Modern Plumbing The ability to remove sewage from and bring clean water into places of dense human habitation makes the modern city possible. Without it, we’d still have cities, but not like the ones we know. A high-rise building would be impossible, really, without toilets and plumbing. Remove apartment buildings, office towers, and dense downtown cores from your picture of the world and you have to change the whole rest of your picture too, because the implications keep rippling....

He lived from 1908 to 1974, and, because he was born the same year that #2 died, he was referred to as his reincarnation. He was Russian and became world famous for his recordings and recitals of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto, as well the standards by Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn. He was friends with several prominent Russian composers, including Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khachaturian and Glazunov, all of whom wrote works dedicated to him, and which he premiered....

Emmeline Pankhurst 1858 – 1928 Wikipedia In 1889 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Franchise League, followed by the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1905. She was joined by her daughters Christabel and Sylvia among others in the fight for Women’s Suffrage. Pankhurst’s tactics for drawing attention to the movement led to her being imprisoned several times, and even experienced force-feeding after going on hunger strike several times. She was also instrumental in placing women in men’s jobs during World War 1....

Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Toilet Paper However, as well as the serious implications, society has shown we still have the ability to laugh in the face of adversity. An unexpected side effect of the coronavirus has been a worldwide shortage of one of life’s daily necessities. Toilet paper has become the new “Buttcoin” as shoppers around the world face empty shelves in the toilet tissue aisle. In an inexplicable panic-buying phenomenon not seen since tulip bulbs were all the rage, shoppers have been stockpiling trolley loads of toilet paper instead of food in preparation for a lockdown....

Here are the top 10 horrifying ancient medical treatments that we still practice today. 10 Fecal Microbiota Transplant Over a thousand years ago in China, an ancient researcher and healer named Ge Hong treated diarrhea with “yellow soup,” and it worked! The soup was made of human poop, and the approach later came to the West, where it is now known as fecal microbiota transplant (FMT). Today, the therapy is used to combat persistent Clostridium difficile infections, which lead to uncontrolled diarrhea and abdominal aches serious enough to impact quality of life and bring deadly complications....

These buggers are a step up from the normal head crabs in Half Life. Headcrabs can easily jump from across the room to attack you, and though they’re rather weak, they’re somewhat hard to hit. What makes these headcrabs terrifying is the poisonous effect they have. If you were bitten by one, their neurotoxins would knock your health down to one percent. That puts you in a bad position when other enemies are attacking....

10 Creepy Premonitions About The Sinking Of The Titanic 10Yuma Territorial Prison The gate in this picture doesn’t seem like it’s leading anywhere good, does it? In fact, historically it has been said to lead to not only dark cells, but chaos and death. The Yuma Territorial Prison in Arizona was built during the 17th century and housed over 3,000 prisoners. The inmates, the youngest of which was 14, slept on iron-forged bunks....

The London of 1666 consisted largely of houses constructed from oak timbers, which were covered in flammable tar in order to keep out the rain. The houses were crammed together in narrow streets, where the only real firefighters were neighborhood teams of “bucket brigades” whose only tools of the trade were leather water pails and primitive hand-operated water pumps. The Great Fire of London was said by many at the time to be an event of inevitability, and London’s citizens had been ordered to check their homes for possible fire risks....

Despite this, tourists tend to flock to all the same ole’ spots to get a ‘feel’ for the city – the Eiffel Tower, Arc du Triomphe, shopping on the Champs Elysée and Notre Damme. Trips out to Versailles and Disneyland often punctuate a trip to Paris, along with the occasional croissant and glass of red wine. But there is so much more to this incredible city. Some of the entries in this list are relatively well-known, some are more obscure, but there is a key difference to the “10 Jaw-Dropping Hidden Spaces In London” list is that you can readily, easily visit all the sites in Paris....

Joyce is famous for being difficult to read – see the listverse entry on the top ten difficult literary works. For those without the patience to wade through all of Joyce’s neologisms you might enjoy this book. ‘The Cat and the Devil’ is a short children’s book written for Joyce’s grandson. It is a classic fable of making a deal with the Devil, but with some Joycean japes. The small town of Beaugency is fed up of having to take a boat across the river because they are unable to pay for a bridge to be built....

In truth, there are more examples of good, solid, legitimate literature than we can hope to cover here, but for enquiring minds, or perhaps those new to the medium here is a top ten list (in no particular order) of just a few works that any fan of good writing, no matter the format, can appreciate. 10. Maus Art Spiegelman The Premise – a moving biographical tale about the stories of Spiegelman’s father Vladek....

Speakman is not a very good actor, and that will be something of a mantra throughout this list, but then, martial artists look for excuses to exploit their skills, and they find it in films like The Perfect Weapon and The Expert, and thus, martial arts is an exploitative film genre. You don’t go see one of these films hoping for Daniel Day-Lewis’s level of acting (or else you deserve to be disappointed)....

10 Charles Manson Was Not A Serial Killer For some people, Charles Manson is the first serial killer to come to mind when they hear the phrase. That is an impressive feat of branding because Manson never actually killed anybody. He was not even present when any of the seven murders were committed by his “Family”. “Serial killer” is an actual term used by the FBI. They define a “serial killing” as “the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events, with an emotional cooling-off period between the murders....

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II 89.1m Wikipedia Artist: Gustav Klimt Adele Bloch-Bauer II is a 1912 painting by Gustav Klimt. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who was a wealthy industrialist who sponsored the arts and supported Gustav Klimt. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the only model to be painted twice by Klimt; she also appeared in the much more famous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe 90....

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Most Famous People . . . Who Weren’t Real But she didn’t make the Google top ten most searched for people of 2018. Cardi B did—and managed the same in 2019. She generates millions of monthly searches. But compared to the following entries, Miss B doesn’t come close in terms of number of books written about her. She hasn’t had enough time. Here are the 10 most famous (or infamous), well known people in human history, ranked according to Google searches and approximate number of books written about them....

While an element of competition between friends is fairly normal when trying to plan the perfect big day, Bride Wars takes this potentially explosive element to the extreme, as best friends Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson do everything possible to make each other’s big day a living nightmare. If you’re fretting at all about the escapades your fiancée may find himself embroiled in on the night before your wedding, it’s probably best not to watch The Hangover....

A gay man is looking for a roommate. A pizza maker from Brooklyn is ready to move out and spots the ad, looking for a GWM (Gay White Male). He thinks it means “guy with money.” It’s an odd couple type comedy, with broad stereotypical characters, but it’s pretty darn funny. Husband and wife, Joey (Kevin Kline doing his best Italian guy) and Rosalie (the perfect Tracy Ullman doing her best Italian-American) own a pizza parlor....

SEE ALSO: 10 Bible Verses That Are Always Misunderstood The mystery: Where is the Holy Grail? According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers. The connection of Joseph of Arimathea with the Grail legend dates from the late 12th century in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain....

The Zodiac Killer taunted police by phone and contacted newspapers via a series of letters. In addition to this the murderer included puzzling codes in some of the letters he sent. 51 years later, the mystery of the Zodiac Killer’s identity remains, but one of his ciphers containing 340 characters was finally solved by a team of amateur codebreakers in December 2020. This breakthrough has raised hopes that more mysteries might be solved in 2021, including the truth behind the MH370 crash and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann....

Top 10 Strangest Flavoured Foods And Drinks Ever 10 Oreos are 100% Vegan In 2017, Oreos were the top-selling cookie brand in the United States with 710 million dollars in sales. Some vegans were excited to learn that the popular Oreo cookie is vegan. However, these rumors are not true. As explained on the U.K.’s official Oreo website, they are unsuitable for vegans because they have milk as cross-contact. Cross-contact means the cookies or equipment used to produce them may have small amounts of milk on them, making the cookies contain trace amounts of milk....