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Industrial accidents have been happening since the early days of the industrial age, and many of them were preventable. Often, oversight and regulations could have mitigated a disaster, or the ever-present “human error” problem could have been stopped before things got out of hand. Unfortunately, for these ten accidents, many died, but they didn’t have to. 10 The Port Chicago Disaster: The United States On the evening of July 17, 1944, the San Francisco east bay experienced a massive explosion that lit up the night sky....

Today, we’ll bust some of these myths wide open. No, hairspray will not remove your ink stains and lemons won’t make your detergent work better. In fact, some of these misconceptions can cause more trouble than they’re supposedly worth. Top 10 Times People Have Been Killed By Clothing 10 How Clothes Go Into The Wash Doesn’t Matter When it comes to washing, it seems simple enough. Take the clothes from the hamper, separate darks and lights, and throw the rest in....

Thing We Forget: Taking the size sticker off of your new clothes. You buy your new pair of jeans, they make your butt look good and they are reasonable priced (haha). You take them home, take off all of the tags, and proudly wear them. Then your friend says “Hey what is that on your pants?” and it’s the size sticker. Whether it says “34-30 mens” or “size 4 ladies” it was sticking to the side of your jeans for hours....

The Mars Volta are a prog-rock band known for cryptic lyrics and messages. One instance that had fans buzzing was on the track “Eunuch Provocateur” on their EP Tremulant. At around the 5:30 mark the track transforms into echoing drums with an eerie guitar. A voice can be heard, but none of the words can be made out. Fans found that when played in reverse the gibberish could be heard as “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”....

10 Of The World’s Last Unexplored Places 10 Masuda-no-Iwafune Referred to as the ‘birthplace’ of Japan, Asuka village lies within the hills of the Nara Prefecture of Kansai, Japan. The village dates to the Tumulus Period and is home to several Buddhist temples and shrines. Watch this video on YouTube The hills surrounding Asuka hold several stone monuments not built in the same style as the Buddhist sculptures, and their origins remain a mystery....

Lady Hester was born into the heart of the English establishment, daughter of the 3rd Earl Stanhope and niece to the future Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger. Lady Hester’s wanderlust manifested early in life when she tried to row a small boat to France, but was soon recaptured. An active and intelligent young lady, she was chosen to act as hostess for the unmarried Prime Minister at official events, and would later serve as his secretary....

The highest praise that I can give any movie is that I was thoroughly entertained by it. I can love a movie like The Godfather, but only watch it maybe a couple of times in my life, but I’ve seen Big Trouble in Little China probably a hundred times, and it is only because I find it infinitely easier and more fun to watch. Even though a movie doesn’t do well at the box-office, or with critics, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some kind of huge intrinsic value....

A phobic con artist, Roy Walker, and his accomplice, Frank, are about to pull of their next job when Roy’s estranged teenage daughter, Angela, arrives. Roy is an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic, who is at first disrupted in his carefully ordered routine, but soon begins to enjoy the relationship that is developing with the daughter he never knew he had as she grows fascinated with his career. Later on in the film, the mark of the con, Chuck, is waiting outside Roy’s house alongside a badly beaten Frank, Angela shoots Chuck and Roy sends her off with Frank into hiding until the matter has calmed down....

That’s where many find themselves right now, in the waning months of the war against COVID-19. With vaccines coming but a long, dark winter ahead, no one wants their names added to the soaring death tolls we’ll see before science finally conquers the worst pandemic in a century. No one wants to die this close to the finish line – to be the least fortunate soul. Let’s look at some least fortunate soldiers....

The Myth: Fat free food is calorie free This is a very common myth – so common that food manufacturers market to it. The misconception that fat free is better is the reason that so many products are labelled “fat free,” “low in fat,” “fat reduced,” etc. So many people who want to lose weight will chow down on all of these “low fat” foods thinking they are going to lose weight – even worse, they often tend to eat more of the low fat food than they would have if it were full fat....

10 Crime Scene Fail1922 Nearly everyone in the town of New Brunswick, New Jersey, seemed to know that Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and choir singer Eleanor Reinhardt Mills were in love. Even their spouses seemed to tolerate the affair, until the night that Edward and Eleanor were found murdered near Lovers’ Lane. Both had been shot. Eleanor’s tongue had been removed, a horrifying insult to her love of singing. The victims were from one jurisdiction, but their bodies were found in another, leading to disagreements about which department should collect the forensic evidence....

There exists a strange side, too. Scientists are creating things never seen in nature, rewriting the rules on reproduction, and keeping the rest of the world nervous with their penchant for controversial human editing. 10 Biggest Genetic Study In 2018, a genome sequencing company based in Shenzhen was given access to a massive database. The genetic information of around seven million pregnant Chinese women was gathered while testing for a disorder linked to Down syndrome....

Nothing starts the day off better than a couple of eggs and fatty bacon. The protein of the eggs and the grease of the bacon form a great mixture that powers you through the day. It should also be mentioned that bacon generally is great combined with all kinds of other foods as well – even sweet things such as Bacon and Maple Cookies. Popcorn was originally discovered by the Native Americans....

Screenwriter(s): Steve Oedekerk Fee: $2 million Production Budget: $175 million U.S. Box Office: $100 million As a follow-up to 2003’s Bruce Almighty, this film follows the life of Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell, a supporting character from the first film. While Tom Shadyac directed both movies, this film featured a script by Steve Oedekerk. Although Oedekerk was involved with Bruce Almighty, which grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, the sequel tanked at the box office....

But not everything is happily agreed upon. A new kind of UFO has taken to the skies. People are divided over the authenticity of the infra-red enigmas that are invisible to the naked eye. 10 Of The Most Powerful Photographs From The Last Decade 10 Andromeda’s Halo When stargazers look at the night sky, they see a lot of twinkles. But something else is there—only human eyes cannot see it....

Michel Eugene Chevreul 1886Wikipedia While this is not technically a film, the series of photographs in this montage give the impression of a slow moving picture. The thing that makes this so amazing is that the man in the pictures, Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786 – 1889), was born the year that Mozart wrote the Marriage of Figaro (and was five when Mozart died), and he lived during the entire French revolution....

The great white shark is an exceptionally large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of more than 20 ft and weighing up to 4,938 lb, the great white shark is arguably the world’s largest known predatory fish. It is the only surviving species of its genus. More than any documented attack, Peter Benchley’s best selling novel Jaws and the subsequent 1975 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg provided the great white shark with the image of a “man eater” in the public mind....

Edward Lowe, London [Born: Late 1600s; Died: 1723 or 1724] Edward Lowe was born in Westminster, London, England. As he grew older, Lowe tired of pickpocketing and thievery, and left England for Boston. At first he worked honestly as a rigger, but in May 1722 he joined a gang of men on a sloop headed for Honduras, where they planned to steal a shipment of logs for resale in Boston....

Not many know, but it was mostly the low-budget, gimmick-ridden films of William Castle that influenced Psycho. As a matter of fact, the film was sort of a game for Hitchcock, seeing whether a well-respected director such as himself could make an inexpensive film that would still do well at the box office, and it did. Hitchcock went to great lengths sometimes to keep the film cheap, such as deliberately filming in black and white (he has also stated that the film would have looked too gory in color), and using the crew from his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents....

The Assyrians attempted to imitate the grandeur of the Babylonians, but their despotic rule was held together by the might of their army and the terror of their secret agents. The Scythians displaced and drove another steppe tribe, the Cimmerians, toward Assyrian territory. These Cimmerians created havoc for the Assyrian army, who had great difficulty reacting to the raids of these swiftly moving horsemen. The increasing encroachment of the Cimmerians weakened the Assyrians and provided their vassals with opportunity to rebel....