For thousands of years, accused criminals were subjected to being pressed or crushed to death, most famously during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.Library of CongressIllustration of Giles Corey being pressed to death.
If you were sentenced to death by crushing, or getting pressed to death, you were in for an excruciating end. While strapped down, you would have intense weight placed upon you, bit by bit, until the weight literally crushed you to death. Read More...
It's falsely believed that Jayne Mansfield died when she was beheaded in a fatal June 1967 car accident, but the truth is even grislier — and much sadder.Like her rival, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield died tragically young, leaving a rush of rumors about her untimely demise in her wake. On June 29, 1967, around 2 a.m., a car carrying Jane Mansfield and three of her children, including actress Mariska Hargitay, slammed into the back of a semi-truck on a dark Louisiana highway. Read More...
On July 2, 1863, Joshua Chamberlain's heroics at the Battle of Gettysburg helped the Union Army emerge victorious.Library of CongressJoshua Chamberlain had a distinguished career as a professor, a soldier, and a politician.
By the time the Civil War broke out in 1861, Joshua Chamberlain had settled into a comfortable life as a professor of languages and rhetoric at Bowdoin College in Maine. Though school administrators would have protected him from the conflict, Chamberlain was determined to do his part and set out to enlist with the Union Army. Read More...
