Notorious for her drunken exploits and various stints at mental health facilities, Frances Farmer was subjected to a slew of dark rumors — but here’s the truth about her story.In early mid-century America, few movie stars were as famous as Frances Farmer. From 1936 to 1958, the actress appeared in 15 films alongside stars like Bing Crosby and Cary Grant, and she was known as much for her tumultuous private life as she was for her roles.

Stone Mountain Park's memorial is the largest high relief sculpture in the world. It's racist, bigoted history has critics calling for alterations or removal, particularly in the wake of recent race-motivated killings.Image Source: Wikipedia Stone Mountain Park in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the largest Confederate monuments in the United States. The granite carvings of Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Jefferson Davis cover over 17,000 square feet of mountain.

La Piscine Josephine Baker, Paris Source: Paris Pour Les Enfants Floating on the Seine River is the beautiful glass-walled pool, La Piscine Josephine Baker. Built on a modular barge and a permanent fixture on the riverbank, the pool features a retractable roof that opens to the summer sky and was named for French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, the first African-American female to star in a major motion picture. Source: Sydney Nearly Daily Photo

A mysterious Viking ship burial unearthed in Scotland has yielded a wealth of artifacts.Ardnamurchan Transitions ProjectClockwise from the top left: broad-bladed axe, shield boss, ringed pin, and hammer and tongs. After first uncovering it in 2011, researchers in Scotland have now completed their investigation of a Viking burial boat and the piles of ancient artifacts that came along with it. Located on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in western Scotland, the burial ship, which could be more than 1,000 years old, was the first undisturbed Viking funeral ship ever discovered on the British Isles.

Though Albert DeSalvo confessed to murdering 13 women in the early 1960s, some believe that the "Boston Strangler" was really multiple serial killers.On July 8, 1962, readers of the Sunday edition of the Boston Herald opened their papers to a shocking headline: “Mad Strangler Kills Four Women in Boston.” The article warned that a “mad strangler is loose in Boston” who has “slain four women during the past month.” Several women in the greater Boston area called the police in a panic, saying a man claiming to be “The Strangler” had called their homes to tell them “You will be next.

What happened on this day in history: Mongol Empire founder Genghis Khan dies, the passage of the 19th amendment gives women the right to vote in America, and more historical events that occurred on August 18th.1227: Genghis Khan Dies Wikimedia CommonsGenghis Khan, as portrayed in a 14th-century Yuan-era album. Mongol leader Genghis Khan dies while leading a campaign against China’s Xi Xia kingdom. His exact cause of death is unknown. Some sources say he died from injuries sustained after he fell from his horse, while others claim he was wounded by an arrow in battle and died from the resulting infection.

Find out the happiest country in the world, not to mention the unhappiest country, and whether or not the world itself is actually happy.Image Source: World Happiness Report You’ll read and share plenty of stories claiming to have uncovered the happiest country in the world (or state in the U.S., and so on). By now, there’s a veritable cottage industry of such stories. But in the last few years, during which these stories became commonplace, one study stands out in terms of authority: the World Happiness Report.

“A Touch of Buchenwald” Photo: Twitter The early experiments in unwitting human radiation exposure were carried out under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project and overseen by a medical researcher named Joseph Hamilton. Hamilton had been the man who withdrew the plutonium from the lab and transported it to the hospital for injection. Between 1945 and 1947, Hamilton was more involved in government radiation studies than perhaps any other researcher. A world-class expert on radiation’s effects on living tissue, Hamilton even experimented on himself, repeatedly drinking or rubbing his skin with radioactive samples to develop data.

Inside David Ghantt’s Infamous Loomis Fargo Heist In October 1997 Wyatt Redd 11 months ago On October 4, 1997, David Ghantt pulled off the Loomis Fargo heist with $17.3 million in hand — but then the problems started piling up. ncG1vNJzZmiZnKHBqa3TrKCnrJWnsrTAyKeeZ5ufonyiwdOhpqtnp66utcCMq5ydnF%2Blrqixjms%3D

In a world obsessed with appearances, X-ray art disregards exteriors in favor of highlighting the internal beauty and structure of everyday objects.Source: Smithsonian Magazine While many of us consider pretty paintings or sculptures to be the bookends of what the word “artistic” can mean, many artists defy convention and instead strive for innovation. X-ray art is one of those innovative forms. Blurring radiology and photography, even common items become interesting as the x-ray strips back their layers to reveal their often-ignored (and often elegant) internal structures.