Known as "The Godfather" of the New Orleans Mafia, Carlos Marcello was a prime target of President Kennedy's campaign against organized crime.Bettmann/Getty ImagesCarlos Marcello (center) was known as Louisiana’s “most sinister racketeer boss” and single-handedly ran the New Orleans crime family from the 1940s through the 1980s.
In the history of New Orleans, few mobsters are as mythologized as Carlos Marcello. Beginning in 1947, he ruled the New Orleans Mafia as “The Little Man” out of a small office at the Town and Country Motel in nearby Metairie along Airline Highway, where he became a powerful political dealmaker, multi-millionaire real estate developer, and cultural icon of Louisiana. Read More...
"It looks like two rear-ends on a fish, really," one expedition member said.John Pogonoski, CSIRO Australian National Fish CollectionThis new faceless fish is chubbier and healthier than the one found more than a century ago, experts say.
Deep down in the waters off the coast of Australia, the water is a chilly 34 degrees and no light cuts through the highly pressurized surroundings.
It’s a world that we know relatively little about — a world where, apparently, faces aren’t really necessary. Read More...
The FBI recovered and returned 22 pieces of Japanese art likely stolen during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.FBISome of the artifacts recovered from the Massachusetts home.
A family in Massachusetts discovered a trove of stolen Japanese artifacts after cleaning the home of their recently deceased father. The Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that unknown perpetrators likely looted the 22 items during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, and now the organization is celebrating their return back home to Japan. Read More...
