Control of public information and opinion: It begins with withholding information, and leads to putting out false or misleading information. A government can develop ministries of propaganda under many guises. They typically call it “public information” or “marketing”. Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers: It doesn’t matter which of the two major party candidates are elected if no real reformer can get nominated, and when news services start knowing the outcomes of elections before it is possible for them to know, then the votes are not being honestly counted....

The samples I have included are representative of the development of poetry over some 800 years, but without going into technical or critical detail; that is to say, I have tried to provide examples that may, notwithstanding any deeper meaning, be appreciated at face value. Note that the list is fairly traditional, in that there are no examples of ethnic verse. This is purely for the reason that I have limited my selections to works with which I am familiar (ie....

Top 10 Incredible Smells 8 A Life-Size Ghost Ship In 2019, Halloween season came with a special treat. For weeks, people flocked to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to see a ghoulish apparition. Docked at the Race Street Pier, was a ghost ship. It was regrettably not a real spooky vessel, but the sight was convincing enough to come close. The size alone was striking. Measuring over 27.5 meters (90 feet) long, the 18th-century ship glowed in the night....

9Mount Huashan Shaanxi, China Appearing like a scene from ancient ink artwork, Mount Huashan rises nearly 2,100 meters (6,800 ft) into the clouds in China’s Shaanxi province. Featuring impossible sheer drops and crags in the cedar-studded limestone, climbing the mountain would be nearly impossible, except for a terrifying “trail system” constructed in the early 1800s. Appearing like a scene from a nightmare, a rickety system of boards 0.6 meters (2 ft) wide circle the mountain (sometimes sloping downward), allowing climbers to cling to life as they hold onto chains perilously bolted into the soft cretaceous sedimentary rock....

Some of the biggest moments in the last century hinged on minor decisions. Little things—like a barber leaving out a copy of Reader’s Digest, or a driver taking a wrong turn—sparked a chain of events that changed world leaders and started world wars. 10Elian Gonzalez Caused the Iraq War When Sadaam Hussein stood at the gallows of Camp Justice, waiting to be hanged, he could not possibly have realized that the events that had brought him there all started because one little Cuban boy got on a boat headed to America—but they did....

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So, who could succeed this wizardly wordsmith and continue giving us bags under our eyes? I compiled a list of ten amazing writers who have taken the world of horror fiction by storm. Who will take the reins and sit on the horror throne? 10 Stephen Graham Jones If you like to be scared and have your boundaries pushed, this first author may be for you. Stephen Graham Jones has written such jewels as Mongrels, Night of the Mannequins, The Only Good Indians, Attack of the 50-Foot Indian, and My Heart Is a Chainsaw....

Though it isn’t recommended that one uses this term to describe anyone magically adjacent nowadays, the original usage of hag describes figures who are more solitary, borderline creaturesque in appearance, and often with a penchant for murder and cannibalism. And this list will document ten of these sorts of witches. And unlike figures such as Hecate and Grendel’s Mother, the witches on this list come from more than mere pantheons and poems; these bogeymen were thought to be totally real....

In 1692 Elizabeth Proctor and her husband John were accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials. After their arrest the court met in Salem to discuss the fate of John and Elizabeth and several others. In spite of the petitions and testimonies from friends, both John and Elizabeth were found guilty, and were sentenced to death. Elizabeth, who was pregnant at the time, was granted a stay of execution until after the birth of the baby....

10Acupuncture The ancient technique of sticking needles into the skin at strategic points has origins dating back thousands of years, the first documented record being around 100 B.C. It is still widely used in China today to treat the root cause of conditions as opposed to the symptomatic approach of Western medicine. However, acupuncture is gaining recognition fast in the West with the British National Health Service stating that acupuncture encourages the body to produce pain-relieving endorphins....

Platoon [Director: Oliver Stone, 1986] A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers. Full Metal Jacket [Director: Stanley Kubrick, 1987] A two-segment story that follows young men from the start of recruit training in the Marine Corps to the lethal cauldron known as Vietnam....

Bane is a brilliant world-class fighter and tactical genius, who augments his great physical strength with a steroid called venom. Raised from childhood in the Peña Duro prison on Santa Prisca, he determined that he would destroy Batman to prove himself, and succeeded by breaking the hero’s back during Knightfall. Since then he has been an international crime lord, an anti-hero, a mercenary, a government agent and even a dictator....

This is history candy — the good stuff. Here are 100 tales to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy: more than two thousand years of history filled with courage, cowardice, hope, triumph, sex, intrigue, folly, humor, and ambition. It’s a historical delight and a visual feast with hundreds of photographs, drawings, and maps that bring each story to life. A new discovery waits on every page: stories that changed the course of history and stories that affected what you had for breakfast this morning....

Boredom can foster creativity, de-stress us, inspire new ideas and motivate us to achieve new goals. However, if we are too bored for too long, our boredom can become toxic, leading to us taking unnecessary risks or developing harmful addictions. So, the advice is to embrace your boredom, and enjoy it, and then move on to lead that creative, productive life, filled with new ideas and new goals. But before you get to that part, here are 10 websites you might find useful to get you through the boring part....

The “Paleo diet” is a solution prescribed by the trendy. But actual ancient diets were much weirder than anyone thinks. 10 Of The Most Interesting Ancient Foods 10 Dog Stew Coprolites are fossilized turds that reveal a lot about our ancestors’ diets. An ancient poo from Hinds Cave in Texas holds a surprising tidbit: a 9,400-year-old fragment from a domesticated dog’s skull. For thousands of years, dogs have offered us companionship and guardianship....

Whatever the case, one thing they all have in common is that they are just plain weird—every one of them. Some of these facts might come as a sort of culture shock to non-French citizens if they ever get to experience any of them firsthand, like legally getting marrying the dead or engaging in mortgage or insurance schemes that only become profitable after the death of some other party involved in the deal....

10 Foods That Have Been Genetically Modified Beyond Recognition 10 Brazil Nuts Anyone who has ever had a container of nuts has unknowingly witnessed a strange effect that no scientist has been able to fully explain. In nearly every package of nuts, the Brazil nuts will appear at the top, with the smaller nuts at the bottom. The same applies to cereal, with all the largest cereal at the top of the box and nothing but dusty shreds all the way at the bottom....

With so many people using these and other platforms, competition for views is fierce. Very few people can make a living just by posting videos. Many try but very few succeed. Most content disappears in the rush of new content, and few people ever watch the seemingly endless video posts. However, sometimes a video goes viral, and millions of people watch it. But why? What makes one video stand out when so many are forgotten?...

What isn’t often taught is that there were many black people who not only participated in the slave trade but who often profited greatly from it. They owned slaves as property in order to enhance their own economical well-being by having free labor for their plantations. Many were biracial children of former white masters and were either freed or were left some property in a will. The American South is infamous for using slaves on their large plantations, and many of the black slave owners on this list are from South Carolina and Louisiana....

However, the idea of brainwashing has always been controversial. Hunter was associated with the intelligence community and it has been suggested that the CIA promoted the term as an easy way to explain away the rapid growth of Communism at the time. The psychologists Robert Lifton and Edgar Schein concluded that American POWs who made anti-American statements mostly did so to avoid physical punishment, and that brainwashing of POWs was not particularly successful....