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The Bakewell tart is a shortcrust pastry filled with jam and almond sponge (frangipane). The result is the perfect accompaniment to a cup of tea. The tart originates from the town of Bakewell. Local legend has it that the Bakewell tart (or pudding, as it is known in Bakewell) was created when a cook misunderstood her mistress’ instructions and layered frangipane on a simple jam tart. Whatever the truth the tart has been popular since at least the early 19th century....

Medical language is built almost entirely on affixes, additions to a word that gives it a specific meaning. For example, in regular language, you often hear “anti-,” which you probably know means “opposed to.” When a product comes out on the market called “antifreeze,” you go, “Hey! That must stop or prevent freezing.” These cues help us navigate the language, and it does the exact same thing in medicine....

See Also: 10 Surprising Ways To Hack Your Body 10Jump Your Dead Car Battery with a Rope The Common Problem: The easiest solution to jump-starting a car is hooking it up to another battery. Most people already schlep around jumper cables. You might as well put them to good use. However, that implies that you can find someone to flag down. If you are stranded in the middle of nowhere, you have to get creative....

10 Ghostly Haunts Of A Catastrophe A nuclear physicist from the University of Buffalo named Andrei Kharsukhov, had a horribly frightening experience while at the Chernobyl power plant, when he reported hearing someone screaming for help while there in 1997. He was visiting the infamous “Ground Zero” of the Chernobyl disaster, and said that he got there around 7:30 in the morning and went directly to the Reactor 4 sarcophagus. While taking readings, he reported to officials that he could distinctly hear someone faintly, yet frantically, screaming for help in putting out a fire, so he ran back upstairs and told those who let him in what he saw....

These thin fish belong in the same family as sea horses and sea dragons. They are much cuter, though, probably due to their nose-like snouts. Most live in salt water, but a few live in fresh water. Like sea horses, the male carries his partner’s eggs for quite some time. Fun Fact: The love life of these fish is pretty varied. Some species mate for life, some mate with several different partners, and some female members of various species mate with multiple partners at the same time....

Whether or not it is inhumane or deters heinous crimes, the death penalty has always provided intriguing details along with heated debate. Legal executions create a macabre subculture and, right or wrong, bring with them fascinating circumstances and stories. 10 Brutal Facts About The Most Humane Method Of Execution 10 The Electric Chair: Shocking Truths Death by electrocution originated in the 1880s as a means of killing cattle, lame horses and stray animals....

The king of the jungle is a title that still misleadingly belongs to the elephant, not the lion. Neither of them lives in any jungle in Africa. The African elephant is the largest land animal on Earth and has zero natural predators (man doesn’t count as natural). The ones you’ve seen in zoos are simply not the same as those in the wild. In zoos, elephants know humans are no threat; in the wild, any animal that is not a herbivore is a threat, and elephants are smart enough to know which is which....

An accused raises the defense of necessity when he or she alleges that the alleged act was carried out due to exceptional circumstances. The accused was truly desperate and had no choice but to disobey the law. Courts have generally recognized a set of criteria to determine whether or not the defense can be met, as follows: 1 The unlawful act was intended to avert a greater evil 2 There could not have been any reasonable, legal alternative course of action 3 The unlawful act could not have been more than what was necessary to avert the greater evil and 4 The unlawful act must have been effective, or at least highly probably effective, towards averting the greater evil....

Nikon D40 Priced from: $479.99 The Nikon D40 is an all new affordable, compact, point-and-shoot digital SLR from Nikon, it follows on from the D50 but at a significantly lower price point and with a subtly different feature set. The biggest news however is probably fact that Nikon resisted the temptation to keep chasing megapixels (hooray for that) and instead appear to have concentrated on what makes a good camera, a decent viewfinder, short shutter lag, very short viewfinder blackout....

Being born to a strong mother, much less a famous one, can not be an easy task for a child to take on. Being the daughter of a great woman is perhaps even more daunting a task considering the undeniable comparisons between the two females. The hope of any mother for a daughter must be that her offspring is healthy, happy and can find her own path. The women listed below are a varied bunch yet all share a common thread....

This song is best (only?) known as being the first video on Mtv. An argument can be made that this and the version by The Buggles are the same exact song since Bruce wrote it with Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes who would later form The Buggles. However, since this was released first and has Thomas Dolby on keyboards, I’m crediting it as the original. A moderate hit for Hawkins and released just as what would eventually be Creedence Clearwater Revival was in its infacy, it became the first hit for CCR eleven years later as their first single of their first album....

So you passed your ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery), medical exam, and piss test (a hard one for all those stoners out there), what happens next? Recruiters are paid very decent bonuses for each recruit enlisted and some will say all kinds of things to get you in. But what’s the truth? 10 Fascinating Facts About The Ancient Roman Army 10 Processing Let’s use some practical knowledge here, you aren’t showing up to basic training with your favorite skateboard shoes and Gameboy color....

Yemen is an ancient country on the very southernmost edge of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering Saudi Arabia, unsurprisingly. The land has changed hands dozens of times over the centuries as empires wax and wane. Even today, it is the site of a vicious turf war between the Sunnis of Riyadh and the Shia of Tehran. Add to this the many different religious sects and tribal loyalties, and you can see why Yemen has what can only be described as one of the most complicated political histories on the planet....

This list aims to highlight some of the more interesting facts about the country, focusing on its history and the people who live there. These ten facts don’t cover everything you should know about Vietnam, but it’s a great place to start learning about this amazing country. 10 Facts That Will Challenge What You Know About The Vietnam War 10 It’s Not Actually Called “Vietnam” The country’s official name in English is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, but that’s not necessarily correct....

The Tasmanian Sea Monster (otherwise known as the ‘Tasmanian Blob’) was washed ashore on a beach in (have a guess) Tasmania. The mysterious dead organism, despite having no identifiable bone structure, was originally believed to be a new species of mammal. Attempts to scientifically explain away such claims were initially unsuccessful. The creature lacked eyes, a visible mouth and was covered in stiff white hairs, though given the colossal size (over 20ft in length) it was hypothesized that the creature was a badly decomposed whale....

This story involves an ant, Flik, who is a misfit in his ant colony. After being terrorized by a large gang of grasshoppers, it is up to Flik to find a group of warriors, in the city of bugs, for the protection of his colony. But the best Flik has are circus bugs. A Bug’s Life is a rich, imaginative and compelling tale in the Pixar series. It’s animation was critically praised due to it’s beautiful visuals of landscapes in the world of bugs....

[NOTE: Updated for 2020 Report] 10 Denmark Score: 0.940 The Kingdom of Denmark is a country that comprises Denmark proper in Northern Europe and two autonomous constituents—the Faroe Islands and Greenland—in the North Atlantic Ocean. The population of Denmark is around 5.66 million inhabitants. Denmark is a constitutional monarchy where the Danish monarch, the formal head of state, retains only ceremonial functions, the most significant of which is to appoint the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Ministers, who are responsible for the administration of the government....

The Brentford area of London is a peculiar place in terms of the names. You can buy an apartment at Griffin Flats, take in a football match at Brentford F.C‘s Griffin Stadium or have Steak and Ale Pie at the Griffin Arms Pub. To top that all off, there’s a chance you might bump into the Brentford Griffin, the mythological creature that, supposedly, fly’s and wanders around this London Borough....

List Containing Error: The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Item in error: 1. Great Pyramid of Giza “Sadly, this is the only one of the seven wonders still in existence.” For completeness, this should indicate that there are still pieces of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in existence at the British museum. The Pyramids are the only ancient wonder that is (except for the limestone casing) still in existence in close to its original state....

The history of the empire was also well-documented compared to the Dark Ages that followed—but those histories do tend to focus on the earlier emperors. Yet some incredible stories came after them: the man who reunited a broken empire, the teenagers who ruled Rome, and the man who bought the imperial throne at auction. Here are ten fascinating stories of Roman emperors after the first 12 Caesars reigned. 10 CaracallaAD 198–217 Caracalla and his brother Geta provide a wonderful historical tale of sibling rivalry....