Celebrity Portraits. Cultural Photography. Human Evolution. Wiki: People. Millennials killing indrustries. David Goldman/Getty Millennials are threatening dozens of industries.
They don't buy napkins. They won't play golf. Donner Party Members. Survivors and casualties An exact accounting of the Donner Party is made difficult by deciding exactly when the Donner Party actually formed.
The Many Ways Society Makes a Man. This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
After Slavery, Searching For Loved Ones In Wanted Ads : Code Switch. In 1886, Nancy Jones placed an ad seeking her son, Allen, in an ad in The Christian Recorder of Philadelphia.
Courtesy of Last Seen hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Last Seen In the waning years of the Civil War, advertisements like this began appearing in newspapers around the country: Diary of a German Soldier fighting in Stalingrad (William Hoffman) Searching for Aki. Death Row Information. Amber Rose: Channing Tatum ‘was a stripper just like me’ Talk about dropping the magic mic.
Model Amber Rose says people fixate on her stripper background while overlooking Channing Tatum’s past life as a bare-chested beefcake — all because he’s a man. “He was a stripper just like me. No one says s--t. He’s at the f--king Oscars. He’s at the Vanity Fair party. Dances with Wolves actor Chief David Bald Eagle dies at 97. Image copyright AP Native American Chief David Bald Eagle, who appeared in the Oscar-winning 1990 film Dances With Wolves, has died aged 97.
The grandson of Chief White Bull, who fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Bald Eagle appeared in more than 40 films. He went on to become the face of South Dakota's Lakota people. He died at his home on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation on 22 July, according to a local funeral home. Civilian Casualties attributed to ISIS. Malala Yousafzai - Children's Activist, Women's Rights Activist. As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education.
She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Synopsis Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. Early Life On July 12, 1997, Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country's Swat Valley. Initial Activism Yousafzai attended a school that her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. In early 2009, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. What Africa will look like in 100 years. Kibera, Africa’s largest urban slum, is based three miles from Nairobi’s city centre - a city that will almost double in size in the next 10 years.
Kibera is estimated to house up to one million of its people, most of whom earn less than $1 per day. Lydia - a young woman born and raised in the slum, who asked The Telegraph to withhold her surname - now lives in a house on its border. Huffingtonpost. Most populous countries, bn. Cologne sex attacks: Merkel disgust at New Year gang assaults. Image copyright AP German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced outrage over the sexual assaults and thefts that male gangs inflicted on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
Women have made at least 90 criminal complaints to police about the harassment by gangs at Cologne's main railway station on Thursday night. Germans have been shocked by the scale of the attacks, involving many groups of drunk and aggressive young men. Witnesses and police said the men were of Arab or North African appearance. Creative Things to Do With a Dead Body. The Things They Carried: The Immigrant Experience, Yesterday and Today. Here come the brides... all 2,500 of them! 'Moonie' couples who met just days before wed in mass stadium ceremony in South Korea.
Wedding by Unification Church was second since the death of leader and self-declared messiah Sun Myung MoonHe founded the church in South Korea in 1954 and it since became famous for its mass 'blessing' ceremonies Participants have to refrain from sex for 40 days and nights after getting married to echo Jesus in the desertHuge ceremony held at the CheongShim Peace World Centre, a 25,000-seat stadium in Gapyong-gun, South Korea By Dan Bloom Published: 12:15 GMT, 12 February 2014 | Updated: 13:56 GMT, 12 February 2014.
Sentinelese people. The Sentinelese (also Sentineli, Senteneli, Sentenelese, North Sentinel Islanders) are an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. They inhabit North Sentinel Island, which lies westward off the southern tip of the Great Andaman archipelago. They are noted for resisting attempts at contact by outsiders. The Sentinelese maintain an essentially hunter-gatherer society subsisting through hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants. There is no evidence of either agricultural practices or methods of producing fire.[1] Their language remains unknown. The Sentinelese are a designated Scheduled Tribe.[2] Jadav "Molai" Payeng Plants A 1,360 Acre Forest In Assam. More than 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav "Molai" Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India's Assam region, the Asian Age reports.
It was 1979 and floods had washed a great number of snakes onto the sandbar. When Payeng -- then only 16 -- found them, they had all died. "The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms," Payeng told the Times Of India. "It was carnage. Powerful Images Showing Where Young Syrian Refugees Sleep. Population 7 Billion. One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired model for two paintings by Johannes Vermeer—“The Astronomer” and “The Geographer”—abruptly stopped what he was doing with his wife and rushed to his worktable.
Cloth was Leeuwenhoek’s business but microscopy his passion. He’d had five children already by his first wife (though four had died in infancy), and fatherhood was not on his mind. “Before six beats of the pulse had intervened,” as he later wrote to the Royal Society of London, Leeuwenhoek was examining his perishable sample through a tiny magnifying glass. What is even happening in Syria right now? : OutOfTheLoop.
Guards of one of the last remaining Northern White Rhino. Pope Francis Says Forces Of Gravity And Electromagnetism Are Real. Browse > Home / Vatican / Pope Francis Says Forces Of Gravity And Electromagnetism Are Real VATICAN––In a stunning break with centuries of Catholic teaching, Pope Francis announced today that the forces of Gravity and Electromagnetism are real, adding that “God is not a magician with a magic wand.” This is in stark contrast with the teaching of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, whose third Encyclical is entitled “God the Magician: Why Gravity Doesn’t Exist.” During this address to the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, Pope Francis rocked the Catholic world, which has been a staunch enemy of science since the Church’s public excommunication, execution, and dismemberment of Galileo in 1633.
'Touchability Index' Ranks Europeans by Tolerance for Physical Contact. Visualizing Major Causes of Death in the 20th Century. Asgarda. The hidden inequality of who dies in car crashes. Pope Francis declares God isn't "a magician with a magic wand" Andrew Solomon: The Father of the Sandy Hook Killer Searches for Answers. Scientists calculate odd ways to die. 6 Famous Figures You Only Know By Their Insulting Nicknames. Oscar Awards. Titanic 100th anniversary: Shoes and coat found at wreck site implies likely resting place of human remains. By Daily Mail Reporter and Arthur Martin Published: 13:15 GMT, 15 April 2012 | Updated: 07:55 GMT, 16 April 2012. Tara Strong. Vegan/Vegetarian/Pescatarian Survey. Juggalos of OK Cupid. Pope Francis Says Right-Wing Christians Have An Illness. Clearly, Pope Francis isn’t fond of the extreme ideals of the Christian Right.
Now, he’s calling right-wing, fundamentalist Christianity an “illness.” Photo of Pope Francis@@CatholicEWUK Pope Francis has been very clear about how he feels about ideological purity in religion. He’s been particularly critical of right-wing Christian fundamentalism. Pope Francis has shifted the focus of the Catholic Church to issues facing the poor and the sick. Pope Francis called right-wing Christian fundamentalism a sickness. During a daily Mass last week, Pope Francis called ideological Christianity “an illness” that doesn’t serve Jesus Christ. According to Radio Vatican, the Pope said: