In 1985, 14-year-old Cinnamon Brown was ordered to kill her stepmother by her own father — so he could collect life insurance and marry his teenage sister-in-law. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions and/or images of violent, disturbing, or otherwise potentially distressing events. In the early morning hours of March 19, 1985, 14-year-old Cinnamon Brown crept through her Orange County home into the room where her stepmother, Linda Brown, was sleeping.

For thousands to millions of years, these massive creatures stalked Earth at its dawn, until climate change — or early man — hastened their demise.Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. Some of them, like the giant sloth or the woolly rhino, were generally gentle. Others, like the saber-toothed tiger and the dire wolves, dominated their environment with their size and fearsome fangs. For millions of years, these ancient animals stalked through grasslands, climbed trees in the jungle, and chased prey into tar pits.

A Drunk Man Reported Missing In Turkey Joined His Own Search Party For Hours DPT Podcast/TwitterBeyhan Mutlu drunkenly wandered off into a Turkish forest and fell asleep. When he awoke, he stumbled into his own search party. When Beyhan Mutlu disappeared, his wife was rightfully distraught. The 50-year-old Turkish man had last been seen by his friends on Sept. 28, 2021. They had all gone out together and spent the night drinking in the province of Bursa in northwest Turkey before Mutlu vanished into thin air — only to reemerge helping out in his own search party.

The poems in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass constitute a connected series representing the poet’s philosophy of life and humanity. Whitman wrote, revised and added to the book throughout his life, publishing the final edition only months before his death in 1892. Leaves of Grass was highly controversial during its time, as Whitman exposed his thoughts on sensual pleasures in a candid display then considered to be immoral. Though contentious upon its release, Leaves of Grass has long since been recognized as one of the central works of American poetry.

Wonderfully weird photos of presidents who may not have realized there were cameras around. Ronald Reagan wags his hands and makes faces at reporters attending a dinner for the White House News Photographers Association after asking whether the gesture would be kept "off the record" and saying he'd waited years for the opportunity. May 19, 1983.Bettmann/Getty Images Lyndon Johnson is interrupted by his pet dog Yuki jumping up on the desk while he prepares to sign a meat inspection bill.