On October 7, 2006, Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her Moscow apartment building after having spent years criticizing Vladimir Putin and the Second Chechen War.Novaya Gazeta/Epsilon/Getty ImagesRussian journalist Anna Politkovskaya dedicated her career to exposing the plight of Chechen civilians and others affected by the Second Chechen War, only to be mysteriously murdered for speaking out.
On the night of Oct. 7, 2006, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot at point blank range in the lobby of her apartment building. Read More...
Inside The Legend Of The Mysterious Taured Man — And Why Some Believe He Came From A Parallel Universe Austin Harvey 10 months ago In 1954, a man allegedly arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo with a passport from Taured — a country that doesn't exist. Was he a traveler from another dimension, or just a small-time fraudster trying to sneak into the country? ncG1vNJzZmiZnKHBqa3TrKCnrJWnsrTAyKeeZ5ufonyiwdOhpqtnkarAtbXNZp%2BaqqaaxnC8wKCcaGpk
Workers at the church found clay pots containing bone fragments with the names of three popes and four early Christian martyrs inscribed on their lids.Codice/Rai Uno
Bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter.
Workers at the Church of Santa Maria must have been shocked when they lifted a large marble slab only to find a cache of previously undiscovered bones underneath.
The Telegraph reports that earlier this week, workers were carrying out a routine restoration on the 1,000-year-old Church of Santa Maria in Cappella in the district of Trastevere, a medieval town on the banks of the Tiber River, when they discovered a number of clay pots with Latin inscriptions and bone fragments within. Read More...
