The Scots have been known as fierce fighters, but few would compare Jackie Chan and William Wallace even though most scotsmen had a good amount of martial arts training. Highland wrestling is the first kind of fighting taught to young Scots, often family techniques are handed down from father to son. It’s recorded that often English knights would be caught off guard by the skill of an unarmed Scotsman who could drag fully armored knights off their horses with ease....

Avicenna, or Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā, was a Muslim scholar who revolutionized the field of medicine during Islam’s Golden Age in the 11th century. Of the some 200 academic texts he wrote, by far his most influential was The Canon of Medicine. This was basically a comprehensive encyclopedia on the field of medicine with many annotations that were ahead of their time. For example, Avicenna proposed a completely new set of protocols to test new medicines that included modern measures such as testing different strains and testing a large sample size....

Top 10 Disturbing Films Featuring Sociopaths 10 Amnesia The scene where a character is knocked out, traumatised, or otherwise injured and wakes up remembering nothing is not one that’s new to many of us, it’s a trope nearly as old as media itself, yet it’s really more of a plot device than something that paints an accurate picture of this very complex and multifaceted condition. While, yes, this clichéd scenario may happen, it’s not nearly as common as films would have you believe and it’s not the only type of amnesia, though certainly a lot more heavily featured than anterograde amnesia – the inability to form new memories – and transient global amnesia, a sadly misunderstood condition that causes confusion and agitation in patients....

The entire Mongol Empire, at its peak, covered some 12.7 million square miles, which is 22% of all the land area on Earth. The tactics that enabled such conquests can be traced primarily to Genghis, the empire’s founder and first Khan. His birth name was Borjigin Temujin, and he devised a versatile attacking style, that of missile cavalries: his best archers were not trained merely to shoot, but to shoot accurately while riding horses at full gallop....

Dzerzhinsk, Russia A center of Cold War chemical manufacturing, the city’s 300,000 residents have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world thanks to waste injected directly into the ground. “Average life expectancy is roughly 45 years,” Robinson (of the Blacksmith Institute) says. “Fifteen to 20 years less than the Russian average and about half a Westerner’s.” Kabwe, Zambia The second largest city in this southern African country was home to one of the world’s largest lead smelters until 1987....

Duplicate Toys When you have a big family like mine, it is a wonder this little mishap doesn’t happen all the time. Yes, there are lists a-plenty throughout the preceding months, however -probably similarly to your family- my parents and grandparents and steps- and -in laws like to go out on limbed tangents and get whatever they so desire. This can, and has, resulted in gift duplications that only serve to lead to irritated children who, loudly, announce, “Hey, we already got this toy the other day!...

If this list proves one thing above all else, it’s that there’s no amount of money that can but good taste. But $2.2 million will buy you a dildo. Top 10 Obscenely Expensive Luxury Fashion Items 10 Can’t Talk, I’m Rich – iPhone “What? You’ve still got your old iPhone 6? Jeez, get an upgrade” is not what you’d hear if you had this ridiculously expensive phone. If owning an Apple product wasn’t enough of a prime example of crass consumerist peacockery already, why not get one slathered in 24-carat gold, a platinum handset and a gigantic pink diamond plonked on the back?...

The following ten entries focus on intriguing facts, medical mishaps, and profound consequences too absurd and grotesque for one to comprehend or imagine. Suffice it to say, you really don’t want to ever be catheterized. 10 Ben Franklin Catheters date back to as early as 3000 BC, when the materials used brought about pain reminiscent of medieval torture. From straw and rolled up palm leaves to gold, silver, copper, brass, and lead, anything that could form a thin, hollowed shape was used....

William IV was king of the United Kingdom for 20 years, but while he was Duke of Clarence he lived with his mistress, an Irish actress named Dorothea Jordan . They never married as they needed permission from the king in order to have a legitimate wedding. They were said to be very much in love and together they had 10 children George FitzClarence 1st Earl of Munster (1794), Henry Edward (1795), Sophia Sidney Baroness De L’Isle and Dudley (1796), Lady Mary Fox (1798), Lieutenant General Lord Frederick FitzClarence (1799), Elizabeth Hay Countess of Erroll (1801), Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus FitzClarence (1802), Lady Augusta Hallyburton (1803), Lord Augustus FitzClarence (1805) and Amelia Cary Viscountess Falkland (1807)....

Two thousand years ago Jesus Christ established the papacy with Saint Peter as the first Pope; since then numerous popes have overseen positive and stabilising changes. Pope Benedict XV is famous for his work alleviating the impact of the First World War. In the sixteenth century, Pope Pius IV helped reshape Rome, most notably improving the city’s water supply. And, of course, Pope Leo I earned the name Leo the Great for dissuading Attila the Hun from invading Italy....

First, the study limited its scope to UAP reports between November 2004 and March 2021 from military aviators – mostly naval pilots – whom the ODNI considered reliable witnesses. Surprisingly, they found 144 such reports and only 1 of them they could explain (but added they could eliminate more sightings with more data). Eighty of these reports were supported by electronic sensors (i.e. radar, infrared), giving credence not just to the reports, but that the UAPs were real, solid objects (as opposed to illusions or storm clouds)....

10 Spilling A Dead Man’s Ashes Sasha Baron Cohen is one of the funniest men on the planet and probably the best pranksters to ever grace our TV screens. To most, when he’s not busy playing foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, he appears as the incorrigible and excessive dictator Admiral General Aladeen. In this red carpet fail, Cohen showed up at the 84th Academy Awards as Aladeen, carrying a very bizarre package—a dead man’s ashes....

Over the years, the scavenger hunt has had some particularly strange items. For example, one of the items in the 2012 GISHWHES was a picture of a person and a loved one kissing with at least 11 food items between their lips. While the scavenger hunts on this list were smaller than GISHWHES, each of them is similar in the sense that they all concluded with unexpected results. 10 A Nuclear Reactor Constructed In A Dorm Room The University of Chicago, along with many other higher education institutions, holds annual scavenger hunts....

The Speed of Light Remember this phrase and when you want to know the speed of light, count the letters in each word of the sentence. We guarantee certainty, clearly referring to this light mnemonic 299,792,458 m/sec First Eighteen Elements Memorize these phrases to learn the first eighteen elements – when you are done, make up your own phrases for some of the others. Happy Henry Likes Beer But Could Not Obtain Four Nuts That gives us the first 10: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon....

Different melodies evoke feelings of sadness, joy, defiance, relaxation, fear and more. Researchers are even conducting ongoing studies to solve what they call “the mystery of how music can evoke so many nuanced emotions.”[1] On this list are just a few of the songs that have made people cry, laugh, feel victorious, and stand united all over the world. 10 Odd Scientific Facts About Emotions 10 For a chuckle – “Pretty Fly For A White Guy” – The Offspring There are quite a few hilarious songs out there, guaranteed to get a least a chuckle or two from even the most hardened music fan....

Many of those who have truly mastered the short story, however, seem to work within a specific genre- horror. Since it’s approaching our favorite time of year, here are some collections that serve up perfect bite-size chunks of terror, from some of the genre’s greatest authors. 10An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other StoriesAmbrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce was best known as a satirist and journalist in his lifetime, but was dedicated to the short story form throughout....

So, what are the ten most spooky mysteries in Welsh history? Let’s dive in and find out more. 10 The UFO of Berwyn Mountains The first on this list is a spooky tale with a strong feeling of conspiracy in the air. Known as the Roswelsh event after the similarities with the infamous Roswell extraterrestrial event in the U.S., the cause of this 1974 phenomenon is still up for debate, despite official MOD files being released back in 2010....

10 Bizarre Things People Did With Corpses 10 Yummy Mummies for Medicine In the Middle Ages, physicians began to use the bodies of ancient Egyptian mummies for medicine. In 1424, for example, the authorities in Cairo discovered persons who confessed under torture that they ‘were removing bodies from the tombs, boiling them in hot water, and collecting the oil which rose to the surface. This was sold to the Europeans for 25 gold pieces per hundredweight....

The first reason is obvious. There are usually thousands of them, and within 5 minutes of the package being opened they are everywhere. Second, assuming the kids actually do use the beads for their intended purpose, they proudly present you with a mismatched, half-completed poorly-made necklace/bracelet which they then expect the parent (you) to wear every day of your life. Does this one even need an explanation? Just know that they put a screw on the battery compartment for a reason....

Not to be confused with microscopic plankton and diatoms, these are indeed fully formed seashells on a minuscule scale. A great many gem and mineral societies world-wide have divisions devoted to the study and worship of these tiny homes that can be found in sand samples from around the world. And remember that impossibly tiny as these shells are, the original inhabitants were even smaller, as they had to fit within....