With his partner Willy Falcon, Sal Magluta made a name for himself as a drug lord and powerboat racer — until it all came crashing down. In the early 1980s, Miami was a violent, chaotic place. The South Florida city had the highest murder rate in the nation and was plagued by a drug war between various cartels and authorities. This era led to the emergence of several drug lords known as “cocaine cowboys,” including Sal Magluta. Read More...
The freezing environment preserved some of the penguins so well that they still had feathers attached to them.Steven EmslieMany of the 5,000-year-old penguins in this “graveyard” were remarkably well preserved.
Rapidly melting polar ice caps have revealed that thousands of years ago, there was a thriving penguin community in the Antarctic that has since been reduced to a “graveyard” of frozen mummies.
According to Live Science, an Adélie penguin colony was discovered frozen in the ice at Cape Irizar, which is located south of the Drygalski Ice Tongue on the Scott Coast of Antartica in 2016. Read More...
"Little Boy" weighed as much as a car and exploded with the force of 15,000 tons of TNT over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 80,000 people almost instantly.When Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, the only Axis power the Allies had left to defeat was the Japanese. America decided to accomplish that goal by way of two atomic bombs, both of which killed tens of thousands of Japanese citizens in an instant. Read More...
