Here are ten big facts about these tiny, infectious things. Top 10 Mysterious Viruses 10 Are Viruses Alive? You might think that the debate on what constitutes life is settled. Generally we know whether something is alive or not just by looking at it but viruses blur the lines. They are made of the things we associate with life: proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. They even do things we associate with life: they replicate and evolve....
But here’s a question: How do you get permanently banned from one of their theme parks? Let’s look at 10 examples. That way, you can learn from other people’s mistakes . . . we hope. 10 Bizarre Theme Parks From Around the World 10 Filming Backstage Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, covers approximately 27,000 acres of land. In 2013, vlogger Adam the Woo was banned from the entire property....
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin Wikipedia Led Zeppelin II is the blueprint for every heavy metal album to follow it. The album is the band’s first real showing of songwriting, and the songwriting is stellar. Whole Lotta Love (besides the borrowed lines from Willie Dixon) stands as one of the greatest riffs ever written, and Plant contributes some great lyrics to “What Is And What Should Never Be” as well as “Thank You....
The Village [2004] Story: In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged....
In the movie industry, certain companies (mainly Disney) use a practice called a moratorium, which is delaying or suspending the release of a DVD movie for a certain period of time. The process is used to make DVD copies rare and, in many cases, nonexistent. People want to watch their favorite films on DVD. This is why groups of individuals regularly become upset when they can’t find their favorite movies in DVD format....
The Dead Zone (1979) Waking up from a five-year coma after a car accident, former schoolteacher Johnny Smith discovers that he can see people’s futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiancée married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future....
Quotes 1 – 5 Pennies don’t fall from heaven – they have to be earned here on earth. 2. No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well. 3. Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul. 4. My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police....
My answer to this is 1984, by George Orwell. The reason for my choice is that this book is not only known by millions of people outside the Science Fiction genre (thanks in part to the movie), but it has provided the de facto definition of what a totalitarian state is for most people. This is definitely more grim than many science fiction books, but its influence is very far reaching....
The bobcat is a North American member of the big cat family. As a predator, it inhabits wooded areas, desert edges, semi desert edges, and swampland environments. The bobcat’s diet consists of: rabbits, hares, deer, small rodents, and even insects. Similar to many other big cats, the bobcat is a solitary hunter. Each bobcat will use a single method to mark its territory. Although bobcats are hunted by humans, for both sport and fur, their population is under no immediate threat at the time....
10John Bigg In 1649, at the end of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell’s puritanical Roundheads took control of England’s Parliament and hurried to put the reigning monarch, Charles I, on trial for treason. Simon Mayne, an English magistrate and Member of Parliament at the time, became one of the judges at Charles’s trial. Mayne’s clerk, a Mr. John Bigg, was rumored to be one of the hooded executioners at the king’s subsequent beheading....
SEE ALSO: 10 Most Morbidly Fascinating Places In The World 10Inside Scarecrow Video Located in Seattle, Scarecrow Video is like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory for cinephiles. The store boasts over 120,000 movies in pretty much every genre imaginable. In the mood for an adventure flick? Well, you’ll need to be more specific. After all, they’ve got shelves full of fascinating subgenres like “Jungle,” “Vikings,” and “Zorro.” Walk through the foreign section, and you’ll spot the “Bruceploitation” shelf....
10Blowfly Maggots In a forensic investigation, it’s critical to correctly estimate the time of death, also known as the postmortem interval (PMI). Determining the PMI can be helpful to detectives investigating murders and suicides as well as accidental or unattended deaths from natural causes. In cases where death occurred at least 72 hours earlier, specimens of blowfly maggots are collected from the corpse and examined under a compound microscope. In many parts of the world, the non-biting blowfly, Chrysomya megacephala, commonly breeds in dead bodies....
10 The Works Of Elmyr de Hory During his lifetime, Elmyr de Hory was so famous as an art forger that his villa in Ibiza was a frequent stopover for the jet set, the same people who were duped into buying his fakes. De Hory was the subject of F for Fake, an Orson Welles film, and today, his forged paintings can sell for a great deal of money. Many museums still display his works because the curators believe that they were created by great masters....
From teddy bears and garden gnomes planted in fun, which have turned into thriving colonies, to a submarine in an inland park, our Aussie sense of humor shines through in some of our funniest tourist attractions. 10 Submarine In An Inland Park A rural Australian park is the last place you would expect to find a submarine. Yet the HMAS Otway is a major tourist attraction in the New South Wales town of Holbrook....
10 Nancy Ann Tappe Nancy Ann Tappe claimed to have synesthesia (where the stimulation of one sense triggers another), which supposedly let her perceive human auras. Initially, she identified 11 distinct colors of auras. In the 1970s and ’80s, she also noticed the appearance of children with unique indigo auras. She determined that these children had features that would put them at the forefront of a global shift in human consciousness....
With a reboot of Puppet Master underway and the legacy of other scary films’ puppets like Billy in Saw, it’s safe to say that many of us are just as frightened of puppets today. Our fears have even been exploited to create terrifying TV shows like Channel Zero: Candle Cove, which is about a fictional kids’ TV show featuring puppets. Puppets aren’t just for horror movies and TV shows, though....
10 Lion Drome In the 1930s, motordromes turned into extremely interesting (and often dangerous) places. Some motorbike stunt riders trained their pet lions to sit in specially built sidecars and then raced madly with the animals by their side. This racing was done at 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph) around the almost perpendicular wall of the motordrome track known as the “Wall of Death!” Believe it or not, sometimes this mad activity was not exciting enough for the participants and spectators....
Some of the following criminals made seemingly smart choices in their attempts to evade the police, while others made some questionable decisions which ultimately led to ridiculous situations. Their actions certainly aren’t the kind of thing you see everyday. Here are ten of the most bizarre things criminals did to evade the authorities in recent times. 10 Weathering A Storm On A Roof In October 2018 in Odessa, Texas, the police tried to perform a routine traffic stop on a man driving a maroon Chevrolet Silverado before the car suddenly sped away....
10Corpses Of Stone Mankind has been taken with the idea of preserving corpses. The oldest known mummy is that of a child of the Chinchorro people, a prehistoric fishing culture that lived along the arid coast of present-day Chile and Peru. It was carbon dated to approximately 5050 B.C., long before the Egyptians began their practice. Born in 1792, Italian anatomist Girolamo Segato was rather obsessed with Egyptian funerary practices. He went on several archaeological expeditions to Egypt, where he became intimately acquainted with the process of mummification....
They called it Ragnarok: the end of times, when even the gods would die. They weren’t the only people who accepted that their time on Earth was finite—but these were the Vikings. Their everyday lives were already more brutal and vicious than most people’s concepts of Hell. Their vision of the end had to be horrible to terrify them, and they made what might well be the most brutal apocalypse man has imagined....
