33 Rare Photos Taken Before And After The Titanic's Sinking, The Sex Cult Leader Who Helped Send America To Space, And More

See this week's most popular stories on History Uncovered. [History Uncovered]( [33 Titanic Photos Taken Before And After Its Ill-Fated Voyage]( [At 11:39 p.m. on a clear April night, lookout Frederick Fleet yelled "Iceberg, right ahead!" Two hours and 40 minutes later, the RMS Titanic sank, taking 1,500 lives with it.]( [Archaeologists In Albania Find A 1,600-Year-Old Indoor Swimming Pool In A Lavish Ancient Roman Villa]( [While excavating the site of a future school building, Albanian archaeologists discovered the ruins of ancient villas where Roman elites once lived — and one held an elaborate indoor pool.]( [Sam Giancana: Chicago Godfather, CIA Collaborator, And The Man Who May Have Put JFK In The White House]( [Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana aided a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro, allegedly helped assassinate President Kennedy, and may have been with Marilyn Monroe on her last night alive.]( [Archaeologists Uncover Artifacts That May Provide Clues About The Fate Of The Roanoke Colony]( [Workers unearthed pottery shards and a copper ring at the site of an Algonquian village.]( [The Wild Story Of Jack Parsons, The Sex Cult Leader Who Helped Send America To Space]( [Jack Parsons was a self-taught rocket scientist who invented the fuel that would eventually send the Space Shuttle into orbit, but he also rubbed elbows with occultist Aleister Crowley and allegedly attempted to summon a sex goddess with L. Ron Hubbard.]( [A New Analysis Of Beethoven's Hair May Finally Reveal Why The Legendary Composer Went Deaf]( [Researchers found shockingly high levels of lead in Ludwig van Beethoven's hair, which may help explain why the legendary composer went deaf.]( [Archaeologists Just Uncovered A Medieval Church And Several Bodies Under The Tennis Court At A Hilltop Castle In Hungary]( [The Face Of An Ancient Egyptian Woman Whose Mummified Head Was Sitting In An Australian High School Was Just Recreated By A Forensic Sculptor]( [The facial reconstruction has revealed the woman behind the mummy, which has been kept at Australia's Grafton High School for over a century.]( [The Heartbreaking Story Of Neilia Hunter, Joe Biden's First Wife Who Died At Age 30]( [Shortly after Joe Biden won his first big election and earned a Delaware seat in the U.S. Senate, his first wife Neilia Hunter reportedly asked him, "What's going to happen, Joey? Things are too good." Just weeks later, she would be dead in a sudden car accident.]( [Construction Of A Power Plant In Southern Italy Just Revealed A Sprawling Iron Age Necropolis]( [The Iron Age site near Amorosi, Italy dates to the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. and features dozens of tombs of high-status individuals from the "Pit Burial Culture."]( [English Family Renovating Their Kitchen Stumbles Upon More Than 1,000 17th-Century Coins Under The Floor]( ["If we hadn't lowered the floor, they would still be hidden there."]( [Archaeologists In Greece Just Uncovered Alexander The Great's Bathroom At The Palace Of Aigai]( [The communal bathroom, where Alexander the Great likely bathed with his close friend and suspected lover Hephaestion, was attached to a gymnasium where the men trained in sports and combat.]( [How Pearl Hart Went From A Privileged Teen To A Cigar-Smoking, Gunslinging Wild West Bandit]( [In 1899, Pearl Hart disguised herself as a man and set out to rob a stagecoach — and swiftly became one of Arizona's most legendary bandits.]( [An Ancient Roman Burial Of An Embracing Mother And Daughter Has Been Uncovered In Austria]( [Listen To The History Uncovered Podcast]( [Most people know the “Ring Around the Rosie” nursery rhyme, and most people have heard that it has a dark meaning: It’s all about the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which tore through Europe in the 14th century. But is that really true?]( [Become An All That's Interesting Member]( [For just $4.99 a month, you'll enjoy all our content without ads, receive a quarterly letter from the editor, and get exclusive access to premium podcast episodes.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Web Version]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](