Month: November 2019

As we have all been reminded these past few weeks, the royal family is no stranger to controversy. With so much money, power, and influence, this is hardly surprising. But when you have so much money, power, and influence, everything you do tends to be pretty well-documented, so no matter how well you think you
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[COMPETITION: This list features a competition. See item seven on this list for details] It is the weekend. If you in the northern hemisphere, winter is slowly heading to you and you may be starting to feel a little down. Politics sucks, everyone is mean to everyone else online, and the media does nothing but
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2019 has flown by in a blur. In just a little over a month, we’ll be celebrating Christmas again and then the start of yet another new year. As time speeds on, mysteries pile up around the world. Some of them will eventually be solved, but others are doomed to remain forever unexplained and speculated
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“Every city, let me teach you, has its own smell.” So said E. M. Forster in A Room With A View. As a hobbyist perfumer I am fascinated by smell—particularly the smells of history. See Also: Top 10 Incredible Sound Illusions It was a precious and rare vial of the 1905 perfume, L’Origan, that decided
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Globally, the United States is ranked #1 when it comes to the Global Competitiveness Report, but that’s about the only positive ranking the US holds at that spot. When it comes to negative rankings, the United States is pretty high on the list of everything to include firearms deaths of kids to the Global Peace
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Witchcraft used to be everywhere. While there are still places today where the practice thrives, it’s not nearly as common as it used to be. What is still common, and surprisingly so, are objects and artifacts that claim magical properties, made by “witches” of the past and the present. See Also: Top 10 Bizarre Coffins
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We’ve all heard the tales of people fainting at the site of something horrifying in a newly released movie (true), and most of us have heard the cliché tale of the audience that ran screaming at the site of the first cinema train hurtling towards the screen (false).[1] When large groups of people come together
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We have previously covered famous landmarks and their related facts, but never in a more abstract manner such as this list! So here we are presenting thirty interesting and little known facts about some of the beautiful and significant places on earth. See Also: 10 Secret Rooms Inside The World’s Most Famous Landmarks 10 The
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Many years ago we wrote the definitive list of Serial Killers. That 2007 list ranked killers based on a variety of factors, only one of which was death toll. It covered a variety of nations. This new list is a little more precise: focussing on American male killers only and ranking based on verified death
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