“You hear so much about the old movie moguls and the impersonal factories where there is no freedom. MGM was a wonderful place where decisions were made on my behalf by my superiors. What’s wrong with that?” “The big studios were an ideal way to make films – because they were a home base for people. When you were under contract, you had no chance to relax.” (Wayne, 2004). James Stewart went on to make a host of popular movies, including: Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, Rear Window, Anatomy of a Murder, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Flight of The Phoenix, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and, of course, Harvey and It’s A Wonderful Life....

On June 3rd, 1942, Japanese forces invaded and occupied Attu and Kiska, two islands which were part of the state of Alaska. However, these islands had little value, very bad conditions and proved little of a threat to the United States. Many resulting casualties were not caused by gunfire, but booby traps, the weather and friendly fire. [More on Wikipedia] Japanese holdouts were Japanese soldiers stationed on islands throughout the Pacific who refused to surrender, or did not know that Japan had surrendered....

The Place backed onto a court called Great Scotland Yard. “By 1887, the Police HQ embraced numbers 3, 4, 5, 21, and 22 Whitehall Place, numbers 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, numbers 1, 2, and 3 Palace Place, and various stables and outbuildings as well as a freestanding building in the center of the Yard that had successively held stores, the Public Carriage Office, and the CID offices.” The most common route to approach the headquarters during this time was through Great Scotland Yard....

During the Ediacaran period, complex life had begun to take form for the first time on Earth. Tiny bacteria had evolved into the more complex and specialized Eukaryotes, some of which grouped together to increase their chances of finding food and avoiding becoming food. Most of these odd creatures did not leave a record because they had no skeletons; they were soft and tended to rot when they died rather than fossilize....

Mac and Cheese This is an easy one to make and doesn’t cost much. You will need 1 box of Elbows or Twisted Macaronis. You can usually get the 1 pound box for $1USD. Then you will need a block of cheese, the Velveeta kind. I would recommend the store brand as it tastes just as good. This usually runs between $1 and $2USD for the pound. Then you will need about 1/4 cup of milk....

Just before midnight on September 21, 2008 the Wuwang Club located in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China caught fire. 43 people were killed and another 88 were injured. As we will see over and over again, the fire was started by careless use of indoor pyrotechnics. The pyrotechnics ignited flammable material on the ceiling. The fire caused the lights to fail, plunging the club into darkness. The combination of fire and darkness caused the people inside the building to panic and rush for the exits....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Most Evil Women 10. Attila The Hun Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. An unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West....

This legendary Spartan beauty was said to have been born when the god Zeus, taking the form of a swan, descended from Olympus to seduce her mother Leda. At the age of ten she was abducted by Theseus, but her brothers came to her aid and rescued her. Tyndareus, her earthly father, made each of her princely suitors swear an allegiance to the man he chose for her – Menelaus....

But there were some obscure facts along the way, which didn’t make the final cut. 10 Of The World’s Most Bizarre Sports 10 He’s technically from New York It’s a little-known fact that Jordan was actually born in Brooklyn, New York at Cumberland Hospital. He didn’t live in the Big Apple for long, as it was when he was a toddler that his parents, James and Delores, moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where his obsession with basketball developed....

Author’s note: While researching and writing this list, I noticed that the majority of people who commit suicide suffer from depression. Please always reach out to close friends and relatives whenever you feel depressed. Open up to them, and explain your situation. Residents of the US can also call the National Suicide Prevention Helpline at 1-800-273-8255. They are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Their services are free of charge....

However there are also some places that are famous for quite bizarre reasons. There’s the US town that completely went to the dogs once its general store burned down, to the UK laneway that became the butt of pranksters. An “undiscovered” Pacific Island and an Australian mountain peak that continues to grow. Some of these places you may not want to visit, others may prove a tad difficult, unless you venture into the online world....

Kidnapped from a hotel room in Tokyo by members of KICA, General Park’s notorious spy agency in 1973, Kim Dae-Jung was brought to his Seoul residence, only to be placed under house arrest. Through his decades long struggle for democracy and human rights in his homeland, Kim saw his country swap one dictator for another, until the great liberator, financial crisis, brought him to power. The years of exile in America had secured him many admirers, and he tried to use that leverage to bring about that same fate for his brothers in the north, but not even an embrace from Kim Jong Il at Pyongyang prevented him from being voted out....

The saga of Earth’s violent youth is still being written, and the chapters penned by modern science are far more fascinating than any high-budget Hollywood epic. 10 Younger Dryas Impact/Lake Agassiz Much of North America’s classic megafauna—including mastodons, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, and more—went extinct around 13,000 years ago. This extinction coincided with a geological period known as the Younger Dryas. The Younger Dryas occurred near the end of the last ice age when the Earth was warming and glaciers were receding....

We all know the trite adage that less is more, but apparently no one told Monsieur Octave Chanute – he seemed to think that more is best as is demonstrated by his ungainly multi-winged flying machine! French born Chanute was a retired engineer living in Chicago, Illinois, when he began to dabble in aeronautics. In 1896 he started testing his “gliding machines” in Dune Park, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan....

Top 10 Mandela Effects (Movie And TV Edition!) 10Jenny and Jason Cairns-Lawrence Jenny and Jason Cairns-Lawrence should have just stayed at home. Most vacations count as a disaster if someone gets a sunburn. The British couple has much higher standards. By strange luck, their trips wound up following three separate devastating terrorist attacks. Their first trip was to see the New York City skyscrapers in 2001. During their visit, the skyline was forever changed following the attacks on 9/11....

No? Then why the hell is it published in a scientific journal? Unbeknownst to many, science – especially social sciences and psychology – is in the midst of a replication crisis,[1] a wide-ranging inability to successfully repeat the findings of previously published papers. In fact, right now, around seventy percent of scientific studies are failing when attempts are made to replicate their findings. That’s pretty horrifying when you consider how much science and the fallacious consensus argument are cited today by politicians making some of the biggest fundamental changes to society in history....

Guillaume Cale was most likely a peasant from Mello, a town north of Paris. Rebellion began in the spring of 1358, when an army of approximately 5,000 men took control in the region of Beauvais, and killed hundreds of nobles. The army, under Cale’s command, having taken over much of the region, stayed on the hills near Mello and awaited the arrival of the king’s army, led by Charles II, King of Navarre....

10 British Happy Hour A British camp once stood near the town of Ramle in Israel. Under the command of General Edmund Allenby, the unit occupied the barracks during a time when combat against the Turks in Palestine was put on hold. Arriving in 1917 during World War I, the British stayed for nine months. In 2017, excavations revealed an unwritten slice of what had gone on there. Inside the camp’s rubbish dump, archaeologists found the usual broken kitchenware and then they saw the bottles....

The Holy Tunic of Christ is said to have been worn by Jesus during or shortly before his Crucifixion. It is preserved at the Cathedral of Trier in Germany. In the Gospel of John, the soldiers cast lots on who would receive the tunic because it was woven in one single piece. Hence the name, the Seamless Robe. “Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments (ta himatia) and divided them into four parts, to every soldier a part, and the coat (kai ton chitona)....

Although it might be efficient and incredibly cruel, it lacks that certain “flashiness” which usually grabs the public’s attention. Crime aficionados love an intricate murder plot or an unforgettably bloody crime scene. Poison doesn’t give us such hot-blooded drama; it just gives us the chills. That’s why these next cold-blooded killers are all but forgotten today. 10 Louisa CollinsThe ‘Borgia Of Botany’ Louisa Collins had the ignominious honor of being the last woman hanged in New South Wales, Australia, back in 1889....