33 Images Of The California Gold Rush That Transformed America, History's Oldest Runestone Uncovered In Norway, And More

[History Uncovered]( [33 Stunning Photos Of The California Gold Rush And The 49ers Who Tried To Strike It Rich]( ["The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the sea shore to the base of the Sierra Nevadas, resounds with the cry of 'gold, GOLD, GOLD!' while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes."]( [The Brutal Bombing Of The 'Highway Of Death' That Led To Some Of The Most Defining Images Of The Gulf War]( ["Everything that moved on that highway didn't move anymore."]( [The True Story Of Jim Garrison And The Chilling Kennedy Assassination Theories In The 1991 Film 'JFK']( [Jim Garrison made headlines when he charged Clay Shaw with conspiring to kill JFK.]( [Rare Van Dyck Painting Found In A Shed Covered In Bird Droppings Expected To Sell For Up To $3 Million]( [The painting is believed to be over four centuries old and has been authenticated as an original work by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck.]( [This 2,000-Year-Old Runestone Was Found In A Grave In Norway — And It May Be The Oldest In The World]( [The flat block of sandstone measures about one foot square and is engraved with what may be the earliest example of words ever written in Scandinavia.]( [Inside The Chilling Disappearance Of Actress Jean Spangler — And Why Some Think The Black Dahlia’s Killer Was To Blame]( [Jean Spangler's purse was found right near the lavish home of Dr. George Hodel — one of the leading suspects in the infamous Black Dahlia murder of actress Elizabeth Short two years earlier.]( [Inside The 1873 Colfax Massacre That Saw Up To 150 Black Men Murdered By Klansmen And Former Confederates]( [On Easter Sunday 1873, between 62 and 153 Black men were murdered by KKK members and former Confederates in Colfax, Louisiana following the 1872 election.]( [Aron Ralston's Arm Was Stuck Under An 800-Pound Boulder. So He Amputated It To Survive.]( [Once he finally cut off his own arm after spending 127 hours trapped in a canyon, Aron Ralston climbed 100 feet, rappelled down a 65-foot cliff, and hiked six miles before running into a Dutch family who gave him Oreos and called for help.]( [How 9 Ordinary People Became Heroes Of The Holocaust — And Risked Their Lives To Save Jews]( [Nicholas Winton saved at least 669 children from the Holocaust and told no one for 50 years. It was only in 1988 — when TV producers reunited him with some of the people he'd rescued — that the world finally learned of his heroics.]( [The Chilling Mummy Of The Yde Girl, The Teenage Murder Victim Preserved In A Bog For 2,000 Years]( [When peat diggers first happened upon her body, they were so terrified and convinced they'd just seen the devil that they covered the body in layers of peat, ran away, and didn't tell a soul.]( [Inside The Wild West Story Of Butch Cassidy Only Hinted At In The Iconic Film]( ["The best way to hurt them is through their pocketbook. They will Holler louder than if you cut off both legs. I steal their money just to hear them holler. Then I pass it out among those who really need it."]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](