The Siege of Lille or Lille Pocket was a Second World War battle fought during the Battle of France. It took place from 28–31 May 1940 in the vicinity of Lille, France during the Battle of France. It involved the 40,000 men of the French IV Corps and V Corps of the First Army (General…
Marvin Chester Stone (April 4, 1842 – May 17, 1899) was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the modern drinking straw. Introduction Marvin Stone was a U.S. inventor who made the first paper drinking straw in 1888. Stone was frustrated by the fact that the drinking straws commonly used at…
The name of the place was Colonia Dignidad, which translates to Dignity Colony, but not much dignity could be found there. On the foothills of the picturesque Andes Mountains in central Chile, it was instead a place of unimaginable depravity, where children were sexually abused, political dissidents were mercilessly tortured, and more than 100 people…
All across the world, museums feature incredible examples of ancient African artifacts. These objects range from West African artifacts, such as the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, to Zimbabwean artifacts, such as the Zimbabwe Birds. One can also find ancient African sculptures looted from ancient African royalty. The question being asked across the world currently is…
In 1946, a sadistic killer dressed in a white mask terrorized the small town of Texarkana at night. Texarkana, a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, is also known as The Town That Dreaded Sundown, thanks to the 1976 horror flick of the same name. Set in Texarkana…
There are many stories about cults that have convinced people to follow a certain way of life from all over the world. However, virtually none of them are as notorious as the Peoples Temple, or as they’re more colloquially known, the Jonestown cult. What exactly made this cult so intriguing you ask? Well, let’s have…
The USS Cyclops was a United States collier ship that was commissioned during World War I. She was launched on May 7, 1910, and was commissioned on May 1, 1917. Lieutenant Commander G.W. Worley was placed in command of the ship. Her first journey during her wartime service was a trip to St. Nazaire,…
The ship was reported to be in very poor condition when it set sail for Durban on its final voyage, and was in a state of neglect, with loose hull plates, check valves stripped for repair parts after a recent trip, and a 10 cm (4 in) hole in the “watertight” bulkhead between the generator…
Christopher Bernard Wilder (March 13, 1945 – April 13, 1984), also known as The Beauty Queen Killer, was a serial killer from Australia who abducted and raped at least twelve women, killing at least eight of them, during a six-week cross-country crime spree in the United States of America in early 1984. His series of…
The morbid fascination with the inner workings of the minds of serial killers seems to be all the rage right now, but the documentaries that detail the lives of these people and their victims often overlook just how complex and oftentimes tragic the lives of these decidedly disturbed individuals were. In the case of Issei…
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