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A team of international archaeologists from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have recovered a partial skeleton -- believed to be from a male in his early 20s -- from its watery gravesite about 50 meters (165 feet) below the surface. And researchers hope it could shed light on what caused the ship to sink off of the jagged coastline more than 2,000 years ago. It was the first dive on the first day, within three minutes of hitting the bottom and a couple of hand swipes to move away the sediment, long bones appeared and then the skull. It was pretty exciting," Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist with WHOI and co-director of the expedition. A treasure trove from antiquity.... The excavations have yielded a partial skull, including a jaw and three teeth, two arm bones, multiple rib fragments and two femurs. Foley says that the bones were located on August 31 during the team's second expedition of the season. Archaeolog...

1.The Hiroshima Bombing: At the end of the second world war, the Allies drafted the 'Potsdam Declaration' which demanded Japan's immediate surrender. The Japanese Premier, Kataro Suzuki,sent a communication in response to the request using the Japanese word, 'Mokusatsu'.Mokusatsu can be translated in different ways and Suzuki meant that they were contemplating the matter. However, the translator for the allies misinterpreted the word,thinking it meant that the Japanese were ignoring the request of the Allies. Ten days following the misunderstood communication, the United States had dropped the Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima on July 28,1945 marking the end of the second world war. 2. Constantinople: The city of Constantinople was once thought to be impenetrable due to the presence of the thick walls around it. Being the capital city of the Byzantine Empire ,it was heavily guarded from the time it was built in around 330 AD. Named after Constantine the Great, t...

1. Mahendipur Balaji Temple, Rajasthan 'People here perform penance by pouring boiling water on themselves.' The Mahendipur Balaji Temple in Rajasthan is notorious for the type of penance presented there. It's  one of the only places in India where live exorcisms are still practised . It's located in Dausa district, and is visited by thousands of devotees everyday offering penance in extreme ways, ranging from pouring boiling water on themselves to chaining themselves to the walls. Basically, it's thought that there are a lot of evil spirits around this place. 2. Dattatreya Mandir, Gangapur People scream abuses at god while hanging from the roof at this mandir. This temple is situated in In Madhya Pradesh's Betul district and to say that it's eerie would be an understatement. People come here during the new moon and the full moon, and once everyone is assembles, the 'Mahamangal Aarti ' begins at 11.30am. During this, people can...

Often called the world's 'Luckiest Unluckiest Man' , Frane Selak , a Croatian music teacher who allegedly escaped death SEVEN   times and afterward won the lottery in 2003 prompting journalists to dub him 'the world's luckiest man' , and 'the world's unluckiest man'. The story   is so unbelievable that you’d walk away from a movie, heck, a documentary of his life thinking it was too unrealistic. But it’s not. It’s a true story. Born in 1929 and from Croatia, Frane Selak’s terrifyingly unlucky but  incredibly lucky timeline  goes like this: In January 1962 when he was riding a train through a cold, rainy canyon and the train flipped off the tracks and crashed in a river. Someone pulled Selak to safety, while 17 other passengers drowned.  Selak suffered a broken arm and  hypothermia. The next year, during his first and only plane ride, he was blown out of a malfunctioning plane door and landed in a  haystack ; the plane crashed, killing 19 peopl...