An unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five women in London in 1888, Jack the Ripper's identity remains one of history's most infamous unsolved mysteries.Public DomainJack the Ripper was one of the first serial killers to become a notorious media sensation. Jack the Ripper was one of history’s most infamous killers. Stalking the streets of London’s Whitechapel district during the 1888 “Autumn of Terror,” the Ripper has remained a point of fascination for over a century.

Make Them Child Brides Source: Wikimedia Commons Marrying young seems practical: Young girls are at their peak ability to produce heirs. But marrying a child is also a disgusting violation. Unfortunately, laws governing the age of consent weren’t exactly focused on the health and safety of children for much of history. Marriage wasn’t about love, it was a social duty that formed political alliances and continued lineages — and they were commonly conducted around the time girls hit puberty, usually between the ages of 10 and 12.

Schindler’s List Universal PicturesRalph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List. While Schindler’s List did a remarkable job of portraying the Holocaust to a modern audience, it is difficult for any film to portray the true, tragic fate of those who did not make Schindler’s list. Wikimedia CommonsA mugshot of Amon Goth, the Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów, 1945. If the tragic movie were to further explore the true horror of Amon Goth’s reign in Plaszow’s forced labor camp, Schindler’s List would have been little more than a succession of scarcely believable and horrific tortures.

Source: UNESCO How many female scientists can you name that aren’t Marie Curie? Even today, the stigma about women in science persists, but each of the women in this list have directly contributed to the lexicon of modern life. Unknown Women Scientists: Ada King, Countess of Lovelace Source: The Huffington Post The only legitimate child of the infamously promiscuous Lord Byron, Ada King was raised by her mother, Anne, after her father abandoned them when Ada was only a month old.

From the very first color photo taken in 1861 to the streets of Paris during World War I, these incredible early color photographs offer a window into the past. Early color photo of Agen, France, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877. The cathedral in the scene is the Cathédrale Saint-Caprais d'Agen.Wikimedia Commons A dining room in Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle, circa 1886. Library of Congress/Flickr The cloister at the Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in Normandy, France.