We have all heard of the court Jester – the fool who was permitted to insult the king without losing his head – as long as it made the king laugh. It was a job that came with accolades and with fear. It is also a job unlike any existent today. How many families do you know that employ a private “comedian” so to speak? But, while the job did vanish from history for hundreds of years, as recently as 1999 one Kingdom (Tonga) has appointed an official jester....
While the exact definition of freedom and its value in a society are debatable subjects, the fear of losing your freedom has always been present in human minds because, even though it is not something that we think about every single moment, it has given us times of deep thought and wonder at what would happen if we were to lose the power to control our own lives. This fear starts with mundane things, such as that time you were grounded in your room by yourself without the possibility of leaving until you finished your homework, or our fear of the commitment that marriage establishes....
Ice-cream is a low GI (glycemic-index) food. This means that it is a slow sugar release food that keeps you satisfied for a longer period of time than a high GI food. For that reason, you are less likely to binge after eating ice-cream. 75 grams of Ben and Jerry’s Cookies and Cream ice-cream contains only 114 calories compared to a slice of cheesecake with 511 calories. Furthermore, ice-cream is made of milk which contains many essential nutrients and vitamins....
In West Germany, the wall was promoted as a Soviet attempt to stop East Berliners from migrating to West Berlin. At first, the US thought that the wall was the Soviet Union’s first step in starting a war against West Germany and President John F. Kennedy sent more troops to West Berlin. Kennedy later supported the wall when he realized that no war was coming. He stated that the wall was “a hell of a lot better than a war....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Banned Dog Breeds 10 They Don’t Have Locking Jaws One of the more persistent myths about pit bulls is they have some sort of special mechanism within their jaws which makes it so they never let go of their target. However, this is irrevocably false; they do have strong, well developed muscles in their jaw, as well as a large skull, but their grip can still be broken if you know what you’re doing....
See Also: Top 10 Disastrously Distasteful And Bizarre Food Vendors The following colorful characters are the epitome of unhinged kitchen staff whose impatience and irrational logical led to both humorous and tragic sets of circumstances. 10 Marsupial Cuisine The head cook at a Nebraska Panhandle school in Potter was fired after mixing questionable ingredients in the chili he made for students in October 2018. On that fateful fall day, Kevin Frei had the bright idea to augment the chili’s beef with none other than kangaroo meat....
This is a Chinese woman with bound feet. You can read more about bound feet on this list. Is that a gun in your vagina or are you just happy to see me? Actually, that’s a gun-shaped lighter and a glass crack pipe. 60 year old man with a bottle up his butt; it was forcibly inserted by thieves. A rather unfortunate nailgun accident. This is an eleven year old boy with a butter knife lodged in his head....
Macy’s relies heavily on its brick-and-mortar stores and furloughed 125,000 workers during the first two weeks of the shutdown. J.Crew filed for bankruptcy at the beginning of May. JCPenney and Lord & Taylor are reportedly considering bankruptcy as well. But the pandemic is really just one more nail in the coffin. These businesses were struggling well before the stay-at-home orders went into effect. A recent report from S&P Global Market Intelligence revealed that department stores are considered more at risk of defaulting on their loans than any other consumer sector: their odds of default over the next twelve months is 42 percent....
10 Sex Myths We All Believe 10 Very, Very Weird Methods of Contraception Today, scientific advancement has made birth control methods more effective and safe than ever. In ancient Greece, couples sought to limit family size through bizarre beliefs and pseudoscience. One popular method was having the female partner sneeze and drink something cold after having sex, I am not sure how this was supposed to work but rest assured this is not an effective method of contraception....
10 Calamity Jane Born: Martha Jane Cannary Lived: May 1, 1852–August 1, 1903 Areas: Wyoming, Utah, Arizona Calamity Jane is perhaps the most famous of the wild women of the West and for good reason. She pretty much did it all when it comes to the things that brought these women notoriety. She skillfully shot a gun, told tall tales, dabbled in prostitution, committed hefty crimes, and drank—a lot. Besides her reputation as a drunken outlaw, Calamity Jane was known for her generous heart....
There are many pockets of the internet dedicated solely to capturing and cataloging these open displays of immature rage, and millions tune in every day for their daily dose of schadenfreude. With dozens more each day, it can be hard to pick, but here are ten of the best/worst public freakouts ever recorded (and only those that keep it somewhat light). 10 We’ll Do it Live! A classic. Sometime in the early 1990s, Bill O’Reilly was having a really bad day and let it spill on film....
Facts 1 – 5 There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs Facts 6 – 10...
Budweiser The biggest beer in the world (or at least it seems). I remember backpacking in Europe and seeing people sitting at cafes drinking Bud when a host of great European beers were inside waiting to be tasted. I hate having to include this, but it isn’t that bad. Iron City The logo is unattractive, the name does nothing, heck even the city conjures up bad images, but they make a pretty good cheap beer....
Not a movie about twins, but a boy played by a pair of twins who can now be seen in a bigger, teenager form on the Disney Channel as Zach and Cody. It begs the question why it takes two twins to play one character, considering the cost of one child actor, let alone the chance that a misplaced freckle might move around freely between scenes. The same question applies to why two Olsen twins needed to play one Michelle from Full House....
In the United States, a country founded with deeply religious ideals against sexual activity, especially legalized activity, many red light districts did not survive to the modern day. We have listed, in no particular order, some of the most lustful, sinister, and sinful American red light districts of all time. 10 Storyville, New Orleans Created in 1897, as prostitution in America’s original sin city was running rampant into suburban areas, Storyville was the first legal red light district in New Orleans....
When we factor in the size of the universe, the number of Earth-like planets, and a range of other variables, there should be tens of thousands or more extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy. And with the galaxy being around 10 billion years old, scientists say that intelligent worlds would have had plenty of time to contact one another. So if aliens should statistically exist, why haven’t we encountered any yet?...
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This portable instrument of torture was popular in England and Scotland during the 1500’s, but was seen as late as the nineteenth century. The scold’s bridle (also known as branks) was a cage that was locked around a woman’s head as punishment for nagging and gossiping too often. Attached to this iron muzzle was a curb-plate inserted into a woman’s mouth to, literally, subdue her treacherous tongue. Most of these metal curb-plates were spiked, averaging in length of about half an inch to an inch....
10An Ant With A Parasite Still Stuck To Its Head Somewhere in what is now the Baltic region, around 44–49 million years ago, an ant was parasitized by a species of mite and then wandered into a pool of resin, preserving both forever. They ended up in the hands of a German amateur amber collector named Jorg Wunderlich, who passed the chunk of amber on to Jason Dunlop, an arachnologist at the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science in Berlin....
