After Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted by 36-year-old Vinson Filyaw, she did everything she could to escape — and eventually succeeded when she stole his phone to send a text to her mom.FacebookElizabeth Shoaf was 14 when she was kidnapped by Vinson Filyaw, but she outwitted her captor and rescued herself.
For 10 harrowing days in September 2006, 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf was held in an underground bunker by a rapist named Vinson Filyaw.
Ahead of this weekend’s release of Spectre, we’re looking back at the less angsty days of the franchise, when Bond would dispatch bad guys with a cheesy one-liner before going back to quaffing vodka martinis in one of his usual luxurious locations. Here, we revisit every one of those post-kill quips. Prepare yourselves, some of these are poshitively shocking:
Dr. No Bond outmaneuvers the bad guys chasing him in a hearse, causing them to drive off a cliff and, of course, explode.
Also known as the "Mountain of Seven Colors," Vinicunca is a 17,000-foot tall mountain that attracts thousands of visitors a day — and it's easy to see why.In 2013, the world was introduced to a newly-uncovered geological wonder in Peru known as the Rainbow Mountain.
The mountain is aptly named. Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, the vibrant ridge arises out of the Earth, lined with layers of red, orange, yellow, and turquoise.
Drone photos and historical documents suggest that Leonardo da Vinci based the bridge that appears in the backdrop of the Mona Lisa on a very real bridge located in the Italian province of Arezzo.Le Rocca Cultural AssociationThe bridge that appears in the Mona Lisa painting was identified based on a number of factors, including its four arches.
The Mona Lisa contains many mysteries. But one, at least, has apparently just been solved.
The First Photograph (1826)Taken in 1826 or 1827 by French photography pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, this view from the window of a Burgundy, France estate is the oldest surviving, permanent photograph in existence.Using a unique process known as heliography, Niépce set his camera to an eight-hour exposure over a pewter plate coated with asphalt. He then wiped away the areas of the asphalt not hardened by sunlight to reveal a primitive photograph.