The Unsung Hero Of United Flight 93, The Horrifying History Behind The Invention Of The Chainsaw, And More From History Uncovered

[History Uncovered]( [The Shocking True Story Of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo Only Hinted At In 'Narcos']( [Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo co-founded Rancho Búfalo, likely the biggest marijuana plantation in history, and moved massive amounts of drugs from Mexico to the United States in the early 1980s — reportedly to the tune of $5 billion per year.]( [How 9/11 Hero Mark Bingham Helped Lead A Passenger Revolt On Flight 93 — And Became An LGBTQ Icon]( [Mark Bingham was one of four men on board United Airlines Flight 93 who planned to storm the cockpit after terrorists hijacked the plane. Though Bingham tragically died when the plane crashed into a field, he helped prevent it from flying into its intended target, which was likely the U.S. Capitol.]( [Archaeologists In Italy Just Found The Remains Of Almost 200 People In A 3,000-Year-Old Funeral Pyre]( [Archaeologists believe that the cremation platform was used for about 200 years and that generations of family members were burned and then left in the open surrounded by ritual offerings and personal objects.]( [Meet The Muscle Car Visionary Whose Mustang Finally Beat Ferrari In A 24-Hour Car Race]( [Carroll Shelby was an accomplished car driver, but a heart condition took him out of the driver's seat, so he built race cars instead — including the Shelby Cobra.]( [Chainsaws Were Originally Invented For Helping With Childbirth — And The Surgery Was Horrifying]( [Cesarean sections were nearly always deadly for the mother before the 20th century. So one Scottish doctor came up with a novel solution — a chainsaw.]( [The Life Of Mildred Harnack, The Only American Woman Who Was Sentenced To Death By Adolf Hitler]( [After joining the Red Orchestra resistance movement in Berlin, Germany, Mildred Harnack was brutally executed by Nazis on February 16, 1943.]( [Big Hits, Big Hair, Big Personality: 44 Pictures Of Country Music Legend Dolly Parton]( [The day after she graduated high school in 1964, Dolly Parton left her home in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains and boarded the first bus to Nashville with a suitcase made of cardboard — and filled with songs.]( [This 130,000-Year-Old Tooth Just Found In A Cave In Laos Is Rewriting The Story Of Humanity's Family Tree]( [One intrepid researcher only found this crucial tooth after some local children told her of a cave filled with human bones — and cobras.]( [The Tragic Story Of Anissa Jones, The 'Family Affair' Star Who Died Of An Overdose At Just 18]( [Mary Anissa Jones starred as Buffy Davis on the show "Family Affair" from 1966 to 1971. Just a few years later, she died of an overdose on August 28, 1976.]( [How Eight-Year-Old Christie Downs Survived Being Shot In Cold Blood By Her Own Mother]( [On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs pulled her car over to the side of a rural Oregon road and shot her three young children in the back seat, beginning with eight-year-old Christie. Then, she shot herself in the arm, drove to the hospital, and claimed that she'd been the victim of a carjacking.]( [These 55 Photochrom Images Are Some Of The World's First Colorized Photos]( [Prior to the 1890s, the idea of mainstream color photography seemed unfathomable. But with the help of photochrom — an ink-based image developed with limestone tablets and sunlight — people finally got to see the colorful world around them reflected in shades other than black, white, and gray.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](