Napoleon Bonaparte Facts: He Was Irritatingly Tone Deaf A lot of people have trouble carrying a tune, but when you’re the absolute ruler of France, you can inflict your off-key singing on everybody else and no one has the nerve to tell you to stop it. According to multiple sources, Napoleon had the perfect storm of bad habits: Tone-deafness and compulsive singing. Whenever he got fidgety or nervous, out would come the repetitive humming and mumbling. Read More...
From the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863 to the Crown Heights Riots of 1991, these riots in New York left indelible marks on the city's history.Library of Congress; Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images; John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesScenes from some of the worst riots in New York City history, including (from left) the 1863 Draft Riots, the 1943 Harlem Riot, and the 1991 Crown Heights Riot.
New York City has a long history of riots. Read More...
Though the fossils suggest that animal life started 300 million years earlier than previously thought, not everyone is convinced. Elizabeth Turner/Laurentian UniversityA close-up of the fossil’s texture.
In the 1990s, geologist Elizabeth Turner flew to Canada’s isolated Mackenzie Mountains to take samples for her Ph.D. One of the samples struck her as odd, but she put it aside for later. Now, Turner believes that that sample might be evidence that animal life began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought. Read More...
