In 1698, Scottish colonists set sail to modern-day Panama with the goal of building a settlement there. But the plan turned out to be a total disaster.England spent the late 1600s building its empire — a famously powerful realm that would expand all over the world and last for centuries. But just to the north, Scotland was in ruins.
Decades of warfare and famine had ravaged the kingdom, and its economic situation was dismal. Read More...
Solomon Perel presented himself as Josef Perjell and even joined the Hitler Youth in order to avoid death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.Solomon Perel/U.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumSolomon Perel in 1943, during his time with the Hitler Youth.
At the age of 16, Solomon Perel faced an impossible choice. Captured by a group of Nazi soldiers who demanded to know if he was a Jew, Perel decided to obey his mother’s advice — “to live” — and not his father’s, to “always remain a Jew. Read More...
From missing hikers to mangled corpses to theories about the Yeti, the Dyatlov Pass Incident remains one of modern history's most baffling mysteries.In February 1959, nine Soviet hikers disappeared in the Ural Mountains, never to be seen alive again. Their bodies were discovered weeks later with baffling injuries, including missing eyes and tongues, leaving investigators horrified and baffled.
So what exactly happened during the so-called Dyatlov Pass Incident?
To date, no one knows for certain. Read More...
