10 Gilles van LedenbergCoffin Hung And Dumped In A Ditch The Netherlands had an 80-year struggle (1568–1648) with Spain that was interposed with the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609–21). After the decades-long conflict ended, the Dutch immediately engaged in a petty theological dispute among themselves. They clashed over predestination and the exact time that God decides whether a soul will be admitted to Heaven. There were also political concerns over whether to resume the war, and tensions increased between the centralized government and the provinces....

Discovering what stories influenced certain songs, however, can be fascinating not just for the insight it provides into the songs themselves, but for what it tells of the creative process behind the compositions and the individuals responsible. Whether you’re familiar with the songs in this list and the books behind them or not, you’re sure to learn something interesting. Let’s get to it, then 10 Rock And Metal Musicians Who Killed Someone...

Richard David James, aka Aphex Twin, is an electronic musician who has been described as “the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music. His unique production style and arrangment has popularised a then small genre of music (gabba). In 1992 Rolling Stone magazine wrote of the album: “Aphex Twin expanded way beyond the ambient music of Brian Eno by fusing lush soundscapes with oceanic beats and bass lines....

10 The Weeknd And The Devil The Weeknd rose to fame in 2013 with his hit tracks “Can’t Feel My Face,” “The Hills,” and “Earned It.” In fact, these songs landed in the top three spots on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. Watch this video on YouTube However, not everyone is convinced that hard work and perseverance made the singer famous. Some firmly believe that all the videos for his album, Beauty Behind The Madness, allude to his relationship with the Devil....

NOTE: Judging intelligence is an extremely subjective matter and will always spark debate, however I did abide by some criteria when making my selections. My judgments were made solely based on their lyricism (not their intelligence as a human being, not knowing any of the rappers on this list personally) regarding (a.) mastery and exemplary use of language, (b.) literacy and knowledgeability, and (c.) overall subject matter, concept and artistic statement....

Eruptions deluged inhabitants six times over the course of two days. Each subsequent explosion was releasing deadly, superhot gases and ash along with a rain of volcanic fallout, followed by a pyroclastic surge and flow which is more lethal than lava due to its high temperature and speed. When it was all over, an estimated 6 meters (20 ft) of volcanic debris and ash had buried Pompeii and its inhabitants....

10 Pencil An ancient Roman writing instrument, the stylus, gave rise to the modern pencil. Some early styluses were made of lead. When graphite was documented in Borrowdale, England, in 1564, the mineral replaced the heavy metal. Graphite left a darker mark on papyrus, but it was so soft that it crumbled easily. To protect the graphite, a holder had to be fashioned for it. The first holders were nothing more than string wound around graphite sticks....

The famous feline attitude simply indicates that they do it for the love of the job, not for treats or recognition. Here are 10 cats that have performed important, unusual, or adorable jobs. 10 Unbelievable Things We Have Made Out Of Cats 10 Chief Mouser To The Cabinet Office Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is a very prestigious position at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister....

10 War Hammers Were Probably Nothing Like You Think Many people have a completely false idea of war hammers due to popular media, especially video games. They’re depicted as being immensely long-handled with huge heads at least the size of a human’s. Most people are so used to seeing this that they just accept it as real, but it’s nothing at all like the reality. A hammer like those in video games would be incredibly impractical....

10The First Gold Rush Was Not In The West One of the defining events of the American West is the California Gold Rush of the 1840s and 1850s. The discovery of gold spurred on westward settlement, but America’s first gold rush towns were settled decades earlier, and much farther east. In 1799, 12-year-old Conrad Reed discovered an 8-kilogram (17 lb) hunk of gold while he was playing in a creek on the family’s North Carolina farm....

This list rounds up the ten best uses of silence in films that otherwise use sound (so actual silent films are excluded). This goes beyond just having no dialogue and includes an absence of music too. For example, while the first ten minutes of Pixar’s Up (2009) feature no talking, the score fills that gap. This list includes examples of simulated silence, as well as rare instances of the audio track being completely silent....

10 Homegrown North Korean ‘Inventions’ 10 Gas Resistant Strollers In England, a quite ungainly contraption known as the “Gas-Proof Pram,” was born out of fear and necessity. These gas-proof prams, or gas-resistant strollers were a product produced in the late 1930’s, both by the use of mustard and chlorine gas in World War One and the looming threat of their use again by the new Nazi regime. Although there is not much information available on these short-lived things (hence the reason for the brevity of this article), they were produced by F....

10 Everlasting Lama In 2015, the mummified corpse of Buddhist lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov was discovered in Mongolia’s Songinokhairkhan province. The 90-year-old remains were found in the depths of a monastery, seated in lotus position and wrapped in calfskin. Born in 1842, Lama Dashi-Dorzho was a monk of the Tibetan Buddhist school. In 1927, Dashi-Dorzho, age 75, gathered his students and announced that he was preparing to die. He advised his acolytes to look upon his body in 30 years....

Pope Saint Cornelius (d. 253) Feast Day: September 16 Cornelius was dragged kicking and screaming to the papacy in 251. He knew it was a death sentence, since the Romans had stepped up their persecution of the Christians and any pope was sure to meet a swift demise. Pope Cornelius enjoyed a relatively lengthy tenure, not being martyred for two whole years before his neck met with the sharp end of an ax....

10The Eternal Flame in New York A rather unusual location for such an incredible natural phenomenon, New York is home to one of the most curious unsolved mysteries. Fire and water may be opposing elements, but here these two forces create a magical spectacle. The eternal flame nestled in Chestnut Ridge Park is one of a kind. There’s a small grotto, concealed behind a 35-foot waterfall, that contains a burning flame....

In this list, we will look at some plants that contain such high doses of toxins to which humans are sensitive that some can kill you in a matter of hours. In some cases, many animals have a much higher tolerance to the poison than humans, and all the plants on this list are known, human killers. It’s shocking to read this and recognize some of the plants you grew up playing around, knowing that just one bite could have killed you, and knowing just how curious children are....

10 RahabJericho The story of Rahab comes from the Book of Joshua in the Torah and tells of a woman who ran an inn and brothel adjacent to the wall of Jericho during that city’s siege by the Israelites, commanded by Joshua. Before entering the city, Joshua sent two spies to Rahab’s in order to properly assess the military strength of Jericho. When Jericho’s soldiers went to capture the spies believed to be under Rahab’s roof, she hid the men under piles of flax and barley....

According to Randi, a large number of European businesses uses graphology (the ability to determine a person’s traits by their handwriting) to help in their hiring process. In this clip, Randi tests a professional graphologist to determine whether they actually do have the ability to recognize certain traits, or whether their results are determined entirely by chance. Astrology is the ability to forecast a person’s life based upon the positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies....

This list isn’t meant to generate unnecessary fear or anxiety about any of these topics because the odds of any of these happening to you are extremely low. Rather, it is meant to bring awareness to the complications that some extremely unlucky people have faced after entering some extremely common scenarios. If you suffer from any form of hypochondriasis or illness anxiety, you probably shouldn’t keep reading. 10 Hot Tea Our body is made up of various types of tissue, depending on the normal stresses that it goes through....

By selective breeding practices and geographic isolation, hundreds of dog breeds have been created to do man’s bidding. Some breeds never came into vogue, others never had large population numbers, and more have had their livelihoods phased out, and are now considered rare. 10. Catalburun This breed is a Turkish Pointer, and is readily identified by its “split-nose”. This may be the result of severe inbreeding, or because the local hunters prized the fabled hunting prowess of split-nosed dogs over pointers with normal appearing noses....