The Quiet Earth (based on the novel of the same name) explores how a person can go mad when he realizes he’s the only one left on Earth following a terrible catastrophe that he helped cause. The portrayals of Hobson’s madness and how he pulls back from the brink are both satisfying—especially because the latter happens before Hobson realizes that he’s really not alone. The Quiet Earth ends on an uncertain note (a real WTF?...
The results were remarkable and, sometimes, a little creepy. From displaying abilities unique to humans and a bizarre approach to death to killing an animal that kills everything else, crows delight those who dare to look closer at them. 10 Theme Park Workers Around 20 years ago, Christophe Gaborit watched wild ravens sort through trash. Years later, Gaborit worked as a falconer at a theme park. Puy du Fou is located in France and enthralls the public with ancient gardens and villages....
Either way, vigilantes and over-policing have been well documented over the past few months when it comes to mandatory mask enforcement. The majority of the targeted individuals had medical exemptions or were following the law. The few who were legally wrong were often the victims of police and citizen brutality. Nonetheless, these people did not deserve to be victims of violence due to their health, a misunderstanding of the law, or the exercise of reasonable civil disobedience regarding unjust laws....
10 Seventy Names From the Phone Book Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral de Camara was a Portugese aristocrat born into wealth. He inherited a small fortune in the form of well-stocked bank accounts, a twelve-room apartment, a house, and several vehicles but had little else. He was estranged from his family, a lifelong bachelor, and had few to no friends. That’s why, in 1988, he decided to leave his fortune to 70 random strangers he picked out of a phonebook....
Top 10 Weird And Wonderful Facts About Hair 10 The Fringed Buzz Cut A recent Dazed Beauty post suggested that the DIY buzz cut is “isolation’s biggest hair trend.”[1] With countless possible modifications, the buzz cut is an entire category of hairstyles. And its success relies heavily on the hair type and head shape of its bearer. But there is one particular variety that will never flatter, no matter how perfect one’s hair and head: the fringed buzz cut....
Judging from what you will find out from this list, this is unlikely. The sovereign bolivar is just the removal of five zeros from the old bolivar, and it will most likely go the route of its predecessor if the economic factors responsible for the inflation are not addressed. That said, Venezuela is hardly the only country to have suffered hyperinflation. Several other governments, including ancient Rome, have suffered even more disastrous cases of inflation and hyperinflation....
But each of the following landlords took negativity to the next level and did their best to make life for their tenants as miserable as possible. They spied on them, harassed them, and demolished their homes—with their renters inside. A few of them even killed their tenants, just to make a quick buck. 10 Kip And Nicole Macy In 2005, Kip and Nicole Macy bought an apartment building in San Francisco....
Butler was a very promising young fighter from New York City, known by the nickname “Harlem Hammer”. In November 2001, James Butler fought Richard “The Alien” Grant. The bout was a charity event to benefit survivors of the September 11 attacks. After losing by unanimous decision Butler made his way to the middle of the ring to purportedly congratulate Grant. Grant reacted by stretching his hand out in a motion to embrace....
Alleged Inventor: Microsoft (with Windows) Actual Inventor: Xerox PARC The concept of a graphical user interface (GUI) and desktop idiom (controlled by a mouse) is most well known to people thanks to Microsoft’s Windows operating system. So much so, that many people now believe that they invented it – but they didn’t. This is a long and complicated tale but it basically goes like this: Xerox invented the system (Xerox Alto personal computer) based on earlier work by Doug Engelbart and showed Apple....
15 The Case of the Interfering Brassieres In 1982 the Daily Mail reported that a local manufacturer had sold 10,000 “rogue bras” that were causing a unique and unprecedented problem, not to the wearers but to the public at large. Apparently the support wire in these bras had been made out of a kind of copper originally designed for use in fire alarms. When this copper came into contact with nylon and body heat, it produced static electricity which, in turn, was interfering with local television and radio broadcasts....
15 Bees Who Pay Their Respects Margaret Bell, who kept bees in Leintwardine, about 7 miles from her home in Ludlow, Shropshire (England), died in June 1994. Soon after her funeral, mourners were amazed to see hundreds of bees settle on the corner of the street opposite the house where she had lived for 26 years. The bees stayed for an hour before buzzing off over the rooftops. The local press ran a photograph of the bees hanging on the wall in a cluster....
In 1985, after two Super Bowl appearances and one win, an MVP award, and having set most records for the quarterback position within the Washington Redskin’s organization, Joe Theismann was playing a Monday night game against their division rival, New York Giants. On an attempted flea flicker play, the Giants defense blitzed and Lawrence Taylor sacked Theismann for a loss of yards. Taylor immediately jumped to his feet and signaled for the Redskins to send out medical personal....
So here’s the salute to the twenty toughest characters you wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of… One of the kings of gritty film noir, the small-but-scrappy, streetwise Garfield was the star of the classic “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” playing the doomed Frank Chambers, risking it all for hot-as-hell Lana Turner. Makes the list for steely, I-don’t-care-how-big-you-are-I’ll-knock-you-on-your-ass, street-honed stare and wise guy attitude. Nobody could ever figure out Quinn’s ethnicity (he was Irish-Mexican) because he played so many varied roles, from Arab to Italian to Greek (he was Zorba) and countless others—but the connecting thread for all these different faces was that you just wouldn’t mess with the guy....
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others....
Comments on the criteria I used: For the most part I wanted a list of beautiful women who had something to offer besides good looks. Whether that’s intelligence, talent or simply poise and class, a great voice, a sense of humor… or a combination of all these. I also wanted a list of women who fit this vague, personal and indefinable visual image I have of the “perfect brunette.” Don’t ask me what that is, I can’t say....
Some legends, however, skew a bit more supernatural than just some town that happens to not be big enough for both a sheriff and an outlaw. The wild west is as beautiful as it is isolated and has a rich history, stretching far before European colonists even reached the eastern part of the continent. This list details ten yeehaw-nting legends from the lawless lands out west. 10 The Haunted Bullock Hotel The HBO wild west show Deadwood was indeed based on a real-life South Dakota Gold Rush town by the same name....
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My answer is no. I do not think that euthanasia should be legalized. I believe that there are too many opportunities for it to be abused (such as a dying person whose family are to inherit a great sum of money through their death). There are also likely to be cases where a person who may not be mentally capable of making the choice to die, being considered “capable” by the court system....
If you dug a bit deeper, though, you’d realize that many things we automatically assume to be natural aren’t natural at all. Instead, they are the direct results of man-made actions at various points in history. 9 Pearls There was a time when pearls were one of the rarest and most expensive things we could get our hands on. Only a few could afford to own them. The high price was due partly to how good they look and partly to the perilous procedure of having to dive to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve them....
10Erik Highsmith And the Children’s Essay In 2012, college football player Erik Highsmith found himself facing every student’s worst nightmare: work. As part of his Communications class, Highsmith was required to write a blog post about poultry farming. Too busy with his sports ambitions to knock up a quick essay himself, Highsmith did the only thing he could think of and plagiarized the whole thing. His source: a bunch of 11-year-old kids....
