"He was looking for a rich, tough-minded female... someone who could stand up to the trauma of being buried alive."In the winter of 1968, kidnappers seized college student Barbara Mackle very early in the morning, sealed her in a box underground, and demanded a ransom for her return. Mackle would then wait in silence for over three days until she was rescued.
Bettmann/Getty ImagesBarbara Mackle’s ransom note picture.
As miraculous as Mackle’s survival was, equally unbelievable was the destiny of her kidnapper.
While these skin growths are usually found on older patients, and on body parts that regularly receive sunlight, this 50-year-old had a gigantic growth that turned out to be cancerous.BMJ Case ReportsThis cancerous growth had been swelling out of a 50-year-old man’s back for three years before he sought help.
Believe it or not, the photo above indeed shows a skin growth on a man’s back. According to LiveScience, this brownish-yellow horn of hardened skin began as a rough lesion on the body of a 50-year-old British man.
Spreading across 300 by 315 meters with a total volume of 4.45 million cubic meters, the Cholula Pyramid in Puebla, Mexico was widely mistaken for a hill for centuries.AlamyThe Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico.
Though the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt may claim the title of the tallest pyramid in the world, it is not, in fact, the largest pyramid in the world. That honor goes to the Great Pyramid of Cholula, located in Mexico.
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Lavern Cummings is perhaps one of the most convincing and famous drag queens of the 20th century because of his remarkable beauty and signature soprano voice. He was also one of the only female impersonators to banish the wig and display his own long locks. He spent most of the 1950s performing with the Jewel Box Revue, a traveling troupe of female impersonators that formed in the 1930s.
On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills discovered burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel, setting off a sequence of events that led to President Nixon's resignation.TwitterFrank Wills played a small — but crucial — role in the Watergate scandal.
Frank Wills’ job at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. was fairly dull and didn’t pay that well. But in June 1972, that job suddenly thrust him into the spotlight of history and transformed him from a 24-year-old security guard to a main player in the Watergate scandal.