From the shanty town in Central Park to the crime-plagued slums of Lower Manhattan, these vivid images allow you to inhabit the streets of New York as they were a century ago. A bootblack stands near City Hall Park. July 1924.Lewis Hine/Library of Congress; Ryan Stennes Shanty town dwellings sit in Central Park at the height of the Great Depression. 1933.Bettmann/Getty Images; Ryan Stennes A beggar, perhaps disfigured during World War I, sits on the street. Read More...
Famous Acquittals: Robert H. Richards IV USA TODAY
Despite the fact that he wasn’t technically acquitted, there may be no famous acquittals as infuriating as the one involving Robert H. Richards IV.
In 2009, Richards — not a celebrity but the exceedingly wealthy heir to the massive du Pont family fortune — was convicted of repeatedly raping his own daughter when she was a toddler.
Despite her father’s warning not to tell anyone about the abuse, she confessed to her grandmother when she was five; she was taken to her pediatrician, where she detailed the assaults. Read More...
From clinical werewolf delusions to the belief that you are literally dead, these rare mental disorders are as uncommon as they are tragic.Imagine looking down at your own legs and thinking that they simply shouldn’t be there. Imagine believing that so strongly that you’d actually amputate your own legs in order to set things “right.”
Sufferers of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) experience that very feeling — and some of them even go through with the amputation. Read More...
