These warships from the Battle of Leyte Gulf were found in late November by a team led by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.Paul AllenWreckage of the IJN Asagumo. In October of 1944, the United States and Japan fought the largest naval battle of all time in the waters surrounding the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar and Luzon, in what would be known as The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Now, 73 years later, researchers have discovered five of the Japanese warships sunk in this battle on the seabed off the coast of the Philippine island Surigao, reported the Asahi Shimbun.

Meet Havelock Ellis, the man who wrote the first English medical textbook on homosexuality — all the way back in 1897.Wikimedia CommonsHavelock Ellis Topics like homosexuality, masturbation, birth control, and hallucinogenic drugs can be touchy ones even today. But that didn’t stop English physician and writer Havelock Ellis from publishing some controversial, forward-thinking ideas on topics like these — in the heart of the Victorian era. Havelock Ellis’ Early Life Havelock Ellis was born to Edward and Susannah Ellis in Croydon, England on Feb.

In 1920, a woman was fished out of a lake claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Did the princess really escape death or was it the ramblings of a madwoman? Getty ImagesPhoto of the Romanov family with Grand Duchess Anastasia seated far right. The reign of the Romanov family ended in diametric contract to the pastel world of palaces and finery it had spent 300 years ruling. During the Russian Revolution, the imperial family’s house arrest in Siberia ended when a firing squad shot the Tsar Nicholas, Tsarina Alexandra, Grand Duke Alexei, and Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia to death on July 17, 1918.

Lupe Vélez blazed new trails for Latinas in Hollywood before her shocking and controversial suicide in 1944. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty ImagesMexican film actress Lupe Vélez took Hollywood by storm in the 1930s. Drama followed Lupe Vélez wherever she went. It dogged her in her hometown of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, trailed her to Hollywood, haunted her into taking her own life, and echoed on after her death. Even Vélez referred to herself as a “devil.

King Tutankhamun's mask was first unearthed when Howard Carter opened the Egyptian pharaoh's coffin in 1925 — and some believe that the ancient tomb unleashed a curse.When British archeologists cracked open Tutankhamun’s gold coffin in 1925, they found themselves face-to-face with the unseeing eyes of the boy king’s death mask. Since then, King Tut’s mask has fascinated the world. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty ImagesKing Tut’s mask on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015.