If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards or found yourself squinting at an antique Christmas card, you may have noticed something… peculiar. Where you might expect jolly Santas, twinkling trees, and cute robins, you instead find frogs brandishing sticks, insects pulling children in carts, and dead birds. Yes, dead birds. Victorian Christmas cards were, by modern standards, downright bizarre. Sometimes they were unsettling, occasionally grotesque, and frequently

On December 18, 1994, 27 year old Alison Botha was driving home after a beach day with friends in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Within a couple of hours she'd be raped, stabbed dozens of times, disemboweled and left for dead on the side of the road. She survived anyway, and the story of how she did it, what her attackers turned out to be, and what's happened to her since, is one of the most remarkable in modern true crime. Who Alison Botha Was Before the Attack Before Decembe

In the summer of 1959, photographer Bruce Davidson embedded himself with The Jokers , a street gang from Brooklyn, New York . What emerged from those months was a candid and haunting portrait of urban youth—one that captured both their energy and their struggles. Davidson, then 25 years old, created a body of work that has become a seminal depiction of post-war adolescence on the edges of society. “At first I went with a Youth Board worker to take pictures of their wounds fro