Source: The Pond Blog Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden first opened its doors to the public in 1980 after being used as a plantation for growing local fruits. Over the past few decades, the tropical garden has quickly become one of the world’s most beautiful gardens, for both its stunning landscape and vast variety of flower and plant species. Aside from flowers, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden also offers various entertainment such as Thai cultural shows and elephant shows.

The 2014 competition was held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Contestants are visiting Borobudur, an old Buddhist temple. Source: Monique Jaques Before you ask if there’s a swimsuit competition, you should know that the Miss World Muslimah pageant is about much more than superficial definitions of beauty. As Islam tends to place a high value on modesty, this contest focuses less on beauty’s physical aspects and more on its ideational ones: in this pageant, strength of character, intelligence, and piety matter most.

Presented as a means for assessing whether voters were educated enough to vote, literacy tests and other methods were designed for a single purpose: to stop Black Americans from voting.Getty ImagesAfrican Americans, led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., line up in front of the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama to register to vote. With the South’s defeat at the end of the American Civil War, Black men were given the right to vote for the first time in the nation’s history in 1870, and the addition of their voices in the electoral process was set to change the course of American history.

Connie Converse wrote and performed trailblazing music in the 1950s, but one day in 1974, she drove off looking for a fresh start — and was never seen again.Connie Converse never released a commercial album, yet nearly 50 years after she vanished from the face of the Earth, her music has gained more recognition and acclaim than ever before. She was ahead of her time, a singer-songwriter whose music sounds surprisingly contemporary considering when it was made.

Dagmar Overbye pretended to be a child caretaker. But all she did was kill the children left in her care. YouTubeDagmar Overbye murdered as many as 25 children. Dagmar Overbye was a Danish woman born on April 23, 1887. Based on the crimes she committed, it’s hard to place her in any other category besides pure evil. Overbye lived in Denmark and worked as a child caretaker. In 1912, she gave birth to a daughter of her own and in 1915, she moved from the small village of Assendrup to Copenhagen.