Nancy Reagan may have had more influence than she let on. It's suspected that Nancy Reagan played a large part in encouraging her husband to set up talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev -- meetings that would eventually lead to the end of the Cold War. "I do believe she was far more powerful than anyone ever knew," former CBS News White House correspondent Lesley Stahl said. She also influenced the White House schedule. Read More...
Beginning in the late 16th century, physicians assisting mothers with difficult childbirths would slice open a joint in their pelvis to widen it and allow the infant to pass through the birth canal — and the symphysiotomy remained in use in Ireland until the 1980s.Wikimedia CommonsAn early osteotome, which doctors used to perform a symphysiotomy.
Before it became the horror movie murder weapon of choice, the chainsaw was actually intended to be used in medicine. Read More...
Santo Trafficante Jr., The Florida Mobster Who Made A Startling Deathbed Confession Dennis Caruso/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesSanto Trafficante Jr. and mob lawyer Frank Ragano.
Carlos Marcello isn’t the only mobster who’s been accused of playing a role in the JFK assassination, however. Florida mobster Santo Trafficante Jr. also supposedly had a hand in Kennedy’s death. As Frank Ragano, a lawyer for both Trafficante and Jimmy Hoffa, later claimed, Marcello was the “central planner” and Trafficante and Hoffa provided “the shooters. Read More...
