See Also: 10 Disturbing Raw Videos From 9/11 But of the nearly 3,000 victims, approximately 200 – about 1 in every 15 deaths – died not from crashing planes, fanning flames or collapsing skyscrapers but by falling or jumping to certain death from the towers’ upper floors. Deemed too awful to air and too provocative to publish, the 9/11 jumpers have become the least confronted of the day’s victims, marginalized by society’s refusal to reckon with the unreckonable....

Every word and name here has a distinct origin from the n-word and yet, they all somehow got caught up in what we could consider the human equivalent of misidentification. We are now told we had better learn to avoid using such words or learn their correct pronunciations (in the case of names), lest we find ourselves in the middle of some negative controversy or, worse still, the latest target of cancel culture....

What happens when you take a French actor and cast him as a prissy Afghan prince/circus patron who lives in India and speaks English? On the whole, Octopussy wasn’t a bad film (with a title like that, how could it be?). But there’s no way we can take this guy seriously, no matter how many loose nukes he’s got up his sleeve. Next… Kurt Jurgens was awesome as the conflicted U-boat captain opposite Robert Mitchum in The Enemy Below, one of the greatest WWII films ever made....

I thought you might like to know that we have also finally upgraded our second server and the site is running brilliantly – better than ever before. We have survived a front page on Fark, a front page on Reddit, and a front page on Ebaumsworld within the last two days and the server hasn’t even noticed. Pacific Rack was definitely the right choice of host for us. Yesterday we had two landmark events happen – the first is that we reached 20,000 comments (in only four and a half months!...

This particular error has become so common that it is beginning to look like the word “whom” may vanish entirely from the English language. The reason for this is that so many people have no idea what the difference is. The difference is a simple one: who “does” the action, and whom has the action “done” to them. We use this difference in other words – “I” and “me” for example....

At first, the settlers of the New World treated scalping as a sign of barbarism and savagery. But as time went on and they struggled through more of life on the wild frontier, some started to see tearing the skin of a man’s skull as nothing worse than an efficient way to take home his head. The American frontier became a brutal place where the scalps of dead men were a currency....

10 Room One—Vulcan Hotel New Zealand The Vulcan Hotel is a New Zealand historical institution. It was built in the 19th century in Central Otago during the gold mining boom in the area. Now it is a popular spot for ghost hunters and those interested in the paranormal. This is because Vulcan Hotel’s Room One has quite a dark history. It is said to be the home of the spirit Rose, a prostitute who was strangled in the room’s bed in the late 19th century....

10 Penthouse Adriatic Club In 1967, Yugoslavia opened its borders, and new laws allowed the existence of gambling and casinos for international visitors (locals were not allowed to gamble). This led to the construction of the Penthouse Adriatic Club at the Haludovo Palace Hotel on the Croatian island Krk. Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione dumped $45 million into the project in hopes of attracting international travelers to visit the casino. Watch this video on YouTube The hotel complex opened on July 15, 1972....

Chris Morris [Wikipedia] Chris Morris is currently Britain’s most controversial comedian. He started his career as a radio DJ where he perpetrated his infamous incident at Radio GLC when he released helium into a news studio. He continued on the radio with the deeply satirical On the Hour and the very dark Blue Jam series. During this period he became a DJ on Britain’s biggest radio station, BBC radio one, but was fired after a mid-afternoon Boxing Day special laden with swearing....

This makes the list because of one particular scene, and anyone who has seen it knows what it is – the scene in which Jones escapes an atomic blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator. George Lucas, who wrote most of the story, swears that he consulted nuclear physicists on the plausibility of the scenario and was assured it was feasible – namely, that the lead would halt the radiation....

When this scene played in movie theaters for the first time, audiences were in tears as they took in the lyrics of the song and bid Paul Walker a final goodbye. The song by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth is one in a long line of songs and covers underlined by tragedy and pain. 10 Rock Songs That Shook The World 10 The Cranberries – “The Icicle Melts” On February 12, 1993, a month before his third birthday, James Bulger was abducted from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool by two 10-year-old boys....

To do this efficiently, your heart has four chambers—a wonder of evolutionary engineering. The two chambers on the right side of the heart deal with deoxygenated blood. The top chamber (right atrium) receives it, and the bottom chamber (right ventricle) pumps it to the lungs for more oxygen. The left side of the heart receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs (in the left atrium) and then pumps it out (via the left ventricle) to the body....

Gold is one of the most popular metals used in jewelry. It is also very useful in electronics. In addition to its more common uses, gold is used as a food additive – usually for decorative purposes in the form of gold leaf (E number E175). It is quite popular as an additive to alcoholic drinks and there is a traditional Polish and German liqueur called Goldwasser (Goldwater) which contains thousands of tiny flakes....

10 Times Governments Edited Textbooks To Rewrite History 10 Emu Today & Tomorrow If you want to know about the state of emu farming today and want to speculate as to the future of farming emus, this is the magazine for you! There is a very dedicated, very passionate community of ‘dromaius fanciers’ out there and, armed with the most recent issue of this industry publication, you could join their number, harvest some bright blue eggs and enjoy some surprisingly delicious meat....

Every year, the enigmatic phenomenon reveals weird and frightening clues about its true nature. Time reversal, black holes from a dead universe, and the first glimpse of forces stronger than them are just a few of the latest discoveries. 10 Plenty Of IMBHs Midsize black holes are the mysterious middle child of the family. They are neither as small as the abundant stellar-mass black holes nor as big as the supermassive ones....

In Jukkasjärvi, a village in Sweden within the Arctic circle, each year a hotel constructed entirely out of ice is built. Every room is a display of art carved in ice. Even the beds are blocks of ice, though spread with reindeer skins. When the summer comes and the hotel melts visitors are offered the ability to stay in rooms of ice maintained in a freezer building. Because water has such a highly specific heat capacity it requires a large amount of energy to melt ice....

These are the top 10 Broadway Musicals you’ve never heard of before. 10 Contact (2000) Dance is one of the body’s purest forms of expression, and “Contact” is a musical that taps into this magic. The musical has no original score or dialogue. Instead, it tells its tale through a modern ballet jukebox soundtrack. In the Broadway musical developed by Susan Stroman and John Weidman, the major theme is “contact,” or at least, the lack of it....

These celebrities have been arrested for engaging in altercations, possession, and speeding among other offenses that tell different stories about them. We take a dive into the pasts of the most fascinating celebrities to discover that while they are different now, they all have interesting yesteryears. Is your favorite celebrity on this list? Find out what they did when they were young and wild! 10 Bruno Mars Behind Bars Bruno Mars is one of the most captivating artists in the world and when he’s not captivating fans with his lyrical tenor voice, he charms with his classic jazzy dance moves....

So if you want to be frozen in terror this winter, consider picking up a few of the books listed below, all of which take place in snowy settings. You’ll find a couple of classics that are to be expected but also some lesser-known terrifying tales. 10 Snowblind (2014) – Christopher Golden Snowblind is a supernatural thriller that will leave you wondering if there’s something lurking in any snowstorm you find yourself in....

10 Caucasian Sketches by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v/y_szpKtAbCg Caucasian Sketches is an orchestral suite written in 1894 by Russian composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. It is the most often performed of his compositions and can be heard frequently on classical radio stations. The final movement, entitled The Procession of the Sardar, is often heard by itself, and is a favorite of “Pops” concerts. The suite, written in 1894, is an excellent example of Ippolitov-Ivanov’s debt to his composition teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as to the influence of folksong, in this case the music of Georgia....