The Rise Of The Italian Mob In 1910, Morello and his main men were picked up on counterfeiting charges. Police tried and failed to connect Ignazio Lupo with more than 60 suspected murders. This incompetence on behalf of the police perhaps made New York appear all the more attractive to aspiring gangsters. The Mafia only grew from there. Following these arrests, Morello’s associate Joe Masseria took over as head of the family.
Located in Bend, Oregon, the last Blockbuster location on Earth is continuing to compete with Netflix and making changes to weather the COVID-19 pandemic.Wikimedia CommonsThe Bend, Oregon store became the world’s last Blockbuster in July 2018. In the land of movie rentals, Blockbuster Video once reigned supreme. The colossal corporation had 9,000 stores and 60,000 employees at its peak in 2004. As time passed, however, it became clear that Blockbuster was built for an era that was quickly fading.
The Art Gallery of Ontario Source: Wikimedia Over a century after the gallery’s establishment, the CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario decided in 2003 that the building would undergo a massive remodeling project with the help of Frank Gehry. Characteristic to art galleries, Gehry couldn’t simply deconstruct the building as he saw fit–he was required to build around existing structures and expansions and unite them all architecturally. Once it was completed, Gehry was praised for the restraint he showed in his designs and for how well he was able to blend his own additions into the previous structures.
The Sundance Kid was already a legend of the Wild West during his lifetime. But the most intriguing part of his story may be that no one really knows how it ended.Wikimedia CommonsThe Sundance kid (seated, far left) and the infamous Wild Bunch. Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and infamous criminal in the wild west. He was a member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, the gang that performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in the Wild West.
BBCAt 114, Fredie Blom thinks it may be time to quit smoking. In 2015, after turning 111, Cape Town, South Africa’s Fredie Blom said that the only birthday wish he wanted was to die and that he was eager to meet his maker. Now, three years later, it appears that his wish never came true. According to his birth certificate, Blom turned 114-years-old on May 8, 2018. Though his age hasn’t been verified by the Guinness World of Records yet, if all checks out, Blom will officially be the world’s oldest man.