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Shocking In 1967, Otis Redding finished recording the song "Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay" Tragically, 72 hours later he died in a plane crash at the age of 26. When the phone rang at the Stax/Volt studios in Memphis in late November of 1967, guitarist Steve Cropper was surprised to hear Otis Redding on the other end, calling from the airport.  "Usually Otis would check into the Holiday Inn or whatever hotel he was staying at and then he'd call for me to come over and do some writing," Cropper recalls. But this time Redding was too excited to wait. "I've got a hit," he told Cropper, so he wanted to come straight to the studio to flesh his idea out into a full-fledged song. Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song in Memphis with the help of Cropper, who was a Stax producer and the guitarist for B...

On February 2, 2018, 16-year-old Kevon Watkins faced connectivity issues while attempting to play Xbox games in his family's Georgia home. In an effort to improve the speed, he decided to change the Wi-Fi password to prevent others from logging on and potentially slowing down the service during his gaming sessions. Following this, a confrontation between Kevon and his mother unfolded, escalating to a point where his older sister, Alexus, stepped in to prevent Kevon from physically harming their mother.  Tragically, instead of de-escalating the situation, Kevon placed Alexus in a chokehold and refused to release her despite pleas from his younger brother and mother. By the time the police arrived, the situation had taken a devastating turn. Her brain had been starved from oxygen resulting in extreme damage.  Alexus was quickly rushed to hospital but unfortunately didn’t survive the injury. Kevon was tried a...

In 1944, a British corporal found himself in a rather unique situation when tasked with taking the surrender of an imposing 7 feet 6 inches (228 cm) tall German soldier.  Cpl Roberts, standing at 5 feet 6 inches, had the formidable responsibility of thoroughly searching the German lance corporal for any potential weapons before taking him into custody. What the photo doesn't capture is the camaraderie among Cpl Roberts' comrades and even the captured German soldiers, who shared a moment of amusement at the contrasting encounter between the "little and large" individuals.  Just moments before this picture was taken, Cpl Roberts faced a life-or-death situation when another German soldier pretended to surrender but, in a treacherous move, pulled out a pistol.  Fortunately, Cpl Roberts reacted swiftly, raising his own weapon just in the nick of time to thwart the threat and eliminate the enemy soldier.

The FBI conducted a sting operation in 1980, called ABSCAM, to expose corruption in the US Congress. They created a fake company. Abdul Enterprises, and posed as wealthy Arab businessmen who wanted to invest in the US. They offered bribes to several congressmen and senators in exchange for political favors, such as immigration visas, casino licenses, and tax breaks. Out of the 31 officials who were approached, seven accepted the bribes and were later convicted of various charges.  Including bribery, conspiracy, and racketeering. Image: U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents The following members of Congress were convicted of bribery and conspiracy in 1981.  Five other government officials were convicted

After WW1, some soldiers who survived found it hard to return to their families due to the extent of the facial deformation they had suffered.  Mirrors were banned in some hospital wards as some veterans took their own lives when they saw themselves in the mirror.. Anna Coleman Ladd was an American sculptor who used her artistic skills to help soldiers who were disfigured in World War I.  She founded the Studio for Portrait-Masks in Paris, where she and her team created realistic facial prosthetics for the wounded men.  She took casts of their faces and made masks of thin copper that matched their skin tone and hair.  She painted the masks while the soldiers wore them and attached them with spectacles. She produced hundreds of masks that restored the dignity and identity of the soldiers.

This Was Pavel Kashin’s Final Jump – And It Killed Him.The moment before Pavel Kashin plummeted to his death. Pavel Kashin was attempting to do a backflip on a 16-story building when he lost his footing. The moment before Pavel Kashin plummeted to his death. When a parkour daredevil loses his balance on top of a tall building and has a brush with death, it’s a terrifying moment. When it happened to Pavel Kashin, it was fatal. Pavel Kashin was a Russian parkour artist from St. Petersburg. In 2013, he was performing a stunt on the rooftop of a 16-floor building as a friend was filming him. Hence the photograph of Kashin captured just seconds before his fall and death. ‘Parkour’ derives from the French word  parcours , which means ‘route.’ Developed from military obstacle training, it’s a system for going from point A to point B by rolling, jumping, leaping; Essentially getting around various obstacles likes walls and stairwells in the quickest time possi...

World War II: The Holocaust From very early in the war, part of Nazi policy was to murder civilians en masse, especially targeting Jews. Later in the war, this policy grew into Hitler's "final solution", the complete extermination of the Jews. It began with Einsatzgruppen death squads in the East, which killed some 1,000,000 people in numerous massacres, and continued in concentration camps where prisoners were actively denied proper food and health care. It culminated in the construction of extermination camps -- government facilities whose entire purpose was the systematic murder and disposal of massive numbers of people. In 1945, as advancing Allied troops began discovering these camps, they found the results of these policies: hundreds of thousands of starving and sick prisoners locked in with thousands of dead bodies. Warning : All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content. There are many dead bodies. The photographs are graphic a...