships carrying 134 people. Aside from the five that were discharged and sent home, none of those people ever returned. Now, new DNA analysis of human remains found near several of the shipwreck sites could finally identify some of those victims and shed light on the tragedy....

Source: Tracing Light J.R.R Tolkien, architect of all things fantastical, describes a hobbit home as follows: “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” And as these photos show, Tolkien fans have taken his description to heart, recreating their own homes to emulate the simple and cozy digs of one of history’s most beloved set of fictional characters....

Twice, she provided her friend with “extremely sensitive information” about a rape victim, yet she has not been fired. A detective in the Memphis Police Department will keep her job despite giving confidential evidence in an ongoing investigation to the family of a man accused of rape. The Commercial Appeal reports that MPD Sex Crimes Unit officer Ouita Knowlton shared confidential investigative files with her coworker, Tobie Allen, on a rape case for which Allen’s nephew was a prime suspect....