The Cotton Club 1984, Francis Ford Coppola Francis Coppola’s jazz age musical crime drama was about the famed late 1920s Prohibition Era Harlem nightclub and gangsters of various ethnic groups (Irish, Jewish, Italian) in competition with each other in Harlem. It also followed a secondary plot line regarding the musical dance team of Sandman and Clay Williams (Gregory and Maurice Hines), who worked in the Cotton Club — with black entertainers performing for rich white clients....

But then there are the real-life feral children that populate history. In many cases, they raise questions that professionals can’t answer. Like, how did they end up living with wolves? How did they survive? And most importantly, how could any parent abandon or even lose their child to the great outdoors? If you want to talk about children who fell through the cracks, the following ten examples tackle cases of feral children....

So many of the people who make us laugh struggle to find their own laughter that the phenomenon has its own psychological label: the sad clown paradox. They really give Pagliacci a run for his money. For whatever reason, the correlation between misfortune and mirth is especially strong in the true comedic greats, the human factories that refine raw pain into concentrated wit. Here are ten such comedians, those who were given the worst of tragedies and gave us back the best of comedy....

One of the very first long-running Furry comics running from the late 70’s into the early 80’s focusing on the life of Omaha, an exotic dancer and her friends. It was revolutionary in many respects, it was the first “furry” comic that wasn’t cartooney or aimed at children, and it depicted things like drug abuse, homosexuality, divorce and other edgy issues without batting an eye. Omaha enjoyed a long run for an independently produced comic, and even had a theme song, “Dance my Tail off” recorded by creator Reed Waller’s band....

That’s certainly true of a lot of things seen in movies and television shows, but when you’re talking about a major religion with around 60 million adherents, misconceptions matter. These ten misconceptions about Voodoo are prevalent, though they’re hardly the only ones. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Voodoo 10 Voodoo Isn’t A ‘Real’ Religion The common spelling, “Voodoo,” is itself an American way of mishandling the religion as it originally began, first in West Africa, and later, in places all over the world....

“In a world . . . where every hypersensitive man and woman has a social media megaphone, and where politically-correct journalists call for horror movie trailers to be banned . . .[1] From the website that brings you your favorite listicles of all things offensive comes what comment thread critics will call ‘terrific!,’ ‘meh,’ and ‘another awful list from this idiot writer. Listverse Studios presents ‘Ten Controversial Movie Trailers,’ a rollercoaster journey showcasing some of cinema’s most upsetting film previews....

If you have ever taken a vacation and had trouble finding your hotel, car, map, anxiety medication or the rest of your family, you’ve probably had an encounter or two with Ardad, the demon who leads travelers astray. Ardad is not that powerful of a demon, which is why his job is seducing, a behavior that most mortals have no trouble doing on their own. He most often possesses men into being adamantly against asking for directions, and responsible for GPS malfunction in major cities....

It definitely takes a certain kind of person to do such a job because most telemarketers don’t last longer than a month in the profession. A good number of them don’t even make it through the first day. As you can imagine, people don’t always have the nicest things to say to us when we call. As a telemarketer, I actually managed to survive for a few years. Over those years, I learned a lot of inside information about the profession which I’m happy to share with you....

Some of the diseases on this list emit extremely interesting scents that you would never expect. While some smells are more pleasant than others, the possibility of using a scent as a diagnostic criteria for disease is an extremely promising one. Other scents on this list require special sniffers to be picked up upon. 10 Diabetic Ketoacidosis When diabetes is not managed correctly, the body cannot make enough insulin to store the glucose that we eat in our tissues....

The Martial Eagle is Africa’s largest eagle, having a wingspan of 2.6 meters and weighing up to 6.2 kgs. It is easily recognized by its spotted undersides. A very aggressive predator, the Martial Eagle feeds on whatever it can catch, from Guinea fowl and other birds, to baboons, lion cubs, and even antelopes! Although capable of killing animals much larger than itself, it rarely does so, simply because it can’t carry such prey to a tree, and eating in the ground can be very dangerous if there are other predators around....

10 The City Of Gold Some of the earliest explorers of the Americas came from Spain. Hernan Cortes, one of the first Spanish explorers, found the Aztec capital, killed the natives, and stole their gold and silver. His discovery led to rumors of a huge, lost city, completely made of gold, somewhere on the continent. After hearing these stories, the Spanish king sent more explorers to the New World to find it....

There are ghost towns around and sometimes even inside famous, bustling cities. In some cases, people in these major cities don’t know about the existence of the ghost towns right in their own backyard, so to speak. Here are ten such abandoned locales. 10 Goussainville-Vieux Pays, Paris The deserted town of Goussainville-Vieux Pays shares its borders with the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. It is so close to the airport that it is considered a part of the runway approach....

Our journey to find the most awe inducing mosques begins in Turkey. Istanbul is a fascinating city for so many reasons, serving as the capital of so many empires. It was during the Ottoman Empire, that Sultan Ahmet I decided to build an imperial mosque over the site of the bygone hippodrome which was the social center of Constantinople (Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The Blue mosque is unique for having 6 minarets, only a few mosques can lay claim to having more....

It shouldn’t be any surprise. Games are built on millions of lines of computer language which the average player will never see. That’s millions of chances for developers to secretly sign their name, whether literally or metaphorically. Sometimes they sign their name in big ways, like whole-other-level big. Whether put in as rewards for masterful gamers or just as jokes, there is no shortage of hidden levels in video games, and here are ten of the best....

10 The Hindenburg Disaster The Hindenburg was a German Zeppelin built in 1935 in order to carry passengers between Europe and the United States. Due to a military embargo by the US, the Germans, who normally used helium in their Zeppelins, chose to use flammable hydrogen. In 1937, it met with disaster when landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station. It is particularly interesting to note the tone of voice being used by the reporter in this recording – you can truly appreciate the horror he felt witnessing the event – something which has virtually vanished from modern reporting....

Surgical Procedure: Biopsy Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen is an American physician with extensive ER experience. In 1998 she was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where she would be the only doctor during the winter. In early March 1999, Dr. Jerri Nielsen discovered a lump in her right breast. After consulting US physicians via email and video conference she performed a biopsy upon herself. The results were inconclusive because the material used on site was too outdated to allow for a precise diagnosis....

EbolaWikipedia Ebola is a virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever; outbreaks in primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees as well as humans have been recorded. The disease is characterized by extreme fever, rash, and profuse hemorrhaging. In humans, fatality rates range from 50 to 90 percent. The virus takes its name from the Ebola River in the northern Congo basin of central Africa, where it first emerged in 1976....

Colton Harris-Moore is a well-known burglar of recent times who earned the nickname: “Barefoot Bandit”, after committing various burglaries without shoes on. He isn’t what most would call a “professional” burglar, though I included him, due to his infamous reputation. Moore ran away from home at the age of 7 and began living in the wild. To survive he would break into holiday homes and steal food and water. He eventually received a 3-year sentence at the age of 13, though he soon ran away....

We’re not the fastest, strongest, hardiest, or most numerous species, but we are the best at dreaming up ways to make life more livable. In 10,000 years- a blink of the eye in a planetary timescale- we’ve gone from chasing mammoths with sticks to drones delivering cookies. As hard as it is to believe, human inventions are even more important than delivered cookies, those inventions that changed us and our world tremendously, and here are 10 of the best....

10 Nobody Won The UK Election Well, that was unexpected. When sitting British prime minister Theresa May called a snap election on April 19, everyone thought she was a tactical genius. Her Conservative Party (aka the Tories) were 20 points ahead of the left-wing Labour Party. On the eve of the vote, polls showed the Conservatives increasing their number of seats in the UK’s 650-seat House of Commons from a tiny majority of 330 to a thumping 420....