The Devil in the White City

socially aware of missing people. I started off following Missing Manitobans, Bear Clan and Winnipeg Police. It was incredibly eye opening to see how many people were going missing and some of the common traits, Indigenous and Female. Almost every time a white individual would go missing the post would be shared by numerous members of my friends and family, but when the individual was Indigenous than fewer people would share it. I brought this up to several of my friends and family members and…

The Archangel Finds His Champion Archangel Michael stared down from the golden glowing clouds of Heaven, searching the earth for The One. Lucifer had already found his moral warrior, the black king stealing the first move in their little game of sacrificial lambs and slaughter. Now it was Michael’s turn to select a pawn, to decide which little piece of the board he wanted to invade. There was a man, big and quick on his feet, an ideal fighter – yet not such a smart one. His left guard was…

The Axeman of New Orleans is said to be one of the most bloodthirsty, psychotic, manic murders in American history. He was horrific he is compared to London’s famous Jack the Ripper. His reign lasted from May 1918 to October 1919. He filled the city of New Orleans with horror and fear for over a year. Regardless of the massive amount of evidence left at the crime scene, the technology at the time was not advanced enough for him to be caught. No one knows what truly happened the day the Axeman…

Matthew Bodiford English 12-4 Mrs. Kidwell February 22, 2015 The Knights Templar Imagine all of Europe’s wealth and all of its best men all gathered onto one single force. That’s what the Knights Templar essential were. They had military forces and unbelievable wealth unbeaten by any sole king or kingdom. With all this wealth who knows what else they are capable of. They could for all we know still exist today and have awesome treasures you only read about. If the Knights Templar were still…

H. H. Holmes was one of America’s first serial killers who killed up to two hundred in Chicago by luring his victims to his “hotel” while keeping everyone 's suspicion low by telling very convincing lies. He killed these people in a building he advertised as the World’s Fair Hotel. It was not a hotel but an intricate murder castle filled with different ways to kill his victims. Holmes was always interested in medicine and implicated that later in life. He was eventually arrested while trying to…

The Enlightenment may have brought us the ideas of democracy, and the Industrial Revolution may have eventually led to the technological marvel that is the cell phone, but equally important is the movement sparked in their opposition. Through the minds of Locke, Montesquieu, Whitney and Watt, the modern ages of government and technology were born, but not all at the time were completely in favor of these ideas. In fact, there was an artistic movement that began as a response to these glorious…

Drilling successfully into a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake had miraculously unearthed the now indispensable substance known as petroleum, opening the gates to a world never seen before. Ever since that date, oil has been in the vanguard of innovation, powering homes, cars and asserting itself as the chief resource that helps countries function. At a torrid pace, oil mining was becoming not only lucrative, but a necessity, and thus began a global…

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a famous sculptor, painter and architect whose work in the Sistine Chapel is widely known to be one of the greatest pieces of fresco work in the Italian Renaissance. Every year millions of people travel to Vatican City to see his impressive artwork. Not only is the Sistine Chapel an attraction for art lovers, but for Christians the Sistine Chapel is considered to be one of the holiest chapels. The Sistine Chapel was built between 1475 and 1483 and named…

example, at his lavish parties, he is known to take suspicious calls, that his butler informs him of, from various cities around the country. Because of these skeptical calls, rumors start to swirl from numerous attendees. Such rumors consist of accusations that “‘He’s a bootlegger . . . ‘one time he killed a man’ . . . ‘he (is) nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil’” (Fitzgerald 61). As expected, these outlandish rumors are not true, but they are not far off. The reader later…

life and making it big, these stories encourage and excite us. Of course, the Battle of Thermopylae is no exception to our desire for seeing a group defy the odds and come out victorious. When 300 Spartan soldiers, along with men from other Ionian city states, gazed at the sea of Persian men amassed in front of them, no doubt they knew they would be crushed by the waves of the enemy. King Xerxes overlooked the site of the battle from his throne with complete confidence. How could 80,000 of his…