Champ and Nessie are creatures that have similar backgrounds and descriptions. People have reported seeing these creatures in Lake Champlain, USA, and Loch Ness, in Scotland. Reports of Nessie describe the creature as being 20 feet long with dark grey skin. She is reported as having humps and at least one set of paddles. She has a head similar to a horse‘s. Witness reports vary on the description, but not by a lot....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Cursed And Haunted Household Items 10. Björketorp Runestone This is one of a group of runestones found in Blekinge, Sweden, dating back to the 6th century AD. The stones measure up to 4.2 metres in height. Some of the stones appear in circles while others stand alone. The Björketorp stone bears the following inscription: A local legend relates that the curse was once tested and proved....
This, unsurprisingly, is not for everyone. Whether it’s for speed, comfort or just to be a bit more individual, the following list explores how a number of people have left the ordinary behind for their own crazy commutes. 10 Crazy Origins Of Popular Websites 10 Paramotor Most workdays, Paul Cox enters his office with a four-stroke motor in a suitcase. Paul isn’t a mechanic or a budding engineer, he simply paramotors into work when the weather allows....
This list looks at pieces of video and movies that show the whole range of curses: the allegedly supernatural curses that plague the unfortunate; the new, internet-styled cursed videos, which haunt psychologically instead of magically; and those that blur the line between the two. Here are 10 of the most cursed videos out there. 10 Internet – Rubber Johnny This is one of the first cursed videos to haunt the early days of YouTube, and in those days, sneaking it into hidden folders and renamed URLs was a popular way to prank friends....
But what’s in the subtext of history? Ever wonder about the interesting little tidbits that slip through the cracks? Here are 10 things your history teacher forgot to mention. 10 Saddam Hussein’s Key To Detroit “He was [a] very kind person, very generous, very cooperative with the West,” said Reverend Jacob Yasso of Chaldean Sacred Heart in Detroit. The Chaldean religion is a sect of Catholicism prevalent in Iraq, a population that is dominated by Muslims....
Below is a list of those fictional movies that I believe Hollywood should make, whether just to satisfy my inner fanboy or because I think they will turn out to be something worth watching. As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to the realization that a lot of the things I enjoyed as a kid were pretty terrible. Bazooka gum, Big Macs, Monopoly… and Thundercats. I loved the show as a kid, but was thoroughly unimpressed upon watching it again in college....
A bohemian landmark the Hotel Chelsea was built between 1883 and 1885. Although it was the home of countless artists, authors, poets, and musicians, it is perhaps best known as the place where Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious stabbed girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death—Vicious himself died of a heroin overdose before the case could be brought to trial. Poet Dylan Thomas was staying at the Chelsea when he fell into his fatal coma; he died later in the hospital....
The blood parrot cichlid is a cichlid hybrid. It was created in Taiwan around 1986, and are produced by cross breeding a Midas cichlid with a Redhead cichlid or a Red devil cichlid. There is some controversy in the ethics when it comes to creating blood parrot cichlids, as they have several anatomical deformities, such as their mouth, which is only a small vertical opening and causes some to have difficulty feeding....
From books that belonged to samurai and pirates to mysterious events that could rewrite history, the written word can color history’s gray spaces like nothing else. Here are 10 ancient documents that have produced sometimes surprising insights into past events and people. 10 The Samurai Manual Tsukahara Bokuden was a great samurai and perhaps the author of a curious book. Called The Hundred Rules of War, it was recently translated into English....
Not Citing Sources I think we have all seen the result of not quoting sources – 100 comments bitching about plagiarism! It turns out that Wikipedia has a policy that you must open source any document that quotes even the tinniest bit of it and must cite every page you quote. I didn’t know that when we started out and a LOT of internet police decided to tell me! I am so sorry!...
Thankfully, the medical field has excelled over the past years and no longer puts their patients through these horrifying procedures. Here are ten treatments that were arguably worse than the disease that they were trying to cure. 10 Bloodletting Bloodletting was once one of the most common procedures used for many problems, including headaches and fevers. Thousands of years ago, a doctor would use instruments such as a lancet or even a sharpened piece of wood to open a patient’s vein, allowing the blood to flow out into a receptacle....
Africa is not a country, but a continent. In fact it is the second largest, and second most populated, continent besides Asia. Africa has about 1 billion people and 61 different countries within it. So to end this misconception& – Africa is definitely not a country! While there are a few deserts in Africa (like the Sahara Desert in the North and the Namib Desert in the Southwest of Africa), large parts of Africa, especially central Africa, are tropical rainforests....
10 Laurence Olivier as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather Before director Francis Ford Coppola won the hard-fought casting battle with Paramount over who should play Vito, Michael, and Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), the studio execs had some truly off the wall ideas about who should portray the major characters in this screen adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel, as recounted in such books as Mark Seal’s Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather....
However, relics can be any significant object that has survived from an earlier time that is of historical interest and can include old tools, texts, and vessels. Today we’ve included the ten most controversial ancient relics ever to be found, and some may surprise you. 10 The Big Shigir Idol In 1894, gold prospectors exploring a peat bog near the Russian town of Yekaterinburg stumbled across something strange: a massive carved wooden statue over 16 feet (5 meters) long....
If the Ramones had been from Sweden, they might have vandalized Abba’s rehearsal studio, stolen all of their songs and cranked out a little something like this… Formed in 1995 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes specializes in punk covers of 60’s and 70’s light rock and folk tunes. They also like to dress in costumes to match the theme of the music at each show. A French band that does bossa-nova style covers of New Wave songs....
But with travel comes a decided downside: the dreaded tourist trap. Here are ten to avoid at otherwise wonderful travel destinations. Top 10 Iconic Behind-The-Scenes Photos From Hit Movies 10 South Beach (Miami) The problem with South Beach isn’t that it exists… it’s that it’s the most noteworthy tourist attraction in an absolutely amazing city… and is a garish, trashy trap. South Beach marries the worst of Florida – gaudy, tacky, violently drunk – with the worst aspects of mass tourism: overpriced, underwhelming restaurants and bars, and ignorant fools thinking they’re getting some sort of authentic South Florida experience....
He escaped from a prison transport van in June 2003, he was being taken from Brixton prison to face charges over a £1.25 million security van heist in which the driver of the van was shot in the knee after he was ordered to open the door while his colleague was pistol-whipped. His partner in crime was convicted in February of using a gun to escape from the van. Detectives have vowed that Cunningham will have his day in court....
Other significant dishes: Pampushki (potato dummplings), galushki (dumplings) Most unusual dish: holodets (minced jellied pig’s feet) Borscht is a soup, of Ukrainian origin, that is popular in many Eastern and Central European countries. In most of these countries, it is made with beetroot as the main ingredient, giving it a deep reddish-purple color. The soup began its existence from trimmings of cellared vegetables, consumed throughout the winter months. Most families had a container, usually a kettle or stove pot, kept outside to store those trimmings....
The hoofed wonders also wore zebra blankets for science and inspired the birth of movies. Even more surprisingly, their clones can now compete in the Olympic Games. 10 Frankfurt’s Roaming Mare Frankfurt’s police are used to something very unusual—phone calls about an animal loose in the city. To be fair, the creature is a large Arabian horse and pedestrians often worry that she is lost or might bolt into traffic....
Occasionally, the characters based on them can become even more popular, to the point where people forget that they were inspired by real people. Here are 10 cases where we’ve largely forgotten the individuals who were the basis for iconic fictional characters. 10 Wilhelm ReichDurand Durand Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, a student of Sigmund Freud, was a strong believer in the power of sex. Specifically, Reich thought that most of society’s ills could be fixed through regular, satisfying orgasms....
