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Billionaire Who Killed Endangered Rhino Allowed To Import Trophy Home

81-year-old Lacy Harber paid $275,000 for the right to kill this aging black rhino.Herald DemocratLacy Harber with his hunting crew and the rhino he killed. Texas billionaire Lacy Harber killed an endangered black rhino in southern Africa — and now he’ll be allowed to import his trophy back home. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) plans to approve the import of the trophy that Harber, 81, collected during a Feb. 2017 hunt in Namibia during which he killed an aging male black rhino, according to The Hill.

El Castillo, The Largest Pyramid Of Chichn Itz

Built between 1050 and 1300, El Castillo is a magnificent stone pyramid located at the center of the Maya city of Chichén Itzá that stands 79 feet tall and is 181 feet wide at its base.When the first stones of the Temple of Kukulcan were laid, the Roman Empire was falling. By the time it was finished, the Muslim world was undergoing a golden age. Once abandoned, the elaborate Chichén Itzá pyramid, which the Spanish called “El Castillo” or “the castle,” was originally the sophisticated heart of one of the Maya civilization’s wealthiest and most impressive cities.

Erin Kelly - All Thats Interesting

‘Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair’: 33 Pictures Of The Summer Of Love In San Francisco Erin Kelly 2 years ago Known as "The Summer Of Love," thousands of young people flocked to San Francisco in 1967 to experience music, free love, and hallucinogenic drugs. ncG1vNJzZmiZnKHBqa3TrKCnrJWnsrTAyKeeZ5ufonyiwdOhpqtnlae2r3nKnqOlsV%2Blrqixjm4%3D

Gary Ridgway, The Green River Killer Who Terrorized 1980s Washington

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Gary Ridgway prowled Washington as the Green River Killer, hunting for vulnerable women to rape and murder until he was arrested in 2001.Wikimedia CommonsAs the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway took more victims than Jeffrey Dahmer, Son of Sam, and BTK — combined. From 1982 to 1998, Gary Ridgway terrorized Washington State as the Green River Killer. He murdered at least 49 women, but the real number could be as high as 71.

How Bikini Atoll Was Ruined By Castle Bravo And Operation Crossroads

During the Cold War, the U.S. conducted the Castle Bravo and Operation Crossroads nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll — displacing natives and poisoning the area to this day.Wikimedia CommonsThe mushroom cloud from the Castle Bravo nuclear test blast at Bikini Atoll, which was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped over Hiroshima. March 1, 1954. Bikini Atoll’s isolation had proved a blessing early in its history. The small population of the Pacific island chain — about 1,800 miles from Papua New Guinea, the nearest land mass of note — was free from the conflict of the outside world until the 20th century, when it served as a Japanese outpost during World War II.