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10 Albert Ball Described by Manfred von Richthofen (aka the Red Baron) as “by far the best English flying man,” Albert Ball was the first celebrity fighter pilot in Britain. He was born in Nottingham on August 14, 1896. After the outbreak of World War I, Ball volunteered for the Notts and Derby Regiment and was made a lieutenant. He began taking private flying lessons before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps where he gained his pilot’s wings in January 1916....

This triangular area of sea between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida leaves scientists and experts amiss and sailors and pilots with a feeling of dread every time they have to pass through it to this day. And with all that we know about the Bermuda Triangle, there still is no one definitive answer to the puzzle. Here are the 10 best theories that explain the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon. 10 The Wormhole Theory One Bermuda Triangle theory is the wormhole....

Unfortunately for those looking for a straight depiction of the facts, rare is the documentary that is made without having some form of bias behind it. The maker’s personal politics will often play a huge part in dictating the course of the film and, in the worst cases, they will actively misrepresent the information they have gathered to better suit their own argument. Here are 10 examples of documentaries that have been accused of skewing their facts....

10 Public Reaction The film’s disastrous test screening was deemed “too upsetting” by moviegoers who had never before been subjected to seeing physically deformed actors on the silver screen. In a frantic attempt to salvage a project which had already been slated for release, MGM was forced to make extensive last-minute cuts to numerous scenes. Despite the alterations, Freaks was inevitably doomed from the start because of its shocking and exploitative subject matter....

10Cat Burning In today’s world, the killing of some animals is met with immediate outrage. In 17th-century France, cat burning was a form of entertainment. Every year, Parisians gathered during midsummer bonfire in Place de Greve to play, dance, and sing. To make the gathering more interesting, the crowd gathered live cats into sacks, hung them over the fire from a mast, and watched them die slowly. The cats were chosen for their supposed link to the devil and witches....

10 Competing Against TimeTim Cook After graduating from college, Tim Cook got into computers when he landed his first job with IBM in 1982. In 1996, he started to work for Apple when they were at the lowest point in their company’s history, having lost $1 billion the previous fiscal year. Cook is credited with reorganizing the company’s manufacturing operations. He simplified the network of manufacturers and distributors, and he improved Apple’s systems to keep better track of inventory....

Whatever situation he found himself in, Freddie Mercury remained true to the titles of one of Queen’s biggest hits. The show must go on. 10 Pet Llamas And Cocaine In the 1980s, two music legends attempted to collaborate on an album. Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury combined their talents, but it was not meant to be. The album was canceled because the stars had certain disagreements about items which the other insisted on having....

The developing world may be falling behind when competing for resources, but it hasn’t even started regarding technology. The “One Laptop One Child” project aims to fix this. Its goal is to create a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected computer for children in the third world. Its XO laptop is about the size of a small textbook, with built-in wireless and a screen readable in direct sunlight (for children who school outdoors)....

For those paying exorbitantly to stock their own private gardens, an ancient shrub is worth far more than any diamond. For the various thieves doing the dirty work, the money all looks the same. Rare flora the world over are at risk of being consumed into a black market driven by profits in the billions. It weighs on the minds of conservationists in every country: How do you stop the theft of something growing wild in its natural habitat?...

This is of course not a definitive list but before you comment, please note: you’ll find no pony-cars here, my friends. Maybe I’ll do a follow-up list of Camaros, Mustangs, etc. if this one is well received, but for this one I wanted to profile the more humble looking street machines. And sorry, I love ’em, but in my world ‘vettes are “sports cars”, not muscle cars, so that marque is likewise omitted....

10New York Roulette Ring In 2012, casinos in Ohio were invaded by a New York crime ring involved in a roulette scam. According to the Ohio Casino Control Commission, the group consisted of roughly 50-70 people who scoured the country ripping off United States casinos. In this scam, the players entered the game with low bets (sometimes as low as $1 per chip). They secretly pocketed certain colored chips while another player distracted the dealer....

Unfortunately, however, they have missed many opportunities to present us with masterful scenes simply because the CGI department took a shortcut. Here are ten climactic scenes in films ruined by questionable CGI. 10 I Am Legend—Darkseeker Attack Everyone loves a good dystopian end-of-the-world survival film, and I Am Legend is no exception, having garnered fans from across the globe, with many vying for a sequel. Apart from the fact that the dog dies (cardinal mistake unless you build a movie around taking bloody revenge) and an ending that split audiences to such an extent that an alternate ending exists, I Am Legend nailed it....

In the gruesome roll call that follows, we aren’t talking about the sharks’ appetite for inanimate objects like rusty license plates. Instead, this shocking list includes unlikely members of the animal kingdom that have been swallowed by sharks. 10 A Whole Teacher According to the International Shark Attack Files, the longest-running database on shark attacks, there have been 2,866 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks worldwide since 1580. Western Australia is renowned for having the deadliest waters, with the highest number of fatal shark attacks in the world....

10Cooking With Car Exhaust The more adventurous of us may have tried to warm up lunch by placing it atop a hot engine block. A few might even cross over to the crazy side and make a grilled cheese sandwich on the engine manifold. Well, it turns out that’s not exactly a new development—engine-cooked food has been around almost as long as the car. Way back in June 1930, Modern Mechanix magazine featured a pressure cooker that could be mounted on the rear bumper of a car, with a hose that hooked directly to the exhaust pipe....

The Bennington Triangle has a history that predates the colonization of North America and persists to this day. It has inspired books and movies, as well as supernatural reports of Bigfoot, UFOs, and interdimensional portals. The truth of the Bennington Triangle remains unknown, but the area has mysteriously swallowed as many as 40 intrepid hikers and residents.[1] 10 Native American Warnings It’s stated in Joseph A. Citro’s 1996 book, Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors, that Native Americans refused to set foot on Glastenbury Mountain unless they were burying their dead....

101999 Simply known as 1999, this story is one of the most realistic and chilling urban legends on the Internet. The tale follows the journey of a Canadian blogger named Elliot as he tracks down the meaning of a mysterious TV channel that he watched in the year 1999. He remembered it being extremely sketchy and, in hindsight, he realized that it was most likely run by a local predator. As he continued to investigate, he learned that the man running the channel was attempting to lure children into his house for sacrificial purposes....

There are so many questions to be asked. Why yoga in the buff? What makes a person think, “I’d like to take off my clothes and do yoga in public?” Is this a new phenomenon, or have news outlets just begun to cover naked yoga in the last ten years? Are we going to continue to see this open-air practice, or is naked yoga in public just a fad? It’s a mystery....

As we all know, the last few years haven’t exactly been great, “with all our favorite celebrities dying in 2016 and all our favorite celebrities being dead to us in 2017,” as someone cleverly put it. Well, 2018 isn’t looking so good, either. Here’s who you may have to look forward to roaming the streets in a town near you. 10 John Lennon’s Killer Mark David Chapman shot legendary Beatle John Lennon dead on December 8, 1980....

10Bill ClintonNot Killing Bin Laden In 2001, just hours before the attacks on the World Trade Center, former President Bill Clinton told an audience in Australia that he once nearly killed Osama bin Laden. The recording, which neither Clinton nor the audience would have known the significance of at the time, serves as one of the most sadly ironic footnotes in history. In 1998, bin Laden was not considered the danger that he later became, but he was still on the government’s radar....

10 The Dresden Codex The Dresden Codex is a Mayan manuscript that was given to the Royal Library in Dresden, Germany, sometime in the 1730s. The manuscript didn’t get any real attention until the late 1800s, when Ernst Forstemann, a German mathematician, concluded that much of the book was related to the planet Venus, although no one could read Mayan hieroglyphics at the time. Finally, in the 1920s, John Teeple, a chemical engineer, said that the text was a complex system that tracked the movements of Venus....