Masha was living in a Russian orphanage when an American man was allowed to adopt her. He was divorced and no background check was done on him; also no follow-up visits were ever conducted by the New Jersey based adoption agency. He began sexually abusing her almost immediately, and shortly thereafter, using her in internet child pornography. So much so that the police began a task force to find this poor child who was all over the internet....
Our actual hearts do come close to the Valentine shape. But if you’ve ever seen a real human heart, it’s just as disgusting as any other organ inside you. Even cleaned up and not bloody, it’s raw, visceral, and thoroughly unromantic. The valentine shape works the same way as a Disney cartoon character. Lions are majestic animals, but not quite so perfectly beautiful as in The Lion King (their hair is not parted in the middle, and their fur is not always spic and span)....
Of course, Mary Mallon was “Typhoid Mary.” Some people view her as a victim, others as an unrepentant killer. Certainly, her story has much to do with the lack of information about and treatments for typhoid in the 19th century. Even today, typhoid infects about 22 million people each year, with about 200,000 dying, especially in developing countries. And we have vaccinations and treatments for this deadly disease now. So, is it any wonder that Typhoid Mary could strike such fear into 19th-century hearts?...
10The Difference Between OCD And OCPD Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has firmly cemented its place in popular culture thanks to the hit TV show Monk. The lead character, Adrian Monk, is a brilliant detective whose OCD spirals out of control following the tragic loss of his wife. As a result, Monk goes to extreme lengths to make everything in his life perfect. Not a single button out of place or hair where it shouldn’t be escapes his attention, usually resulting in some sort of humorous escapade....
10 Pharmaceutical Advertising If you’ve ever been anywhere in Europe and sat down to watch TV for a bit, there’s a good chance you have noticed differences, outside of possible language barriers, in the formatting. Not only do they do advertising in hour-long chunks of time instead of repeatedly interrupting the show or movie (Great call! You can make a meal and clean up and not miss any of your beloved programs....
10 Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine Back in the 1960s, the US Army launched a project to create an all-terrain vehicle that could transport men and equipment over extreme terrains. The result was the pedipulator, a bizarre four-legged vehicle that walked rather than drove. Further work on the pedipulator led to the creation of a similar walking vehicle called the Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM). A driver inside the CAM controlled the four legs, each of which was 4 meters (12 ft) long....
On this list are more devastating incidents that have, to some extent at least, been blamed on creatures of folklore. 10 Bigfoot Kidnapping Ever since the infamous Gimlin footage made headlines in 1967, there has been a horde of Bigfoot sightings in the U.S. despite experts dismissing the entire concept as being either a hoax or simply ludicrous. In 1987, things took a turn for the tragic when 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier apparently decided to skip school and go Bigfoot hunting in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California on June 1....
However, after reading these ten stories of tragic and scary accounts involving soda, you may never think of your favorite fizzy drink quite the same way. 10 Mountain Dew While the Mountain Dew we know today comes in 35 different flavors and is synonymous with “gamer fuel,” it was created for a much different purpose. Brothers Barney and Alley Hartman began bottling their lemon-lime creation in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1932....
These people become the news story of the day or week and are then forgotten when the next tragedy rolls by. On this list are examples of ten missing Americans or Canadians who simply disappeared. One day, they were living their lives; the next, they were gone without a trace, leaving their loved ones wondering to this day what exactly happened to them. 10 Madison Scott On May 28, 2011, 20-year-old Madison Scott headed to Hogsback Lake near Vanderhoof, British Columbia, with a bunch of friends to attend a party....
Not only was the Springfield mystery location used for a number of jokes over the years, the show’s writers constantly flirted with the city’s exact location through conflicting descriptions, obscured map locations, and interrupted dialogue. In 2012, this mystery was mostly resolved when the show’s creator revealed that Springfield was based on a town in Oregon. Other shows have created similar mystery locations. From a creator’s perspective, there are some practical advantages to never revealing where a story takes place....
Kurten was the monster of all monsters, with zero remorse or empathy. He would kill at will, even in broad daylight, brazenly and with complete disregard. His compulsion for murder was unmatched. While most haven’t even heard of him, Kurten was every bit as brutal as any modern serial killer. A psychiatrist who saw and assessed Kurten would go on record saying, “Kurten is the king of sexual delinquents because he unites nearly all perversions in one person....
The fear of an unknown intruder ruining your chances of getting lucky is so prevalent in American folklore that it even has a catchy name—“The Hook.” At its core, “The Hook” combines several tropes into one ball of fear. It combines sex with death. It touches on our collective fears concerning intimacy and insanity. It also reaffirms what H.P. Lovecraft stated so many years ago in his essay “The Supernatural Horror in Literature”—that our greatest fear is the fear of the unknown, whether that be the future, strangers, or the dark....
Only three months later, 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and her 10-year-old sister, Katherine, both went missing during a trip to a shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland. These cases were particularly shocking because it seemed impossible that multiple girls could simultaneously disappear from a crowded shopping mall without anybody seeing anything. Sadly, even though malls are busy public places, unexplained disappearances and unsolved murders do occur there without anybody getting caught....
Some were invented by composers and musicians, others by a scientist and a statesmen, and still others by artists. Some were reproduced from historical and artistic sources. Each, in its own way, is a fascinating look, so to speak, into the wonderful, multi-faceted world of melodious and harmonious sound. 10 Art Farm Instrument The Art Farm instrument that Rebecca Reineke and William Jason Raynovich created isn’t really called the Art Farm instrument....
I remember as a kid of about eight years old, discovering my love for astronomy. I read book after book on the subject and was always amazed at the depictions of the return of Halley’s comet in 1910 when it gave a spectacular show in the night sky for weeks on end. When I read that Halley’s comet would return in 86 years, I thought to myself, wow! Will I still be alive when it returns?...
This week is all about parties. There is an emotional reunion at a retirement party when an FBI agent meets the baby he saved decades ago. Nurses throw a surprise party and concert to cheer up one of their patients. Seniors in South Korea get down with the groove to improve their health and well-being. And let’s not forget a four-year-old who got to spend his birthday in his favorite place—Costco....
10 The Tel Tsaf Charcoal—7,000 Years Old The remains of a prehistoric village still exist in Israel. Located in the Jordan Valley, something sets it apart from other settlements of the same age. That something was charcoal. Sure, it sounds boring, but when archaeologists tested the scorched stuff, they discovered that the wood was 7,000 years old. But there was more. The wood belonged to olive and fig trees. This was rather surprising....
Video game cutscenes have stolen the show countless times. Sometimes, all it takes is an average cutscene to stand out from a crappy game, and sometimes even amazing games are out-shadowed by legendary cinematics. This list gathers a few of both. Here are ten video game cut scenes that were better than the game itself. 10 World of Warcraft Young gamers in the late nineties and early aughts faced an unprecedented challenge: trying to figure out what video games actually looked like from their commercials....
This Sony made MMO (massively multiplayer online) was the first of its kind, and really defined how MMO’s are played today. The games user interface is the standard blueprint for every new MMO that comes out: sometimes so similar you can even call it a copy. Regardless, if you loved or hated Everquest, nobody can deny that it was the launching pad for every new MMO that hits the scene....
She covets. That is her nature. She wants Dorothy’s silver slippers. The Wizard himself believes that the Witch’s magic is more powerful and could kill him in an instant if he goes near her. The Wizard finally offers Dorothy a trip home if she will kill the Witch. That’s how loathsome she is to the embodiment of good in Oz. The Witch actively tries to kill Dorothy and company several times, with wolves, bees, the winged monkeys, crows....
