Some 300 climbers have died on Everest, and two-thirds of their bodies are left out on the mountain.Wikimedia CommonsMount Everest has taken the lives of 300 climbers since the first attempt to reach the summit in 1921.
Mount Everest has seen quite a bit of foot traffic since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit in 1953. According to Fox News, 5,200 people have hiked to the top — and that means countless mountains of trash left behind, which volunteers are now trying to conquer.
An eccentric psychologist and researcher, Timothy Leary became an outspoken advocate of LSD in the 1960s — and introduced millions to psychedelic drugs.Timothy Leary was one of the most famous yet misunderstood figures of the counterculture era. His fervent admirers saw him as a brilliant philosopher and psychedelic guru. They believed that he was inspiring a revolution in the psychological and spiritual lives of countless Americans.
But his critics — especially the authorities — saw him as a threat to public order.
Using gravitational lensing, astronomers were able to closely observe the black hole at the center of the Abell 1201 cluster and determine its mind-boggling size. ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger/skysurvey.org, N. BartmannAn artist’s impression of a black hole, with the massive object’s gravitational pull warping the space around it.
Black holes are the densest objects in the universe, with gravitational pulls so strong that light cannot escape them. Then, there are supermassive black holes, which can be hundreds of thousands of times heavier than their smaller counterparts.
On September 2, 2010, 24-year-old Michelle O'Connell was found dead at Jeremy Banks’ home in St. Augustine, Florida. Authorities initially concluded it was a suicide, but O'Connell’s loved ones thought otherwise.FacebookMichelle O’Connell, who died in her boyfriend’s Florida home on September 2, 2010.
When 24-year-old Michelle O’Connell died on the floor of her boyfriend’s St. Augustine, Florida home from a gunshot wound to her mouth, it was her boyfriend, a police officer named Jeremy Banks, who reported the shooting.
For better or worse, many have posed the question following Trump's Election Day victory.Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump delivers his victory speech on Election Night.
The 2016 election has left the country exhausted, and the presidency is sure to exhaust 70-year-old Donald Trump even more. Born less than a year after World War II ended, Trump is now the oldest person ever elected president. This has caused many to wonder just what would happen if the president-elect dies between now and the inauguration date of January 20, 2017.