Renaissance art represented a huge advancement in realism due to the movement’s scientific investigations into anatomy, perspective, and light. This really comes through in its masterfully skillful paintings… most of the time. Any big leap forward is bound to have its stumbling points, and a lot of Renaissance paintings are evidence of that. Whether creepy, cryptic, or just downright puzzling, here are ten Renaissance paintings with images that are enlighten-mental....

Well-known Scottish inventors include Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, and Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. But besides these two great Alexanders, Scotland has been home to much more than just the creation of haggis and bagpipes. This list is far from exhaustive but rounds up 10 of the best world-changing inventions that you might not have known were created by Scots. 10 The Toaster This might seem hard to believe, but the electric toaster was actually invented before sliced bread hit the shelves....

This advert by McDonald’s – which was meant to “adultify” the fast-food joint used Mack the Knife as its theme. Mack the Knife (the character) comes from The Beggar’s Opera in which the he typifies the anti-establishment sentiments of its writer John Gay. The more famous song as we know it was written by Kurt Weill for The Three Penny Opera based on a reworking of the tale by Bertolt Brecht – a Marxist who, ironically for McDonald’s, despised capitalism – the very thing which enabled McDonald’s to become what it is today....

Unless you are patrolling Mayberry, you are risking your life every day you start your shift. Most cities have budget constraints that prevent an adequate number of police on the street in the first place. They are often under trained and out gunned in the most dangerous situations. Every traffic stop, domestic dispute call or drug house bust could be their last. Although the benefits are great the pay is only adequate and many officers moonlight doing private security or as bodyguards....

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SEE ALSO: Top 20 Best Gangster Movies 20. Pirates of Silicon Valley 1999, Martyn Burke I love this movie! It tells the tale of the start of Microsoft and Apple and has a brilliant cast who do a great job of portraying their characters. Noah Wyle (as Steve Jobs) was so good that he was invited to walk on stage at an Apple Conference to pretend he was Steve Jobs – the audience were fooled (briefly) and it has become a great moment in Apple conference history....

Great action flick, great premise, great ending! What starts out as a typical shoot-‘em-up turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse between Arnie and a high-tech hunter alien. Hey, with the terrific line “I ain’t got time to bleed!” how can you go wrong? ;) This Danish film is probably pretty obscure for most people, but if you noticed a pattern from my previous sci-fi lists, I have an affinity for movies that explore situations in a future dystopian society....

Predictions 1 – 10 “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977. “We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates “Lee DeForest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic before many years....

iPod This item will be the most controversial on the list I think. My reason for including it is the impact it has had worldwide on how we listen to music, how we buy music, and how we perceive entertainment as a whole. The iPod was not the first portable digital music device, but it has undoubtedly had the most effect of all. It has spawned an entire industry of supporting gadgets and accessories and it has been the basis of the only successful attempt by any company to break the Recording Industry’s hold on music distribution....

There are two poop stories this week, although they are significantly different. One highlights a pigeon with great comedic timing while the other explores a scientific experiment designed to see if it is possible to make a usable knife out of frozen feces. We also have a few strange crime stories for you: two Amish men run from the law, a Mummy Marauder is on the loose, and thieves make off with a solid gold toilet....

10Donald Trump The real-estate mogul touts being “self-made” so loudly that even the BBC, supposedly a beacon of quality reporting, once bought into it. But the real self-made Trump was his father, Fred. The patriarch of the Trump family became wealthy in the Robert Moses age, building affordable housing for low-income families after starting his own construction company while still in high school. Fred eventually built more than 27,000 homes in Queens and Brooklyn, amassing a personal fortune of up to $300 million in the process....

Today, he’s usually best known as the host of The 700 Club, a Christian news and ministry television broadcast that was founded in 1966. Robertson is also a prolific author of Christian books about second comings, the Antichrist, the New World Order, and other conservative bogeymen. 10God Gives Fewer Miracles To Those Who Learn Science On April 1, 2013, a viewer of The 700 Club asked Robertson why “amazing miracles happen with great frequency in places like Africa, and not here in the USA?...

While the vast majority of this list may need to be read with a pinch of salt, the following claims are nonetheless intriguing and most definitely alluring to the part of one’s brain that, in terms of the authenticity of the claims, asks the question, “but what if . . . ?” 10 Base AL/499 Most of what we “know” about Base AL/499, claimed to be 60 meters (200 ft) below the small English village of Peasemore in the Berkshire countryside, comes from apparent whistle-blower James Casbolt....

Sequences of transits occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with transits occurring eight years apart followed by a gap of 121.5 years, then a gap of eight years (the 2012 transit finishes the latest eight year period from the transit of 2004) and then another long gap of 105.5 years until the next transit. So for those who miss the Venus transit this June, you will have to live to be very old indeed to catch the next pair of transits (2117 and 2125)....

10 Brain-Eating Parasite When 12-year-old Kali Hardig of Arkansas went swimming, she contracted a rare parasite, Naegleria fowleri, that travels up the nose and into the brain, which it then eats. When Kali, burning with fever, started to throw up, her mother rushed her to Arkansas Children’s Hospital. There, her family was given the gut-punching news that the condition, primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), had less than a 1 percent survival rate....

10North Picene North Picene was a language spoken by the Picentes people living in northeastern Italy during the first millennium BC. The South Picene language has been well-studied, and scholars have identified it as being a distinct Italic language from the Oscan-Umbrian language family. This language differs greatly from South Picene, and linguists have been unable to accurately classify it. The discovery of North Picene inscriptions were found on a stele near a small town in Italy called Novilara....

10 Julian The Apostate And The Rise Of Christianity Julian the Apostate was a Roman emperor who rose to power in 361. Even though Christianity was gaining considerable momentum, Julian not only renounced the Christian faith but waged a sort of nonviolent war against it. He wrote volumes on Hellenistic culture and religion, considered himself the head of paganism, performed animal sacrifices, and appointed his officials based on their pagan beliefs....

This list compiles some of the best behind-the-scenes facts about the making of space movies, covering everything from biographical dramas to sci-fi horrors. 10 Real Danger on the Set of The Right Stuff Based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book of the same name, The Right Stuff (1983) charts the progress of the aeronautical test pilots who were used at the beginning of America’s space program. This was an incredibly dangerous job, with some pilots losing their lives, and this danger, unfortunately, bled into the filming of the movie....

SEE ALSO: 10 Gruesome Facts About Suicide And Death Cleanup Ruslana Korshunova happened to be a Kazakh supermodel that had a Russian heritage. She had posed in Vogue and had represented designers such as Vera Wang and Nina Ricci. She was discovered in 2003 and was immediately distinguished by her long, knee-length, chestnut colored hair. Part of what made her suicide so bizarre was the method she chose. June 28, somewhere around 2:30 P....

10Nearly Voting Against Itself At The United Nations Every year, the countries of the United Nations gather to pass judgment on the continued embargo of Cuba by the US. The vast majority vote to condemn it while a handful abstain. The only two countries that always vote against the motion are the US and Israel. In 2015, those two were nearly whittled down to one. Not because Israel chose to abandon its stalwart ally but because the US almost abstained....