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Wellcome CollectionThe Colney Hatch Asylum was built in the 19th century and cost nearly half a million dollars. The Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as the Friern Hospital, was among a handful of mental health hospitals built in what would become the greater area of London in the 19th century.

Los Angeles, CA. Jan. 1, 1988. Like this gallery?Share it: Most Americans have the luxury of being entirely uninformed of gang culture, the minutiae of street life, or the adherence to the vitally imperative code one needs to follow in order not to be killed. Even this majority, however, living on the periphery, has been

On February 19, 2013, the naked corpse of a young woman was found floating in the water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The hotels maintenance workers had gone to check on the rooftop tank after guests complained that their water tasted strange. It was then that they found the severely waterlogged

George G. Rockwood/Wikimedia CommonsJohn Clem was barely four feet tall when he joined the Union Army during the Civil War. In May 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sent out a national call for volunteers to fight for the Union Army. Many eagerly rose to the occasion, including one unlikely soldier: a nine-year-old boy named John

Adam Mickiewicz University LibraryHandwritten notes from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm discovered in a long-lost book from their private collection. Researchers searching through the library at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, Poland, have discovered 27 lost books that belonged to the Brothers Grimm, the 19th-century German siblings who popularized European fairy tales.