Giant Lion Carved From Single Tree By 20 People In 3 Years Becomes The World’s Largest Redwood Sculpture A single tree trunk has been transformed into a giant lion called the Oriental Lion, which carries 20 people for over three years. It is now located in Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province of China. […]
Continue reading »
In the early 20th century, 33 striking portraits of native American culture Photographer Edward Curtis embarked on a journey in 1900 that would inspire the work of his life: he decided to accompany anthropologist George Bird Grinnell on a trip to Montana to photograph the Sun Dance, a practice of the Blackfoot Indians. He travelled to Arizona from there, photographing the […]
Continue reading »
The Herero Genocide: Germany’s First Mass Murder While the horrors of the Holocaust are now universally known, there is far less awareness exists of the previous genocide that took place under German auspices, in what was then the German colony of South-West Africa. According to scholars, the first genocide in the 20th century, The German forces killed thousands of Nama’s […]
Continue reading »
Harry Volkman – the first weatherman to broadcast a tornado He has reported for almost every newscast in the city for over forty-five years as a Chicago television meteorologist. He was a top meteorologist in Oklahoma for ten years before that. Harry Volkman wrote some of the many stories in a new autobiography about his life and career, The new […]
Continue reading »
No Jail Sentence for Woman Who Falsely Claimed Rape by Three Unidentified Black Men On March 8, 2017, Breana Harmon Talbott entered a church in Denison, Texas, bloodily and half-naked. Then she told the church officials that three Black people had just kidnapped her and raped her. News quickly provoked outrage, much of it racially motivated, from some publishers and […]
Continue reading »
How one Woman Single-Handedly Saved Portland from the Plague in 1907 At the time of summer 1907, Esther Pohl was a well-known sight around Portland, Oregon. Thirty-five years out of date, with wavy hair piled to the top of her head, she was recognized for cycling from home to visit the patients of her personal obstetrics follow. She had also […]
Continue reading »
Wife of Canada’s Prime Minister Tests Positive for Virus Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has tested positive for coronavirus, a statement from the office of the prime minister says. “She will remain isolated at this time. She feels well, takes all the appropriate precautions and has mild symptoms,” she reads. The couple is now self-isolating. According to […]
Continue reading »
There’s a serial killer known as a real-life “Dexter” who murdered criminals Pedro Rodrigues Filho isn’t exactly Dexter, but he’s a serial killer that killed other criminals. Which would make him one of the “nicer” serial killers. Pedro Rodrigues Filho is a serious serial killer. He is responsible for at least 70 murders, 10 of which he committed before he […]
Continue reading »
Was Abraham Lincoln Our First Gay President? In an interview with Axios on HBO, the South Bend, the Ind. mayor was asked how the critics who considered him too old, too radical and too gay would respond. Pete Buttigieg felt that he would likely not be the first gay president if he was elected in 2020. “We have had excellent […]
Continue reading »
Air Force Veteran Dies Covered In Ant Bites At Veterans Affairs Hospital In Georgia An army officer of Vietnam died in the U.S. The Department of Veterans Affairs assisted living facility on Saturday, but before he died, he was twice found covered in ants. Laquana Ross didn’t take long to realize that her 74-year-old dad, Joel Marrable, had something wrong. […]
Continue reading »