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Some say the paintings are a kind of political cartoon serving as a commentary on Western influence, but nobody knows for sure. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 27 Images That Prove Hiroshige Was The Undisputed Master Of Japanese Woodblock Printing Masamune, The 13th-Century Japanese Swordsmith Who Was The Stuff Of Legends Fart Proudly: Ben Franklin Loved Farting So Much He Wrote An Essay About It...

From his 500 wives to his historic wars, these Genghis Khan facts reveal why he makes the rest of history’s great conquerors look like chumps. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: How Did Genghis Khan Die? Why The Mongol Leader’s Death Remains Mysterious Today The Great Wall Of China Wasn’t Built To Keep Out Genghis Khan — But To Control Nomadic Shepherds...

For some, the kool aid from their cults never goes sour – a fascinating look at the five of the most utterly insane cults in America still active today! Five Utterly Insane Cults: Eckankar Source: ECK Illinois Founded in Minnesota in 1965, the Eckankar movement promotes the idea that one can separate their soul from their body and experience the “Light and Sound” of God by journeying beyond the mortal form....

Inside the Aktion T4 program, the little-known euthanasia initiative that killed as many as 300,000 disabled people as the Nazis swept across Europe. Both prior to and during the Holocaust, Nazi authorities executed a massive yet lesser-known program of targeted mass killing aimed at some of the most vulnerable people under their control: the disabled. Starting as a euthanasia program that eliminated disabled infants and children deemed unfit to live and expanding in time to cover disabled adults and the elderly, the program ended in 1941 amid a welter of protests from many quarters of German society....

Christa McAuliffe was supposed to be the first American civilian in space — but her story ended in tragedy when her space shuttle exploded in 1986. NASATeacher Christa McAuliffe spent months training for the Challenger mission. In 1984, NASA announced a new program: the Teacher in Space Project. The initiative would put the first American civilian in space, and more than 11,000 teachers applied for the honor. Christa McAuliffe was thrilled when she was selected as the winner — but she tragically died before she ever made it out of the Earth’s atmosphere....

You won’t believe how scary Halloween used to be when you see these twenty-three photographs of creepy Halloween costumes from the early 1900s. Before sexualizing pop culture figures or symbols became the new Halloween vogue, Halloween held a more traditional — and macabre — appearance. Packing their superstitions in their suitcases, immigrants to the United States would hold various ghoulish parties in hopes to lessen the terrifying mystery of the afterlife and come to grips with their own mortality as the warm days of summer had come to a close....

The egg measures approximately five inches in diameter with hardened sediment on one side. Officials found it encased in bubble wrap inside an international e-commerce package. Customs and Monopolies AgencyThe Shunosaurus egg after Sunday’s confiscation in Bergamo. The egg had been mailed from Malaysia. On Sunday, June 13, Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency in Bergamo announced a staggering find on Facebook. Officials at the city’s international airport had discovered a prehistoric dinosaur egg that had been illegally shipped into the country from Malaysia....

This astounding mesh would be inserted into your skull with a needle and add a “symbiotic digital layer to the human brain.” Alex Wong/Getty ImagesElon Musk Artificial Intelligence, like Siri and Alexa, could progress to a point where human life is superfluous to its existence, famed entrepreneur Elon Musk recently claimed. It could run the world without our help, maybe keeping people around as fun pets. “I don’t love the idea of being a house cat,” Musk mused, however....

“We wanna take care of these kids and make sure they know we don’t forget.” Gary Sinise FoundationActor Gary Sinise and his foundation treated 1,000 kids (more than 1,750 family members total, including surviving parents) of fallen military heroes to the trip of a lifetime. The families of fallen soldiers were treated to a special holiday trip thanks to the Gary Sinise Foundation. And where better to bring them than the happiest place on Earth: Disney World....

The animals cleared so much overgrowth at the 18th-century graveyard at St. Matthew’s Church in County Cork that they uncovered more than 500 individual headstones. Templebreedy ‘Save Our Steeple’/FacebookA satisfied sheep sitting near a tombstone in Ireland. Some people spend their whole lives searching for lost fragments of history. But in Ireland, it only took a few hungry goats and sheep to uncover a swath of forgotten graves. The animals, hard at work at the tangle of underbrush surrounding St....

The German battleship Bismarck was the most formidable warship in Europe. But on May 27, 1941, the combined effects of torpedo damage and scuttling left it at the bottom of the Atlantic. German Federal ArchiveThe German battleship Bismarck was the most powerful ship in Europe when it was launched at the beginning of World War II. When the Nazis finished its construction, the German battleship Bismarck was the most powerful warship in Europe....

In September 1982, seven people were killed after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Though a massive recall and investigation were launched, the perpetrator was never found. Getty ImagesAfter a string of people died taking Tylenol pills they didn’t realize were laced with cyanide, the FDA invented tamper-evident packaging for drugs. In 1982, Chicago experienced a wave of unexplained deaths in a gruesome case that’s now known as the Tylenol Murders....

Jimmy Burke had a reputation for being a gentleman, but that didn’t stop him from being one of the most dangerous masterminds the mafia had ever seen. Bureau of Prisons/Getty ImagesJimmy Burke’s mugshot. Irish gangster Jimmy Burke had a knack for getting away with things. As an Irishman, Burke was never formally inducted into a crime family. He wasn’t Italian, so he couldn’t be a made man, but that proved to work in his favor....

From Albert Einstein’s thoughts on God to Mark Twain’s annihilation of a scam artist, the most interesting letters from Letters of Note. There was once a time when our most revered cultural and intellectual figures utilized more than 140 characters to express themselves and communicate with others. While those days have largely come to a halt, Letters Of Note grants us the opportunity to reflect on an ostensibly foreign world where people transmitted their thoughts to paper....

CBS 6Skinner shattered a glass door in an attempt to get inside. On June 21, in front of the basement door of a Goochland, Va. home, Troy George Skinner told a woman on the other side that he had hitchhiked 30 miles and needed help. The truth was Skinner had actually arrived via Greyhound bus from Washington, D.C. And to get to Washington D.C., he had taken three flights – from New Zealand to Australia, to Los Angeles, to D....

“The artifacts are a representation, like a time machine, of… the extreme conditions of life during the First World War.” White War MuseumA lantern left behind by Austrian soldiers in the cave shelter. For nearly 100 years, a mountain in the Italian Alps kept a piece of World War I literally frozen in time. Ever since Austrian soldiers abandoned their cave hideout on Mount Scorluzzo on Nov. 3, 1918, a glacier has blocked all access to the shelter....

“I do believe that rats are smarter than most people perceive them to be, and that most animals are smarter in unique ways than we think.” Kelly Lambert/University of RichmondThe study found that rats experience a release of stress after perfecting a new skill, like driving. In a new experiment that we didn’t know we needed, scientists built tiny cars out of plastic food containers and taught rats how to drive them....

Patricia O’Grady spent 63 years living in a Greenwich Village two-bedroom, all for less than the price of a weekly MetroCard. CNNPatricia O’Grady’s kitchen. In New York City, besides a pizza (depending on where you get the pizza), there’s not much you can get for under $30. You can barely even get around the city for less, considering a monthly subway card is quadruple that. Even a single cab ride could put you over, especially at rush hour....

Unlike Jesse Duplantis’ other three private jets, the Falcon 7X can “go anywhere in the world in one stop." The Times-PicayuneJesse Duplantis asked his followers to help fund a $54 million jet. “I really believe that if Jesus was physically on the earth today, he wouldn’t be riding a donkey…He’d be in an airplane preaching the gospel all over the world.” That was the case Jesse Duplantis, a Louisiana televangelist, made in a video posted to his ministry’s website, in which he asked his disciples to donate money for a private jet that costs $54 million....

In April 2011, Seath Jackson of Belleview, Florida was lured by his ex-girlfriend Amber Wright to a mobile home — where a group of youths brutally killed him. TwitterSeath Jackson was just 15 years old when he was brutally murdered by a group of his peers. Seath Jackson, of Ocala, Florida, never made it to his 16th birthday. He was lured to a house of death in 2011 by his ex-girlfriend, and viciously ambushed by a group of boys, with their instigator murdering him in a brutal fit of rage — all before burning his body on a fire....