Wooly Mammoths Walked When The Pyramids Were Built The last of the wooly mammoths were believed to have existed around the Arctic Circle in what is now Russia as far back as 4,000 years ago. This means that when the Great Pyramids were built in Egypt back in 2550 B.C.E., these remnants of the Ice Age still roamed the Earth. Oxford Is As Ancient As The Aztecs While the Aztec Empire is indeed very old, as the capital city of Tenochtitlan was founded way back in 1325, Oxford University in England is even older. Oxford became a large-scale college in the 1200s, but…
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Human by day and wolf by night, the werewolf is one of the oldest and most horrific beasts of lore. These creatures are sometimes known as lycanthropes, a name derived from the Greek tale of Lycaon, who unwisely tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh and was turned into a wolf for his trouble. But this isn’t the first story of the werewolf; the idea of a human-wolf hybrid pops up across many cultures throughout time. Even the oldest complete work of literature, the 2100 B.C.E. Mesopotamian Epic Of Gilgamesh, contains a tale of a god turning a man into a…
The first Thanksgiving Every kid in America has the bullet points of the first Thanksgiving drilled into their heads—turkey, maize, the pilgrims and Native Americans coming together to hold hands, eat food, and yuck it up around the dinner table—but Thanksgiving isn’t as simple as that. The pilgrims and America’s native people did come together, but no one celebrated again for a good while, and it wasn’t really considered Thanksgiving. This is a holiday that required some serious effort to become an annual tradition. Source: History Channel After the pilgrims came to America, they settled a plot of land that the Patuxet…
Follow The Law Anna Sullivan / Unsplash Laws and rules are what keeps our society functioning the way that it’s supposed to. As some of you may know, the law isn’t always foolproof. And sometimes, rules are extremely easy to break. Especially when you don’t even know that they exist. Fight Or Flight KWTX News 10 The woman didn’t understand why she was being told that she needed to go to court. She sat on the couch in her living room, overwhelmed with thoughts about what she should do next. While she was thinking about what her next step should…
Seeing 13 truck drivers parked under a bridge and blocking traffic on the highway going in both directions is definitely unusual. But, that’s exactly what fellow drivers encountered in Michigan. As if the sight wasn’t bizarre enough, the reason why they were doing it left onlookers even more stunned. Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw found himself in need of the public’s help in the wee hours of a Tuesday morning. Luckily, he’d get exactly what he needed from a group of selfless individuals. Now, the image of the 13 truck drivers is leaving many speechless. Seeing 13 trucks in…
A pickup truck was simply trying to merge into the right lane when an easily annoyed driver rolled down the window of his red Corvette and decided to flip the guy the bird. That’s when he got taught a nasty lesson he won’t soon forget. It’s safe to say he won’t make the same mistake again any time soon, but did he get what he deserved? You decide. A red Corvette, captured in a now-viral video recorded in Tacoma, Washington, decided to learn road etiquette the hard way. Few things are as annoying as those who don’t show any consideration for the…
When a young boy died in a car crash, he says he went to heaven. After being resuscitated, he came back with a message he says Jesus gave him to share with the world — and he wants everyone to hear it before it’s too late. Landon Whitley was in the backseat, riding home from church with his mom and dad, on October 19, 1997, when tragedy struck. “I didn’t see what he was yelling at. I didn’t see the ambulance coming, but I remember him yelling. That was the last thing I heard from him,” Julie Kemp, Landon’s mom recalled,…
While wearing a “Vietnam veteran” hat, an elderly man stopped at a restaurant for dinner. He noticed a table of younger men nearby but didn’t think much of it until the guys swarmed his table one by one, repeatedly disrupting his meal. Their conduct caught the attention of the entire restaurant as the veteran could only cry. Lou Zezoff of Granite City, Illinois, went out to eat at a Cracker Barrel with his wife Annette while wearing his “US Navy Vietnam Veteran” cap. After being seated, Lou noticed five young men sitting at a nearby table. Little did he know, they noticed…
After a judge helped her violent brother blackmail his victim, she was forced to stand trial for the abuse of her power. However, as soon as she was sentenced, her entire family erupted in rage and she was dragged from the courtroom in an outrageous display. While serving as a juvenile court judge in Ohio, Tracie Hunter used her position of authority to help an alleged criminal blackmail his underage victim. Her brother, Stephen Hunter, was working as a youth correction officer in the Hamilton County justice’s district when he was accused of hitting a minor while on duty. Understandably,…
A young woman was riding in her boyfriend’s truck when he struck a pillar, going 75 mph. Crushed in the mangled wreckage, she opened her eyes to see his head had gone through the windshield. His face was covered in blood, and his body lay motionless. Then, she glanced out the window and saw a man smiling at her. Even more shocking than the stranger standing in the road, however, is what was later found at the scene of the crash. Arika Stovall was riding in the passenger seat of her boyfriend Hunter’s truck when it drifted off the road…