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10Necromancy Necromancy is about invoking the spirit of the dead for divinatory purposes and to get their help in magical affairs. In ancient Greece, people condemned necromancy publicly yet seemed to have accepted in private. The amount of evidence on necromancy in ancient Greece is overwhelming. One of the earliest recorded examples comes from the Odyssey, where Odysseus performs a complicated ritual to contact the spirits of the dead by combining sacrifices, prayers, and offerings....

10Performance Enhancers Some Greeks were familiar with a number of concoctions intended to enhance sexual performance. Please, do not try any of the following recipes at home without first seeking medical advice. We take no responsibility for the outcome of testing in any of the following ancient recipes: Smearing the penis with a mix of crushed pepper and honey was believed to cause a lasting erection. An ancient Greek work prescribes, “Grind the ashes left after burning a deer’s tail, and then make a paste of the powder by adding wine....

In retrospect, many people today are apt to be surprised by TV networks’ past efforts to shield their viewers from shared beds; an actress’s navel; pregnancy, both as a word and as a condition; toilets; political parody; song lyrics; Elvis Presley’s gyrating pelvis; women who would dare to model brassieres and men who wore briefs; and “risque” cartoons. 10Shared Beds During the 1950s and 1960s, sex was considered a private matter, and even a suggestion of sexual relations between married couples was regarded as inappropriate....

The Japanese are inventive and creative people who put their own twists on the celebration. These often surprise those of us coming from countries that have celebrated Christmas for centuries. Here are 10 different ways they celebrate Christmas in Japan. 10 Kentucky Fried Chicken Move over mince pies, turkey, and ham. In Japan, it’s KFC on the menu. Order your Christmas bucket of fried chicken early, or you might be out of luck....

Despite all of its marvels, however, our bodies are limited in many other ways, one of them being, say, the inability to fly. While we sure can’t do anything to fix that, there are many other ways to hack the body into doing things you never thought it could do, mostly by exploiting the various loopholes in the complexity of the brain. And we’re not talking about pseudoscience or old wives’ tales, either; all of these hacks are backed by science....

10The Big Crunch The most prominent theory for how the universe began is the Big Bang, where all matter first existed as a singularity, an infinitely dense point in the abyss of nothing. Then something caused it to explode. The matter expanded outward at an incredible rate and eventually formed the universe we see today. Watch this video on YouTube The Big Crunch, as you might have guessed, is the Big Bang’s opposite....

Ethiopia has many of the world’s oldest wonders. But it also leads with novel projects that fight modern problems such as deforestation and Africa’s water shortage. 10 Reforestation Record In 2016, India achieved an Earth-friendly record. The country planted 50 million trees in one day. In 2019, Ethiopia decided to break the record. They gathered lots of trees and the people to plant them. The latter included thousands of Ethiopian volunteers and staff from foreign embassies, the United Nations, and the African Union....

When you step back from the hubbub of life and take an objective look at the behavior of actual rich people, you will be surprised to find that more often than not they are not following those same patterns as those who are outwardly rich but inwardly poor. This list looks at ten aspects of the life of the typical millionaire that go against our preconceived notions of wealth. It serves as both a guide to understanding the rich, and a guide to copying them in the best possible way: the way that can lead to your own future wealth....

Likewise, it’s fun to discover little details about the production and cast that your friends might not know. It’s more interesting to watch the end product, and it never hurts to know some movie trivia at your next party. Here is some of that intriguing trivia from popular movies that were released in the 2000s. 10 Meet The Parents2000 Starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, Meet the Parents hit the big screen in 2000....

10 ‘The Jersey Devil’Season 1 In “The Jersey Devil,” agents Mulder and Scully go to New Jersey after a dead body is discovered with its arm and shoulder missing. Analysis shows that a human being ate the body parts. Even though the local police deny the duo the opportunity to investigate, Mulder zeroes in on the legend of the Jersey Devil, a creature like Bigfoot. Mulder believes that the Jersey Devil is actually part of a small tribe of human beings who have remained hidden from modern society and close to their Neanderthal state....

That makes it all the more incredible that some lucky people have found these valuable books stashed away in their homes. You’d probably be more likely to win the lottery than to have these sitting around your house, but check your attic anyway. Let’s take a look at ten times that extremely rare and valuable comic books were found in an unsuspecting home. 10 Superman Saves the House from Foreclosure In 2010, a married couple in the American South was in a financial crunch....

10Uzbekistan’s Nameless Writer In 1992, Hamid Ismailov needed to get away from Uzbekistan till things cooled down. He’d recently done a controversial freelance job with the BBC, and word was out that the authorities weren’t happy. Figuring any blowback would be temporary, Ismailov left the country, fully expecting to return within a few months or a couple of years. Fast-forward to 2015, and he’s still waiting. Uzbekistan isn’t a country you want to get on the wrong side of....

Obviously, there are tales where the dog is presented as the bad guy, but more often than not, they are tools used by evil men or sometimes just tragic victims. One of the most infamous dog villains is Cujo, the star of an early book by Stephen King. Cujo is a rabid Saint Bernard that kills its owner and then terrorizes a trapped woman and her child. While Cujo can be considered the villain, in truth, he is simply a poor, sick animal who was treated poorly and got rabies....

10 Eerie Last Words Of People Who Then Vanished Without A Trace 10 Woman stuck in chair for months On 16 February 2017, an Ohio church volunteer placed a call to 911. He told the operator that a 75-year-old woman he had been caring for for over a decade was not acting herself and seemingly refused to get out of a specific chair at her home. However, police were not prepared for the horrific scene that awaited them when they arrived at Barbara Foster’s home in Springfield Township....

10 The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler At the age of twelve, Sherry Lynn Marler already knew what she wanted to be when she grew up: a farmer. She lived with her family in Greenville, Alabama, and the tight-knit community called her “Little Farmer” because she loved farming so much. Sherry’s dream never came true. On the morning of June 6, 1984, Sherry’s mother got ready for work and tiptoed out of the house to not wake Sherry, who was asleep on the couch....

10 Butch Cassidy The most famous version of the story is the one that was immortalized in the movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the infamous outlaws. According to that story and other accounts, the pair fled from the United States to Bolivia when the heat from their 1890s spree of robberies got to be too much. It was in Bolivia that they were supposedly killed in a shootout....

The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring an advanced civilization’s level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective. It was first proposed in 1964 by the Soviet Russian astronomer, Nikolai Kardashev. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II and III. These are based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal, and the degree of space colonization....

But what if you wanted to have something much more memorable. Some people forgo the traditional tombstone for a more elaborate crypt or tomb. And some of them can be quite impressive, with others a bit bizarre, shocking, and downright creepy. These are 10 unusual tombs from around the world. 10 Inez Clarke Monument The Inez Clarke Monument is a strange and haunting monument of unknown origin. The statue of a young girl holding a parasol sits on a pedestal at one of the graves in Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery....

Yes, before YouTube or even the Internet, there were viral videos—and while they may have been VHS tapes passed around at work or school, or grainy films shown at underground festivals, they are totally recognizable as every bit the same phenomenon we know and love from the online world. Before Star Wars Kid and the Dramatic Prairie Dog, there was . . . This legendary 1936 “educational” film was ostensibly produced to warn parents about the dangers of the demon weed....

The word metaverse is a mash-up—Meta comes from Greek and means “next” or “beyond.” So metaverse means the next universe or beyond the universe. In 1992, Neal Stephenson authored the sci-fi novel Snow Crash. In the novel, he describes the metaverse as an “all-encompassing digital world” that exists in a parallel universe to the one we know as our normal, day-to-day physical world. Another way to understand the metaverse is to think of it as the Internet we know and love today but in 3D....