The Prison Escape Of Leonard Rayne Moses Leonard Rayne Moses after his arrest on Nov. 12, 2020, in Grand Blanc, Michigan by the FBI’s Detroit Fugitive Task Force. Leonard Rayne Moses was only 16 years old when joined the 1968 Pittsburgh riots in wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. It was April 6 when he threw Molotov cocktails at the home of local Mary Amplo, who died of pneumonia caused by her burns a few months later.

Mauro Prosperi: Survival Stories From The Olympic Athlete Who Spent 10 Days In The Sahara Desert Courtesy of Mauro ProsperiMauro Prosperi and another racer during the 1994 Marathon des Sables before his disappearance. One of the most harrowing survival stories involves a former Olympic pentathlete named Mauro Prosperi. In 1994, the then-39-year-old took part in the Marathon des Sables, a six-day race covering 155 miles through the Sahara Desert. The competition was known as one of the toughest of its kind.

These vintage photos will take you back to a time when Pac-Man and Donkey Kong were the absolute pinnacle of gaming technology.Maybe you can predict the moves of those shifty Pac-Man ghosts, smell the metallic odor of the tokens, or hear the symphony of sound effects ringing in your ears. But even if you rarely set foot inside an arcade yourself, you can still appreciate the cool, neon-flashing, vintage arcade aesthetic.

A decades-old ban on photography at Tashkent's metro kept its opulent halls hidden from the public — until now. Seen at the Yunus Rajabiy Station.Tom Grundy/HKFP The Tashkent metro.Tom Grundy/HKFP The Tashkent metro.Amos Chapple/RFE/RL The Tashkent station.Tom Grundy/HKFP Seen at the Yunus Rajabiy Station.Tom Grundy/HKFP Seen at the Buyuk Ipak Yuli (Great Silk Road) station.Amos Chapple/RFE/RL Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, at Kosmonavtlar station.Amos Chapple/RFE/RL Seen at Gafur Qulom station.

Contrary to what some might have you believe, American identity can look like many things. These Ellis Island immigration photos prove it.As a clerk at Ellis Island from 1892-1925, Augustus Sherman was in a unique position to document countless immigrants as they attempted to gain entrance into the United States. The untrained photographer had an undeniable natural talent: Even with bulky cameras and the time-consuming exposure process they required, Sherman was able to take more than 200 photos — of subjects typically detained for interrogation — that reveal as much about the subjects’ fears as they do the diverse reality of our national heritage:

The hand dates to sometime between 1450 and 1620 C.E., and is just one of around 50 prosthetics of the time period discovered in Europe. Bavarian State Office for Monument PreservationAn X-ray of the hand showed that the four fingers were amputated while the man was still alive. A 400-year-old skeleton with a prosthetic hand was just discovered at an archaeological site in Germany. The site was excavated to build a new pipeline in the Bavarian town of Freising, about 25 miles northeast of Munich.

From the 1969 Berkshires UFO incident to the eerie tale of Barney and Betty Hill, these alien abduction stories might even make skeptics believe that the truth is out there.On September 20, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire when they said a bright light came out of the sky. Two hours later, they were back in their driveway, with no memory of what had happened or where they’d been.

Chris McCandless, The Man At The Heart Of ‘Into The Wild’ X (Twitter)Chris McCandless was the subject of the book Into the Wild and its later film adaptation. In 1996, author Jon Krakauer released his book Into the Wild, which chronicled the shocking and strange life journey of Chris McCandless, a man who ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in 1992 — and never returned. His body was discovered by a pair of moose hunters on Sept.

The Myrtles Plantation: A Haunted House With A Ghost On Camera Bogdan Oporowski/Wikimedia CommonsThe Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is allegedly home to a number of wandering spirits. Some American haunted houses are scary because of stories and rumors. But the Myrtles Plantation, some claim, has physical evidence that ghosts haunt it. This St. Francisville, Louisiana, plantation, which dates back to the 18th-century, has a gory history of slavery, murder, and more.

Before Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés defeated Moctezuma II in 1521, the Mexica people used these sweat lodges to worship deities related to purification, lust, vice, birth, land, and water.Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (NIAH)The foundation of this ancient sweat lodge is 16.4 feet long and 9.7 feet wide. Goddesses were once worshipped within its walls. A pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican sauna dating to the 14th century has been uncovered by archaeologists in Mexico City’s historic La Merced neighborhood.