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Nanny Of The Maroons, The Revolutionary Leader Who Escaped Slavery In Jamaica And Fought Back Against The British
6+ hour, 48+ min ago (737+ words) In most depictions, Nanny of the Maroons is a stately Black woman with cutting eyes. Usually sporting a turban with the flair of a crown, her jaw is set and her gaze determined, as if she's staring down the British…...
A Millionaire Trophy Hunter Was Just Gored To Death By An Elephant While On A $40, 000 Hunting Trip In Central Africa
8+ hour, 3+ min ago (827+ words) Bobby Hansen Hunting Safaris/Facebook Ernie Dosio posing with a dead elephant in Botswana in April 2013. A big game hunter from California has been killed by an elephant in the Central African country of Gabon. Ernie Dosio was hunting antelope…...
Archaeologists Exploring Ancient Greek Ruins In Libya Just Uncovered More Than 100 Game Boards That'd Been Carved Right Onto The City's Surfaces
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (666+ words) Likely used in games that were similar to checkers and tic-tac-toe, these boards may have been carved by shepherds who inhabited the region after the fall of Ptolemais in the 7th century C. E. To pass the time, they carved game boards into…...
Inside The Berlin Philharmonic's Chilling Final Concert Just Days Before The Nazi Party Fell
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (972+ words) As the Red Army closed in on the German capital in April 1945, the Berlin Philharmonic played on. With blackouts in the city and the sound of artillery fire in the distance, the symphony orchestra entertained a packed audience with a…...
Housing Construction In Switzerland Just Turned Up An Ancient Roman Loaf Of Bread
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (545+ words) Kanton Aargau The charred hunk of Roman bread is quite small, and was perhaps originally baked as flatbread. Though ancient bread has been found before, it's an exceedingly rare archaeological discovery. Both it, and other new discoveries related to the…...
Rob Hall, The Mount Everest Guide Who Died Tragically In 1996 While Trying To Rescue One Of His Clients
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1103+ words) Rob Hall had always been a climber. He spent his early years scampering up and down the Southern Alps in New Zealand, and soon graduated to even more challenging mountains. At 19, he climbed his first Himalayan summit. At 20, he set…...
In 1958, The Martin Family Vanished In Oregon. Now, Their Remains Have Just Been Identified
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (984+ words) Othram, Inc. Kenneth, Barbara, Barbie, Virginia, and Sue Martin shortly before their 1958 disappearance. On December 7, 1958, Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters set out from their home in Portland, Oregon to gather greenery for Christmas decorations in the…...
Ellis Island Hospital, New York's Now-Abandoned Facility That Treated 275, 000 New Immigrants In The Early 1900s
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (954+ words) Between 1892 and 1954, some 12 million immigrants to the United States passed through Ellis Island in New York Harbor. But a medical inspection upon their arrival could decide their fate "and many ended up spending time at the Ellis Island Hospital. Those…...
Mutsuhiro Watanabe, The Merciless World War II Prison Guard Whose Torture Of Louis Zamperini Was Depicted In 'Unbroken"
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (1080+ words) The 2014 film Unbroken tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian track star who became a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II. While imprisoned, Zamperini was routinely tortured by a prison guard that he and the others…...
Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of "The Iliad" Tucked Inside Its Wrapping
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (664+ words) Ignasi-Xavier Adiego/University of Barcelona The newly-found papyrus containing text from The Iliad, Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War. In late 2025, scholars with the Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission uncovered a trove of mummies in an ancient funerary complex near the…...