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The eternal city falls after 800 years
After three days of plunder, the Visigoths under King Alaric finally departed Rome. For the first time in nearly eight centuries, a foreign enemy had breached the walls of the eternal city. Though Rome was no longer the administrative capital, its fall reverberated across the ancient world, a thunderclap announcing that the old order was crumbling before the barbarian tide.
The real monster behind fiction's worst nightmares
In La Crosse County, Wisconsin, Edward Theodore Gein was born into an isolated, disturbed household. He would become one of America's most notorious criminals, whose ghastly murders and grave robberies shocked the nation in 1957. The horrors discovered in his farmhouse inspired cinema's most iconic villains, including Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.
The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.