It has the highest conductivity of any metal and is critical in solar panels, industrial electrical contacts, and medical instruments. “Silver” is a synonym for “money” in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Spanish, and French. 10 The Silver Pharaoh In 1940, French archaeologist Pierre Montet discovered a pharaoh with a coffin made of pure silver. Psusennes has been dubbed “the silver pharaoh.” According to the ancient Egyptians, gold was the flesh of the gods, and silver, their bones....

Regrettably, many of these objects were lost or ruined. For example, thousands of mummies were unwrapped for entertainment at parties in 19th-century England. But other items found their way from one owner to the next until landing in a museum. Though acquired through questionable methods, these cultural treasures remain on display in foreign lands hundreds or thousands of years after their thefts. Here are 10 such stolen treasures on display at museums....

10 The Murder of William Desmond Taylor The name of this Irish director might not be known to you now, but in his day, he was pretty well known. He became more famous still after his violent and mysterious murder. As most successful directors do, William Desmond Taylor moved to Los Angeles to continue his craft. Once there, he began a relationship with the comic actress Mabel Normand and was stalked by an obsessed former child star named Mary Miles Minter....

Far from being somebody else’s problem, nearly every person is touched by plastic fragments on a daily basis—when we eat, when we drink, and even when we have fun. 10 Interactive Museum Fined When the mobile Museum of Ice Cream arrived at Miami Beach in 2018, nobody expected the stern eye of the law. After all, the organizers wanted visitors to have fun celebrating the beloved cold treat. One way that the museum offered families the chance to interact with the dessert was to frolic in a swimming pool filled with fake sprinkles....

10 Across The Border One of the earliest recorded examples of a terrible accident on a film set occurred with the 1914 film, Across the Border. Little is known about this silent Western except that it starred leading man Edmund Cobb and had one of the more tragic early deaths of Hollywood. Filming was done on location in the Arkansas River in Colorado. Grace McHugh, 26, was the lead actress of the film and a local from Golden, Colorado....

10 Coupe Poudre In the early 1980s, ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled to Haiti to find the secret behind coupe poudre—zombie powder. He interviewed Voodoo practitioners and collected samples from around the island. Analysis revealed that seven of the eight samples shared ingredients. These were cane toad poison, tree frog irritant secretions, and tetrodotoxin (puffer fish neurotoxin). Davis concluded that tetrodotoxin was the secret to coupe poudre. Reports abound of people going into suspended comas following consumption of tetrodotoxin, which is produced in liver and ovaries of puffer fish....

Many behaviors that are supported in children are viewed as mental health disorders in adults. It is thought that many adults still indulge in this kind of play but keep quiet about it out of concern that they will be considered mad. Here are 10 common childhood behaviors that are considered mental disorders in adults. 10 Human Mental Disorders That Affect Pets Too 10 They Have Imaginary Friends Many young children have imaginary friends....

During the height of the Vietnam war in 1972, film starlet Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam and shilled for the North Vietnamese government, screeching that American prisoners of war (POWs) were being treated humanely. She then went on to condemn all US soldiers as “war criminals”. On hearing that many POWs claimed to have been tortured, Fonda denounced them as “liars”. She encountered no legal or professional repercussions upon her return to the US, but claims to deeply regret her actions today....

Many return home empty-handed. Unfortunately, some people never come back. The causes of these deaths and disappearances range from disease and starvation to mysteries that have yet to be solved. Could these mysterious deaths have been murder, or as some believe, could something supernatural have been afoot? 10 Willie And Frank McLeod The Naha tribe were the indigenous people who lived in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once European settlers started showing up to hunt for gold, the Naha mysteriously disappeared....

Mata Mata Horseshoe Bat Horseshoe bats (the Rhinolophidae family) are a large family of bats including approximately 130 species grouped in 10 genera. All rhinolophids have leaf-like protuberances on their noses. In rhinolophines species, these take the shape of a horseshoe; in hipposiderine, they are leaf- or spear-like. They emit echolocation calls through these structures, which may serve to focus the sound. Most rhinolophids are dull brown or reddish brown in color....

They didn’t necessarily pull out guns and go down in physical fights, but they did make formal attempts to create new states in the US. The reasons for these proposed new states provide a fascinating read. If you’re a US citizen, you might be living in a different state today if any of the following 10 US states had made the cut. 10 Free City Of Tri-Insula In January 1861, New York Mayor Fernando Wood announced that New York City would secede from the antislavery North and join the proslavery South if the Union ever broke up....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Ways to Seem Smarter than You Are Reason: You’re Not As Smart In A Group By necessity, college is a group learning institution. We don’t have the resources or the time to tutor every student individually, so we end up with classes of maybe twenty or thirty students. Often teachers will divide their classes into even smaller groups for different assignments, but research shows that working in small groups actually makes you less intelligent....

10 Celebrating Sham El-Nessim If you ever decide to visit Egypt during Eastern Easter, try not to be stunned by the lingering smell of rotting fish; it’s just the smell of another Sham el-Nessim in Egypt. Originating from ancient Egypt, Sham el-Nessim, which literally means “smelling of the spring,” is a national holiday that is still celebrated in Egypt today. It was created over 4,500 years ago. It is believed that during pharaonic times, ancient Egyptians would offer salted fish, lettuce, and onions to the gods during harvest season....

Because of this, it is difficult to imagine anything else taking place this year that might be weird enough to even remember, come 2021. However, many strange things did happen this year, albeit mostly in the background. On this list are just some of the bizarre things that happened in 2020 to hopefully for just a few minutes at least, take your mind off the coronavirus and quarantine. Top 10 Under-Appreciated Movies Of The Last 20 Years...

No Quarter “No Quarter” is a gloomy foray into prog rock. The vocals are very low for Plant, possibly due to slowing down the tape. The lyrics tend to lean slightly towards the strange, referring to the god Thor and, by the title, to pirates. Live, this song was a spotlight for the keyboard playing of John Paul Jones. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You The earliest example of the famed Zeppelin “light and shade” dynamic, this song is actually a cover....

One needs only to tune into Planet Earth or open a National Geographic magazine to see animals engaging in quirky, fascinating, or even eerily human-like behavior. Like us, they subvert expectations that others have of them. Like us, they tap into their brainpower to solve complex problems. Like us, they play, work together, form unlikely friendships, mate with members of the same sex, and solve problems in clever ways. And yet, the way in which they take part in these activities is cause for fascination and intrigue—much more, in my opinion, than their human counterparts provoke....

These men’s adventure pulp magazines were very popular in the 1950’s-1960’s, before Playboy and Penthouse came along (and later, magazines like Maxim and Men’s Health). They were popular for several reasons. For one, they were cheap, usually costing only a quarter. For another, they were pretty much all that was out there for the “adventure seeking man” of the mid-20th Century. But mostly, these magazines were meant to appeal to a different generation of American male – one not concerned at all about physical fitness and how to achieve six-pack abs or the best way to remove their chest hair....

Sunshine Plata of Manila, Philippines, creates whimsical paintings with a difference: instead of oil or acrylic paint, she uses coffee as her medium. Inspired by an exhibit of 19th-century artworks done in coffee, Plata creates entrancing sepia images of fairies and religious figures from the aromatic beverage. Her paintings proved to be so unique and beautiful, that on her first solo exhibit of caffeine art (entitled ‘L.S.D. (look, smell, discover) Trip by Caffeine’), only seven of the thirty-two works exhibited were left unsold....

Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries Another 10 Unsolved Mysteries The Vile Vortices The Vile Vortices twelve are areas distributed more or less evenly around the globe that are alleged to have the same qualities as claimed for the Bermuda Triangle. Five are located on a latitude near the Tropic of Capricorn; Five on a latitude near the Tropic of Cancer; and one each at either of the Poles. They form the vertices of an icosahedron....

My answer is that marijuana should be – in doing so it will reduce the workload of police who can concentrate on other crimes, and it could also provide many jobs that currently don’t exist by creating an industry of commercial growers and producers. As for hard drugs, I think that under close medical supervision, some hard drugs could be legally given by a doctor to reduce drug crime. Should Drugs Be Legalized?...