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44 Colorized Photos Of The Kennedy Family That Show The Political Dynasty Like You've Never Seen It Before

For much of the 20th century, one family name seemed synonymous with American politics, public service, and — tragically — loss: Kennedy.

Rising from immigrant roots to the highest offices in the nation, the Kennedys became emblematic of both the promise and the peril of American ambition. They were glamorous, fiercely competitive, and deeply connected to the political heartbeat of the United States.

The family's story in America began with Patrick Joseph Kennedy, a poor Irish immigrant who ar...
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Archaeologists Just Identified The First Ancient Egyptian Bone Whistle Ever Discovered

Archaeologists in Egypt recently unveiled their findings from the analysis of a bone whistle carved from a cow’s toe that was originally found at the ancient capital of Akhetaten in 2008. They determined that the artifact was likely used by “police officers” guarding tomb builders during the reign of Akhenaten, around 3,300 years ago.

The whistle came from the Stone Village within the abandoned site near modern-day Amarna, and it represents the first known example of its kind from ancient Egypt...
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A Pack Of Lions Just Attacked And Killed A Zookeeper At A Safari Park In Thailand

Horrified visitors to Safari World in Bangkok bore witness to a grisly spectacle when a zookeeper was mauled to death by lions in the zoo’s drive-through area. The incident led to officials shutting down part of the zoo and launching an investigation into the business’s possession of wild animals and safety rules.

Safari World is a popular yet controversial private zoo that regularly offers lion-feeding shows. Of course, none had ever been quite as horrifying as this.

Witnesses said the keeper...
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33 ID Cards Left Behind On 9/11 — And The Tragic Stories Behind Them

September 11, 2001 was one of the darkest days in modern American history. In a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda, hijacked commercial planes were turned into deadly weapons that struck symbols of U.S. economic, military, and political power.

The most infamous of these attacks, however, was the targeted strike on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Thousands of people were killed and the Manhattan skyline was permanently changed. The assaul...
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27 Vintage Photos That Reveal How ABBA Took The World By Storm In The 1970s

ABBA is undoubtedly one of the most successful pop groups in history. Indeed, photos of ABBA from their prime don’t begin to capture the international craze they sparked with hits like “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia.”

Although the band split up in 1982, their legacy endures through the 1999 musical Mamma Mia! and the two film adaptations it spawned, 2008's Mamma Mia! and 2018's Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. While those movies don't actually serve as biographies of the band — unlike Bohemian Rhap...
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Archaeologists In Turkey Just Uncovered 8,800-Year-Old Houses That Were Part Of The Oldest Farming Settlement In The Aegean Islands

A new discovery on Gökçeada, Turkey’s westernmost island, is changing researchers’ understanding of when and how Neolithic farmers first settled the Aegean Islands.

Archaeologists have uncovered five circular, sunken-floor houses at the Uğurlu-Zeytinlik Mound, dating back roughly 8,800 years. This represents the earliest known farming architecture found on any Aegean Island. Until now, Knossos on Crete had held that title, but this discovery is rewriting the early human history of the region....
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44 Colorized Historical Photos Of Chicago That Bring The Old Windy City To Life

Chicago is almost unrecognizable from the city it was back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — in more ways than one.

For starters, the city was quite literally reshaped after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 left much of the metropolis in charred ruins. Beyond that, though, the Windy City has undergone some significant political and cultural changes, especially during the latter half of the 20th century.

What was once a largely corrupt, mob-controlled gangland reliant on inhumane, unsan...
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The Doors Was One Of The Most Famous Bands Of The 1960s — And One Of The Most Chaotic

Many photos of the Doors, the rock band that soared to fame in the 1960s with hits like “Light My Fire,” feature the onstage antics of the charming but troubled frontman, Jim Morrison. While not much about the band would seem too shocking to a modern audience, that couldn’t have been further from the truth in the ’60s.

Morrison was a poet more than he was a singer, but the themes he touched on were basically unheard of in contemporary music. The Doors' "The End," for instance, starts as a song...
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Buford Pusser Became A Legend When He Took Revenge Against His Wife’s Killers, But New Evidence Suggests He Actually Murdered Her

A Tennessee sheriff whose story inspired a Hollywood film was not the tragic hero he made himself out to be — in fact, new evidence shows that he killed his wife, then led people to believe she had been slain by his enemies.

Buford Pusser became famous in the 1960s for taking on organized crime, but his story turned tragic in 1967 when his wife, Pauline Mullins Pusser, was killed during an ambush.

In 1973, the movie Walking Tall portrayed Pusser’s story on the big screen, immortalizing him as...
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Archaeologists In Serbia Just Discovered The First-Ever Proof That Ancient Roman Gladiators Battled Brown Bears

A fractured brown bear skull unearthed at the Roman amphitheater of Viminacium in modern-day Serbia offers the first-ever direct physical evidence of these animals’ involvement in ancient games, battles, and spectacles.

The skull, belonging to a six-year-old male brown bear (Ursus arctos), was discovered during 2016 excavations near the amphitheater and has since undergone extensive multidisciplinary analysis. The findings reveal the bear’s local origin, its injuries consistent with combat, its...
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Archaeologists In Italy Just Found An Ancient Etruscan Urn Emblazoned With The Face Of Medusa

Archaeologists at the Palazzone Necropolis in Perugia, Italy have uncovered an Etruscan urn bearing a relief carving of Medusa, the snake-haired Gorgon of Greek myth, that houses terracotta vessels rather than human remains.

This unusual discovery is now reshaping historians’ understanding of Etruscan funerary customs.

The urn was discovered at the Ipogeo dei Volumni, which is the hypogeum, or underground burial chamber, of the Volumnus family. This makes up one part of the Palazzone Necropoli...
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Inside The Smurl Haunting, The Alleged Demonic Attacks On A Pennsylvania Family That Inspired 'The Conjuring: Last Rites'

Nearly 40 years ago, the story of the Smurl haunting created a media firestorm. Jack and Janet Smurl’s claim of paranormal phenomena such as levitations, foul stenches, and blood-curdling screams in the middle of the night drew international attention to the small Pennsylvania town of West Pittston — including that of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The Warrens visited the Smurl home in 1986, which Ed confirmed was possessed by a “very powerful” demon. He and Lorraine spent months at the...
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Archaeologists In France Just Uncovered An Ancient Roman Mausoleum That Was Likely Modeled After Emperor Augustus’ Tomb

Archaeologists in France have made an exceptional discovery in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near Lyon: a well-preserved Roman mausoleum likely modeled after the tomb of Emperor Augustus.

Built around 50 C.E., the structure offers an unprecedented look at elite funerary architecture in Roman Gaul.

In a press statement from the Musée Gallo-Romain, archaeologists describe the monument as a large circular tomb whose interior spanned just over 49 feet and which likely stood nearly 20 feet tall. Its scale a...
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Why The Legends Of The Knights Of The Round Table Are Much Darker Than Most People Think

King Arthur is arguably the most famous figure in British legend. Stories of the fabled ruler of the Kingdom of Logres have circulated for centuries and been adapted into numerous formats, from novels and films to TV shows and games. The king’s search for the Holy Grail and his wielding of the mythical sword Excalibur are well chronicled. And by his side all the while were the Knights of the Round Table.

While oral legends of King Arthur and his knights likely originated in Wales or northern Br...
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55 Harrowing Photos That Reveal The True Devastation Of Hurricane Katrina

In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept over the Gulf Coast, tearing through communities in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The devastating storm caused around $125 billion in damage and 1,392 deaths, and the catastrophe left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

To make matters worse, the emergency response to the crisis was badly bungled, and the post-storm recovery had some unexpected effects on the Gulf Coast region that can still be felt even two decades later.

As o...
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The Incredible Life Of Chandra Bahadur Dangi, The Shortest Man In Recorded History

Measuring just 21.5 inches tall, Chandra Bahadur Dangi was the shortest man to ever live — but the world might have never heard about him if it weren’t for a chance encounter in the early 2010s.

A primordial dwarf, Dangi lived in the remote Nepalese village of Reemkholi in the country’s Dang district. This is where he lived from the time of his birth in 1939 until 2012, when Guinness World Records recognized him as the shortest man ever verified. Shortly beforehand, a forest contractor had noti...
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Inside The Enduring Mystery Of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — And What Might've Happened To The Missing Plane

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur for Beijing at 12:41 a.m. local time with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. But then, at 1:19 a.m., the final voice transmission from the plane was sent to air traffic controllers. Just two minutes later, the transponder in the passenger plane was suddenly switched off.

Before long, the aircraft disappeared from the radar.

Soon, a multinational air and sea search was underway to find the missing MH370, including 60...
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Inside Begich Towers, The 14-Story Building That Houses Nearly All 272 Residents Of Whittier, Alaska

Whittier, Alaska isn’t your typical small town. Located about 60 miles away from Anchorage and only accessible via boat or a single tunnel in and out of town, Whittier has a tiny population of about 272 people.

It’s not the size or location that makes Whittier unique, though; it’s that nearly all of those residents live in a single building: Begich Towers.

The 14-story condominium was completed in 1957 and originally served as a military structure during the Cold War. The U.S. Army had planned...
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Chinese Scientists Have Just Created Multicolored, Glow-In-The-Dark Plants

Researchers at South China Agricultural University have bioengineered succulents that glow in vibrant colors by injecting them with light-emitting phosphor particles and exposing the plants to sunlight or LED light.

The team, led by Xuejie Zhang, infused Echeveria “Mebina” succulents — a common houseplant — with micron-sized phosphor particles. These particles, synthetic materials made of strontium and aluminum dosed with other metals, are designed to emit light in different colors. Because of...
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Archaeologists Just Uncovered Dozens Of Artifacts From A Sunken Ancient Egyptian 'Party Town'

Divers and archaeologists working off the coast of Alexandria in northern Egypt have recovered a collection of artifacts from a sunken city believed to be part of ancient Canopus. The operation yielded monumental statues, architectural remains, and other relics dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.

The discovery, announced this week by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, sheds new light on a city that flourished more than 2,000 years ago before vanishing beneath the waves.

O...
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Rangers Patrolling Jungles In Northern Thailand Just Happened Upon An Untouched Cave Filled With 2,000-Year-Old Rock Art

A routine forest patrol in northern Thailand just yielded an unexpected archaeological discovery.

Between August 14 and 16, rangers from Phu Khat Wildlife Sanctuary, while conducting anti-poaching expeditions in the Khwae Noi River basin, stumbled upon a previously unknown sandstone cave that includes ancient rock art. Preliminary observations suggest that human activity at the site may date back some 2,000 years, which could reshape experts’ understanding of prehistoric settlement in the regio...
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Michelle Philpots, The Woman Whose Rare Form Of Amnesia Helped Inspire '50 First Dates'

For more than three decades, Michelle Philpots has not been able to create new memories. After two motor accidents — one in 1985 and a second in 1990 — the traumatic brain injuries she suffered led to the development of aggressively persistent epilepsy and a severe decline in memory retention. By 1994, she lost her ability to form long-term memories.

Since then, Philpots’ life has become a strategic routine of calendars and Post-It notes, and she lost her job because she could not remember any...
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Inside The Mystery Of Cicada 3301, The 'Most Elaborate And Mysterious Puzzle Of The Internet Age'

The mystery of Cicada 3301 began with an Internet message posted by a user named 3301: “Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few that will make it all the way through. Good luck.”

Posted to 4chan’s /x/ board on Jan 4. 2012, this message marked the beginning of what many would hail as the Internet’s greatest my...
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Gruesome Stone Age ‘Victory Pits’ Uncovered In France — Where Dozens Of People Were Brutally Murdered

Archaeologists analyzing human remains from Stone Age sites in northeastern France have uncovered evidence of large-scale, ritualized violence dating back more than 6,000 years.

Using advanced isotope analyses, researchers traced the life histories of dozens of individuals whose bodies — or body parts — were deposited in pits at the Achenheim and Bergheim sites between 4300 and 4150 B.C.E. Their findings suggest these people were not victims of random massacres, but outsiders and enemies who ha...
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