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Despite the great detail behind the legend, no actual evidence confirms Ubasute’s existence — at least not as a common, or even uncommon, cultural practice or tradition. In 2015, however, a 63-year-old Japanese man named Katsuo Kurakawa admitted to doing exactly what the legend depicts. After a 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated his home in Sanmu, his 60-year-old sister Sachiko became disabled, struggling to walk on her own. Read More...
Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school. She was one of the nine African-American students whose integration into Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School was ordered by a federal court following legal action by the NAACP. September 6, 1957.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images Two terrified African-American girls flee police officers during a race riot in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, itself sparked by rioting over police brutality in nearby Harlem, on July 21, 1964. Read More...
One of the most disturbing creatures of Greek mythology, the Minotaur stalked the Labyrinth and feasted on human flesh — until he was killed by Theseus.Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia CommonsA depiction of the Minotaur, created circa 515 B.C.E.
Greek mythology describes the Minotaur as a horrific monster who devours the flesh of youths and maidens. Although the creature has the body of a human, he sports the head and tail of a bull. Read More...
