Konerak Sinthasomphone was just 14 years old when he managed to escape from Dahmer's lair in 1991 — but unwitting police officers handed him right back over to Dahmer, sending him to his brutal death.YouTubeKonerak Sinthasomphone, the youngest victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
In 1979, a toddler named Konerak Sinthasomphone fled Laos with his family in search of a better life in America. The family settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — eight children living with their parents under one roof in the city’s Laotian community.
Just months after leading the independence of India from the British in 1947, Gandhi was shot three times at point-blank range by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse.Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty ImagesOne of the last photos taken before Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948, shocked the world. Just the year before, the nonviolent activist achieved his life’s goal when the British withdrew from India and the country celebrated their first ever Independence Day.
The barreleye might look like a submarine, but its transparent head is necessary to navigate the 2,500-feet-deep waters in which it lives.At first glance, the barreleye fish might look more like an alien creature than anything earthly. But the elusive barreleye is very much a real creature and it lives deep in our oceans. The barreleye gets its name from the pair of tubular eyes embedded in its transparent head. It looks something like a deep ocean submarine with a large glass window.
The lower half of this Ramses II statue was discovered by German archaeologists in 1930.Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesThe missing upper portion of a statue dedicated to Ramses II.
Nearly a century ago, the bottom half of a limestone statue of King Ramses II was unearthed in Egypt. Now, archaeologists have unearthed the missing upper half in Egypt’s Minya Governorate, finally restoring this ancient statue to its former glory.
During Prohibition, Hell Hole Swamp was one of the biggest suppliers of illegal booze to Chicago.Wikimedia CommonsThe abandoned barrel likely belonged to one of Al Capone’s criminal associates.
Deep in “Bloody” Berkeley County, South Carolina, in a section of the Francis Marion National Forest called “Hell Hole Swamp,” archaeologists have unearthed a moonshine still linked to Al Capone. Researchers from the University of Tennessee made the discovery, which included artifacts like a metal barrel, cinder blocks, a green garden hose, and some pieces of old metal.