10 Ancient China In ancient China, infant death was so common that people were not allowed to have any Yili (“mourning period”) for the death of a baby younger than three months old. In fact, parents were only allowed to cry one day for every month that the baby lived. If a baby was three months old at death, the parents only had three days to get over it and move on....
Having no potent toxins of our own, we began studying and figuring out the various uses of the poisonous world around us. Many times, we used our toxic friends to harm others. But these days, we are finding more and more ways to use those deadly properties to help our fellow man. 10 Pufferfish Pufferfish have a terrifying poison called tetrodotoxin. This poison, if eaten, can kill at an alarming speed....
SEE ALSO: 10 Reasons To Support Immigration Reform 10 Murder of Mollie Tibbetts On July 18, 2018, a young college student named Mollie Tibbetts decided to go for an early evening jog. Leaving from her boyfriend’s mother’s home in Brooklyn, Iowa, she started off, never to be seen again. When she didn’t show up to work the following morning, her family called the police and a four-week-long search began, which ended when police apprehended a suspect: an illegal immigrant named Cristhian Bahena Rivera....
Other times, it is a huge problem. From treasures to pure nightmares, people discover everything in their attics. 10Glass Negatives When you dare search for something in the attic, you sooner or later stumble over a giant box filled with an old slide projector and countless slides. Some photographs a little bit more valuable than your old holiday photos have been discovered in Peoria, Illinois, hidden inside a box in an abandoned house’s attic....
10The Singapore Stone You’ve probably heard of the Rosetta Stone. The Singapore Stone was like its powerlifting big brother. The colossal boulder, 3 meters (10 ft) high and 3 meters wide, stood at the entrance to the Singapore River, inscribed with an ancient script no one could decipher. Today, we’re fairly confident it was a variation on Old Sumatran from the 10th–14th centuries, but for the people who discovered it in 1819, it was like an alien language....
10 Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane was raised in a nomadic village in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, where slavery is the norm. For his seventh birthday, he received his first slave, which was as normal to him as picking out a toy or a new bike. When Ethmane turned 12, his parents sent him to Mauritania’s capital to receive a formal education. Soon, he became an avid reader with an interest in world history and found out that other countries had outlawed slavery long ago....
10 Sergeant Stubby During World War I, a group of American soldiers were training in Connecticut at Camp Yale. A curious bull-Boston terrier mix wandered into the encampment and became friends with the men. They decided to name him “Stubby” and grew so attached to the dog that they smuggled him on a ship when they were deployed to France. Even without any proper military dog training, Stubby was immediately an asset to the soldiers, barking warnings of German attacks....
The heroic people on this list came face-to-face with devastation and death and chose to stay. 10 Women and Children First As the RMS Titanic began to sink during the freezing cold early morning hours of April 15, 1912, chief baker Charles Joughin knew he wouldn’t survive. Instead of going into a state of panic, he spurred on the other chefs to help him pack food and supplies into the lifeboats....
This is the rather unattractive (but healthy) looking lung cake. It is courtesy of armory.com. This cake would be perfect at a roadkill restaurant. I especially like the fact that they didn’t go overboard on the blood – it is just enough to know that the bird is not sleeping (well – that and its broken neck). A great cake for people who work in a saw mill – this is the decapitation cake....
Ancient Greek folklore and imagery glorify the procreative energy of female sexuality. But we also know that under some circumstances, women wanted to avoid pregnancy or dispose of illegitimate, deformed, or sick children. 10 Silphium There is plenty of recorded evidence that the Greeks were familiar with the contraceptive properties of a small tree known as silphium, which belonged to the Ferula genus. This plant was both discovered and marketed by the Greek colonists in Cyrene, an ancient Greek city on the North African coast near present-day Shahhat, Libya....
On this list are just a few examples of dated mysteries that continue to intrigue those trying to solve them. Some are very tangible and accessible things that experts can examine all they like. Others are missing in action and are still searched for to this day. 10 Lost City Of The Kalahari In November 1885, Guillermo Farini (aka William Leonard Hunt) wrote a report about a strange and mysterious city he had come across in the Kalahari Desert....
An odd looking mammal, the Sivathere had the appearance of a giraffe mixed with a horse and in fact its line of descendants were an offshoot branch of the giraffe family. The largest ever discovered measured at 2.2 meters and like the giraffe, it was a herbivore. Its skull however was very heavy which required strong neck muscles. Its horns can again strike resemblance to that of the giraffe but much more prominent, it was thought both these horns and the heavy skull marked dominance during breeding season and males would headbutt each other to win over a mate....
Many know about some of the more famous items that were on board. A few were depicted in the 1997 film “Titanic” including the Renault automobile being shipped to the States by its owner, William Carter (he claimed an insurance loss of $5,000 for the car), and expensive paintings that Rose Dawson was carrying with her. Though in the movie the paintings were by French Impressionists, the real painting lost when the ship sank was an oil painting by Blondel, “La Circasienne Au Bain” (insurance claim amount of $100,000)....
Given how many such lodges have their roots in ancient Egyptian secret societies—and how many high-level NASA officials have such Masonic connections—it is claimed by some that the end goal of the Apollo 11 mission was to perform an ancient ritual in an attempt to “open communication” with a deity from the “beginning of time.” As with most good conspiracy theories, closer examination reveals a mixture of tentative truth, outright speculation, and seemingly bizarre coincidences....
10Crosby Garrett Helmet A metal detectorist made a remarkable find in an English field: dozens of pieces of an 1,800-year-old helmet. He brought the fragments to an auction house, and they spent over 200 hours repairing the helmet. It was worth the effort; the finished piece was stunning. The helmet featured a face mask that displayed a classically beautiful Roman face. The mask was attached to a bronzed cap, which was topped by a griffin crest....
While no one rite of passage is more important than any other, these ten milestone moments quickly turned from celebration into mourning. 10 First Birthday Smashed cakes, overwhelming amounts of gifts, surrounded by family and friends—celebrating a child’s first birthday is something magical. Rehma Sabir experienced the same first birthday magic, but she took her last breath just a few days later, on January 14, 2013, her actual birthday. Rehma had been left in the care of her nanny, Aisling McCarthy, that day....
While last week, we were taken in by a complete solar eclipse, this week’s news was dominated by quite a different and less welcome natural occurrence. There were also major items from the worlds of business and health care, plus the mother of all news dumps. 10 First Category 4 Storm To Hit The US Since 2004 Makes Landfall . . . Twice We knew it was coming, we braced for it, but Hurricane Harvey left thousands of Texas and Louisiana residents underwater and scrambling for help this week....
See Also: 10 Strange Beauty Secrets Of History’s Most Beautiful Women At first glance a contest to find the most beautiful mutilated Angolan woman was always going to be a hard sell. But this is a classic example of look before you leap, thought-wise. Despite only running for one year in 2008 the contest did exactly what it set out to do—shock and surprise so as to court headlines and raise awareness of land mine victims in Africa....
Each era of US manufacturing creates new industrial hazards. Prior to the advent of nuclear power and large chemical manufacturing, the largest industrial disasters in the US tended to be caused by the technology of the times. In the 1800’s, this included the advent of early high explosives like nitroglycerin, the beginning of steam power and thus boiler explosions, and the push to make factory buildings ever larger which led to collapses....
Solid light stories often occur around the time of UFO appearances. It is light which appears to have the properties of a sold object. Witnesses of UFOs have reported seeing a beam of light “unrolling” from the flying saucer and disturbing the ground beneath it physically. It is also said that these solid lights can enter buildings and turns corners. This is, of course, a concept completely unknown to modern science....
