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AbstractThe infamous blood eagle ritual has long been controversial: did Viking Age Nordic people really torture one another to death by severing their ribs from their spine and removing their lung...
Image zoom Credit: Getty Images/InStyle.com Of all the photos of the carnage in the U.S. Capitol building yesterday, there are a few I just can't seem to shake. There's the picture of four bullet holes in the glass of the door leading to the House steps, and the one of an insurrectionist with his feet propped on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's desk. And then there's an image as perplexing as it is disturbing, of a man with his face painted with stars and stripes, a horned helmet made of fur pelts on his head, his...