Urban sprawl eventually surrounded many of the old asylums. By the 1960s, it was decided they would need to be wound down and closed, “releasing” their patients back into the community whether appropriate housing and care had been arranged for them or not. While scant consideration was given to patients, alternate uses for the buildings themselves were rarely considered either. So hundreds of well-built, often astoundingly beautiful, historic structures were left to rot and face eventual demolition....

10 Wolverine’s Claws In X-Men Origins Hugh Jackman has played Wolverine since 2000 without anyone being cast to replace him over an impressive and unmatched 15 years. While he’s insisting that the third Wolverine movie will be the last time that he dons his claws, there’s already a film in the franchise where he didn’t wear his patented adamantium claws. X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn’t exactly the cream of the crop of the X-Men franchise, garnering the lowest score of all the X-Men movies on Rotten Tomatoes, but its greatest offense is what it did to Wolverine’s claws....

The author of “Fight Club” is not necessarily known as a “Short Story Writer,” however Palahniuk is a believer in the Ray Bradbury ritual of writing a short story every day. Many of his stories have ended up in his novels without the reader realizing they were originally independent tales. In one novel “haunted” he used a short story about a writers convention to bridge together 23 different short stories....

Here, we look at ten locations you probably would not want to choose for your next holiday. That is, unless you like long trips, frostbite, and very few amenities upon arrival. These places push the adage, “It’s the journey, not the destination,” to its absolute limit. 10 Pitcairn Island Lying halfway between New Zealand and the Americas, Pitcairn Island is one of the most remote places on Earth. Only 10 kilometers (6 mi) long and 4 kilometers (2....

However, a cursory look at history shows that despite new technology, people have not changed all that much. Long before the invention of the flushing toilet, even long before the idea of a nation-state, people were behaving exactly the same way as they do now. You could see this either as reassuring or worrying. Either way, here are ten anecdotes from history which prove that people never change, for good or for bad....

10 Embalmers Remove All Your Organs What did they do with Grandpa’s heart? Where is Aunt Jane’s brain? Say the word “embalming” and most people think of the Egyptians, craftily removing the brain through the nose and storing pickled organs in canopic jars. Embalming has come a long way, baby. The Egyptians only had one goal in mind: preservation. Today, preservation is one of many goals. Preservation has to be balanced with restoration....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Poisonous Foods You Love To Eat So should you be concerned about parasites and pathogenic bacteria festering in your happy meal? Probably not. But then again . . . maybe you should. 10 Amoebiasis Dissolves Your Organ Tissues If you’ve ever traveled to a different country and come back with a bad case of diarrhea, you probably picked up what the medical world calls “traveler’s diarrhea,” a relatively minor affliction caused by food that’s carrying bacteria from fecal matter....

10 Windows Update Mistakenly Sabotages Its Own Products The Windows Insider Program releases works in progress, or “builds,” to techies who just can’t wait to get their hands on the latest, if not always the greatest, Microsoft Windows 10 features. All Microsoft asks in return is feedback from program participants concerning the previewed programs. Sound too good to be true? In a manner of speaking, insiders found it was, when a Windows 10 update released exclusively to them in 2017 effectively sabotaged the company’s own product, causing some “issues” for the Insider Program’s volunteers....

Spartan men were warriors because Spartan boys suffered through some absolutely incredible experiences. A child raised in Sparta wasn’t raised by his mother. He was raised by the state, and he was put through an education unlike any other in history. 10 Half Of All Spartan Babies Were Left To Die In Sparta, weak children weren’t given a chance. If they were born weak, ill, or deformed, they were left to die—and that happened a lot....

10 Poison Dart Frog Most of the animals on this list are venomous, meaning they transfer toxins to their predators or prey via injections, like bites or stings. However, poison dart frogs, as their name suggests, are actually poisonous, meaning that their typical mode of toxin delivery is through ingestion. But these colorful frogs don’t actually make their poison themselves. In fact, they steal their poison from the “creepy-crawlies” they eat, like ants and centipedes....

Then we have those unusual and sometimes weird inventions. We see them every day on online shopping sites, kitchen shows, and in our chain stores and supermarkets: must-have gadgets that are going to save us time in the kitchen. Some of them truly are ingenious and make our daily cooking easier. Others seemed like a great idea when we originally bought them but lie forgotten at the back of the kitchen drawer....

We still don’t know exactly which of the many murder victims in the time and area were killed by the Ripper. The so-called canonical five victims (Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly) are identified by the very similar types of attacks, but were there starter crimes before the killer established that pattern? 10The Rainham Murder Victim In the summer of 1887, several body parts were found in the Thames River in Rainham, a rural town more than 10 miles from London....

Biomimicry is the act of modeling structures, materials, and systems after biological units and processes.[1] We’ve told you before about technologies that mimic features of animals. Here are ten more examples of how nature has schooled us on creating advanced technology. 10 Sharkskin And Air Travel There’s a reason why sharks have been the subject of so many terrifying stories; they’re some of the most efficient predators found in nature....

Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries Another 10 Unsolved Mysteries Yet Another 10 Unsolved Mysteries 10 More Unsolved Mysteries 10 More Unsolved Mysteries of the World The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina. He is described as being seven feet tall (over 2m), bipedal, and well built, with green scaly skin and glowing orange eyes....

However, when one inflicts the harm solely on themselves to end their own misery, it leaves those who bear witness not only haunted by the memory of what they’ve seen but forever questioning one’s despair and desperation. The following is a list of 10 people who refused to allow the legal system to play out, thus determining their own fate. 10 It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s . ....

Ten thousand Greek Mercenaries trapped deep in hostile territory—Persia. With their employer, the usurper to the Persian throne, Cyrus, dead in battle and the mercenaries’ general killed in a treacherous plot, the Ten Thousand elect the philosopher-soldier Xenophon to lead them back home. And that’s just the first five minutes (or first few pages if you’re reading Anabasis). With supplies dwindling , Xenophon chose to lead the Ten Thousand home via the shorter path north to the Black Sea....

Let’s dive right in and looks at ten movies that changed course midway. Warning: spoiler alert. 10 From Dusk Till Dawn The 1996 action/horror film From Dusk Till Dawn, starring George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, and Harvey Keitel, starts out as a movie about bank robbers who hide out in Mexico with a family they’ve taken hostage. When the crooks are lying low in a topless bar, it suddenly turns into a vampire flick, and they must battle the living dead to escape....

They have long been sites of religious devotion and healing. Many believe that they represented the border between the worlds of the living and the dead. They are meditation tools and instruments for wish fulfillment. Even today, they remain one of the most widespread yet enigmatic symbols. 10 Bolshoi Zayatsky The Russian White Sea is home to the highest concentration of Neolithic labyrinths in the world. The Solovetsky Islands alone contain 35....

10 Annie Horniman Annie Horniman had a huge influence on British theater; that is absolutely not up for debate. Originally from Dublin, she was largely responsible for creating the theater scene in Manchester, with the goal of bringing performing arts of all kinds to all people, regardless of income or social standing. She did so with her family fortune—hers was the first to sell prepackaged tea. Annie was a huge believer in tarot and used the cards for guidance in all of her business decisions....

The Da Vinci Code almost made it onto this list, but in light of this entry’s nonfiction status, it must overtake what Dan Brown expressly intended as fiction. This is the nonfiction book from which Dan Brown got most of his ideas for The Da Vinci Code. As if that book isn’t controversial enough, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (yes, that’s right, three writers), published this book in 1982 in the UK....