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10Stock Prices If you trade or hold stocks, you’re directly affected by price movements in the stock market, but even people who don’t have a direct connection to the market may be touched by significant changes in it. The market’s movement affects the availability of jobs, credit for homes and businesses, and even the financial health of entire countries. When researchers began analyzing Twitter to predict stock market changes in the mid-2000s, professional money managers dismissed these statistical wizards as nut jobs....

If it was an option and we didn’t discard our phones every other year, we might just marry them. Why is it that we all use them so much, yet are so oblivious to the harm they can cause in our lives? 10 When’s The Last Time You Had A Good Night’s Sleep? How many times have you gone to bed, only to grab your phone and start checking the news, emails, or social media?...

10 Most Transsexual Porn Is Watched By Straight Men Anyone who has spent even a fraction of a second on the Internet knows that there’s a lot of porn out there. And a lot of that porn caters to some pretty specific tastes. Take transsexual porn. Videos of women sporting penises—usually fake penises—seem fairly niche, but analysis shows they’re almost obscenely popular. Want to guess who’s watching all this transgender action?...

So with that in mind, and to spread a little more Christmas cheer, here are some weird British Christmas traditions that Brits could try in order to make the holidays a little more merry. 10 Burning The Ashen Faggot Burning the ashen faggot is a tradition that may date back to the Saxon age and was once widespread in the West of England. On Christmas Eve, a huge bundle of ash branches, the faggot, would be rolled into the house and placed on the fire....

10Bigots Against Slavery Northern abolitionists, who angrily demanded justice and equality for African Americans in the South, could be a lot less progressive when it came to the women in their own homes. There was a common belief that women were intended to be wives and mothers subservient to their husbands. So it was fine when thousands of women worked to end slavery by handing out pamphlets or signing petitions, but it was considered unacceptable when they started to lecture or tried to become leaders....

10The Criminal Man Cesare Lombroso was an Italian physician and early criminologist who lived in the 19th century. He was a huge supporter of the idea that people were just born to be criminals, and those people had certain physical and emotional traits that made them very clearly predetermined to be on the wrong side of the law. According to Lombroso, the criminal man could be identified by some specific traits that he determined by studying both living criminals and the bodies of those who had been executed....

Within these fields, researchers recently found things that should not be there, processes that work when they should not, and an epic global event that everyone missed. From NASA confusing mud to a time when Earth’s geology inexplicably quit, one can understand why scientists love taking samples of dirt. 10 Pele’s Hair The 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii had a beautiful side effect. Sprouting from the volcano were strands so thin and golden that they resembled hair....

As we will soon find out, there is more to diplomacy than ambassadors. Selfies, warships, animals, food, sports, roads, bridges, money, and even tweets can be used for diplomacy. Clearly, some of us have been recipients of diplomatic overtures without even realizing it. 10 Panda Diplomacy China has been using pandas for diplomacy since the days of Chairman Mao Zedong. The idea is to loan a panda to foreign governments in an attempt to foster closer relations....

Jihad itself actually means struggling or striving and not necessarily a holy war, as many terrorist groups make it seem. Jihad primarily refers to the internal battle of a Muslim striving to be a better Muslim. It does not entail Muslims waging wars against other religions.[1] 10 Sexual Jihad Sexual jihad (jihad al-nikah) refers to the temporary marriage between men engaged in fighting jihad and random women. This sort of jihad is fairly new and controversial....

Life might be out there, beyond the stars, and that changes things. After all, if God and His prophets came to enlighten life on Earth, what in the world happened on Kepler-186f? And what if all those crazy stories about UFOs are true? If there are life-forms out there that are smarter than humans, and are already using spaceships to abduct hillbillies and leave pretty designs in cornfields, what does that say about us?...

But who were these women? Some of them have achieved a degree of infamy in their own right, but others have remained hidden in the shadows of history. Here is a list of some of the women in Hitler’s inner circle. 10 Eva Braun You can’t write a list about the women in Hitler’s inner circle without including Eva Braun. She was 17 years old when she met Hitler. He was 40....

10Britain Voted To Commit Economic Suicide, Immediately Regretted It The day June 23, 2016, will go down as the date the British took one look at their reputation for stability and rational thinking and decided: “Forget it.” In a nationwide referendum, the country voted by 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent to leave the EU, tearing up 40 years of political consensus and redefining Europe. The shockwaves of the vote caused the pound to hit a 31-year low against the dollar....

Well, it’s more complex than that because YouTube has a couple of milestones you must pass before your content can earn money. First, you need to have 1,000 subscribers, and second, your channel must have racked up 4,000 watch hours within the previous twelve months. So you’ve bullied your relatives, friends, and friends of friends into subscribing and reached 4,000 hours. A rough rule of thumb is that you will make about $5 for every 1,000 views of your video....

Just a reminder to all the listversers: With summer right around the corner please be careful in the water. Profession: Actress Date of Birth: 09/06/1942 Date of Drowning: 01/13/1985 Age at Death: 42 Anyone who is a Johnny Carson fan is familiar with Carol Wayne. She, of course, played the funny and sexy matinee lady in the tea time movie skits. She was also in many TV shows throughout her career....

Gardyloo – Derived from the French shout of “garde à l’eau” (Beware of the water!) when a chamber pot is emptied out of the window into the street below. Particularly associated with Edinburgh’s high tenement buildings (pictured). Puissant – Meaning powerful or mighty. Commonly used to describe nobles of the French or English aristocracy. Should you meet the Queen feel free to slip it into your chat. Sweven – A vision or a dream....

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940....

It’s not our fault; these events unfortunately and indelibly add themselves to the tapestry that is our lives and take their place amongst other experiences to then determine how we perceive any given situation. So if you spend a lifetime witnessing positive things, you will most likely have a positive perspective. If you are subjected to continuous negative reference, you will inevitably have a darker perspective. We all live between those two extremes, within the shades that exist between light and darkness....

Scenario 1 Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1957: Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2007: School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Scenario 2...

In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, on October 25th, 1962, a guard at an air base in Duluth, Minnesota, spotted an intruder scaling the perimeter fence. He fired on the intruder, and raised the alarm, which also activated alarms at all bases in the area. However, at Volk Field air base in Wisconsin, the alarm had been wired incorrectly. Instead of sounding a sabotage warning, the alarm ordered F-106A Delta Dart interceptors armed with nuclear missiles to take off....

The Holiday In case you were not aware, I have just spent a month in New Zealand with family and friends for Christmas. I had a wonderful time – the weather was great and the food amazing (as always). While most of my time was spent in Wellington (the Capital city), I did venture out to Hawkes Bay and Auckland. I had a great Christmas and I have been re-energized by the trip – which is good for the site as it means I have more energy for new lists!...