Authorities found a map in Robert Hansen's Anchorage home marked with tiny "X" symbols, showing where the so-called "Butcher Baker" killed and buried his victims in the wilderness.In the 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell recounts the tale of a wealthy Russian aristocrat who, bored with trapping animals, lures a big-game hunter to his island and hunts him for sport.
Ever since the story was published, the perverse idea of humans hunting humans has captivated people.
The ship allegedly provides "a religious retreat ministering the most advanced level of spiritual counseling," which apparently also includes a four-day standstill due to measles.Wikimedia CommonsThe Freewinds cruise ship, stationed in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. 2004.
For those familiar with the Church of Scientology and its controversial Sea Org initiative, the religion’s penchant for cruise ship expeditions is familiar territory. For those who aren’t familiar, Sea Org is something of a private naval force owned and operated by the most important members of the Church of Scientology and provides courses and seminars at sea.
When the SS Dumaru was struck by lightning and sank near Guam in 1918, its crew was left adrift in a lifeboat for three weeks — and when food ran out, they turned to cannibalism.Wikimedia CommonsThe SS Dumaru sets off on its fateful maiden voyage.
In 1918, a wooden ship called the SS Dumaru set off on its maiden voyage. Tragically, that first trip would be its last: On October 16, the ship was struck by lightning, setting its flammable cargo ablaze and sending its crew members out to sea in three separate life vessels.
The best science photos of the year will take you from the Siberian permafrost to a radish garden in space. Rare Occultation Between Venus And The MoonOver the summer, observers around the northeastern U.S. witnessed a rare celestial event: the moon and Venus appearing in the sky closely together. Venus was hidden behind the moon — known as an "occultation" — moments before this image was captured by a photographer in Boston.
Born in Oregon to immigrant parents, Hazel Ying Lee made history when she earned her pilot's license in 1932 and later flew for the U.S. military during World War II.Hazel Lee broke barriers at a time when they couldn’t have been any more firmly entrenched. The daughter of two Chinese immigrants, she was the very definition of proactive. Lee was so enamored with her first flight in 1932 that she got her pilot’s license months later — and became one of the first Chinese American women to do so