Spiders could eat every single adult human on Earth and still have room for children-sized dessert.Ian Waldie/Getty ImagesA Redback Spider at the Australian Reptile Park in Sydney, Australia. The Redback, probably Australia’s best-known deadly spider is found all over Australia and is a close relative of the Black Widow Spider from the United States.
Researchers have recently deduced the answer to a question nobody wanted answered: How much food do spiders consume in a year? Read More...
The first African American fashion designer to open a store on Madison Avenue, Ann Lowe was known as "society's best-kept secret" in New York.Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesAnn Lowe at work in 1962.
On Sept. 12, 1953, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier floated down the aisle in a cloud of ivory-colored taffeta and tiny wax flowers toward her husband-to-be, John F. Kennedy. Her stunning wedding gown drew worldwide approval. But the woman behind the dress, a Black fashion designer named Ann Lowe, lingered uncredited in the shadows. Read More...
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love started as a pseudo-religious commune of psychedelic-loving hippies. It soon turned into a collective of California’s most wanted drug traffickers.Dr. Dennis Bogdan/Wikimedia CommonsTimothy Leary, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s most famous member, on a lecture tour. State University of New York at Buffalo. 1969.
In 1966, John Griggs was a member of an Anaheim, California gang known as the Street Sweepers when he robbed a Hollywood producer at gunpoint, taking his LSD stash. Read More...
