At least 11 women were killed and then buried in the desert during the West Mesa murders that took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico between 2001 and 2005.Wikimedia CommonsDowntown Albuquerque as seen from the West Mesa. At first, it was like any other Monday night, but Feb. 2, 2009, would stick with Christine Ross forever. Ross walked her dog, Ruca, along a dried-out wash in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then, Ruca found a bone resembling a femur.

Fourteen years before the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic, a small town writer predicted the whole thing. Wikimedia CommonsMorgan Robertson, author of The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility. It was a clear, chilly night in April. The largest vessel ever to float at 800 feet long, displacing 45,000 tons, and declared unsinkable by all who had seen her was gliding through the water with roughly 2,500 peacefully sleeping passengers.

Scythian warlord's scepter found in Bulgaria, ancient wine jars unearthed in Egypt, Viking brooches discovered in Norway.2,500-Year-Old Bone-Carved Scepter That Once Belonged To A Scythian Warlord Unearthed In Bulgaria BTAThe scepter was unearthed in the remains of Solnitsata, a fortified settlement established circa 5600 B.C.E. that flourished as a center of salt production and is widely recognized as the oldest city in European history. Widely recognized as the oldest city in European history, Solnitsata was established in present-day Bulgaria circa 5600 B.

Where It All Started Wikimedia Commons It’s the makeup where the tradition runs afoul of modern sensibilities. Morris dancers, specifically those from the Wales/England border area and who are known as border dancers, perform in blackface. Officially, this is a relic of the 15th century, when local bishops and other town authorities banned public dancing and begging for money during public holidays. The story goes that border dancers in the 1450s blackened their faces to avoid identification and to give the local sheriff an excuse not to arrest them later on the grounds that he “couldn’t identify” people from his own village who were wearing soot on their faces.

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the Warren Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president — but many believe that there's more to the story.In 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison did an explosive interview with Playboy about what he claimed to have discovered during his independent investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Garrison said, “We discovered, in short, what I had hoped not to find… the existence of a well-organized conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy, a conspiracy that came to fruition in Dallas on November 22, 1963.