The third son of Abraham Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln died at the age of just 11 after contracting typhoid fever in 1862.As the Civil War intensified in February 1862, Abraham Lincoln waged a private war within the White House. His two youngest sons, William Wallace Lincoln, “Willie,” and Thomas Lincoln III, “Tad,” had fallen ill. But though the president did all he could to make them better, only Tad recovered. Willie Lincoln died.

During the Nanking Massacre and the Japanese invasion of China, Nazis like John Rabe and Alexander von Falkenhausen saved hundreds of thousands of lives. German war correspondent Walter Bosshard helps a wounded Chinese man into his car to take him to safety. Beijing, China. 1937. Walter Bosshard/ullstein bild via Getty Images Japanese soldiers advance on a German-designed fortification. Nanking, China. 1938. Bettmann/Getty Images A blood-stained baby, the only survivor of a Japanese bombing, cries in the rubble.

Kuchisake onna is said to be a vengeful spirit who covers her disfigured face and asks strangers: "Am I beautiful?" She then attacks them regardless of how they answer.Japan has its fair share of monsters and ghost stories. But few are as frightening as the legend of kuchisake onna, the slit-mouthed woman. According to this creepy urban legend, kuchisake onna appears to people walking alone at night. Upon first glance, she seems to be a young, attractive woman covering the lower part of her face with a mask or fan.

Why everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones sang the Butter Queen's praises, sometimes literally.Barbara Cope/FacebookBarbara Cope, the “Butter Queen,” in 1968. In the song “Rip This Joint,” The Rolling Stones include the lines, “Down to New Orleans with the Dixie Dean / ‘Cross to Dallas, Texas with the Butter Queen.” The queen in question was Barbara Cope. Part of the legendary groupie scene of the late 1960s and early ’70s, Cope was reportedly intimate with scores of rock stars, including The Rolling Stones’ own Mick Jagger as well as men like Joe Cocker, David Cassidy, and Jimi Hendrix.

The international experiment showed that people are certainly better than we thought.PixabayResearchers travelled across the globe dropping 17,000 “lost wallets” for a behavioral study. If you came across an abandoned wallet full of cash, what would you do? That is one of the questions a group of behavioral scientists explored during an international research campaign on “civic honesty.” To do this, researchers launched a large-scale experiment which involved a tourist (really a research assistant in disguise) walking into a bank to give the teller a lost wallet that they had “found.

"I will never give up on him. Because love is selfless, and I love him more than life itself."Endres PhotographyAustin with his son. A man in California has reportedly lost part of his skull — thanks to excessive consumption of energy drinks. In a post (now deleted) shared on the Facebook page for Endres Photography, located in Sacramento, California, a woman who chooses to be known only as Brianna explained how excessive energy drink consumption led to her husband’s nearly fatal brain hemorrhage.

In 1958, Mary Jackson fought against sexism and segregation to become a NASA Engineer, and her work helped send Americans into space. Bob Nye/NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty ImagesMary Jackson broke racial and gender barriers when she became the first Black woman engineer at NASA. Mary Jackson made history as the first Black woman aerospace engineer at NASA in 1958. This was no small feat given that the space agency was still a segregated institute in the 1950s.

Discover the full story of Geraldine Ferraro, the New York congresswoman who made history as the first female vice presidential candidate in 1984.On July 19, 1984, Geraldine Ferraro made history when she walked onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Ferraro, a congresswoman from Queens, New York, accepted the official nomination as a vice presidential candidate. In that moment, she became the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party in the United States.

It is believed the Saltmen were working in a mine over 1700 years ago when it collapsed on them.Wikimedia CommonsThe head of Salt Man 1, on display at the National Museum of Iran. In 1993, miners at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Zanjan province of Iran discovered a body. Clearly a man, the body had flowing white hair and a beard and was sporting a single gold earring. Though he didn’t initially appear that old, carbon dating showed he had died in 300 A.

The Stellasaurus or 'star lizard' roamed the badlands of Montana some 75 million years ago.Getty/South West News ServiceThe Stellasaurus is a new species of dinosaur possessing ornate horns and a star-shaped skull. It’s no secret scientists take personal liberties in naming their discoveries. For a newly discovered dinosaur that sported some flamboyant headgear, scientists chose the name Stellasaurus or “star lizard” in honor of the true Starman himself, David Bowie.