Whether involving rats, spikes, or boiling oil, the worst execution methods ever invented prove that humans have mastered the art of torture and death.If the last few thousand years of human history have shown us to be good at one thing, it’s the art of inflicting painful, humiliating death on one another.
Whether using ravenous animals, scorching temperatures, or endless variations of sharp, pointed implements, the ingenuity that has gone into the act of death by torture is genuinely shocking. Read More...
Famed composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just 35 years old when he died in 1791, and the exact cause of his death has never been determined.Public DomainWolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in 1791, and the full story of his death remains mysterious today.
As a strange illness settled upon him in 1791, the famed composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a startling declaration. “I am sure that I have been poisoned,” he fretted. Read More...
At its peak, the Aral Sea's fishing industry employed 40,000 people. Those jobs vanished when the sea itself did.NASA The current state of the Aral Sea as seen from space. The black border shows the largest extent of the lake in 1960.
The Aral Sea was literally a desert oasis. It was a huge natural lake along the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan just east of the larger (and much more well-known) Caspian Sea. Read More...
