An American Family had viewers on the edge of their seats as the day-to-day lives of the Loud family were chronicled and their dirty laundry aired for all to see. At the time, the documentary-style series itself was enough to make people go “WTF!” However, An American Family paved the way for more complex and less “perfect” depictions of families in the shows that followed, including Roseanne and The Simpsons....
Quotes 1 – 5 We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. There is no such thing as a good tax. Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries....
Root Chakra The Root Chakra is located between the anus and genitalia. It is represented with the color red. The Root Chakra is the energy center that helps you feel at home in situations. It is also what controls your feeling of physically being there. You will have a sufficient trust level for other people. When you feel nervous or fearful this Chakra is under-active or blocked. When it is over active, you will tend to obsess with security and very resistant to change....
Marcia Munro of Toronto, Canada, underwent a medical procedure involving receiving fecal enemas to treat her intestinal condition. Yes, you read that right. Called a fecal transplant, this peculiar medical procedure is used to treat victims of the intestinal superbug Clostridium difficult. C. difficult, which commonly spreads in hospital environments, can cause chronic diarrhea or colitis, among many other symptoms. When conventional antibiotic treatments fail to eradicate the bug, stool samples from a healthy donor (usually a relative) are obtained and screened for disease like H....
10 Bridget Durgan In the late 19th century, popular ideology considered servants as society’s lower class, easily susceptible to a life of crime and murder. Such a critique was bestowed upon Bridget Durgan, an Irish servant described in tabloids throughout the US as “a wild beast and fiend.” In 1867, Durgan stabbed her employer, Mrs. Coriel, to death. Newspapers speculated that Durgan was in love with and wanted to marry Mr....
10 Anthony Bluml Teenage mother Kisha Schaberg placed her two sons, Anthony and Christopher, for adoption. Both boys were taken in by Roger and Melissa Bluml of Valley Center, Kansas. In fall 2013, Kisha contacted her sons on Facebook. Anthony jumped at the chance to reconcile with his biological mother. The mother and son soon began discussing their hatred of the Blumls. Kisha felt that the Blumls were keeping her from her children while Anthony was upset that he had recently been kicked out of the house because he used drugs....
The animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, the bronze medallion acknowledges extraordinary valor and has worldwide recognition as the highest honor that can be given to any animal in military conflict. Exceptional acts of bravery performed on the civil front by police dogs, horses, and guide dogs can also earn the elite medal bearing the words “We Also Serve.” 10 Winkie On February 23, 1942, a Beaufort bomber and her crew were in serious trouble....
10 650-Year-Old Treasure Andreas K. was digging in his backyard when he stumbled across several pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects. The items were caked with dirt, and Andreas believed that they were worthless. He left the objects in a box in his basement for two years, only to rediscover them when he was cleaning the basement out in 2011. The soil had dried, and some of the dirt had fallen off, which revealed the precious metal and jewels underneath....
Take one of the direct international flights into Flores to explore this wondrous region. From the cobblestone streets of colonial Flores to the imposing Mayan ruins of Tikal, Peten offers an affordable and safe alternative for visitors to Guatemala. On a steamy summer day, you can dip into the cool waters of Lake Peten Itza or tour the caves of Ak’tun Kan. And make sure you take away some of the great local habanero chile salsa, unless you’re just too afraid of it....
However, the Times is much more than a newspaper. Since 2011, the paper has regularly teamed up with a wide variety of filmmakers to produce some truly amazing documentaries. These op-docs cover a range of topics from South American sports to Asian addiction to the confessions of one of California’s most infamous killers. Regardless of subject matter, these op-docs are wonderfully made and incredibly insightful. And while most are under 10 minutes long, these brief little films are all beautifully unique and definitely worth your time....
10Slight Genetic Mutation 800 Million Years Ago Leads To Multicellular Life Researchers found that an ancient molecule, GK-PID, is the reason single-celled organisms started to evolve into multicellular organisms approximately 800 million years ago. The molecule has been found to be like a molecular carabiner able to pull chromosomes together to latch them onto the inner wall of a cell membrane when division occurs. This allows cells to copy properly and avoid becoming cancerous....
While animal testing is very crucial to the success of human medications, there are amazing lines of research involving animals in a less traditional sense. Some involve training animals to sniff out diseases, utilizing their body fluids for human treatment, or even using components of otherwise deadly venoms. Whether you are for or against animal testing, the things on this list will be sure to blow your mind! 10 Dogs Smell Cancer There are many stories out there telling the tale of how a pet owner noticed their dog acting strange around them....
Modern-day rituals are common, and many of these extend far back in history. Examples of these ceremonies, which can include a religious coming-of-age, are a quinceanera, bar or bat mitzvah, First Holy Communion, Rumspringa, bullet ant initiation, sunrise ceremony, or a sweet sixteen. These types of transitional rituals into adulthood were highly prevalent in ancient cultures, too. Here are the traditions that 10 ancient cultures followed to turn their children into adults....
10Emperor Julian Like many a Roman emperor, Julian was concerned with keeping the integrity of the Empire together, and one of the ways the officials did that was public ceremonial sacrifices. Though Judaism was granted certain privileges in Roman society, thanks in part to its historical practice, Christianity was not given the same regard. The Christians had a duty to practice traditional Roman religious rituals, an act many of them refused to perform....
For much of our evolutionary history, we were on the menus of quite a few predators. Early humans, hominins, and ancient primates, including ancestors of we Homo sapiens, bore the brunt of the vicious appetites of several wild animals that regularly hunted them for food. 10 Saber-Toothed Cat Saber-toothed cats did not hesitate to munch down on early humans whenever they got the opportunity. In 2015, scientists recovered 300,000-year-old tooth and bone fossils from two saber-toothed cats in Schoningen, Germany....
There are certainly some gray areas of the pharmaceutical industry, mainly revolving around the cost of manufacturing against the cost to the patient. However, while drug companies are arguably guilty of making a killing in terms of mass profit, it is surely a stretch to think that they are literally killing off alternative competition, right? When some of these cases are examined (and there are over 70 such claims and counting), many of the deceased are not (outwardly at least) holistic doctors and their deaths are not particularly suspicious....
For most people, this payday and level of wealth will always remain an unattainable dream that few people are willing to invest time or money into achieving. But for the incredibly lucky few, great fortunes are still out there, just waiting to be discovered. With that in mind, here are 10 examples of ordinary people who made astonishing discoveries that made them millions of dollars overnight. 10 Hand of Faith Gold Nugget, Australia: $1 Million In the fall of 1980, Kevin Hillier and his family were traveling up and down the Australian coast in a van searching for work opportunities....
Such a system inevitably leads to populations mired in poverty with restrictive laws, loss of basic personal freedoms, and no means of escaping debt, let alone accumulating wealth. Many in the United States believe that the country is scarily close to embracing this form of government, and still others believe that it already has. And indeed, there are many well-established aspects of fascist societies that have taken root in the United States, some more recently than others....
Whether your teacher will tell you or not, most of the authors on your summer reading list led lives that would make Hugh Hefner blush. And those were the nice ones. A few of your teacher’s favorite writers were qualifiably horrible people. 10 George Orwell Sold His Friends Out To The Secret Service The man who warned us about a grim future in which spies and secret police drag people away for having dangerous thoughts wasn’t exactly as staunch of a freedom-lover as he might seem....
Before then, however, France had a long and successful military history. From seizing Gaul by force after the fall of Rome to dominating Europe throughout the Middle Ages and again during the reign of Louis XVI, France was the strongest military force in Europe for centuries before it was eclipsed by Germany at the turn of the 20th century. Even after 1900, France remained a significant military power. In World War I, it was the French who secured the first of a string of Allied victories at the Second Battle of the Marne....
