10 Allan Pinkerton’s Accidental Introduction The man at the head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency might have been known as one of America’s great lawmen, but he was also a Scottish immigrant. Born in Glasgow in 1819, Allan Pinkerton and his wife were forced to leave Scotland when he took a stand with some pretty radical pro-labor ideas. He came to the US in 1842, and they settled in Chicago, where he set up shop as a barrel-maker....

While most of these theories are nothing more than exactly that, some events throughout history have been proven and even admitted to have been carried out by people who wished to lay the blame at an “enemy’s” feet in order to justify a certain planned and desired course of action. Here are ten such events from recent history. 10 Operation SusannahEgypt, 1954 In the summer of 1954, the Israeli government recruited ten Egyptian Jewish citizens to take part in Operation Susannah....

10 Seneca (c. 4 BC–AD 65) Many have heard of the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence and certainly the earlier Greek dramatists, Sophocles and Euripides. However, Lucius Annaeus Seneca doesn’t get much attention these days. Seneca (Seneca the Younger) was born around the same time as Jesus Christ and died in AD 65. He was close to those in power in Rome later in his life. He became the leading Stoic philosopher of his generation before annoying Emperor Nero (the one who fiddled while Rome burned) and being forced to commit suicide in AD 65....

Indeed, since that time, the pool of suspects has grown alarmingly. At this point, it includes pretty much everyone, from those who probably didn’t do it to those who couldn’t possibly have done it. Here, we look at just a few. 10 H.H. Holmes During the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, H.H. Holmes ran his “murder castle,” part hotel, part torture chamber. The hotel featured soundproof rooms, secret passages, gas chambers, and incinerators....

However, there are some cases in which eyewitnesses will provide specific details to make investigators believe that their sighting might be credible. While the following missing persons cases are still unsolved, they all contain some very unusual eyewitness sightings that caused everyone to look at the case in a very different light. 10 Joan Risch In 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch lived in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with her husband, four-year-old daughter, and two-year-old son....

SEE ALSO: 10 Outrageous Real Life Superheroes Luckily we don’t need superpowers or a cape to make a difference in the world. To accomplish heroic acts, all we need is a willing mind and a willing heart. Many of the courageous, self-sacrificing people on this list were nominated as CNN heroes. They have all proven that an ordinary person can achieve extraordinary feats and make a difference in the lives of others....

Prank: Man convinces ex-wife he’s hanged himself Ex-wives. Let’s face it, their second role in life is being the punch line to pretty much every joke their former lover can come up with. But in 2004 there was one ex-wife who was certainly left with the last laugh. Randy Wood, embittered and angry and wanting to get one over his past ex, called her up and told her to come over to his place....

The nutmeg tree is the only tree that provides two spices: nutmeg (the one we are all familiar with) and the lesser known mace. Mace was very popular in the 18th century as a flavor additive to meat products and is an essential ingredient in the traditionally made French white sauce, where the mace is steeped with an onion in hot milk before being added to a mixture of flour and butter to produce béchamel sauce – the French “mother” sauce....

Now this is Power. Paris Match is a celebrity magazine accused of airbrushing French President Nikolas Sarkozy’s love handles away. If only it were that easy (sigh). You may remember, Sarkozy was implicated as the person responsible for the firing of a Paris Match editor after the magazine published a photo of Sarkozy’s wife and a suspected lover. These photos reveal that since then, President Sarkozy may be receiving preferential treatment because of his connections to powerful businessmen, like media mogul Arnoud Lagardere– owner of Paris Match....

Please keep reading to find out just how amazing and outlandish the public’s attitude can be today—and was in the past—toward ten more of the most successful and important ideas, inventions, and innovations we still use today. 10 We Only Needed 5 Computers…on the Planet Yesterday it was said nobody wanted them; today, we can’t live without them. And tomorrow, we might watch them build themselves. But in 1943, Thomas Watson, the one-and-only chairman of the giant computer magnate IBM, made the very unlikely and even more unprophetic statement, “I think there’s a world market for maybe five computers....

It’s not just human feces that are valuable, though. Animal excreta actually top the list. Most of the time, this is because their poop contains some material that can be used to make valuable products. In other cases, the poop itself is considered raw material or a valuable piece of history. 10 Ambergris Ambergris is fecal gold. It’s rare enough that finding a big enough hunk of it can make you an instant millionaire....

Here, we’ll focus on movies with a human cast, so, unfortunately, there is no room for animation. We’ve chosen the listed movies because they had at least one characteristic that made them stand out to influence future writers, directors, and actors. Unfortunately, some worthy candidates had to be left out because of the need to prepare only a list of ten. So, for now, here are 10 movies that were ahead of their time....

SEE ALSO: 10 Weird Causes Of Death Through History ?utm_source=seealso&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=direct Death itself isn’t surprising. What’s astonishing is that you may die from the most mundane and unexpected parts of daily life. We all do these seemingly insignificant things without thinking twice about them. However, somewhere out there, someone has found a way to die because of them in one way or another. 10 Doing Nothing We’ve already established that there’s no way to escape dying....

10The Kimes The future Mrs. Sante Kimes was born in Oklahoma in 1934. Raised in government care, she eventually turned to a life of prostitution. In what seemed like a fairytale ending, Sante’s luck changed when she met and married millionaire Kenneth Kimes, eventually giving birth to a son, Kenneth Jr. But Kenneth turned out to have a shady side and Kenny Jr. was doomed to a life of crime from the beginning, growing up learning the ins and outs of insurance fraud from his mother....

Of course, a mysterious death may or may not involve foul play. Here are accounts of 10 people who witnessed Kennedy’s actual assassination, or had pertinent knowledge of one or more people involved, and who died “untimely”—at least in some estimations. 10Jack Ruby We begin with Ruby, the only very famous entry, who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV just two days after Oswald had been arrested for killing Kennedy....

However, a large number of worthy episodes are all but unknown, except to the most dedicated of fans. Whether these episodes were withheld from syndication, hidden away due to controversy, or simply lost to time, they have been unjustly forgotten. Today, we take a look at ten of the best Twilight Zone episodes that are nearly unknown. 10 Episode Hidden Away for 52 Years Before he became Sulu on Star Trek, George Takei starred in what is perhaps the most controversial episode of The Twilight Zone....

10Joanna Southcott People who predict the end of the world don’t usually have a lasting impact. As soon as their predictions are proven false, most fade away—apart from Nostradamus, whose ravings are still popular, for some reason. While not as big as him, 18th-century prophet Joanna Southcott exerted a large influence that can still be felt today. Joanna became convinced that she would give birth to the new Messiah, bringing about the end of the world....

Gladiator In the Ring Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies....

Several Western companies—including Google and Facebook—have either left or been banned in China over censorship and privacy issues, leaving Chinese-owned companies that the government can easily manipulate in their place. Away from the Internet, China has also banned several other weird things—usually for ridiculous reasons. Although the government often says otherwise, most of the items on this list were banned for political reasons. 10 Hip-Hop Hip-hop songs and hip-hop artists with tattoos are prohibited in China....

As of today, we have no proof that there are, in fact, time travelers among us. All the time travelers we know are from the silver screen. What we do have today are theories about how time travel may be possible and how it would work. 10 Einstein’s Theory Of General Relativity The first theory on this list is Einstein’s theory of general relativity.[1] This theory helped physicists theorize about how time travel could exist....