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Croatian Village Plagued By 100 Gigantic Sinkholes Following Earthquake

Villagers in Mečenčani and Borojovići are finding their homes threatened by enormous, unpredictable sinkholes following December's 6.4-magnitude earthquake.AFP/Getty ImagesThe sinkhole in Mečenčani on March 10, 2021. It was six days after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit central Croatia on Dec. 29, 2020 that Nikola Borojević saw his garden destroyed. Rather than waking up to marvel at his potato seedlings, the resident of Mečenčani was met by a 98-foot-wide sinkhole with a 49-foot drop.

FBI Finds Trove Of Stolen Japanese Art In Massachusetts Attic

The FBI recovered and returned 22 pieces of Japanese art likely stolen during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.FBISome of the artifacts recovered from the Massachusetts home. A family in Massachusetts discovered a trove of stolen Japanese artifacts after cleaning the home of their recently deceased father. The Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that unknown perpetrators likely looted the 22 items during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, and now the organization is celebrating their return back home to Japan.

Grizzly Adams, The Man Who Trained Wild Bears In California

For most of his life, Grizzly Adams was a very different man from the rugged bear-loving forester he marketed himself as.John “Grizzly” Adams was a western mountain-man legend, a man who earned his name by training grizzly bears in the California wilderness. His legacy spawned a film and television series in the 1970s, titled The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, about an 1880s trapper who is falsely accused of murder and abandons society to live in the mountains with a bear he befriends.

Haunting Photos And Footage From The Tragedy

Relive the horror of the 1915 SS Eastland disaster that killed 844 people and wouldn't have happened at all if not for the Titanic.Wikimedia CommonsThe steamer SS Eastland being righted after capsizing in the Chicago River. Chicago’s SS Eastland disaster of 1915 killed 844 people and likely wouldn’t have happened if not for the sinking of the Titanic three years earlier, yet it’s largely been forgotten today. Perhaps it’s because the SS Eastland capsized in just 20 feet of water while the ship was still docked on the Chicago River.

How Francis Marion's Use Of Guerrilla Warfare Changed Military Tactics

Known as the “Swamp Fox,” Francis Marion spent the American Revolution showing the British just how uncomfortable he could make them by refusing to “fight fairly.”Wikimedia CommonsFrancis Marion, known as the “Swamp Fox.” There are a lot of myths surrounding the American Revolution. One of the most enduring ones is that the Americans won because they refused to fight the British the way they were expected to. While the British would line up in the field and dare the enemy to come meet them, the Americans would slither through the woods to take pot shots at their officers.