These non-Christian churches are dedicated to the worship of other gods or humans or might not even be involved in the worship of any god at all. Some even come with their own religious books, prophets, and commandments. 10 Church Of Maradona At Iglesia Maradoniana (“Church of Maradona”), Argentine football (soccer) star Diego Maradona is god. The church is based in Argentina but has over 500,000 members around the world....

Equatorial Guinea – 2.1 [Wikipedia] Equatorial Guinea is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa. The current president of Equatorial Guinea is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The 1982 constitution of Equatorial Guinea gives Obiang extensive powers, including naming and dismissing members of the cabinet, making laws by decree, dissolving the Chamber of Representatives, negotiating and ratifying treaties and calling legislative elections. Diplomats and even ministers have been caught smuggling drugs, sometimes using diplomatic bags and even the president’s baggage on state trips....

Top 10 Unusual Uses For Coca Cola 10 Water Shortages We all know that the exact formula to make Coca Cola is kept a secret. It will probably remain that way for a long time, if not forever. While we don’t know everything that’s put into Coca Cola, we do know that they most definitely use water. You can’t make most drinks without water, so it’s not surprising that the sugary drink has a lot of water in it....

Interestingly, a flock of crows is called a “murder,” but crows are not the birds to be afraid of. Deaths caused by birds are rare, but they do happen and can be really freaky! Here are ten such killings caused—directly or indirectly—by our feathered… friends. 10 Washington Man Killed by Ostrich Ostriches have the “head in the sand” reputation of being cowardly, preferring to run from threats. But when threatened or cornered, the powerful bird can be dangerous and will attack....

10Grover Cleveland And The Murchison Letter Fresh off his first term as president, Grover Cleveland was once again embroiled in a hard-fought presidential election. As he tried to court the English-American vote, the incumbent president was a target of various farming groups thanks to his pledge to lower tariffs on foreign-grown crops. In order to ensure Cleveland’s defeat in the upcoming election, a man named George Osgoodby penned a phony letter under the pseudonym “Charles F....

The sheer scale of data mining is impressive, but what they can do with this data is more impressive, or creepy, depending where you sit on the megalomaniac scale. Facebook is a part of everyday life. Is that a good thing? Here are ten disturbing facts about Facebook to help you decide. 10 Facial Recognition When a friend tags in a photo on Facebook, this information is added to Facebook’s giant stack of data....

Sid infamously once said, “I’ll die before I’m 25, and when I do I’ll have the lived the way I wanted to.” This is the tragic timeline of his misfortunate life and doomed 19-month relationship with Nancy. Top 10 Bizarre Musical Genres That You Need In Your Life 10 Master of Self Destruction Born Simon John Ritchie on May 10th, 1957, the punk rocker would not become ‘Sid Vicious’ until two decades later—when his true nature was revealed....

I’ve opted to start this list off with an entry which didn’t begin as a publicity stunt, but ended up attracting some rather unwanted publicity. In 2001 a Philip Morris study, conducted in the Czech Republic, published findings which stated that smoking saves the government money. Most people already believe that smoking provides the government with cash flow through tax revenue, but this study had something even better to offer....

Of course, the 1800s were undoubtedly an age of unprecedented progress and innovation. But many areas of modern life, from the technology we use to the ways we behave, first appeared in Britain in the 1700s. That century, which laid the groundwork for the global industrial revolution which was to follow, was just as important in the history of the modern world as the Victorian age that followed it. With that in mind, we’ll shed some light on 10 facets of modern life which first developed in Britain in the 1700s....

However, there’s a lot of misconception out there about hashtags and the once not-so-common hash symbol, which used to be exclusive to businesspeople, and it’s time we resolved them once and for all. So, fasten your seatbelt and let’s get into the list. We’re about to surprise you. Top 10 Disturbing Facts About Facebook 10 The difference between hash and hashtag There’s a difference between the hash and the hashtag, and it’s very important that we clarify this before going deeply into this interesting, educating and revealing list....

Born: Greenwich, Borough of Greenwich, South-East London, 1957. One of the most celebrated actors of his generation, Day-Lewis was born into an Irish family in South London in 1957. He is part of a very select group of actors who have won two Academy Awards for male in a leading role – for My Left Foot (1989) and There Will Be Blood (2007). His portrayal as oil prospector Daniel Plainview in the latter will go down as one of the most menacing performances in recent cinema, similar to his celebrated depiction of Bill ‘the Butcher’ Cutting in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002), which also brought him a nomination for Best Actor at the Oscar’s that year....

SEE ALSO: 10 Gruesome Deaths That Have Been Attributed To Ghosts The Hotel del Coronado is a stunning Victorian beachfront resort hotel in the very southern California city of Coronado, just south of San Diego. It was only four years open when a beautiful young woman named Kate Morgan checked in on November 24th, 1892. She was apparently very ill for the time she spent at the hotel, and it was later speculated she had taken a large dose of quinine in an effort to induce miscarriage of an unwanted child....

But as with any show set in an already established universe, there is a plethora of hidden facts and easily overlooked details to be discovered! She here are the top 10 fun facts and Easter eggs from Star Wars: The Mandalorian! Top 10 ‘Star Wars’ Background Characters You Never Even Noticed 10 The Mos Eisley bar is still as unwelcoming as ever One of the most iconic scenes from the original Star Wars movie was Luke Skywalker’s visit to the bustling cantina populated by aliens of all shapes, sizes and descriptions....

See Also: 10 Facts About Charles Manson’s Imprisonment That Will Disgust You They shot and killed 18-year-old Steven Parent who was visiting the caretaker at the property as he pulled into the driveway. They then entered the house and killed Tate, celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski and Frykowski’s girlfriend Abigail Folger. Tate’s husband, director Roman Polanski, was not at the house. These murders still shock today and nearly 50 years later, the chilling events that took place that night are not forgotten....

But hate crimes are more than just physical violence. In the United States, the destruction and vandalization of religious property and verbal violence that interferes with housing rights and federally protect liberties are also hate crimes. Unfortunately, hate crimes not specific to the United States. All over the world, people are discriminated against, hurt, and killed just because of who they are. And on top of an already lengthy legal procedure that includes the arrest, investigation, interviews, follow-up, and court dates, community impact and sympathetic parties to the suspect can delay criminal sentencing....

10Ludwig Leichhardt Ludwig Leichhardt was a 19th-century naturalist born in Prussia who spent the last years of his life traveling and studying the Australian inland. In 1848, Leichhardt set out on an ambitious trek from the eastern to the western coast of Australia. He was never heard from again. Rumors were that Leichhardt’s party was massacred by indigenous people or that everyone drowned during a river crossing. Every 5–10 years, another daring explorer set out to track down the lost expedition....

Technically, this is the very first digital photograph – all these years later, digital cameras are only just beginning to have the full capabilities of film cameras. Russell Kirsch was a computer pioneer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA when he developed the system by which a camera could be fed into a computer. The photo is of Kirsch’s three month old son Walden and it measured a mere 176×176 pixels....

It was a precious and rare vial of the 1905 perfume, L’Origan, that decided me on the hobby. I openened the box in which it had been delivered and was immediately enveloped in the scent that led one newspaper reporter to exclaim: “All Paris smells of L’Origan!” The perfume had leaked slightly. It was a moment of ecstasy. I was smelling the world as people long past had smelled it....

TV coverage was largely from afar as journalists sought to remain safe and refrain from broadcasting the event’s most macabre spectacle—those jumping from atop the towers. They panned out while we leaned in. Viewers, then, were on the outside looking in, an impersonal perspective despite the thousands of flesh and blood souls scrambling to survive as the towers slowly died. Let’s explore some of what we missed that day: the stories of individual victims, survivors and heroes....

But there are other names on the internet. Names that are assigned to you by other users. Names which are a kind of short-hand way of alerting other users about the sort of person you really are. They are stereotypes, of course, and it is hoped that few people embody all their traits in real life, although you never know. However, we have prepared this handy guide for you. If you are called any of these names over the internet, it might be a good time for you to take stock of your life....