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It might surprised us that branding has also been performed as an act of initiation and to identify prostitutes and criminals, mark status, protest, modify the body, provide medical treatment, warn others, and engage in sadomasochistic “play.” 10 Modern Torture Chambers 10 Punishment In the sixteenth century, near Alzey, Germany, three-hundred-and-fifty heretics were put to death by order of the town’s military governor Dietrich of Schoonburg after the captive Anabaptists refused to recant of their faith....

10 Ex-Date Sends 1,100 Strangers To Him For Sex or Drugs Revenge pursuits generally lead to unpleasant situations for everyone involved. Matthew Herrick experienced an incredibly unique revenge plot from an ex-boyfriend he met on Grindr. Over five months, Herrick had 1,100 men show up at his Manhattan home and workplace expecting sex or drugs. Herrick’s ex had created fake Grindr accounts starting in October 2016 with Herrick’s photos and personal details....

Top 10 Dark Secrets That Expose The Truth About Hollywood 10 Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood (2019) Writer and director, Quentin Tarantino, provides an original take on the altercation involving Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, and members of the infamous Manson Family. The film follows famous Hollywood actor, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), and his longtime best friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Multiple storylines intersect in this modern fairy tale that pays tribute to the classic age of Hollywood, and nothing screams Tarantino like the epic climax of the film that will leave the viewer speechless....

10 Historic Events Friendly Countries See In Totally Different Ways 10 Extinction Event – Asteroid Impact In Mesozoic Era During the last extinction event, at the end of the Mesozoic Era 66 million years ago, a mountain-sized asteroid slammed into the Earth at about 40,000 miles an hour. The magnitude was about that of 100 TRILLION tons of TNT. According to scientist Joanna Morgan, “anything within 600 miles of the impact site was instantaneously, or within a few seconds, killed by the fireball....

?roda treasure – Poland The ?roda treasure is one of most valuable archeological finds in 20th century. It was found in 1985 during renovation works in ?roda ?l?ska, Poland. The main part of the treasure is now in Regional Museum there. The treasures found include a Golden crown, probably belonging to Blanche of Valois, a wife of Emporer Charles IV, 2 12th century gold pendants, two 13th century gold pendants, a medieval gold clasp decorated with precious stones, three rings, 39 gold coins, and 2924 silver coins....

An ancient race of giants characterized by a single eye in the middle of their heads, the Cyclopes were prominent in both Greek and Roman mythology. Written about in Homer’s The Odyssey and Virgil’s The Aeneid, the legend of the Cyclops may have some origin in fact. It has been surmised that the discovery of elephant skulls by primitive people led to the creation of the myth – the hole for the nasal cavity (supporting the trunk) is enormous and could easily lead to misidentification as the crater for a single eye....

What is less known is that Google has been involved in this practice for many years across the world wide web. Listverse was founded in 2007 and for the first four years relied almost entirely on Google for revenue to keep things going. During that time, our Google account manager would frequently email to tell us that we had to remove certain content or at the very least remove Google ads from that content or we would have our account terminated....

One current issue involves the legality of patenting a living creature in whole or in part. Today, it is bacteria, viruses, mice, fish, dogs, and rabbits that are getting patented. Tomorrow, it may be humans. In 2013, the United States Supreme Court ruled that human genes could not be patented, leaving in question the legality of over 5,000 patents that had already been issued for human genes in the US....

SEE ALSO: 10 Insane Martial Arts You’ve Never Heard Of Firstly, and this is true for all these entries, if you’re on the street and a stranger attempts to mug you, or worse, he most likely doesn’t know any particular fighting style, other than “swing for the fences and keep moving forward.” There are quite a few offshoots of kickboxing, the most famous of which is Muay Thai, which roughly translates to “art of the eight limbs....

Over the centuries, numerous women chose to pass themselves off as a man. This was often done to enter typically male-only fields, or because was required to serve in the military. Whatever their individual reasons, these amazing women all did great things, and they did it all while the men around them thought they were just one of the guys. 10 Deborah Sampson Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, in 1760....

10 They Have Unbelievable Regeneration Abilities Many amphibians are able to regenerate, but none of them can even hold a candle to the regenerative abilities of the axolotl. They can regenerate nearly any part of their body perfectly, including their spinal cord, jaws, and limbs. When a limb is regenerated on an axolotl, it leaves behind no scarring or any sign that the limb was regenerated. When attacked by predators, axolotls can just release one of their appendages in order to escape....

Despite London’s global fame, far too many people still believe some pretty big misconceptions about the UK’s capital. Some of them were true decades ago, some are simply misunderstandings and others just seem to be total rumors, as false now as they ever were. We’d hate for you to be put off going to London based on a simple misconception, so today we’re setting the record straight and telling you the truth about ten of the things most people get wrong about London!...

The Slender Man has transcended its origin and made its way to real-life stories with its cultlike following. So how could Hachishakusama possibly come close in terror? Well, here are 10 reasons why she is just as terrifying as Slender Man. 10 Creepy Urban Legends Of Madness And Suicide 10 She’s 244 Centimeters (8’0”) Tall Imagine being a little kid looking outside your home when you see a 244-centimeter-tall (8’0”) woman staring back at you through your bedroom window on the second floor....

10 Brown Mountain After spending years hoping, to no avail, to see the mysterious lights rumored to flit about Brown Mountain in North Carolina, Appalachian State University physics professor Dr. Daniel Caton was about to call it quits for good. Then, on July 17, 2016, he spied an orb streaking over the mountain ridge. It vanished, reappeared, vanished again, and reappeared a second time. He checked both cameras recording the phenomenon to make sure that each had filmed the orb’s strange behavior....

Had Fossett not been found he would certainly have made this list. It is hard to believe that something as big as an airplane can simply vanish, leaving behind no traces of where it went down. Yet, even over land, airplanes go missing and are never discovered. Or only discovered decades later. Here are ten tales of people who took off in airplanes and vanished, never to be seen again....

We have all heard of toadstools – and know that they are poisonous, but what many people don’t know is that a toadstool is actually a mushroom, not a separate type of plant. Toadstool is slang for “poisonous mushroom”. While there are some useful signs that a mushroom is poisonous, they are not consistent and all mushrooms of unknown origin should be considered dangerous to eat. Some of the things you can look for to try to determine whether a mushroom is poisonous are: it should have a flat cap with no bumps, it should have pink or black gills (poisonous mushrooms often have white gills), and the gills should stay attached to the cap (not the stalk) if you pull it off....

Super Metroid (SNES) [Wikipedia] The SNES installment of the Metroid series is largely considered the best. The game takes place in a huge world connected by doors and portals. Players take control of Samus Aran, a woman who has to save humanity from space pirates and the like. While not a huge departure from the previous version, the game is more refined and larger, which easily makes it better. Certainly no other side scroller Metroid game matches this one....

In 1938, Edgar Cayce predicted that: “A portion of the temples may yet be discovered under the slime of ages and sea water near Bimini…Expect it in ’68 or ’69 — not so far away.” The Bimini Road was discovered in 1968 and Cayce said it was the “rising of Atlantis.” Many people believe the Bimini Road is actually a portion of Atlantis and Edgar Cayce was correct in his prediction....

The Throne of Germany and Prussia Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia George Friedrich (born in 1976) is the great-great-grandson of William II (Emperor from 1888 to 1918) and is the head of the House of Hohenzollern. He was schooled in Germany but completed his education in Perth, Scotland, and went on to study Business Economics at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. He succeeded his grandfather, Prince Louis Ferdinand I of Prussia as head of the House of Hohenzollern in 1994....

The US and UK named their propaganda arms the Office of War Information and the Ministry of Information, respectively, to conceal their real purposes. Their primary rival, Germany, was less subtle in its approach and called its propaganda arm the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. Cartoons formed a crucial part of this so-called public enlightenment. In the United States, Walt Disney created several pro–Allied Forces and anti-Nazi cartoons for the Allies....