Neil McCauley was a career criminal who'd spent half his life in prison before organizing a series of heists in Chicago in the 1960s that led to his death in a street shootout with police.Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary Prisoner IndexNeil McCauley spent 25 years in state and federal penitentiaries, including eight years at Alcatraz. On March 25, 1964, the Chicago police were in position outside a corner store on the city’s Southwest Side, ready to take down Neil McCauley, a career criminal who had been released from federal prison just two years earlier.

Otis Historical Archives/Flickr More than 50 years have passed since Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted several highly controversial experiments to determine just how far people would go in the name of following orders. Now, a new study has built on Milgram’s experiments and come to a terrifying conclusion: 90 percent of participants would electrocute an innocent person simply because they were told to do so. The Milgram studies found a large proportion of participants willing to obey such instructions way back then, and the same apparently holds true after all these years.

While the world was in lockdown, researchers continued working tirelessly to restore the walls of a 2,000-year-old temple. University of TübingenThe ancient vestibule of Esna Temple on the west bank of the Nile River is located about 35 miles south of Luxor. Rediscovered some 200 years ago, the ancient Egyptian temple of Esna has held 2,000-year-old secrets in its walls that are just now seeing the light of day. Thanks to an ambitious restoration project launched in 2018, hundreds of hidden inscriptions, paintings, and illustrated constellations have been found.

The legal battle began in 2010, when Picasso's former handyman claimed the artist gave him the works as a gift.Valery Hache/AFP via Getty ImagesPierre Le Guennec (right) and his wife, Danielle, were first found guilty of possessing the stolen art in 2015. A nearly decade-long saga has finally come to an end. This week, a French court ruled to uphold the conviction of Pablo Picasso’s former electrician, who hoarded 271 of Picasso’s works in his garage for 40 years.

In the 1930s, Stalin's forces slaughtered between 3 and 5 percent of the Mongolian population. Look back at the days, both gruesome and exuberant, before.Buddhist monks in the Mongolia capital as it was over 100 years ago. Nearly one hundred years ago, the Bolsheviks in Russia revolted. Mongolia, the cold, massive country lodged between Russia and China, had its own Communist revolution in 1921. Though Mongolia remained outside the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin brought Mongolia heavily under Soviet influence with violent incursions into Mongolian life and politics.