Fending off both the U.S. and Mexican armies on the American frontier, Geronimo led the Bedonkohe band of the Apache Native Americans before being captured and turned into a sideshow.Library of CongressTo this day, the Apache military leader and medicine man Geronimo remains historic for his fearless stand against U.S. and Mexican forces in the 19th-century American West. “Although I am old, I like to work and help my people as much as I am able.

Human feces from New York and New Jersey have been stranded in a tiny town in Alabama.CNN Parrish, Ala. measures two square miles. And in this Alabaman town, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of human feces have been stranded for nearly two months. In a town that small, everything is within smelling distance. Basically, everything reeks. “You can’t sit out on your porch,” said Parrish’s mayor Heather Hall.

On Monday, Japanese artists made major gains in freedom of expression when an artist who prominently features vaginas in her work was found not guilty of obscenity (though she still had to pay a fine). Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi (tan coat) and her lawyers pose with a sign reading “a part is not guilty” in front of the Tokyo District Court on May 9, 2016. Photo: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images 42-year-old artist Megumi Igarashi’s case successfully challenged how Japanese law limits artistic freedom — and highlights the gendered lens through which Japanese officials often evaluate art considered to be “decent” for public consumption.

Poster for Occupy Wall Street. Source: Occupy Wall Street We’re coming up on the third anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge March that catapulted the Occupy movement into international recognition. At first, OWS was the brainchild of a Canadian anti-advertising, anti-consumerist magazine called AdBusters. Many catalysts were at play: just months prior, WikiLeaks released numerous sensitive documents and video footage regarding American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kelly Thomas had just been murdered by police in California.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks as one of the greatest chemists of all time, but he paid a terrible price for this distinction.Wikimedia CommonsCarl Wilhelm Scheele Born in 1742 in present-day Germany, Carl Wilhelm Scheele learned about chemicals and pharmaceuticals from his parents starting at a young age. When he was 14, he was sent away to Gothenburg to become the apprentice of a family friend who was a pharmacist there. There, he spent eight years studying chemistry and conducting experiments late into the night.