For Lee Israel, forgery started out as a way to help her sick cat, but it quickly snowballed into years of literary crimes.Andrew Henderson/The New York TimesLee Israel in 2008. The story of a down-on-her-luck author who turned to a life of crime to survive sounds like a plot fit only for the movies. And while it is the subject of an upcoming film, there is a real-life figure who inspired the story: author Lee Israel.

Pablo Escobar was vicious, but Don Berna was strategic and calculating — maybe that's why he survived and Escobar didn't. TwitterDiego Murillo Bejarano, alias “Don Berna,” took over the Medellín Cartel until his arrest. The official version of Pablo Escobar’s death states that Search Bloc, a Colombian special operations unit, shot him as he tried to escape across a rooftop on Dec. 2, 1993. But according to Diego Murillo Bejarano, the former Medellín Cartel enforcer alias “Don Berna,” it was none other than his own brother who shot Escobar in the head.

It's only the second time the castle has been for sale in the last 500 years. TripAdvisor Sotheby’s International Realty TripAdvisor TripAdvisor TripAdvisor TripAdvisor TripAdvisor Sotheby’s International Realty TripAdvisor A lovely dining room.Chateau de la Barben And for when you get bored of eating in dining room one....Sotheby’s International Realty And if both of those other eating rooms just aren't working for you.

The Mongolian Death Worm: The Most Terrifying Cryptid Of Mongolia Wikimedia CommonsThe Mongolian death worm is said to have multiple horrifying ways of attacking both humans and animals. In the Gobi Desert, there are stories told of a massive worm with venom strong enough to corrode metal and the ability to deliver electric shocks powerful enough to kill a man. This creature is the Mongolian death worm. The legend of the monstrous Mongolian death worm has been passed down for generations by Mongolia’s nomadic tribes and later by adventurous visitors who sought to track down the worm themselves.

A man sells suspenders on the sidewalk. Street peddlers provided cheap goods to the most densely populated, lowest income neighborhoods. They faced little resistance from the city, as it had not yet established guidelines for commercial ventures on the streets and sidewalks. Around the 1890s, the city began licensing street vendors as businesses.NYPL/Alice Austen Boot blacks waiting for customers at their streetside stall. Young, impoverished boys shined the shoes of wealthy Manhattanites as a way to earn a living, along with all the other peddlers and vendors crowding the sidewalks.