These heartbreaking Jacob Riis photographs from How the Other Half Lives and elsewhere changed America forever. A young girl, holding a baby, sits in a doorway next to a garbage can. Circa 1890.Jacob Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images An Italian immigrant man smokes a pipe in his makeshift home under the Rivington Street Dump. Circa 1890.Jacob Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Men stand in an alley known as " Read More...
From ancient Greek warriors to Japanese samurai, see some of the most exquisite pieces of body armor from centuries past. This Bronze Age armor was found near the city of Omsk in Siberia in 2014. It likely belonged to an "elite" warrior of the time period. Archaeologists suspect that the armor, buried between 3,500 and 3,900 years ago, was made of elk, deer, and horse bones.Siberian Times This helmet, found in 2007 in the Mediterranean Sea, likely belonged to a Greek soldier who fought in the Persian Wars in the 5th century B. Read More...
John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Shocking Plane Crash Getty ImagesJohn F. Kennedy Jr. salutes the casket of his father, the late President John F. Kennedy, on his third birthday.
From an early age, John F. Kennedy Jr. was all too familiar with the family deaths associated with the Kennedy curse. In one of the most infamous early images of him, three-year-old John, dressed in an old-fashioned smock, salutes his father’s coffin as he stands with his mother, sister, and uncle Robert in late 1963. Read More...
