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In a world where businesses seem to be shelling out less and less while asking for more, the California-based Madonna Inn stands in stark defiance. What started in 1958 as a meager 12-room motel along Californias Central Coast has transformed into a 110-room beast of uniqueness that has inspired countless road trips. Today, the sole

William I, known as William the Conqueror, becomes Duke of Normandy at the age of eight following the death of his father, Robert I. He successfully defended his right to the English throne during the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and later expanded his kingdom by conquering Scotland and Wales.

Scott Olson/Getty Images A 2014 survey revealed something shocking: Only about half the worlds population knows about the Holocaust. Indeed, the survey which consulting firm First International Resources conducted in over 100 countries and on 53,000 people found that just over 54 percent of participants had heard of the Holocaust.

Defense POW/MIA Accounting AgencyU.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom who, went MIA on Feb. 2, 1944. The remains of U.S. Army Private Wing O. Hom have finally been identified using mitochondrial DNA testing nearly 80 years after he went MIA.

Julie McMahon, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignA size comparison depicting an average adult man with the giant, 13-foot sloth. The 2014 discovery of 27,000-year-old fossils of a giant ground sloth was purely coincidental. Divers were searching for ancient Maya artifacts when they chanced upon the animals tooth fragment, humerus, and femur fossils in a sinkhole