Reinhard Heydrich had many nicknames: "the Blond Beast," "the Hangman," and "the Butcher of Prague" — but none of them quite captured just how ruthless he was.As chief of the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich was the man who orchestrated some of the Nazi’s worst atrocities. He was the commanding voice behind Kristallnacht, the German pogrom against Jews in 1938 that foretold the Holocaust.
Heydrich unleashed the death squads known as Einsatzgruppen that marched across Europe to murder every Jewish man, woman, and child they could get their hands on. Read More...
At 3'7'', Eddie Gaedel's baseball career was about as short as he was. Bettmann / ContributorEddie Gaedel, a 3-foot-7 inch person, takes his famous at-bat on August 19, 1951 for Bill Veeck’s St. Louis Browns.
For a guy less than four feet tall, Eddie Gaedel made quite the splash when he made his Major League debut.
Though he only went to bat once in his life and his story doesn’t have a happy ending — his one day in a St. Read More...
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The World’s Weirdest Houses: Subterra Castle Located near Topeka, Kansas, Subterra Castle took Ed Peden and his wife nearly a quarter of a century to make inhabitable after they reclaimed the property from abandonment. Once belonging to the United States government, the edifice had, at one point, been home to a 4 megaton nuclear ballistic missile.
Oddly enough, Peden believes that by transforming the erstwhile Cold War relic into a home he has effectively created a place that allows the mind, body, and spirit to flourish. Read More...
