"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Quote by Booker T. Washington, educator and author

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They may kill millions of innocent people, but do tyrants get sappy in love letters? The answer, apparently, is yes. John Kirkland has dug deep into various archives and found the love letters of many revered men as well as a few terrible tyrants and has published his findings in the book, Love Letter of Great Men.

This CNN World article shares snippets of what the relationships of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Napoleon Bonaparte were like. As a general rule, it doesn't end well for their spouses. But find out how the dictators acted in the beginnings of their relationships.

In the past, the Mormon Church has posthumously baptized Jewish victims of the Holocaust, which was supposed to have stopped after a huge public outcry against it. However, it has happened again. This time, amidst the list of Holocaust victims, was famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal's mother, Rosa. Rosa died in the Belzec concentration camp in 1942.

The Mormon Church has issued an apology, putting blame on a single individual. They said that it is against Church policy to baptize Holocaust victims and that the person responsible would no longer be allowed to access the Church's genealogy records.

For more about this most recent round of Holocaust victim baptisms, see this Telegraph article.

In 1918, 34 German WWI soldiers were in an underground shelter when an Allied bomb exploded above it. The ceiling caved in, killing all 34. At the time, 13 bodies were able to be removed but the rest had to be left. Over 90 years later, the underground shelter was rediscovered.

Inside the preserved shelter, French archaeologists have found skeletal remains of the remaining soldiers, still in the positions in which they died. Personal effects were also found, including wallets and cigarette cases. Surprisingly, even some newspaper clippings were found and were still readable.

For more about what was found in this amazing find, please see this Telegraph article.