November 13, 1990, was a typical autumn day in Japan. Fusako Sano was watching a baseball game at school. She was a nine-year-old girl who was born in Sanjo and was in the fourth grade. Sometime and somewhere between the game and when she should have arrived home, Fusako Sano disappeared. For nine years and …
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Jennifer Pan attempted a kill-for-hire attack in 2010 on her mother and father, leaving her mother dead. Her crime was only discovered by her father waking from an induced coma. Her father, Hann Huei Pan, and her mother, Bich Ha Pan, were Viet Hoa immigrants from Vietnam who settled in Canada in 1979 as political …
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Prior to World War One, Germany was a prosperous nation. In the decades since its unification, it had become an industrial powerhouse leading Europe in fields like chemicals, machinery, and optics. Its gold-backed currency traded at comparable rates to the British shilling, Italian lira, and French Franc (about 4-5:1 against the U.S. Dollar). Nine years …
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Everyone can use some peace and quiet now and then. A camping trip or a weekend in a cabin in the woods can usually take care of that. Certain people would rather live on the fringes of society. Nothing sounds better to them than a house with no neighbors for miles in the middle of …
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We’ve all known someone who rocks a mullet. For those who aren’t so lucky, a mullet is a haircut that’s short on the sides and front and long in the back. The Beastie Boys song “Mullet Head” popularized the term in the 90s, rockstars like Rod Stewart, Keight Richard, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney popularized …
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This infamous photo shows Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in front of the White House. Next to him is his only son, Juan Pablo Escobar. People believe that the image is from around 1981, though there’s no exact date. Escobar took his family to Disneyland on this same trip. How Did Pablo Escobar Pose in …
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The Victorian Era was a time of excitement. New inventions were coming out at a pace never seen before in human history. At the same time, without money, it was a challenging time to live. Children labored in mines to help put food on their family’s table. The wealthy’s lives couldn’t have been more different. …
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Animal bridges or wildlife crossing are routes for animals to avoid being killed by cars, trains, and even boats. This is anything that acts as viaducts, culverts, green roofs, amphibian tunnels, fish ladders, tunnels, and bridges. As the human population has ballooned to over 7 billion people, our world has increasingly conflicted with nature. Nowhere …
Sergey Polyushko is a Ukrainian photographer based out of Kiev. As expected, animals are his favorite subjects. He’s known for intimate portraits of everyday animals like squirrels, cats, ducks, and even hedgehogs. We guarantee that his amazing photos will put a smile on your face.
The Earth is full of amazing creatures, some of which are beautiful, some of which are….terrifying? Some bridge the gap into the uncanny, looking like they don’t even belong on Earth. If I was forced to imagine life on another planet, I think it’d look a little something like this. Take a look at some …
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