How did Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson tweet about Osama bin Laden's death before the news media had even broken the story? Just got word that will shock the world – Land of the free…home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) May 2, 2011 On May 1, 2011, at approximately 2 PM eastern time, U.S. military forces stormed the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

The Department of Conservation has estimated that around 200 dead little blue penguins are washing ashore every single day as a result of rising ocean temperatures.The little blue penguin, also known as the kororā in the Māori language, is a tiny creature that can be found in New Zealand and on the southern coast of Australia — but global warming and rising ocean temperatures have led the species to be at risk of extinction.

Legend says that the anguished spirit of William Baynard haunts the graveyard surrounding his South Carolina mausoleum to this very day.The oldest intact structure on Hilton Head Island off the coast of South Carolina, the Baynard Mausoleum once held both the remains and the most prized possessions of one of the area’s wealthiest families — but it sits eerily empty today. This legendary mausoleum was built by plantation owner William Baynard in 1846, which turned out to be just three years before he suffered an untimely demise at the age of 49.

At the height of the Holocaust, 23 Jews arrived at Julian Bilecki's home seeking shelter. He didn't have the room, so he made it.Wikimedia Commons Genia Melzer was 17 years old when she found herself lying atop a pile of corpses, thanking God she was still alive. Melzer, like many other Jews living in the village of Zawalow in eastern Poland, was a primary target of Nazi extermination squads. Between 1942 and 1943, Nazis rounded up approximately 3,000 Jews in the area and brought them to Zawalow.

In three decades on the American frontier, Bass Reeves rounded up thousands of outlaws and secured his place in U.S. history.In the second half of the 19th century in a lawless stretch of land in present-day Oklahoma known as Indian Territory, the name “Bass Reeves” struck terror into the heart of any criminal who was on the run. A deputy U.S. marshal with a quick trigger and a reputation for both doggedness and creativity in chasing down outlaws, Reeves was perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West.