China has recently done away with its one-child policy. Here's what that policy was and what the change means for China's future.A Chinese baby in Xian. Image Source: Flickr/Carol Schaffer
China’s 35-year one-child policy is about to come to a close, the state run Xinhua-news agency reported this week. The 1980-enacted policy, which the government claims prevented approximately 400 million births, has met its end as the Chinese state hopes to “improve the balanced development of population” and deal with an aging population, according to a statement released by the Communist Party’s Central Committee. Read More...
The skeleton was discovered in Pień, Poland with a sickle across her throat and a padlock on her toe.Miroslav Blicharski/AlexsanderDuring a time known as the “18th-Century Vampire Controversy,” superstition surrounding vampires peaked in Eastern Europe, leading to countless deaths and odd burials.
Archaeologists working at a site near Pień, Poland recently unearthed a fascinating relic of 18th-century Eastern Europe’s vampire craze. In a small graveyard, they found a woman’s body that had been buried with a sickle placed across her neck and a padlock on the toe of her left foot. Read More...
On Halloween night in 1969, police in St. Petersburg opened a large case that had been dumped behind a restaurant and found the body of "Trunk Lady," now known to be an Arizona mother of five named Sylvia June Atherton.St. Petersburg Police DepartmentOn October 31, 1969, teenagers reported seeing two men get out of a pickup truck and dump this large trunk in the woods behind a restaurant.
On Halloween in 1969, two police officers in St. Read More...
