In looking at this life, it’s easy to see what makes him an interesting—and horrible—Victorian rogue. 10 Like Father, Like Son I’m not suggesting for a moment that Charles’s father, John, a collier from Burton-on-Trent, was involved in any kind of criminality. What he and his youngest son had in common is that they each went to the Pearly Gates incomplete; John having lost his lower left leg following a workplace accident, and Charles being minus a full complement of fingers on his left hand....

From Endor to WOLF: 359, crowds cheer for space explosions. While fans worldwide love the androids, aliens, and asteroid belts, sci-fi’s most famous aspect is undoubtedly space battles! A few stand out among the countless battles in the annuls of sci-fi flicks. Let’s explore the best space battles in sci-fi movie and TV history. 10 Guardians of the Galaxy vs. the Sovereign Fleet Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 picks up with the titular group doing a job for The Sovereign, a genetically superior and consequently smug alien race....

SEE ALSO: 10 Astonishing Cures That Will Make You Believe in Miracles A Marian apparition is an event in which the Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons regardless of their religious faith. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the sobriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition. They have been interpreted in psychological terms as pareidolia, and in religious terms as theophanies....

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Hemispherectomy Believe it or not, this surgical procedure involves removing or disabling an entire half of the brain. This procedure is used to treat a variety of seizure disorders where the source of the epilepsy is localized to a broad area of a single hemisphere of the brain. It is reserved for cases which can’t be managed with medication alone. The first time this surgery was performed on a human was in 1923 by Walter Dandy....

In chronological order, here are ten catastrophes that, to varying degrees, were overshadowed by more prominent catastrophes. 10 NYC Horrors That Were As Traumatic As 9/11 10 Uncivil: The Sand Creek Massacre Fortunately for America’s first inhabitants, during the Civil War US soldiers were largely too busy slaughtering each other to slaughter Indians. There were, however, exceptions, including a four-month fight with the Dakota people in 1862. The US lost more than 100 servicemen and 350 settlers before driving the tribe’s famously fearsome warriors back....

What most people don’t realize, though, is that the converse is true, too. Geography plays an equally important role in holding a region back, though that’s usually attributed to bad politics or cultural differences. While those factors may play a prominent role, too, they’re not enough to explain how so many countries around the world are still dealing with the same logistical and economic problems they’ve always had. It all makes sense, however, as soon as you take a good look at their map....

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But what about truly cursed towns? The following locations are all believed to be centers of extraordinary hauntings, malevolent witchery, or some other form of darkness. None are for the faint of heart. 10 Al Jazirah Al Hamra The abandoned fishing village of Al Jazirah Al Hamra is located on the northeastern tip of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Before the oil boom in the 1960s, the village was relatively prosperous and full of quaint houses, many of which dated back to ancient times....

On December 20, 2016, Reynolds had told a close friend that she’d had a ‘vision’ and that something bad was going to happen to her daughter. In the vision she saw a dark cloud which moved over and settled on the side of the bed her daughter usually sat on when she visited. She also told her caretaker that “Carrie is not coming home.” Several other celebrities have had premonitions of their own deaths or of the death of a celebrity friend....

Note: I know many will wonder why Frances Farmer in not included in this list. There is no proof that Frances Farmer ever had a lobotomy and the author who initially alleged this admitted in a court proceeding that he had made it up. Notable Because: First prefrontal lobotomy procedure in the United States The first prefrontal lobotomy in the United States was performed in 1936 on 63 year old Alice Hood Hammatt by Dr....

All the same, bank robberies are very real events in which people can (and do) lose their lives, not to mention the aftereffects on those who survive. The following list takes a historical look at both the early days of bank robbery in the United States as well as inexplicably bizarre and shocking heists that have been largely forgotten. 10 Reconstruction Era During the Civil War, bank heists were not considered to be robberies but acts of war....

Funeral rituals vary tremendously. Whether in the same country or on opposite sides of the world, people find unique ways to send off their family and friends who have died. Here are 10 fascinating funerals found around the world. In many ways, the United States is a land of convenience. Fast food chains sit on many street corners throughout the country so that anyone can drive through and grab a bite to eat, no matter their schedule....

10 Deep Time On the first floor of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, a 31,000 square foot fossil hall embodies the theme ‘Deep Time’ and houses one of the biggest exhibits in Washington D.C. The visitor’s journey here begins 4.6 billion years ago, but doesn’t have a definitive end. The Deep Time exhibit reflects on billions of years of science and presents the life-sized fossils of an American mastodon, a woolly mammoth, a giant sloth and many more....

On the other hand, we’re a bunch of shaved primates. Any male on the wrong side of 40, like myself, loses hair where there should be and gains hair where there shouldn’t be. Skin sags, spines curl, teeth rot… all reminders of the grand irony of the body human: its simultaneous glory and grossness. We’re all human and, therefore, all disgusting. Here are ten examples. 10 Disgusting Beauty Treatments...

But art was not always the joyous, primary-color explosions of a Van Gogh or the blissfully serene pastel hues of a Monet. Nor was it always the heroic subjects of Greek and Roman marble sculptors or the study of beauty painted by Klimt, Botticelli, or Michelangelo. The darker side of existence has a place too… “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance” – Aristotle; read this list with that quote in mind, and you’ll never sleep again....

There is however some degree of foundation to this surreality. The ghost town is common among the Americas, especially in the Central and Southern states. Surveys suggest that there are around 6,000 abandoned sites of settlement in Kansas alone. But what can cause such large-scale loss of population? One of the main factors is depleting natural resources, linking to roads and railways bypassing certain places. Another more sinister cause can be disaster, whether natural or man-made....

The frosty wonder can also move in nanoseconds, hide things for millions of years, and become the material of choice in a nuclear disaster. Ice is celebrated in a big way all over the world—from China to Norway, where festivals bring out the true splendor and weirdness of this natural wonder. 10 Long-Lasting Ice Pop A hot day can melt an ice pop so fast that you end up licking your hand more than the snack....

10‘Beer Day’ Iceland, whose alcohol consumption has increased 35 percent between 1992 and 2012, has an official holiday on the first of March known as “Beer Day.” The history behind the date symbolizes much more than simply becoming intoxicated. It all began in 1915 when prohibition went into effect in Iceland. A short time after, Spain threatened that if Iceland didn’t begin importing Spanish wines once again then Spain would stop all importation of salted cod, which would be a major blow to Iceland’s economy....

Named after former South African leader Nelson Mandela, the term was used to describe the collective experience in which many believed that he had died in the 1980s while in prison. The fact, however, (at least according to our current reality) is that he was released in 1990 and died at the age of 95 in 2013. Nowadays, the Mandela effect is used to describe these false memories, details, and occurrences....