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Windows take up a good deal of wall space. By using sheers, windows can be transformed into ethereal lightscapes. Illuminate a room by capturing and bouncing natural light off sheers or semi-transparent drapes. This type of fabric creates interesting points in any room. Plain sheers will break up and diffuse light while patterned ones make pretty dapples. Adding privacy to your home is inexpensively achieved and when more money can be allocated to the decorating budget, tails, frills, valances and swags may be added over the sheer....

Tattoos are considered mainstream today, but in the nineteenth century, only criminals and sailors got inked. Until 1862, when the Prince of Wales (Queen Victoria’s son and heir to who would reign as King Edward VII) thought it would be jolly good fun to have a tattoo done while visiting Jerusalem. That started a fad among the rich and aristocratic. Naturally, the better class didn’t go around showing off their skin art....

There’s simply no way of disputing this: the revered icon of peace and love had a serious problem with violence against women. This has been documented all the way back to his Liverpool days, and he eventually admitted it himself later in life. His first wife, Cynthia, and his second, Yoko Ono, were both victims of Lennon’s brutality at one point or another, and given that most men who regularly beat their spouses or girlfriends are not particularly discriminating about the object of their violence....

Well, you don’t have to imagine, because Nazi Germany developed many weapons systems and programs that could — COULD — have been game changers had they been completed, completed sooner, or fielded in large numbers. These 10 weapons listed below show just how close-run WWII was. Fortunately, the weapons were never fully developed, built in small numbers or deployed too late to seriously affect the course of the war. Nazi politics, strategic materials shortages, the Allied bombing campaign, production problems and even boneheaded interference from Hitler himself fortunately relegated these systems to mere idle speculation, instead of the tools that won the war for the Nazis....

Well, it’s no secret that we’ve all had our fair share of close calls and scares at the toilet bowl, whether by mistake or by crooked planning. While most of us have dropped small items like coins or trinkets down the toilet, plumbers around the world can confirm that if you dig into the drain, you’ll be either fascinated or disgusted. This list of the top 10 weirdest objects flushed down the toilet reveals that trips to the loo can turn crazy in a fraction of a second....

As is true of so many things, there is much more to some war movies than meets the eye, or the screen. The following ten entries look back at some of the most iconic war films in cinematic history, detailing the little-known facts, controversies, and strife that occurred behind the scenes. 10 Downward Spiral It’s no secret that actor Tom Sizemore has had his share of problems with drugs and alcohol....

When justice fails to find someone living to charge with a crime, it has often happened that a corpse has been put on trial. After the restoration of King Charles II, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up and held accountable for the execution of his predecessor and father, Charles I. Cromwell’s body was hanged publicly, and its head was cut off and put on display at Westminster Hall....

Except that’s only true at some parks and not others, and it’s almost impossible to find out which is which. Regulation of a given park’s safety might come from local governments, state governments, or the Consumer Product Safety Commission, on a case-by-case basis. The CPSC themselves have called it “a fragmented system.” This has lead in part to around 30,000-45,000 accidents at theme parks each year. With so many unfortunate accidents to choose from, here are ten of the wildest and worst theme park accidents of all time....

?This novel isn’t the 12th best on the list (it would be rated much higher in my opinion) but it’s at number twelve because of the on going argument whether this is truly a dystopian novel or not. The definition of dystopia isn’t necessarily clear, though the general definition is that it is a society in which misery and negative conditions prevail (or a seeming utopia gained at horrifying costs....

Hunter Thompson Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. On July 21, 1981, in Aspen, Colorado, Thompson ran a stop sign at 2 am and began to “rave” at a state trooper. He also refused to take alcohol tests. Because of his refusal he was detained, although during a trial the drunk-driving charges against the journalist were dropped because there was no basis for the charges....

Haunted hotels and spectral cemeteries often have a place center stage when it comes to the ghost hunting spotlight. But for this list of ten allegedly haunted theaters from around the world, it is time for the ghosts of actors and stagehands to finally come out from the wings. 10 The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon Built in 1935, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival isn’t just one stage; it is a collection of three different performance spaces that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival uses from February to October to put on around eleven plays a year....

Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders Another 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders 10 More Incredibly Bizarre Mental Disorders. Zoosadism is a term coined by Ernest Borneman referring to pleasure (sometimes sexual pleasure) derived from cruelty to animals. Zoosadism is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that are a precursor to sociopathic behavior – so next time you see a kid being cruel to an animal, remember that he is a potential future serial killer!...

10Bamboo Holds A Guinness World Record A certain type of bamboo actually holds the world record as the fastest growing plant ever. This bamboo was able to grow as fast as 35 inches in a single day! This translates into nearly 1.5 inches per hour. You could literally sit there and see the bamboo growing before your eyes. If that is put into speed, it comes out at 0.00002 miles per hour....

10The Mead Of PoetryNorse Mythology We all like a fine drink every now and then, but when you’re a god, you can’t just have any mortal liquor. The Norse pantheon has a very strange drink indeed—the Mead of Poetry. The story behind the mead goes that there was once a man named Kvasir, a human forged from divine spit who was the smartest man in the known world. One day, Kvasir was killed by two dwarves who, in their jealousy, made from his blood a fine mead that granted anyone who drank it Kvasir’s intelligence....

Thanks to the ancient Egyptians’ practice of mummification, they learned much about the human body and seem to have developed advanced medical knowledge. Centuries ahead of their time, a lot of the practices that doctors used in ancient Egypt would not be unfamiliar to us today. Doctors may no longer use spells and amulets as the ancient Egyptians did, but in many other ways, a visit to the doctor’s office may not have been so different thousands of years ago....

If asked to name the worst nuclear disasters in history, pretty much every reader of this article would be able to come up with Chernobyl and Fukushima. Far fewer would know number three, the Kyshtym disaster of 1957, named for a town in the south of Russia. As with Chernobyl, the main cause of the disaster was really, really bad decision making—specifically, implementing a cooling system for nuclear waste that couldn’t be repaired....

A lot of recent studies found that bacteria have a weird talent for producing clean energy, gold, and quantum mysteries. But that is not all. They turn up in disturbing places, do the unexpected, and are adaptable enough to merge with technology and live. 10 New Ocean Food Source A 2018 study on deep-sea bacteria yielded unexpected surprises. Found in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), the critters lived about 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) down....

There is a disgusting or dangerous counterpart for every anti-aging treatment you’ve ever heard of, and a shocking amount of them involve rubbing bodily fluids on your face. People with abundant time and money have tried just about every substance under the sun to fight the signs of aging—with predictably mixed results. As a small sampling of those trials, here are ten of the most bizarre things people do to look younger....

10Bob Marley’s Funeral In May of 1981, this famous Jamaican singer was buried in Kingston with three things: his prized red guitar, his Bible, and a whole sprig of marijuana,[1] which Jamaicans call “ganja.” The story goes that this herbal decoration was not originally intended to be part of his burial, but that his wife snuck it into the coffin during the funeral and no one had the heart to take it out....

By the 1960s, hoaxes became less miraculous and were sometimes rather malicious. There were drugs, an increased interest in alien life-forms, and an explosive break from traditional lifestyles, so it was little wonder that hoaxes changed dramatically during the psychedelic decade. People were pushing the boundaries, both in their personal and public lives, and the change led to some pretty interesting blips in history. 10 Space Craters Mysterious craters appeared in Scotland and Southern England in 1963, leading people to believe the holes were created either by meteorites or those pesky space visitors....