Each summer, people in Spain take part in this centuries-old festival that some say dates back to medieval times. A woman is carried in a coffin by her relatives during the procession of the shrouds in the little village of Santa Marta de Ribarteme.MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images People who have escaped death lie in caskets and are carried in procession by relatives to thank Saint Martha for being kept alive. MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images Starting after a mass at the village's parish church, believers grateful for the miracle of being saved from death go on a pilgrimage in a procession of coffins. Read More...
Before Ringo Starr, the Beatles toured with drummer Pete Best, but differences led to his ousting just before the band reached worldwide success.Before Ringo Starr joined the Beatles as their drummer, there was Pete Best, who played for the band for two years before he was kicked out in 1962. The following year, the Beatles became a phenomenon and sold 12 million records in Britain alone.
Best never spoke to any of the Fab Four again, but why did the others force Pete Best out of the band in the first place? Read More...
Transylvanosaurus only grew to be about six-and-a-half feet long and lived alongside prehistoric crocodiles and turtles.Peter NickolausAn illustration depicting Transylvanosaurus platycephalus.
Transylvania is most famously known as the land of Dracula. But according to a group of researchers who recently identified some dinosaur bones found there, a “dwarf dinosaur” species once roamed prehistoric Transylvania, making its claim on the land long before the vampiric count did.
Dubbed Transylvanosaurus platycephalus in a study published with the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the newly discovered species was a member of the herbivorous Rhabdodontidae family that lived around 70 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous Period. Read More...
