At first glance, the statue looked like a moss-covered river rock. On closer inspection, experts say it likely hung on the wall of an unidentified building in the 14th century. Paco Rodríguez/Voz de Galicia A fisherman came across a 700-year-old religious sculpture of the Virgin Mary and child in the Sar River of Galicia.
In early June, a Spanish fisherman out in search of his daily catch stumbled upon a mossy heap that looked like an ordinary river rock at first.
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The accidental stabbing happened at the 7 Floors of Hell haunted house in Ohio where actors aren't supposed to use real knives. 7 Floors of HellThe 7 Floors Of Hell is a regionally famous attraction.
An 11-year-old boy visiting a haunted house near Cleveland got more scare than he bargained for when an actor accidentally stabbed him in the foot. The boy, Frank Bednarski, visited the 7 Floors Of Hell haunted house at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds with his sister and some family friends on Sept.
"Better Babies" contests scored children on a 1,000-point scale that was generated based on the racist principles of eugenics.Reuben Saidman/National Media MuseumBabies aligned at a 1938 Better Babies competition.
In the early 20th century, visitors flocked to state fairs to gawk at prize-winning livestock, enormous vegetables, delicious pies — and babies.
At these so-called Better Babies contests, judges examined and rated infants based on their physical and mental health. Then, they awarded the parents of those babies they deemed to be the fittest.
Wilfred Owen was a WWI soldier, whose realistic depiction of life in the trenches gave rise to a new kind of war poet.Wikimedia CommonsWilfred Owen. 1920.
Before the peace protest songs of the 1960s and black comedy war satires like M*A*S*H in the 1970s, there was Wilfred Owen. The World War I soldier and poet used his distressing experiences in combat to write poetry on the horrors of warfare. His work was alternative and substantial in that it went against both the general public’s feelings about war, as well as the patriotic style of poetry that was popular among previous war poets.