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Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

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Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

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Pro and Con: School Uniforms

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Key People

Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes

American entrepreneur

Bernie Madoff

Bernie Madoff

American hedge-fund investor

Charles H. Keating

American businessman

Raj Rajaratnam

Raj Rajaratnam

American investor

Michele Sindona

Italian financier

William Magear Tweed

Boss Tweed

American politician

Robert L. Vesco

American financier

Paul Kammerer

Austrian biologist

François Bigot

French government official

Otto von Pack

German politician

John E.W. Keely

American inventor