Funk was a musical style that evolved from a base of jazz and blues, undergoing further refinement in the mid-1960s to emerge as a stripped-down, highly percussive, bass-driven style of music with virtually no melody or other standard embellishments. Some funky bass lines are so compelling they have been sampled time and again by the next generation of musicians to create new riffs, instigating copyright issues for musicians and publishers but keeping dance floors full from Miami to Minsk....

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My answer is that we have not had sufficient time to truly gauge whether we are in a warming period. It was not so many years ago that the MSM and Scientists were warning us of an up and coming ice age – now we are spending a LOT of money every year for people who claim we are in fact heating our planet. The biggest concern to me is that so many people now rely on global warming to keep their jobs, that they may be too biased to give us an honest view....

Now faced with Internet nudes available free at the click of a mouse button as well as changed social values and mores, the late Hugh Hefner’s magazine has fallen on hard times. Its licensing fees are worth more than its original content. However, Playboy magazine firsts can’t be replicated. Like the publication itself, they’re one of a kind. 10 First Issue In December 1953, Hugh Hefner, a former promotional copywriter for Esquire magazine, spent $7,600 of his and investors’ capital to launch Playboy magazine, not knowing whether a second issue would follow....

Contrary to popular belief, there is no real archetype for even a serial murderer, no generic composition of traits we can safely assume cause or correlate with serial murder, let alone singular murder,[1] which is strikingly terrifying when we stop and think about the possibility that the tendency to murder lies within us all. Am I capable of murder? Are you? This means investigators have to work extra hard, sometimes coming up with strange and unusual methods and tools to aid in their process of catching killers....

10The Two Japanese Proposals To Invade Australia In 1942, a series of meetings took place between the war planners of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. Their forces had already occupied a vast portion of the Pacific, and Australia was the next obvious target. The navy proposed a limited invasion of northern Australia to prevent British and American forces from using it as a base. The army rejected this plan as they were convinced it would turn into a war of attrition....

10David Hahn Builds Nuclear Reactor In His Backyard In 1994, boy scout David Hahn (who had received a scouting merit badge for atomic energy three years earlier) tried to build a nuclear reactor in his mother’s potting shed. Hahn believed the project would help him become an Eagle Scout, and his achievements included building a neutron gun, duping officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into providing him with the information he needed to build a nuclear reactor, and obtaining radioactive elements like radium and thorium....

10The Sea Monster Figurehead In 2015, the terrifying figurehead of the 15th-century Danish warship Gribshunden was brought back up to the surface. The Gribshunden, or “Grip Dog,” had been at the bottom of the Baltic Sea since 1495, and the figurehead adorning it displayed an image that no doubt struck fear in the hearts of other sailors. It appears to be a sea monster bearing a dragon face and lion ears with a person being eaten in its crocodile-like mouth....

Toys are designed to be used for fun. But, as the list below shows, these supposedly silly little objects of diversion can also play the difference between life and death. SEE ALSO: 10 Terrifying Toys From The Past 10 Remote Controlled Toy Truck Saves Soldiers Ernie Fessenden had a brother serving in Afghanistan and wanted to make sure he came home safe. So, he hooked up with hobby shop owner, Kevin Guy, and, together, they added a wireless camera and infrared lighting to a remote control toy truck and shipped it off to Afghanistan....

10The Paracas Candelabra Geoglyphs are giant images drawn on the surface of the ground. The Nazca Lines are probably the most famous geoglyph, but just 200 kilometers (130 mi) from the Nazca Plain is an even more mysterious example. The Paracas Candelabra measures about 180 meters (600 ft) across. Despite the close proximity to the Nazca Lines, this geoglyph was likely not built by the Nazca people. Ancient pottery found at the site dates to 200 B....

10DIY History Launched in spring 2011 to mark the Civil War’s sesquicentennial, the University of Iowa Libraries’ DIY History website originally used crowdsourcing to transcribe letters and diaries from the Civil War. By autumn of that year, the volunteers had completed the project and transcribed 15,000 handwritten pages into digital format. Realizing they had an incredibly valuable tool at their fingertips, the project leaders decided to expand the amount of crowdsourcing projects available to anyone who wants to register with the site....

While their little, tiny bodies might look like miniature versions of our own, they function in a completely different way as newborns than they do at a few months of age. This list is merely a scratch on the surface of the spectacular functions and occurrences in a newborn baby’s body. 10 They Grow Mustaches In The Womb A study published in 1998 found that seven in 3,000 babies grew a “mustache” while in their mother’s womb....

10James Logan In 2012, Dr. James Logan, a disease expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, did an unthinkable experiment that would make many of us cringe in horror: He infected himself with hookworms. Logan then swallowed a pill camera to record the behavior of the disgusting parasites inside his gut. Hookworms are found on feces, and humans and animals normally acquire them by stepping on contaminated soil....

With Jesus Christ being recognized as the founder of Christianity, it is only natural that important discussions were held about who and what He truly was. If a man came and claimed to be God, would one not ask some difficult questions about this mind-boggling claim? Was Jesus fully human? Was Jesus fully divine? When did Jesus come into being? Is Jesus two people combined into one? Did Jesus earn His divinity?...

From timeless classics to modern masterpieces, it seems that writers have been turning to sad and sordid realities to inspire their seemingly fictional stories for quite some time. So read on if you dare, and uncover the horrid beginnings behind some of your most dearly beloved tales. 10 Peter Pan The true inspiration behind J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is capable of seriously destroying childhoods. To find the story’s origins, we must travel back to Barrie’s own childhood when his brother David died in a tragic skating accident at just 12 years old....

10Zopyrus’s Painful Ruse There is a lot of doubt surrounding this Persian nobleman from the fifth century B.C. and his extreme measures to secure Darius the Great’s return to the throne of Babylon. The only source we have is Herodotus, who talks about Zopyrus in Histories. Darius had a lot of difficulty in retaking Babylon after a massive revolt. Led by Nebuchadnezzar III, Babylon had managed to withstand a 20-month-long siege with no sign of defeat in sight....

10 India The Purulia Arms Drop On December 17, 1995, the skies over India’s Purulia district experienced a curious deluge—a rain of hundreds of AK-47 rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, and over a million rounds of ammunition. The Latvian aircraft responsible escaped Indian airspace, but fighter jets intercepted it days later and forced it to land. The plane contained five Latvians and a shadowy figure named Peter Bleach. Bleach was a former British SAS soldier and a mercenary who some believed had ties to MI6....

Of course, we should take most of the suggestions on our upcoming list with a large pinch of salt. However, they are intriguing, nonetheless. And very much worthy of our consideration, if only on a temporary basis. But who or what are the shadow people? Well, that is where we will start our list. 10 Who or What Are the Shadow People? The shadow people are essentially exactly what their name describes—a human-shaped shadow that people often see, usually from the corner of their eye for a brief second....

Most psychologists agree that color affects the way we perceive certain situations. Some researchers agree that our brain innately connects colors with feelings, while others believe that the feelings we associate with each color are learned. For example, psychologists who have researched the color red agree that most people associate it with danger. This might be a general connection our brain is wired to make, or we might have learned the association between red and danger from touching that red-hot stove our mother warned us about when we were six....

Everybody dreams, but not equally. That’s one thing neurologist Patrick McNamara discovered in 2001 when he began working on the idea that social relationships affect dreams. His team tested 300 university students who were rated based on their attachment status—how comfortable they were with intimacy and how likely they were to avoid a relationship. Attachment status was separated by “secure” and “insecure.” McNamara found that the students who were high on the insecure attachment scale would—without fail—report more dreams every night, and in greater detail than the secure students....