Sanchez found herself trapped under the wreckage of her house, enduring three days submerged in water. Unfortunately, rescue workers lacked the means to provide life-saving medical aid by amputating her trapped legs.
Before the wedding, the Reverend checked the license; all seemed fine. It permitted him to marry Eunice (18) and Charlie (22). But later, it was revealed that the couple had lied on their application.
Picketing, a form of protest, involves the gathering of individuals outside a workplace or event venue. The purpose is often to discourage others from entering ("crossing the picket line") or to raise public awareness for a particular cause or issue.
Raymond Theodore Robinson (1910-1985), an American man with severe disfigurement, gained legendary status in western Pennsylvania due to his nightly strolls.
At just 14, George Stinney Jr., an African American boy, faced an unjust fate. He was wrongly convicted and executed for the murders of two young white girls in 1944, later proven to be an unfair trial.
Whether it’s a desire to be even more beautiful or wanting to become more successful, the 69 year old Mexican vedette had a ton of plastic surgery done.
Monnier was from a wealthy and respected family from Poitiers. At the age of 25 she fell deeply in love with a "penniless lawyer". This upset her mother, Louise Monnier, who wanted Blanche to marry a man of wealth and notoriety.
In the late 19th Century, a railway signalman called James Edwin ‘Jumper’ Wide worked for the South African railways as a guard in a town called Uitenhage. He got his nickname from his dangerous habit of jumping or swinging from one railcar to another.
Did this really happen? A Brazilian security source told the news agency that the documents - which were issued by the Brazilian embassy in the Czech capital, Prague in 1996 - appeared to be genuine.
The doctor had such a fascination and interest in tattoos that he even paid for some people to get full bodysuits, or to finish existing work on the condition that he could harvest their skin when they died.
No, he was not a president; in fact currently, there are only two people who were not presidents in the front of US bills. One is Benjamin Franklin and the other is Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.
It is the photo that should be remembered as the day one of the greatest legends of sports said his farewell to the game nicknamed "America's Pastime". Although not a particularly accurate observation, it is the most fitting and lasting memory of the man known as Babe Ruth.
Before the Roman city of Herculaneum became famous as the frozen in time brother of nearby Pompeii, it was a getaway town for the highest of Roman society.
The concern of the theft of famous works of art was raised early in the war by art historians and museum directors throughout Europe as the Nazis began to rise to power.
"The pictures were taken by my father who was serving aboard HMS Sphinx while on armed patrol off the Zanzibar and Mozambique coast in about 1907.
They then named the drink, sankt-vater-bier, which roughly translates to "Holy Father beer." In 2011, a journalist named J. Wilson contacted a local brewery in an effort to recreate this beer. He went on to drink it for 46 days during Lent & didn’t consume any solid food.
Noir is perhaps more famous for his death and grave than work. He was a journalist who was shot dead; the grave consists of a full-sized bronze statue of the man laying down as if he was just shot.
The race was held at 3:00pm on a sweltering 32-degree celsius day, and took the runners over dusty, unpaved roads.
It was taken by Komsomolskaya Pravda, editor in chief. He was ordered to destroy it, but instead saved it. June 22, 1941.
"Sharon was so amazingly down to earth. Her ethereal beauty seemed to captivate all those around her, but she seemed oblivious to it and the effect she had on strangers. She would sometimes flirt a bit, but it was well known around Hollywood that Sharon was a one-man girl…
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