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The lost colony of Roanoke

## foundation

The Roanoke colony was founded in 1585 and all the settlers disappeared in 1590, the settlers traveled on the Tiger and it took 4 months to sail there.

### settlers

Many of the settlers are or would be famous, some of them include Native American Manteo, Governor John White, first English person born in America Virginia Dare, captain Simon Fernandes, and Eleanor Dare of of Westminster.

### Disappearance

John White later left on August 25, 1587 and returned in August of 1590 to discover everyone missing, he discovered the word “CRO” engraved on a tree and the word “CROATOAN” on a piece of fencing, over the centuries many people led investigations on the Roanoke colony, such people were Bartholomew Gilbert in 1603 who was killed by the natives, John Smith from 1607-1609, William Strachey from 1610-1612, Samuel Purchas in 1625, and John Lawson from 1701-1709. In the 1800s archeologist dug up the site to look for evidence of what might have happened which continued into the 2000s with the site later renamed to Site X, not only were there expeditions and archeology dig ups but also genetic analysis, and climate research along with investigations into native tribes.

### theories

There are many theories about what might have happened like that Natives attacked them, they left and lived on a different island, they tired to travel back to England and drowned, they were marooned by Simon Fernandes along with two others, the Spanish attacked them and that  it was a secret operation from Beechland.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_colonists\_at\_Roanoke
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke\_Colony#Backgroundhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke\_Colony#Background
Great Molasses Flood of 1919

On January 15, 1919, a 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses exploded on the North End of Boston, Massachusetts causing the death of 21 people and the injury of 150 people, the reason it exploded was because of its poor construction, weather, and cracks, there is a myth that if you go to the North End of Boston you can still smell Molasses.

### Clean up

To clean up the molasses they used salt water from a fire boat to wash away the water, but there is supposedly still some molasses left.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_Molasses\_Flood
Robert E. Lee's chicken

In 1862 General Robert E. Lee was gifted a flock of chickens which were eaten except one that was taken as a pet by Lee and was named Nellie which he kept in his tent and would often walk in and out around the camp.

## Fate

Robert E. Lee had a dinner with other Confederate generals but due too a shortage of food a slave cooked Nellie and feed it to Lee.

1. ↑ https://studenthistorians.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/general-lees-chicken-lincolns-wallet-and-other-things-we-dont-know-about-the-civil-war/
Slender Man Stabbing of 2014

## Background

### Slender Man

Slender Man is a well dressed tall white man with no facial features who chases people in the forest and kills them or (as the movie portrays) fuses them into a tree, he has his on game, movie and fan base.

### Morgan Geyser

Morgan appeared to be a normal girl growing up with a big imagination claiming to see ghost in her bedroom, She was considered a social outcast having very few friends including the person she would later stab Payton Leutner and later her associate Anissa Weiner in the 6th grade. Anissa later introduced her to Creepy pasta's a online horror story group where they found Slender Man in 2012. Morgan became obsessed and believed he was real and that she had seen him they later found a post claiming that if you killed someone in the name of Slender Man that you would become a Proxy a worshipper of Slender Man and that he would take you to his mansion so they decided to try to kill their friend Payton. Their plan was to kill her on Morgan's birthday then leave to receive their reward.

## The Stabbing

On May 31st 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin Payton arrived at Morgan's house where they partied then they went to David's Park where they played a game of hide-and-seek, Morgan and Anissa pinned her down by a bush and stabbed her with a kitchen knife 19 times cutting her stomach and liver and almost stabbing her heart, the distance between the blade and Payton's heart was less than a millimeter long. They then left her there but luckily Payton was able to crawl out into a nearby highway where she was picked up and was rushed to the hospital. Morgan and Anissa where later pick up by cops where they confessed everything to them, they were later tried for first degree murder for Morgan and second degree for Anissa which she pleaded guilty to in 2017 and was put in a mental hospital but was released in 2021 with extreme monitoring, as for Morgan it was discovered she had Schizophrenia and was given the max penalty of 40 years in a mental hospital.

1. ↑ https://www.thecut.com/2014/06/why-kids-love-slender-man.html
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender\_Man
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNaKjBYrvN8
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender\_Man\_stabbing
Dr. John Pemberton the creator of Coca Cola

Dr. John Pemberton a man who made one of the biggest companies in the world.

## John Stith Pemberton

### Relatives

Charles Ney Pemberton, Ann Eliza Clifford Lewis, James Clifford Pemberton, John Clifford Pemberton Sr. Ann Warner Clifford, Joseph Pemberton, Rebecca Rawle Pemberton, Martha L. Gant,

### Occupation

2nd Confederate lieutenant colonel and scientist and inventor of Coca-Cola

## Early life and Civil War

John was born in 1831 and studied medicine at The University of Georgia but joined the Confederate army during The Civil War and was shot and slashed with a sword which almost killed him but he was sent to the hospital and given Morphine to stop the pain which made him addicted to Morphine.

## Atlanta

After the Civil War he moved to Atlanta and work at a pharmacy and became "The most famous physician in Atlanta." Despite this he still had a morphine addiction which left him looking for cures and he found 'Vin Mariani John soon made a drink containing red wine and coca leaves called French Wine Cola in 1885.

## Coca-Cola

When he first created Coca Cola it was called "French Wine Cola" and he calmed it cured Depression and Addictions among other things unfortunately it failed because of The Temperance Movement an anti-alcohol organization which convicted Atlanta to banned alcohol which lead to him replacing the wine with sugar lemons and other things to create Coca-Cola in 1886. The drink almost failed because in 1886 john only made 50 dollars. John's book owner Frank Robinson said "The loss was to be expected because the business was new" and told him to put up banners and signs to promote the product, John was hesitant but did it anyway which became famous in Altana.

## Last years and death

John unfortunately had stomach cancer due to his addiction and gave 1/3 of his company to his son Charles but he was also an addict to morphine so Frank went and tried to find investors and found Asa Candler which led to tickets which could be redeemed at soda fountains for free leading to the first coupons. However John would die of cancer in 1888 in the hospital.

## Legacy

After his death The Coca-Cola Company speared all over America, and in 1915 the Contour bottle was made and Coca-Cola speared all over Europe in the 1920s, in the 1940s they gave Coca-Cola to soldiers during WW2 leading it to Coke having a 8.7 billion dollar net worth today.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Stith\_Pemberton
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7mcB2Ud2U
Von Stueben the openly Gay officer

Friedrich was born to a famous military captain and joined the Prussian Army at 17 during the Seven Year War and was later prompted to first lieutenant in 1759.

## Revolutionary War

He later moved to France where he met Benjamin Franklin who advised him to travel to the U.S. and help the army which he did and helped train them, there was a problem thou he couldn't speak English and the soldiers couldn't speak Prussian so Ben Walker (Friedrichs future husband) became a translator and together they trained the Continental Army leading to victory at the Battle of Stony Point.

## later years and Death

Von Stueben later became and American citizen, married Ben Walker, and died in New York.

1. ↑ Von Stueben the openly Gay officer#Revolutionary War
The Barbary Wars

## First barbary war (1801-1805)

### Beginning

The First Barbary War started when pirates from "The Barbary states" mainly from Africa and the Ottoman Empire started attacking American ships leading to Thomas Jefferson paying the Government of Tripoli where the large majority of the pirates were coming until the president Yusuf Qaramanli demanded more money which was declined leading to war. Jefferson sent some ships to Tripoli with gifts under the command of Richard Dale and while traveling the ships came across Swedish ships which joined them they soon blockaded the country and Thomas Jefferson obtained support funds from United States Congress.

## Burning of U.S.S. Philadelphia

   In 1803 Tripoli took the U.S.S. Philadelphia which resulted in American solders led by Stephen Decatur sneaked into Tripoli at night and burning the boat in 1804.

## Second Battle of Tripoli Harbors

In July of 1804 Edward Preble who had led blockades on Tripoli led an attack on Tripoli known as The Second Battle of Tripoli Harbors, during the conflict Richard Somers and the U.S.S. Intrepid were supposedly destroyed by Tripoli forces. After the conflict Samuel Barron led a fairly successful blockade of Tripoli.

## Battle of Derna

In 1805 William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon lead the Battle of Derna which was the first major victory for America during the war and the first time an American flag was raised over foreign soil.

## The end of the First War

In 1805 Yusuf eventually agreed to a peace agreement and gave America back any hostages and America paid them 60,000$ ending The Fist barbary War.

## The Second Barbary War (1815-1815)

During the War of 1812 Britain asked The Barbary States to attack American ships again which they did leading to James Madison declaring War on Algiers which was were they were coming from, Madison sent a group of ships for peace agreements which they ended up doing with the prince of Algiers ending The Barbary Wars.

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDTdTJ9JTM
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary\_Wars
Jack Hinson The Civil War Sniper

Before the Civil War Jack Hinson or "Old Jack" was born in 1807 and was a slave owner in Kentucky and was neutrally during most of the war and even had general Ulysses S. Grant into his house when Grant was on a raid of the area.

## Civil War

During the war The Battle of Fort Henry happened very close to his farmstead, despite this he was still mutual until two of his sons were mistaken as Confederates murdering them and placing there heads on the fence outside of Jacks house soon after his house would be burned to the ground. Jack later decided to buy a custom made 50. caliber Kentucky long rifle and used it to assassinate a Union officer and a Union sergeant who put there heads on his fence. He would later go on to assassinate Union officers because he thought it would effect them the most, he is credited to have killed up to 100 union soldiers.

## death and legacy

Jack later retired after the war and died in 1874 of Meningitis at the age of 66 he would later have a book written about him called "Jack Hinson's one man war." in 2009.
The Boot Monument

The Boot monument is the only monument dedicated to British Major General Benedict Arnold when during the Battle of Quebec and the Battle of Ridgefield he lost his leg and his horse shot out from below him to end his solider career, The Monument was later built in 1887 and on it is a inscription which states

"Erected 1887 BY

JOHN WATTS de PEYSTER

Brev: Maj: Gen: S.N.Y.

2nd V. Pres't Saratoga Mon't Ass't'n:

In memory of

The "most Brilliant Soldier" of the

Continental Army

who was desperately wounded

on this spot the sally port of

BURGOYNES GREAT WESTERN REDOUBT

7th October, 1777

winning for his countrymen

the decisive battle of the American Revolution

and for himself the rank of

Major General."

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot\_Monument
Wenceslao Moguel the man who survived a firing squad

Moguel was a rebel Soldier under Pancho Villa, in March 18, 1915 he along with others were captured by by the Mexican Army and shot 9 times with the officer giving them the Coupe De Grace, Moguel survived and moved to the U.S. and appeared on a show called Ripley's Believe It Or Not were. He died on July 29 of 1976.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao\_Moguel
Black Tom Explosion German Empire attack on New York

## Black Tom Island

Black Tom Island is an island in New Jersey that was formed by a large landfill around the 1800s and has had a history with explosions like in January of 1875 an accidentally explosion killed 4 men.

## 1916 explosion

In 1916 German spies wanting to halt U.S. trade with Europe during WWI they decided to take war supplies via Russia and to blow up Tom Island with 100,000 pounds of dynamite, the resulting explosion resulted in waves traveling up to 24,000 feet per second which resulted in firefighters who arrived on to be knocked off their feet and pieces reportedly hit the Statue of Liberty, the wave was later put as a 5.5 on the Richter Scale which is about the same scale as an earthquake. In total 4 people died and 100 more were injured, the aftermath changed how presidents handle with war and was a key component for Franklin Roosevelt's decision to establish Japanese Intermate Camps.

damage on the nearby pierBlack Tom Island map in 1915Newspaper about bombing on July 31st of 1916
1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_Tom\_explosion
Caning of Senator Charles Summer

## Charles Summer

Charles was an Anti-Slavery U.S. Republican Senator apart of the long Summer Family, he traveled to Europe and was a graduated of Harvard University.

## Preston Brooks

Preston was a Pro-Slavery Democratic U.S. House of Representatives who was a former Colonel in the Mexican American War.

## Caning

In May 19th and 20th of 1856 Charles spoke a speech about how Kansas was being "raped" by "Slave Power" and insulted Preston's first cousin once removed Andrew Butler which angered Preston who on May 22, 1856 walked into the Senate Chamber and was going to strike him with his new golden topped cane when he saw a woman and decided against it, but to days later he walked up to Summers in the Senate Chamber once again and stated calmly, "Mr. Summer, I have read your speech twice carefully. it is a libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, Who is a relative of mine". He then proceeded to beat summer's over the head with a cane.

## Aftermath

The result of this attack was that Summers had PTSD, head trauma, and was permanently blinded. During the conflict his cane had been broken which was replaced when a Pro-Slavery fan of Preston Brooks who mailed him a new one.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles\_Sumner
2. ↑ https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/South-Carolina-Representative-Preston-Brooks-s-attack-on-Senator-Charles-Sumner-of-Massachusetts/
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston\_Brooks
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning\_of\_Charles\_Sumner
Pepsi's millitary

In 1959 the U.S. tried to make the U.S.S.R. give up communism by showing them the best American products one of them being Pepsi, a few years later in the 1970s and 80s the U.S.S.R. tried to buy Pepsi by selling them vodka but then sold them part of their navy fleet for 3 billion dollars worth of Pepsi making them the 6th largest military at the time but the ships were actually old and impractical.

1. ↑ https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/27/pepsi-navy-soviet-ussr/
Kazue Ikura

**Kazue Ikura** (伊倉 一恵, *Ikura Kazue*, born March 23, 1959) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator who works for Aoni Production. She was previously affiliated with theater groups/production companies 劇舎燐, 俳協, Production Baobab and NABEYA.

She is most known for the roles of Kaori Makimura (*City Hunter*), Toraoh (*Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru*), Ryuunosuke Natsume (*All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku*), and Leni Milchstrasse (*Sakura Wars*). Kazue Ikura has even taken her voice acting skills on stage to perform, in costume, Leni Milchstrasse during several events starting in 1998 to the present.
Poe toaster

The Poe toaster was an event that happened for almost 80 years, this event would follow a mysterious person dressed in black who would leave alcohol and roses at Edgar Allan Poe's tombstone on his birthday. Unfortunately the tradition ended in 2010 when The Poe Toaster failed to arrive.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe\_Toaster#In\_popular\_culture
Allan Pinkertons Death

## Background

Allan Pinkerton was a famous detective, founder of the Pinkerton Agency, and saved the president from a near assassination.

## Death

Allan Pinkerton was in Chicago and slipped on the pavement biting his tongue resulting in a cut which got infected with Gangrene, he also suffered a stroke and Malaria he contracted from the Southern United States.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan\_Pinkerton#Death
Neil Harbisson the human cyborg

## Early Life

Neil was born in 1980 in Spain and composed music in 1999 or 2000 and went to an art school when he was 16, when he was a teenager he lived in a tree for several days so that it wouldn't get chopped down.

## Cyborgs

He spent his collage years painting cyborg art and in 2004 got a cybernetic antenna for bone conduction, the antenna also allows him to see ultraviolent light among other things. He also spent his time paint portraits of celebrities' including king Charles the 3rd of England, Buzz Aldrin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince of Albert of Morocco, among others. He also Co-Founded the Cyborg Organization a non-profit organization promoting the rights of people who don't identify as human.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil\_Harbisson
Hitler Teapot

### Aliases

Hitler tea kettle, Michael Graves Design Bells and Whistles Stainless Steel Tea Kettle

### Affiliation

Adolf Hitler

The teapot was made by JCPenny by designer Michael Graves in May of 2013 and became well known on the internet due to its similar look to 20th century dictator Adolf Hitler, the handle looks like his hair, the lid looks like his famous toothbrush mustache and the spout looks like the Nazi salute.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler\_teapot
Loretto Chapel miracle staircase

The Loretto Chapel Staircase is a spruce spiral staircase which goes a full 360 degrees, In 1877 or 1881 a mysterious man(believed to be Francois a French carpenter) came and built the staircase and refused payment from the nuns who saw him build it, his body was later found along with a Winchester and it was believed to be a suicide. It was believed that St. Joseph patron saint of carpenter and Jesus's stepfather sent him to build the stairs but this wasn't been proven.

1. ↑ https://fotospot.com/attractions/new-mexico/loretto-chapel
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto\_Chapel#Physics
Leon Czolgosz the Assassin of the 25th President

## Early Years

Leon was born to a Polish American family in 1873, he lost his mother in 1883 and worked in a glass factory in his teen age years.

## Panic of 1893 and King of Italy

In 1893 he along with many workers went on strike and Leon became a radical socialist anarchist, he then moved to his father Paul's 50 acre land in Ohio which ended poorly after fights with his stepmother. He later attended a speech by fellow Anarchist Emma Goldman, he was later called a spy by a local newspaper company, he later learned of the assassination of King of Italy Umberto the first in July 29 1900 committed by anarchist Gaetano Bresci which led to him being more radical.

## Assassination and Execution

On August 31st 1901 Leon traveled to Buffalo, New York and shot William McKinley twice with a 32. Iver Johnson revolver resulting in his death 8 day later, he was later charged with first degree murder and executed by electric chair on October 29, 1901.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon\_Czolgosz#Assassination\_of\_President\_William\_McKinley
Agent 355

Agent 355 was an American spy for the Culper Spy Ring and was supposedly very efficient at her job, she was also married to fellow Culper member Robert Townsend, she gave birth to Robert Townsend Jr. and unfortunately was captured by British forces and died in 1780.

## Legacy

Agent 355 was been mentioned in Y: The Last Man, Turn: Washington Spy's, and the show White Collar, she also inspired the movie The 355.
Harry Raymond Eastlack & Carol Orzel

## Harry Raymond Eastlack Jr.

Harry was born with a rare disease called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva or (FOP) a continuous bone growth and bunion's , Harry despite his disease lived a normal life before dying in 1977.

## Physical description

### Gender

female

Carol like Harry was born with (FOP) and was put into a nursing home, she was later studied by the University of Pennsylvania and the Mutter Museum and became affiliated with the international (FOP) Association and upon her death she was put in the Mutter Museum along with Harry.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry\_Raymond\_Eastlack
2. ↑ https://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/harry-and-carol
3. ↑ https://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/harry-and-carol
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol\_Orzel
Hobby Lobby artifact scandal

In 2009 American store chain Hobby Lobby was in a scandal revolving around the ancient world of artifacts.

## beginning

Hobby Lobby the world famous arts and crafts store has been in a lot of controversy since is founding in 1970, such controversies include Christian newspaper ads, still being open during the Pandemic, and the controversy relating to the Museum of the Bible.

## Museum of the bible

In 2010 the green family opened the museum of the bible which displayed artifacts relating to Catholicism but fell under fire when in 2009 it was revealed that 5,500 artifacts from the museum were from looters in Iraq but claimed that the shipment was from Turkey which resulted in the United States of American Vs Four Hundred Fifty Ancient counterfeit Tablets and Approximately Thee Hundred Clay Bullae case, it resulted in hobby lobby giving 3,800 artifacts back to Iraq and paying 3 million dollars in damage.

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7UA8dTbdk
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby\_Lobby\_smuggling\_scandal
Lost Confederate gold

The Lost Confederate Gold is unknown amount of gold in America.

## Origins

During the Civil War the Union moved all there gold from New Orleans to Georgia were it was put in a bank. At the end of the Civil War Confederate officials hoped that they could find the gold and live in a life free of Union forces but failed when it vanished.

## Legacy

In 2018 "The Curse of Civil War Gold" aired on the History Channel and talked about the possibly whereabouts to where the gold could be ranging from Penssvaliya to the bottom of Lake Michigan. It was also mentioned in the game Red Dead Redemption 2 where the "Van Der Len Gang" tries to gain access to the secret gold supply of former slave owning family the Braithwaite's leading to a gunfight and burring there mansion to the ground to find nothing. Confederate gold has also been seen in Gone With the Wind, the TV show Alcatraz, Timecop, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and many more.

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2IDSRDFXc
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate\_gold
1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks

From July 1-12 of 1916 5 people were attacked by a great white shark or Bull shark which was given the title of "Jersey Man-Eater".

## First Attack

On July 1st of 1916 on a Saturday in Beach Haven a 28 year old man named Charles Vansant was on vacation with his family from Philadelphia when a shark attacked him biting his leg but was saved by lifeguard Alexander Ott, his leg had been skinned and he bled to the death at the mangers desk of the hotel he was in at 6:45 PM.

## Second Attack

On July 6, 1916 on a Thursday in Spring Lake Charles Bruder a swiss bell captain was attacked while swimming losing both of his legs but was spotted by a women who notified the lifeguard's who received him, however he bled on the way to the beach and his body was shipped to his mother in Switzerland.

## Third Attack

On July 12 around 2:00 PM 11-year-old Lester Stilwell, while he was swimming in Matawan with some other local boys he was attacked and dragged under water, the boys then ran off and got Watson Fisher to try to get his body but Fisher was also attacked and died of blood lose at the Long Beach hospital 5:30 PM, Lester body was retrieved 150 feet away.

## Last Attack

Joseph Dunn was the last person attacked but survived thanks to his brother and friend bringing him to Saint Peters Hospital University by released in September 15, 1916. The shark was later killed in New Jersey in 1916.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey\_Shore\_shark\_attacks\_of\_1916
William Greer the Driver of JFK's Limo

## Early Years

William was born in Ireland and emigrated to the U.S. where he became a chauffeur and servant to the Lodge Family of Boston in 1929, he later went into the army during WWII and was assigned to the presidential yacht in 1945.

## Assassination

in 1963 he was assigned to drive the presidents car in Dallas, Texas when he was assassinated and a few years later he retired and died in 1985.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Greer
The Guy Game the only game banned in America

The Guy Game is a Trivia game in which the player answers questions and if answered correctly they are rewarded with woman flashing the camera, it was later banned in the U.S. when it was discovered that one of the women who exposed themselves to the camera was only 17 years old.

## The Gameplay

The Gameplay consist of answering various questions about pop culture which moves the Flash-O-Meter, the higher up it moves the more exposed the photos are, the lead host Matt Sadler interviews the women on Spring Break in South Padre Island, their are also side commentators Steve Graves and Dick Conard.

## Controversy

It was soon discovered after the games release that one of the women shown was 17 years old making the game illegal to sell in different countries including America.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Guy\_Game
Montauk Monster

the Monster was found on July 23, 2008 in Montauk, New York. It was covered by multiple media outlets and was believed to be a sea monster, it was later determined by scientist that's its was a water downed corpse of a racoon that got to close to the water.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk\_Monster
D.B Cooper the mysterious hijacker

D.B. Cooper was a mysterious man who hijacked Flight 305 with a bomb and received 200,000$ dollars from ransom from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and released the hostages except the pilot and staff and requested four parachutes and skydived over Mexico and vanished in 1972. After this airport security was improved and he was never caught.

## Legacy

His story has been used as inspiration for Prison Break, Breaking Bad, Loki, Justified, Numb3r, Drunk History, The Blacklist, News radio, and Leverage.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.\_B.\_Cooper#cite\_note-328
H.H. Holmes America's first serial killer

## H. H. Holmes.

### Aliases

Alexander Bond, America's First Serial Killer, The Beast of Chicago, The Devil in the White City, The Torture Doctor, The Arch Friend, Judson, Robert E. Phelps

### Relatives

Clara Lovering, Myrta Belknap, Minnie Williams, Georgianna yoke, Levi Horton Mudgett, Theodate Page Price,

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

H.H. Holmes was born in 1861 to Theodate and Levi and graduated from Phillips Execter Academy teached in Alton, New Hampshire and later graduated from the University of Vermont and became a doctor in 1884.

## Murders

He later moved to Chicago were he murdered Robert Leacock for insurance money and bought an empty building next to a drug store and turned it into a hotel to lure victims during the 1892 World Columbian Exposition. He would claim Julia Smythe a mistress who Holmes knew had died during an abortion on Christmas Eve of 1891, along with Emeline Cigrande in May of 1892 along with Emily Van Tassel. He would later meet carpenter Benjamin Pitezel who would be his partner in crime, he would later leave Chicago in 1894 and Benjamin faked his death and his wife got 10,000$ dollars and Benjamin changed named to B.F. Perry, Holmes would later kill Benjamin and claimed he'd committed suicided and killed Benjamins kids Alice, Nellie, and Howard.

## Execution

He later arrested in Boston after the police found teeth and bones in his chimney and was hanged in 1896 for first degree murder.
Lizzie Borden

## Early life

Lizzie Borden or The Axe Murderess was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1860 and was the daughter of Business man Andrew Borden, her mother soon died leading Andrew to Marrying Abby Borden to the dismay of Lizzie. There relationship would devolved to rivalry growing worse when Andrew signed a deed leaving his home to Abby when he died.

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Virginia Johnson (1989) Chloe Sevigny (2018)

## Murders

In 1892 Lizzie found the bodies of Andrew and Abby, Andrew was on the couch with his head smashed beyond recognition and Abby found presumably cleaning the floor both were brutally hacked to death. Lizzie was arrested and put to trial during the trial the lawyer brought out the skulls of Andrew and Abby Borden causing Lizzie to faint and was found innocent.

## Life after and death

She later bought a new house and became a teacher before dying alone in her house of Pneumonia in 1927.

## Legacy

Lizzie Borden has been in literature and has had two movies made about her and her family home is now a tourist destination.[1]

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtY4V35x5I
General Lee's lost order

Special order 191 was a note written by General Robert Lee for the Northern Virginian Army telling them to split there soldiers into groups and to merge back later in the battle in 1862.

## discovery

The document was discovered in a union campground wrapped around a cigar and delivered to the U.S. Government, despite this information General George B. McClellan was still hesitant thinking it was a trap but McClellan still aided in ending the the Confederate forces in Maryland.

## Legacy

This event was used by Harriet Turtledove in his book series "Southern Victory" which details an alternate timeline where the note was delivered and The Confederacy won leading to events that expand to the 1940s with the Confederacy taking the role of the National Socialist Party.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special\_Order\_191
Colt New Model Revolving Rifle

the Colt New Model Revolving Rifle was made by the Colt Manufacturing Co. in 1855 based on the Colt Model 1855 side hammer pocket revolver by Elisha K. Root, it was used during Pony Express and the U.S. Army during the Civil War but was highly disliked by soldiers due to a flaw of the gun called "cook off" which was when smoke from the bullet going off couldn't leave the cylinder resulting in a burst off hot smoke hitting the user, due to Cook Off the gun became less used and ultimately discontinued in 1863.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt%27s\_New\_Model\_Revolving\_rifle
Timothy Murphy the Revolutionary War sniper

Timothy Murphy was a sniper during the Revolutionary War and is the first sniper in American history.

## Timothy Murphy

### Relatives

Margate Feeck, Mary Robertson, John Murphy

## Early life

Not much is know other than he was born in Delaware Water Gap to Irish parents in 1751 and moved to Pennsylvania in 1759.

## Revolutionary War

In June of 1775 Timothy and his brother John enlisted in the U.S. Army in the 12th Pennsylvania Regiment and also joined Morgan's riflemen, during the war Timothy killed General Simon Fraser and fought in Battle of Middle Fort in 1780. he would later die in 1818 and would be buried in Middleburgh, New York along with a statue in his honor.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy\_Murphy\_(sniper)
Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas was formed after the Texas Revolution and would only be a country for 10 years.

## Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution was a war between modern day state of Texas Vs Mexico which resulted in 1,700 people dead, The Battle of The Alamo is the most famous battle during the Texas Revolution leaving 1,600 Mexicans and Texans dead which inspired the Texans to win and to hold the president of Mexico Santa Anna hostage for 3 weeks until he signed the Treaties of Velasco which gave Mexico independence in 1836.

## Independence

Following independence in 1836 Texas made there declaration of independence but Texas wanted to join the U.S. due to them being poor and unstable which the U.S. was hesitant of doing but annexed Texas in 1845 which lead to the Mexican American War and won.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic\_of\_Texas
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwJsazGuICo
Albert Steven the man who survived the highest radiation level

Albert was an unknown house painter in Ohio who was experimented on with Plutonium by the Manhattan Project, he has mainly experimented on by Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton a scientist working on the project.

## Later Years

He later went home and died in 1966 due to Radiation Decay and the experiment was uncovered in 1975 many years after his death.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Stevens
Robert Cornelius the first man photographed

## Early life

Robert was born in Pennsylvania to a silversmith named Christian, he later made a lamp manufacturing company and studied chemistry at a private school, Robert later started making daguerreotype.

### the photo

inspired by Joseph Saxton he started making daguerreotype and took the first photo in history in 1839 he also took photos of other famous figures like Dr. Solomon Andrews, Captain Charles John Biddle, Elliot Cresson, Martin Hans Boye, and Isaiah Lukens.

## Later Years and Death

He retired in 1877 and became an elder at a Presbyterian church he’d been a part of for 50 years.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_Cornelius#Personal\_life
Mike the headless chicken

## Birth & Beheading

Mike was a normal chicken living on a farm with the farmer Lloyd Olsen when one day Olson went to chop off his head with an axe but cut at a unordinary angle resulting in a small part of his brain still function, he didn't bled out due to a blood clot by his neck. After this he became famous being put on the fronts of Time and Life magazine.

## death

Mike later died 23 months on tour and in honor the town he was born in has a hoilday called Mike the Headless Chicken Day where they have themed games.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike\_the\_Headless\_Chicken
Vinland the Viking Colony

### Relatives

Erik the Red, Freydis Eiriksdottir, Thorvald Eiriksson, Thorstein Eiriksson, Thorbjörg Ship-Breast, Naddodd

## Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson was the son of Erik the Red famed Viking and discoverer of the island of Greenland, Leif set out for in 1000 from Greenland where he landed in Canada and founded the colony of Vinland, some people believe he went down the areas such as Maine and Minnesota as evidence by artifacts like the Maine Penny a Viking coin found in Maine in 1974, or the Kensington Tablets found in Minnesota in 1898 by a farmer. Leif later left and died a few years later.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif\_Erikson
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine\_penny
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland#Life\_in\_Vinland
Boston Corbett the man who killed John Wilkes Booth

Boston was a sergeant known for killing Lincolns assassin.

## Early life

Boston was born in London in 1832 and moved to New York in 1840 were he became a milliner, he would later join the U.S. Army during the Civil War and become a Sergeant for the 12th regiment in 1861.

## Shooting of Booth

   In 1865 Boston Corbett and his regiment were sent to capture John Wike's Booth who was hiding in a local tobacco farm in a shack when they arrived he shouted "I will not be taken alive!" which lead to the shack being lit on fire and Boston claimed that Booth had a carbine causing him killing Booth.

## after

Boston later met up with some other soldiers in Ohio and got into an argument over Booth making Boston kill them before the situation was defused, he later became the doorkeeper for the House of Representatives for Kansas in January of 1887, he was later arrested after pulling a pistol on an officer and was believed to have fled Mexico in May of 1888 but went Minnesota were he built a cabin were his is believed to have died in the Great Hickey Fire of 1894.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston\_Corbett#Post-war\_life
2. ↑ https://lincolnconspirators.com/picture-galleries/found-on-booth/
Henry Box Brown the man who escaped in a box

Henry Brown was a African American man who was born into slavery but was sent to a tobacco farm in Richmond, Virginia were he got married to his wife Nancy and had 3 kids but they were sent to a plantation in North Carolina

## Escape

free African American James C.A. smith, white shoemaker Samuel A. Smith (no relation), and the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and other abolitionist gave him $86 USD or $2,801 USD today and advised him to ship himself to Philadelphia in a box, on March 29, 1849, brown spent 27 hours in a wooden box but was delivered to Philadelphia.

## after escape and death

he later wrote a book called *Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself,* moved to New England and read Anti-slavery lectures and met Fredrick Douglas who nicknamed him "Box" he later became a magician in the 1860s, married a woman named Jane and died in 1897 in Canada.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry\_Box\_Brown
Abraham Lincoln's Presentation Rifle

Abraham Lincoln Presentation Rifle is a Gold henry rifle given to Abraham Lincoln by the Oliver Winchester New Haven Arms Co. so that their guns could be used by the U.S. Army During the Civil War. It's currently at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

1. ↑ https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah\_881516
2. ↑ https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/lincoln-s-rifles/#:~:text=For%20protection%20and%20sustenance%2C%20the,smoothbore%20musket%20and%20two%20rifles.
Jack McCall the killer of Wild Bill Hickock

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Clifford Porter Hall, Lon Chaney Jr., George Montgomery, David Arquette, John Pyper-Ferguson, Garret Dillahunt

John was born in the 1850s in Kentucky and when he was older traveled west and met a group of buffalo hunters and traveled up to Wyoming before travelling to a gold mine outside of Deadwood, Dakota territory.

## Wild Bill Hickock

On August 1, 1876 in the Nuttal & Mann's Saloon a poker game was being held with Wild West legend Wild Bill Hickock, one of the players dropped out and a drunken McCall joined the game where he lost all his money so Bill gave him money for food and told him to play when he wasn't drunk which McCall took offense to and the following morning on August 2, 1876 Wild Bill was reluctantly playing cards and had his back to the door and bar which McCall used to his advantage to sneak up behind Bill and shot him in the back of the head with a colt. 45 revolver instantly killing him his last words to his friend Massie "The old duffer - he broke me on the hand." After the shooting he tried escaping on a horse only for the saddle to slip off and so he ran into a butcher shop where he was caught.

## trial and death

McCall was put on trial twice and was found guilty and hanged on March 1st 1877 with his last words being "Draw it tighter Marshal."

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack\_McCall
2. ↑ https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-jackmccall/
Lincoln Head Hammer Gun

During the Civil War Hiram Berdan a inventor, and union officer made a unique .44 caliber Percussion cape rifle with the hammer of it being 16th President Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately it was finished in 1865 the same year Abraham Lincoln died.

1. ↑ https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-shots/gun-week-lincoln-head-hammer-gun/#:~:text=Hiram%20Berdan%20(1824%2D1893),the%20Lincoln%2DHead%20Hammer%20Gun.&text=This%20breechloading%20percussion%20rifle%20is,honor%20of%20President%20Abraham%20Lincoln.
Abraham Lincolns Thai elephants

In 1862 two letters were sent to Abraham Lincoln from the king of Siam King Mongkut (Modern day Thailand) asking if Lincoln wanted elephants from Thailand and a katana.

## Abraham Lincolns letter to King Mongkut

To King Siam

February 3, 1862

Abraham Lincoln,

Presdeint of the United States of America.

To His majesty Somdecth Phar Paramendr Maha Mongkut,

King of Siam,

Great and Good Friend: I have received Your Majesty's two letters of the date of February 14., 1861.

I have also Received in good condition the royal gift which accompanied those letters---namely a sword of costly materials and exquisite workmanship; a photographic likeness of your majesty and of your majesty beloved daughter; and also tow elephants' tusk of length and magnitude such as indicate that they could have belonged only to a animal which was a native of Siam.

Your majesty's letters show an understanding that our laws forbid the president receiving these rich presents as personal treasures. they are therefore accepted in accordance with Your Majesty's desire as tokens of your good will and friendship for the American people. Congress being now in session at this capital, I have had great pleasure in making know to them manifestation of Your Majesty's munificence and kind consideration.

Under their directions the gifts will be placed among the archives of the Government, where they will remain perpetually as tokens of mutual esteem and pacific dispositions more honorable to both nations than any trophies of conquest could be.

I appreciate mostly highly Your Majesty tender of good offices in forwarding to this Government a stock from which a supply of elephants might be raised on our soil. This Government would not hesitant to avail itself so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States.

Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the multiplication of the elephants, and steam on land, as well as on water, has been our best and most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce.

I shall have occasion at no distant day to transmit to Your Majesty some token of indication of the high sense which this Government entrains of Your Majesty's friendship.

Meantime, wishing for Your Majesty a long and happy life, and for the generous and emulous people of Siam the highest possible prosperity, I command both to the blessing of Almighty God.

Your good friend Abraham Lincoln

Washington February 3, 1862.

by the president:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State Annotation.

1. ↑ https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/lincoln-rejects-king-siams-offer-elephants#:~:text=In%20one%20of%20the%20more,from%20the%20King%20of%20Siam.
Civil war planes

In 1864 Union Colonel Edward Wellman Serrell designed a 45 feet tall helicopter-like device called the Serrell Reconoiterer, he tried several timed tests over the years but all failed.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward\_W.\_Serrell#/media/File:Serrell.jpg
2. ↑ https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/civil-war-planes
H.L. Hunley The Confederate Submarine

The H.L. Hunley was one the first submarines ever made and was used by The Confederacy during The Civil War.

## Origin

The H.L. Hunley was original called "The Fish Boat" was one of three submarines invited by James McClinton in 1863.

## Civil War

During the Civil War the Hunley was being used and accidentally sank when the hatch's were still open leading to the deaths of 5 sailors, the submarine also sunk during a demonstration and wasn't found for almost a month until being discovered with the dead crewmates also, the creator also died in a other experiment. On February 7th 1864 The Hunley sunk The U.S.S. Housatonic being the first time in history a submarine sunk a boat in combat.

## Disappearance and rediscovery

After The U.S.S. Housatonic sunk the Hunley disappeared and was discovered in 1970 by E. Lee Spence and was put into a preservation tank in South Carolina. The submarine had been preserved by mud and preserved everything inside. it was later discovered that the crew died because of the torpedo going off and being killed by the blast.
Jersey Devil

in 1735 a women named Mother Leeds crushed her 13th son wished he were a "Devil", on a stormy night she went into labor giving birth to a normal baby but several years later it grew taller and sprouted wings, in 1820 Joseph Bonaparte brother of Napoleon reportedly saw it while hunting in America, over the centuries many reported it killing livestock and a 10,000$ bounty was placed on his head but he was never found.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey\_Devil
Winchester 1400 the worst shotgun made in the U.S

The Winchester 1400 is a semi-shotgun made in the year 1964 in response to the Mossberg 500 and the Remington 870 and 1100, unlike its counterparts 1400 was a success due to how cheap it was, it was made of primarily plastic and the magazine throat was also the bolt release which caused it to be complicated to handle and the throat was redesigned in 1968 and it is still being sold today.

1. ↑ https://www.fieldandstream.com/guns/worst-shotguns-ever/?dicbo=v2-650efcae36901a0a643b982a3afe0425
John Gray the last Revolutionary war veteran

John Gray was a the last Revolutionary War veteran

## Birth and Revolutionary War

John was born in Virginia during the Revolutionary war and his father died during Battle of White Plains when john was 16, John would later join the Continental Army and fought in the Battle of Yorktown.

## death

He later moved to Ohio where he had 3 wives and 4 kids and died at the age of 104.

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11163444/john-gray
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Gray\_(American\_Revolutionary\_War\_soldier)
John Flammang Schrank

## Early life and Motive

John was born in the German state of Bavaria in 1876, in 1889 his family traveled to New York City but while their his parents died which led to him living with his uncle and helping him run his tavern, but his aunt and uncle died causing him the spiral into mental disarray, one day he had a dream of the ghost of 25th president William McKinley telling him that Teddy Roosevelt assassinated him (which was false).

## Near Assassination

After this dream he decided to buy a revolver and on October 14, 1912 Theodore Roosevelt was traveling across the Mid West Untied States to gain support for his reelection, and while in Milwaukee, Wisconsin John shot him as he stood up in his car but the bullet was hindered by his 50 page speech and after the shot he delivered a long speech before being rushed to the hospital, John on the other hand got disarmed by a Czech man named Frank Bukovsky and sent to Central State Mental Hospital where he would die in 1943.

Newspaper talking about the attack from the Albuquerque Morning JournalJohn Schrank in Epic Rap Battles of HistoryJohn under arrestJohns 38. caliber colt revolverRoosevelts shirt with bloodRoosevelts speech with bullet holes
1. ↑ https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Law-and-Justice/John-Flammang-Schrank.aspx