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By selective breeding practices and geographic isolation, hundreds of dog breeds have been created to do man’s bidding. Some breeds never came into vogue, others never had large population numbers, and more have had their livelihoods phased out, and are now considered rare. 10. Catalburun This breed is a Turkish Pointer, and is readily identified by its “split-nose”. This may be the result of severe inbreeding, or because the local hunters prized the fabled hunting prowess of split-nosed dogs over pointers with normal appearing noses....

Here, we have a list of ten ridiculous laws from across the world that are still in effect today. These aren’t obscure rules jotted down on some parchment next to provisions for catapulting convicts; they’ve caused legal trouble for people in this century. Enjoy! 10 Mowing The Lawn On SundayGermany Germany has over 82 million people, which is about a quarter of the population of the United States. Yet it is just 3....

The first actual, full-on spoof of the stale genre was 1981’s Student Bodies. A very strange film, it centers around ‘The Breather’ (called so because of his heavy breathing), a serial killer targeting students over the phone. While spoofing the various cliches and tropes found in Friday the 13th, Prom Night and Halloween, the film also delivered several very strange but original moments, including an infamous janitor named Stick and a body count meter in the bottom corner....

British Intelligence is actually an umbrella term for multiple agencies, such as the SIS, MI5, and others. But regardless of which agency you choose to zoom in on, its history holds its share of scandals. British Intelligence has some less-than-intelligent moments from questionable practices to undetected moles, from bungled operations to poorly-kept secrets. This list brings together ten of those moments, ten of the biggest scandals in the history of British Intelligence....

10 The Chocolate Cream Killer During the Victorian era, the public was terrified of murderesses, specifically those who used poison as their weapon of choice. In a time when the rate of female killers was on the rise, poisons such as arsenic and strychnine were particularly terrifying due to the fact that they were extremely fatal and exceptionally difficult to detect. This was the preferred method of Christiana Edmunds, aka “the Chocolate Cream Killer....

Many other side effects can occur from hoarding habits. In the list below, we will look at ten side effects of hoarding that no one is talking about. 10 Hoarding Often Leads to Financial Difficulties In extreme cases, hoarders become trapped in their homes. This happens because people continue to pile (or stack) things on top of each other. As one space fills with “junk,” items are moved closer and closer inward, allowing less and less space for the occupants....

Many of the horrors spawned from Philip K. Dick’s bustling, neon-lit streets are yet to come to fruition. But while the idea of android replicants and all-seeing pre-cogs may seem like a distant future, cyberpunk tech is gradually starting to take root. So let’s take a look at just some of the ways that society is embracing cyberpunk tech, for better or worse. 10 Ways Modern Technology Is Destroying Natural Selection...

10 Images of Where Children Sleep Around the World As the crisis continues across the world, pictures are emerging online of empty places that normally hold thousands on a daily basis. Bodies are piling up in cities unequipped to handle the influx, and the world watches from the Internet, where these ten images show COVID-19’s impact on the world. 10 The Great Mosque And Kaaba In Mecca, Saudi Arabia Odds are, even if you’re not a member of the Islamic religion, you know of the Great Mosque and Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia....

NOTE: I’m not the subtlest of human beings. Before taking offense, understand I’m not demeaning anyone, belittling their situation, or exploiting their victimhood. I’m not above these things – I’m just not doing it now. Bias against bald people started early. Ovid in AD 1 said “Ugly are hornless bulls, a field without grass is an eyesore/So is a tree without leaves, so is a head without hair”. Scheherazade asks “Is there anything more ugly in the world than a man … bald as an artichoke?...

This Seattle, Washington, music and arts festival is another festival chock full of niche acts, some slightly more known than others, while carrying on its shoulders show-making headliners: last year saw Bob Dylan, Weezer, Rise Against, Courtney Love’s Hole (yuck), and the Decemberists, as the proverbial cream of the crop (yes, Bob Dylan… and Hole) to give an idea for how mixed, maybe even ambivalently so, the line-up can be....

History is a lot more complicated than the Internet would have us believe, and so here is a list of things which show that the British Empire, for all its crimes, did plenty of good in the world as well. 10Enfranchised The British People Although it can be argued that there has been democracy in Britain for hundreds of years, the simple fact is that before the era of the British Empire, it was a country ruled by the elite few for the elite few....

This list looks at ten of the most ridiculous taxes to have been levied in both the past, present and future. If you know of others that you think fit the bill for this list, be sure to share them with us all in the comments. The card tax is a great example of people being taxed for something which is popular and pleasurable. At the time of the instutution of the tax, playing cards was extremely popular after dinner (no doubt due to the lack of televisions and playstations) so the King saw an opportunity to fleece his people....

Ah, the opening that drives parents across the world insane. From its Pirate lead singer to its banshee-like chorus of children, this show’s theme song must have been designed by scientists as some sort of weapon of mass irritation. In spite of all of this, I love this song, even to the point that sometimes I almost want to yell “Spongebob Squarepants!” along with the choir of screaming children. Almost....

There was great confusion during this period of time about what to do with the hijackers – give into their demands or try to take them out (this ended on September 11, 2001, after which there was no more debate). No one was even sure who had jurisdiction. Was it the FAA or was it the FBI (J Edgar Hoover thought it was most defiantly the FBI). And so it was the hijackers managed to pull off their crimes against a confused and non-coordinated response system....

This work was also one of Stephen King’s finest horror novels. There is a haunted pet cemetery, spelled cutely with an ‘S,’ where everything buried comes back from the dead, but comes back twisted and evil. This is a great film where the tragic loss of a child proves too much temptation, and what comes back is terrifying and evil beyond belief. The ending of this film is absolutely fantastic, and one of the best endings of a King movie....

The format will be: I ask the question, I give my answer and reason, and then I open the floor to everyone here to give their answers and reasons. So – onward, to our first installment of Your View. I think the best movie ever made is The Godfather. I think it is the best movie because every time I watch it (and I have watched it many times) it really manages to draw me in – I become totally absorbed and feel like I am part of a real scene playing out around me....

10A Moon Lands On Chewbacca To its credit, one thing the extended universe stories did not do lightly was kill characters from the original trilogy. This all changed when it came to the novel Vector Prime. Vector Prime features original characters such as Han and Chewbacca alongside extended universe characters such as Han and Leia’s children fighting extra-galactic invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong. One of those children, Anakin Solo, nearly dies when he’s blown away from the Millennium Falcon shortly before the destruction of a planet....

10 The Germans vs. Tannenberg (1914) Odds 3ish:1 To kick off World War I, Germany rolled the dice and sent its whole army to the Western Front to attack the crap out of the French. Not a bad idea since the Germans assumed they could knock the French out in a few weeks and then head back east and face the real threat, Russia. Germany assumed it would take at least a few months for Russia to mobilize its endless supply of soldiers/cannon fodder and march on Berlin....

10 The Pompeii Shop A group of customers went shopping in AD 79 and never made it out of the shop alive. The infamous volcanic eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius hit the shop near the outskirts of Pompeii and overwhelmed them. In 2016, a mixed team of French and Italian archaeologists rediscovered the unlucky patrons, among them a teenage girl, while excavating the Herculaneum port. The other people who died there were also young....

Recently, though, archaeologists have started unearthing little pieces of their lives. The Philistines, we’ve learned, were real people—and they played a much bigger role in history than we could have realized. 10 They Were The ‘Sea Peoples’ Who Terrorized Egypt In the 12th century BC, Egypt was terrorized by an army known only as the “Sea Peoples.” They were an unknown group from an unknown land, raiding the coasts of the Mediterranean on massive warships....