Now, in my admittedly biased and prejudiced mind, not all Last Stands are created equal. So, for the purpose of this list, I’ve got five criteria in mind. Not every last stand here meets all five, but they must meet at least three. If you are the aggressor, you can’t have a Last Stand because you are getting your just desserts. Simply put, you started it and if you hadn’t started it, you wouldn’t be getting wiped out to the last man, now would you?...
SEE ALSO: 10 Beloved Stories Based On Horrible True Events 10 The Astronaut’s Mysterious Visitor In 2003, Yang Liwei was floating in his capsule. He had just made history as China’s first man in space. He was alone in a void. Then came a knock. In space, nobody can hear you scream. But apparently you can hear tapping. Back on Earth, Liwei described the event to reporters. The sound reminded him of “someone knocking the body of the spaceship just as knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer....
Since the 1960s, when Belgium lost control of the Congo, it has gone back to just being another small Western European country. However, Belgium’s bliss was brutally interrupted in the early 1980s when at least 28 people were viciously murdered by a pack of criminals later known as the Brabant Killers. Besides the 28 killed, the “Crazy Brabant Killers” also injured 40 and committed a string of very violent robberies....
10Feast Of Fools The Feast of Fools was a medieval New Year’s Day celebration that usually started on the first day of the year. It originated from the Roman festival Saturnalia and was popular right until the 16th century. During this mad New Year’s party, people would elect a Lord of Misrule or a king of Fools. This comic king went by many names, depending on the location of those celebrating....
From the cosmetic to the truly life-giving, you’ll be surprised at some of the conditions where inroads have been made toward conquering them. 10 Baldness The use of stem cells has made regenerative medicine a promising field in recent years. At RIKEN, Japan’s largest research organization, methods have been developed to regenerate teeth and certain glands in laboratory mice by taking advantage of stem cells’ ability to change into virtually any type of cell....
It should come as no surprise that PETA, which endorses a vegan lifestyle, is strictly anti-dairy. They’ve gone as far as to claim milk is a “racist drink”, because certain minorities show a greater propensity for lactose intolerance. Perusing the PETA website, they claim that not only is it a terrible cruelty to relieve cows of their milk, but the beverage itself is practically poison to the human system, causing a litany of health problems from asthma to osteoporosis....
10The Sinking Of The USS Maine In 1898, Cuba was embroiled in its war for independence from Spain, and the US sent its Navy ship USS Maine down to Havana to protect supposed US interests. Three weeks after arriving, the Maine exploded, killing 260 men. Although there was no proof, sensationalist headlines convinced Americans that Spain was responsible, and the people demanded war, with their rallying cry “Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain....
10 Child’s Play 3 In February 1993, two-year-old James Bulger was abducted from a shopping center in Bootle, Merseyside, England, by two 11-year-old boys. The boys viciously murdered the toddler after torturing him and left his body on a railway line, where he was found two days later. The judge presiding over the trial commented that he believed that violent horror movies could lead to violent murders such as Bulger’s. There were claims made that one of the boys, Jon Venables, watched Child’s Play 3, in which Chucky (a possessed doll) is splashed with paint and suffers severe facial mutilation....
For generations, children have spread creepy ghost stories to their friends. They’re not the only ones who love to tell a terrifying tale, though. Americans of all ages don’t hesitate to hype up supposedly haunted spaces. There are plenty of chilling tales off the beaten path too. You may not have heard of these ten spots, but they are all said to be possessed by spirits from another dimension....
10 Selkies And Finfolk Celtic and Scandinavian folklore speaks of selkies, or seal maidens (and occasionally seal grooms). These creatures could transform from a seal to a human and could be captured as a potential spouse by stealing their empty seal skin and forcing them to maintain their human form. Some researchers believe that the legends of the selkie have origins in folk memory. Early Celtic settlers in Scotland and the Shetlands encountered Finnish and Lapp women and perhaps married them....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Atrocious Murders Inspired By Movies 10 William ParenteThe Fallen Financier The Father: When he was 30, William Parente might have hoped to be remembered as a hotshot New York real estate attorney. At 40, it might have been a reputation for being a hardworking family man. At 58, it looked very likely that he’d be best remembered as the perpetrator of a high-stakes Ponzi scheme. Yet when he died at 59, he would attain an entirely different kind of notoriety....
Tales of the enemy’s behavior spread so that people would be better able to combat his wiles. Here are 10 of the most diabolical satanic narratives from medieval Europe. 10 The Devil And The Jumping Boys In the English village of Marston Moretaine, there is a mysterious standing stone known locally as the Devil’s stone. The origins of the stone are lost to history, but folklore provides us with the tale of how it got its name....
The Who rose to fame with a pioneering instrument destruction stage show. One infamous performance occurred on television in 1967. The drummer, Keith Moon, overloaded his bass drum with explosives which were detonated during the finale of “My Generation.” As a result, guest Bette Davsis fainted, guitarist Pete Townshend’s hair was set on fire, and there is a legend that he received permanent damage to his hearing. At this point in time, The Doors had already earned a reputation as a rebellious live act and Jim Morrison was a popular sex symbol....
While some are more credible than others, much like anywhere else in the world, all of them are intriguing. And many of them share details with other UFO sightings, separated not only by distance but, in some cases, by time. Here are ten of the most fascinating UFO accounts from the equally fascinating country of South Africa. 10 The Mindalore Incident Just before midnight on January 3, 1979, Meagan Quezet was about to make a cup of tea to help her 12-year-old son, Andre, to sleep....
This week saw the biggest, most surprising geopolitical shift since the Arab Spring. Dictator Robert Mugabe, who briefly held the title of third-longest serving leader in the world, was deposed in a sudden coup in his native Zimbabwe. Elsewhere, Australians finished voting in a generation-defining referendum, tragedy struck the Middle East, and the stories coming out of Washington, DC, got crazier than ever. Busy doesn’t even begin to cover it....
The last full week of July was marked by tragedy. An inexplicable shooting in Toronto, a dam collapse in Laos, and a horrific wildfire in Greece all wreaked havoc on humanity. But while sadness was part and parcel of this week’s news, there were more upbeat stories, too—alongside plenty that were just straight-up newsworthy. 10 A Devastating Wildfire Killed Scores In Greece It was one of the worst wildfires to ever hit Greece....
10 Serious Problems With How We Get The News Despite running rampant through the news media almost as quickly as it infects the world, plenty of interesting things have been happening behind the scenes. Unfortunately, most barely get a mention these days, and you might not be aware of these crazy news items that have been suppressed by COVID-19 coverage. 10 Korean Police Release Identity Of Man Behind “Nth Room” Sex Crime Case On March 24th, Korean police released the name of the main suspect involved in the “nth chatroom” sex crime case as 24-year-old Cho Ju-bin, a volunteer at an orphanage and editor of his college newspaper....
10 Bizarre Origin Stories About Your Favorite Foods 10 The Bigger Concern In Cookie Dough Is Not Raw Eggs, But Raw Flour One of the biggest arguments over the years is whether it is okay to lick the bowl, because of raw eggs. There have always been two camps to this. Those who say if they use really fresh eggs the chance is rare, and that it is often survivable....
Throughout the ages, pornography or erotica has taken many forms for many different people and has been expressed through radically different mediums. From tiny fertility goddesses with enlarged breasts to the quick flashes of images one might see on an advertisement for a porn website while browsing, the idea has always been the same: to conjure up thoughts and feelings that dwell deep within us and resonate with our base instinct to seek mates and procreate....
We’ll begin the list with something lighthearted on our eventual journey into darkness. Samuel Wilberforce was a British clergyman who rose eventually to become Bishop of Oxford. In 1859, Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”, advancing the theory of evolution. There was a tremendous backlash from the church, especially Wilberforce, and a debate was staged in 1860, wherein both parties would argue their points. Darwin was too sick to attend, and sent acolyte Thomas Huxley in his place....
