Canadians are universally known as nice people. So it makes sense that, although born in Beirut, Keanu Reeves was raised in Toronto, Canada (after also living in Australia and New York). His English-born mother taught him to have good manners. His Hawaiian-Chinese (with a bit of European in the mix) father passed on the native Hawaiian maxims of “aloha,” which means respect, and “pono,” which means doing right by one another....
This flexibility has led to tension between competing ideologies, yes, but also a certain beauty. As scholar Joseph Campbell put it, the interpretability of religion makes it like a stained-glass window, letting you see “the light” through it in the color and shape of your choosing. This list collects ten of those colors, from the beautiful and the ugly. Here are ten religious beliefs that have changed with history....
Some of those myths, however, have more truth to them than you might think, as some recent studies have discovered. These are the health myths we tell other people about to sound cool, though if we took some time to look into them, we’d realize that they aren’t actually myths at all. 10 Carrots Do Improve Your Eyesight It has been a while since the “carrots are good for the eyes” myth was debunked, as anyone who has been online anytime in the last ten years would know....
10Michelle Obama Is Transgender In 2014, Joan Rivers made a joke in poor taste about Michelle Obama being “a tranny.” As you’d expect, Rivers largely declined to apologize, arguing that transgender people were some of the most beautiful in the world, so there was no reason for Obama to feel insulted. Now, while the joke was off-color, Rivers was a comedian and obviously she didn’t really believe that the First Lady of the United States was secretly transgender....
10 Odette de Champdivers At 17, Odette de Champdivers became mistress to the mad French king, Charles VI. Charles suffered from paranoid delusions, even believing at one point that he was made of glass. During his episodes of what is now believed to be schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, he would become violent toward his queen, Isabella of Bavaria. Since medieval doctors believed that “releasing one’s seed” was necessary for good health, Isabella acquiesced to Odette, for her own protection....
As science marches on, it seems that all those incredible suits, ships and space colonies we were given by science fiction may actually be just over the horizon. Toy Story hero Buzz Lightyear’s impressive space armor has been given a nod from NASA in the form of the upcoming Z1 spacesuit. The suit, designed with deep space travel in mind, marks the first time NASA has significantly updated its astronauts’ outfits in about twenty years....
James Stewart was so modest about the Best Actor award he won for The Philadelphia Story that the statuette was displayed in the window of his father’s hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania, for decades. But Stewart’s humility aside, while it may be an honor just to be nominated for a competitive Oscar, it must be an even bigger honor to win. Unfortunately, some of Hollywood’s finest have not. Here are 10 Hollywood greats that never won a Best Oscar for Picture, Actor, or Director....
10 How It All Began There was a time when Fort Lee, New Jersey, was the movie capital of the world. In fact, the entire industry was dominated by one man: Thomas Edison. He owned most patents related to motion pictures. In 1908, to further increase his influence, he founded the Motion Picture Patents Company, commonly referred to as the Edison Trust. It was comprised of all the major film companies at the time, plus the leading distributor and film stock supplier....
While selfies are a way of getting the 15 minutes of fame that Andy Warhol claimed would be everyone’s due before long, the pictures we take with our cell phone cameras can reveal more than mere vanity. As these ten selfies that went awry demonstrate, the photos we take of ourselves on the spur of the moment can capture embarrassing behavior, carelessness, criminality, and downright foolishness. 10 Pumpkin Sculpture Damage In February 2017, a complex and intricate sculpture of pumpkins by famed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, was damaged by an art enthusiast trying to take a selfie....
See Also: 10 Common Misconceptions About Serial Killers Before we had DNA, blood and fibre analysis; the game of cat and mouse was a lot more complicated. These following manhunts all came to an end because these psychopaths simply weren’t as smart as they’d like to think. 10 Dennis Rader Between the years of 1974 and 1991, serial killer Dennis “BTK Killer” Rader was at large. He took the lives of ten people in Sedgwick County, Kansas....
10Lainz Angels Of Death The Lainz Angels of Death were four nurses working at Lainz hospital in Vienna. They were Waltraud Wagner (the “head Angel”), Irene Leidolf, Maria Gruber, and Stefanija Mayer. They started killing in 1983, and, like so many others, claimed that they killed patients out of pity. But as all of their patients were over 75, their killings went unnoticed. As soon as they realized they could get away with it, they went power mad and began to kill patients that they didn’t like, or that were difficult cases....
We may all be guilty, at one time or another, of accusing our significant others of being a pain in the neck. Well, one Utah man was convinced that his girlfriend was a pain in the head. A literal pain in the head; he believed she was causing his crippling headache, and that the only way to get rid of it was to shoot her. So he did. Neighbors heard the gunshot and called police, who arrived to find the man hiding in a ditch, still clutching his 9 mm handgun....
In theory, this sounds like a perfectly reasonable and civil affair. In reality, it often descends into chaos, with many MPs having been suspended from Parliament due to their behavior. Sometimes, however, politicians are suspended from Parliament not because of their behavior inside the House but rather by what they did outside it. Here are ten shocking moments when British MPs were suspended from Parliament. 10 Dennis Skinner An MP for the Labour Party, Dennis Skinner is a regular offender and has been suspended from Parliament on numerous occasions, the most recent of which was in 2016....
Brought to us over the course of two nights back in November 1990, ABC’s two-part, two-night presentation of Stephen King’s IT still lives on in the hearts and nightmares of the youth of America. If you’re like us, and the original film was a seemingly unending source of all your waking fears, then join us as we go behind the scenes and expose some of the more shocking secrets of Stephen King’s IT (1990)....
10 Keeping a beloved character on screen When Paul Walker died during the filming of Furious 7, the filmmakers had to decide between starting from scratch or somehow keeping Brian O’Connor alive. James Wan wanted to honor Walker’s legacy and hired a fantastic digital effects studio that eventually paired 350 CGI shots of Walker with distant shots of his brother. The result was mostly great, with most fans not even noticing the difference for the majority of the film....
10 Edgar Evans In 2002, scientists from the University of Waikato were surprised to confirm the presence of anthrax in samples taken from the stables at Robert Falcon Scott’s base camp at Cape Evans. The stables were built in 1911, prior to Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole. They housed the Manchurian ponies and Himalayan mules that the expedition brought to assist them in their exploration. Anthrax was endemic in Asia at that time, so these equines are assumed to have carried the deadly bacteria to Antarctica....
Of course, despite the attempts of some of the theorists to fit every wild claim about our solar system into one box, it doesn’t always work properly. As you might imagine, many conspiracy theorists have trouble agreeing on what exactly it is the government is hiding from us, and just what the intentions of our secret alien overlords are. 10The Moon Landing Was Real But The Footage Was Faked The theory that the Moon landing was faked is one of the most popular and longest-running conspiracies about the United States government....
Whether they were young like Heath Ledger (and maybe felt as though he would handle it later in life) or older like Aretha Franklin (who recently died without a will), it has proven to be quite the affair for those left to sort out the details after the celebrity’s passing. When the dust settles, interesting and outright bizarre things may happen regarding the famous person’s legacy. 10 Kurt Cobain And The Muppets When you are young, it is not usually at the forefront of the brain to create a will to protect your family, your assets, and your name after you die....
However, the truth is quite different. There are many bizarre things within the orbit of our Sun that astronomers have yet to figure out. Here are 10 of the strangest unexplained phenomena in our solar system. 10 The Storms On Jupiter Look Like Beehives Cyclones exist on most planets that have an atmosphere and moisture beneath their clouds–including our very own Earth. These storms come by many names on this planet....
Union troops were primarily city and town dwellers. They named battles after natural objects near the scene of the conflict. Confederate troops were, chiefly, from the country and named battles after impressive artificial (man-made) objects near the scene of the conflict. The battle of “1st Manassas / Bull Run”: The Union army named the battle “Bull Run” after a little stream near the scene, called Bull Run, and the Confederate army named the battle “Manassas” because of the Manassas railroad station located nearby....
