See Also: The 10 Most Offensive Board Games Ever Published 10Ticket to Ride Ticket to Ride has won dozens of awards and sold over 6 million copies since its creation. It is the most popular modern board game as it takes players on a train ride across the country while they collect cards of various types of trains which allow them to own railway routes between different locations. The game is simple to learn but requires great strategy and tactics to win....
However, although they may share a common language (almost) there are some key differences between the 2 nations that travelers may not be aware of. Movies and TV have done much to make us think that we know what life is like in other countries, but TV can only show you so much. Here are some cultural differences you may not be aware of. See Also: 20 Differences That Confuse Us All...
Some of those included here attract the word “bizarre” for their own incredible assertions, while others do so for the outrageous way in which their own bureaucracies or the authorities around them behave. So the following list has been assembled from the tenth to most bizarre with a view to noting those that have spun on more eccentric orbits than the vast majority faith-based belief systems. Whether as a method of escaping the material demands of the modern world or as a way to escape the hardships of poverty, sports has a vital and meaningful role in life....
10 The Cemetery Gun The Museum of Mourning Art in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, holds a weapon that loved ones of the recently deceased would use to protect the dead from “resurrection men,” who dug up cadavers for profit. Invented in the 1700s, they simply called the machine “the cemetery gun.” It was a gun mounted at the foot of a grave that could rotate 360 degrees. The gun was rigged with thin trip wires to catch thieves entering at night, when the groundskeeper was off-duty....
Like other plants and creatures, the human body is the result of millions of years of natural selection. The body parts we need for our survival have become specialized at what they do while the ones we do not need are gone. But what parts have we lost over time? That is what we are out to answer. 10 Fascinating Facts About Human Evolution 10 Brow ridges Several species of early humans including the Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and our cousins, Neanderthals, had brow ridges....
Decades of constantly evolving culture have rendered some of “SNL”‘s most famous characters dated, obsolete, or even downright offensive. That’s not to say that they aren’t funny or that they shouldn’t have been on the air, just that it can be eye-opening looking back on our changing etiquette. To that end, here are ten of the most borderline—and actually offensive—characters to appear on “Saturday Night Live.” 10 The Samurai Comedy was easier in the 70s....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Ways to Seem Smarter than You Are The Firing Squad Pirate Pete had been captured by a Spanish general and sentenced to death by his 50-man firing squad. Pete cringed, as he knew their reputation for being the worst firing squad in the Spanish military. They were such bad shots that they would often all miss their targets and simply maim their victims, leaving them to bleed to death, as the general’s tradition was to only allow one shot per man to save on ammunition....
SEE ALSO: 10 Sinister Halloween Horror Stories That Really Happened 10 The Murder Of Roland DeLoatch And Joseph Smith A family’s life was turned upside down on Halloween night in 2016. Roland DeLoatch, 41, and Joseph Smith, 28, resided in Sanford, Florida, and cared for their mother, Barbara, who lived with them. Joseph, an aspiring rapper, was two weeks away from releasing an album. At around 9:00 PM, an unidentified assailant wearing a mask entered the brothers’ home....
10Sitting atop a pillar . . . for years In the late Roman Empire, Christianity became the official state religion. Despite the turnaround from being forbidden and often punished by death to becoming the only tolerated religion, many Christians felt uneasy with the Empire. Rome spent centuries as the epitome of evil in Christian tales, and suspicions about the Empire did not disappear overnight. Many Christians felt that Roman society was still overly sinful....
The two-player abstract strategy game represents medieval warfare on a playing board of alternating light and dark squares. The goal is to use one’s queen, pawns, bishops, knights, and rooks to checkmate the opponent’s king. But, as the following world records show, there are a lot of other ways to “win” at chess: 10 Craziest Events In The History Of Chess 10 Jeweler Sets Record for the World’s Smallest Chess Set In August 2020, Los Angeles-based jewelry artist Ara Ghazaryan created the world’s smallest handmade chess set, measuring just 8 mm x 8 mm....
Conspiracies occur all the time, and for better or worse, they’re a fact of life. Every so often, a once-labeled “crazy” conspiracy theory ends up panning out, proving the crazies who believed it were right all along. While most people know about MKUltra, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the U.S Government’s poisoning of alcohol, there are many more conspiracy theories out there that turned out to be 100% true....
10 Celebrities Who Had A Terrifying Ghostly Experience 10 Ghost Indecent Exposure Having sex in another person’s living room would definitely earn you a sentence for indecent exposure-and maybe for breaking and entering! Dianne Carlisle of Euclid Ohio claims that two ghosts are having sex in her home leaving her and her family members the unwilling voyeurs. She says that the ghosts are clearly copulating and she can even see “the lady’s high heeled shoes!...
10Sons of Anarchy Complete Series$104.98 7 Seasons, 92 Episodes Debuting in 2008, creator and showrunner Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy follows Jackson “Jax” Teller (Charlie Hunnam) and the members of his extended family- the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (or SAMCRO). The show’s twisty plotlines have been compared to “Hamlet on Harleys”, and features strong supporting performances from Katey Sagal (Married With Children, Futurama), who won a Golden Globe for her role, and Ron Perlman, in a rare role that is not augmented by pounds of makeup and prosthetics....
Even so, recent discoveries showed a surprising adaptability spiced with a few unexpected crafts and building skills. Mesolithic archaeology is also packed with rare artifacts, mysteries, and murder. The most intriguing contribution could be the mysterious key to the history of Stonehenge. 10 Rare Squares The Cheddar caves in Somerset are an important archaeological site. There, the track record of great discoveries includes the world’s oldest scientifically dated graveyard (10,200 to 10,400 years old)....
More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat, naturally). Now it’s Halloween, and the witches (who fly on – I kid you not – vacuum cleaners) are back. This time, they’ve got their eyes on immortal life and have turned their wrath on trick-or-treaters and it’s up to the 300-year-old cat to save the day....
Since becoming an independent republic in 1838, the nation has certainly seen its fair share of ups and downs. Volcanoes! Banana Wars! Yankees! Commies! Birthplace of Mick Jagger’s first wife! Nicaragua, everybody! 10 A Lake With 430 Volcanic Islands Lake Nicaragua was originally named the “Freshwater Sea” by the explorers who first set eyes on the lake as they thought that they were looking at the ocean. Being intrepid sorts (as you might expect conquistadors to be), they tasted the water....
10 Bedbug Impostors While it’s true that more and more beds are infested with bugs, this increase may seem even greater than it actually is thanks to bedbug impostors—insects that look like but are not really bedbugs. The fact that quite a few insects resemble bedbugs enough to be mistaken for them can exaggerate the extent of true infestations. By learning the difference between actual bedbugs and bedbug impostors, we can keep from bugging out should one of the impostors become a temporary bedfellow....
10 Filing Away Memories Human beings are very active organisms. We do things, go places, and interact with people, all the while creating memories. Memories are stored in the brain. But as anybody who has ever tried to find a file on a crowded desktop knows, saved things are of no use if they cannot be easily accessed and found. During sleep, the brain actually replays the day’s events, catalogs them, and stores them in the brain’s long-term memory centers....
Uncle Tom’s Fairy Tales was to be the first film starring Richard Pryor. The movie was about a white man who goes on trial for having raped a black woman. At the time of the making of this film, Richard Pryor’s wife complained that he was paying more attention to the film than he was to her. The film was eventually canceled and his wife shredded the negative. No copies of the film were known to have survived, however in 2005, scenes from the film appeared in a retrospective while Pryor was being honored by the Directors Guild of America....
Numerous archeological restorations have taken place over the past few decades, often restoring the former glory of a specific site in a spectacular fashion. However, given the infinite harm caused by faulty and ignorant restorations conducted in the last century, archeologists today try their best to conserve new and important sites as they are found—restoring them with minimal interference—giving us a peek into our history and our shared human heritage....
