Whiskey From A Lake Michigan 170-Year-Old Shipwreck Could Be Worth Millions, Seven Unbelievable Times Teddy Roosevelt Escaped Death, And More

[History Uncovered]( This Week's Most Popular Stories From History Uncovered [The Whiskey Salvaged From This 170-Year-Old Shipwreck In Lake Michigan Could Be Worth Millions]( [The Westmoreland was reportedly en route to a nearby Army fort when it sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan, taking with it a massive stash of gold coins as well as 280 barrels of whiskey. Over the years, this story has inspired many hopeful treasure hunters to look for the shipwreck, but until 2010, no one had seen it.]( [Gettysburg Park Officials Just Found A 160-Year-Old Unexploded Artillery Shell From The Civil War]( [Though the shell was swiftly destroyed as a safety measure, historians suspect that it was fired by Confederate forces on July 2, 1863.]( [Teddy Roosevelt Survived A Rhino Attack And An Assassination Attempt — Then He Died In His Sleep In 1919]( [Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for a third term as president in 1912, and he was scheduled to give a campaign speech in Milwaukee on October 14 when he was shot in the chest at close range. Despite the fact that the bullet was still lodged inside him, Roosevelt went on to give an 84-minute speech, telling his audience, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."]( [Archaeologists In Spain Just Uncovered A Medieval Synagogue Inside An Abandoned Disco-Pub]( [This discovery offers a rare glimpse into the story of Spain's Sephardic Jews, whose history was all but erased after they were expelled from the country in 1492.]( ['12 Years A Slave': Inside The Shocking Story Of Solomon Northup And His Escape From Slavery]( [In 1841, a free Black man named Solomon Northup from New York was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana before he was rescued 12 years later.]( [They Thought He Was More Fit For Shining Shoes Than Combat. He Proved Them Wrong At Pearl Harbor]( [Because he was black, Navy sailor Doris Miller was relegated to shining officers' shoes, making beds, and serving meals in the kitchen. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Miller sprang into action, manned a machine gun, and tended to the wounded.]( [Forgotten Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Hint That He Understood Gravity A Century Before Isaac Newton]( [A team investigating some of Da Vinci's sketches realized that he had started to decode the laws of gravity decades before Isaac Newton "discovered" it.]( [Randy Roth, The Charming Thief And Murderer Who Killed At Least One Of His Wives To Claim Life Insurance]( [Two of Randy Roth's wives died under suspicious circumstances. In both cases, Roth was the only witness — and was quick to cash in on their large life insurance policies.]( [Bob Crane Was The Wholesome Star Of 'Hogan's Heroes' — Then He Was Murdered Surrounded By His Sex Tapes]( [On June 29, 1978, the wholesome "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane was found brutally bludgeoned to death surrounded by personal sex tapes and nude photos of women he'd slept with.]( [The True Story Of Hetty Green, The Gilded Age Businesswoman Known As The 'Witch Of Wall Street']( ["There was no great secret in fortune making. All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness and then be persistent."]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](