10 Arguments Against Gun Control

The US Constitution’s Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” 10 There Is Murder In The UK Almost all handguns are banned from civilian possession, ownership, purchase, or sale in the United Kingdom as a result of the Second Firearms Act of 1997. This was in response to the Dunblane Massacre, in which 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton walked into an elementary school and shot dead 16 children, aged six or younger, and one teacher before killing himself....

January 25, 2023 · 15 min · 3166 words · America Kleck

10 Artists Who Hated Their Own Masterpieces

If you’re a painter, you are expected to use the same style in all of your works. If you are a singer, you are expected to perform your really big hit every chance you get. Get a few years (or even a few decades) of this, and you might begin to loathe your own creation. 10Radiohead“Creep” Just to establish its credentials, “Creep” was Radiohead’s first single. It was the song that made them famous and popular, and VH1 named it the 31st best song of the ’90s....

January 25, 2023 · 12 min · 2449 words · Linda Chapman

10 Attempts To Scientifically Explore Religious Concepts

10 Jinn Islamic theology holds that human beings were created from water and clay, angels from light, and jinn from smokeless fire. While many believe the jinn to be simple spirits, others have suggested that jinn means “foreigner,” suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. One study has suggested that the jinn may be a form of plasma life existing in the Sun, a hypothesis suggested in a 1980 book called Life Beyond Earth....

January 25, 2023 · 13 min · 2656 words · Gary Gregory

10 Badass Explorers Who Put Indiana Jones To Shame

10Douglas Mawson Douglas Mawson is considered to be one of the key explorers during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. In fact, Mawson was a part of the famed Nimrod Expedition, led by Ernest Shackleton, that was the first to try and reach the South Pole. In 1911, Mawson was put in charge of his own team called the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The entire endeavor would last over a year. When it was finally time to journey to the South Pole, a team was put together, comprised of Mawson, British officer Belgrave Ninnis, and Swiss champion skier Xavier Mertz....

January 25, 2023 · 12 min · 2543 words · Donald Clemens

10 Banned Controversial Album Covers

Criteria for this list is that the cover in question must have been actually printed up and released, and due to an outcry, was either altered or outright banned for later releases. I’m omitting sleeves that were simply covered up with opaque wrapping so as to hide the “offending” artwork, but otherwise are unchanged. John & Yoko’s Two Virgins is an example of this approach, and so does not make my list....

January 25, 2023 · 10 min · 1995 words · Sean Vargas

10 Battles For Religious Equality Fought By Satanists

SEE ALSO: 10 Dark Moments In The History Of Satanism That, at least, is the position of the Satanic Temple, an organization that is determined to fight every battle for religious equality they can. Over the last few years, the Satanists have put up some intense battles to get equal billing alongside Christianity—and it’s resulted in some of the strangest battles for equal rights you could ever imagine. 10 The Right To Invoke Satan Before City Council Meetings At this very moment, the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is being sued by Satanists....

January 25, 2023 · 10 min · 2128 words · Roberta Mcginnis

10 Biggest Scandals Of The Obama Presidency

SEE ALSO: 10 Ways Donald Trump Has Changed Politics Forever 10 IRS Targeting Controversy “Tea Party” and “patriots”. Just a couple of the words or phrases the IRS was looking for when they were deciding whether or not to grant tax-exempt status to certain groups. Overwhelmingly, the people who faced increased scrutiny were conservative, with nearly 500 organizations suing the government over their actions. As the head of the federal government, Obama was often linked to the scandal in the news....

January 25, 2023 · 8 min · 1687 words · Tonia Smithers

10 Bizarre Ancient Hunting Techniques Still In Use

10Kleptoparisitism Stealing meat from lions seems like a poor choice. However, the Mbororo herdsmen of Cameroon have done it for centuries. They use flaming sticks to chase big cats from kills. The technique is common among large predators but otherwise little documented in man. With lions growing increasingly wary of people, kleptoparistism has become easier for humans. Reports from Cameroon, Uganda, and Tanzania indicate the practice is on the upswing. This is bad news for big cats....

January 25, 2023 · 7 min · 1380 words · Sarah Petitti

10 Bizarre Brain Disorders Often Mistaken For Psychiatric Conditions

10Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis For many patients, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis—a recently discovered autoimmune disease that causes the brain to swell—initially presents psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations, violent outbursts, and delusions. Patients appear to be possessed by demons, and most of them will develop seizures and involuntary movements within a few days. But the neurological symptoms may be subtle and easy to miss. Dr. Souhel Najjar, an anti-NMDA expert, believes that as many as 90 percent of these cases have been misdiagnosed....

January 25, 2023 · 14 min · 2894 words · Kathleen Lopez

10 Bizarre Forgotten Inventions From Famous Inventors

10 Swim FinsBenjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin has a long list of accomplishments in numerous fields, so it should come as no surprise that he was an inquisitive child. In fact, he started his career as an inventor at the ripe age of 11 when he invented a pair of swim fins. Franklin was an avid swimmer and was looking for ways to improve his technique. His solution was a set of wooden fins which were worn on the hands instead of the feet....

January 25, 2023 · 10 min · 2117 words · Paul Palmer

10 Bizarre Legal Actions Regarding Mythical Creatures

10Iceland’s Elves When the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration set about completing a road that would help connect the Alftanes peninsula with the rest of the country, groups were outraged. Part of the problem was environmental, with some saying that the road was going to destroy bird habitats and not a few of Iceland’s most beautiful lava formations. But another huge part of the outcry was on behalf of Iceland’s oldest native creatures: their elves....

January 25, 2023 · 16 min · 3318 words · John Davis

10 Brave Warrior Classes Of World History

10The Peltasts Peltasts were Greek light infantrymen and skirmishers of the late fifth century. Usually recruited from the ranks of Thracian mercenaries and citizenry, they were the original peasant army. They were most often armed with spears, javelins, or slings, and they used light shields called pelts, from which they get their name. The peltast forces would open a battle, launching their javelin or sling attacks, and then retreat to let the better-protected phalanx move in....

January 25, 2023 · 12 min · 2371 words · Logan Glass

10 Brilliant Examples Of Intellectual Hip Hop

Memorable Lines: I’m an individual, yeah, but I’m part of a movement / My movement told me be a consumer and I consumed it / They told me to just do it / I listened to what that swoosh said. Macklemore’s masterpiece, using Nike’s multimillion dollar branding campaign, famed logo and slogan as an example to convey his message, is about consumerism and dreams and how companies pretty up their products and sell nothing more than a brand nowadays for prices that are thinly veiled as ridiculous....

January 25, 2023 · 6 min · 1120 words · Samantha Beck

10 Brilliant Generals Forgotten By History

10Nader Shah Eighteenth-century Iran wan’t a great place to grow up. The mighty Safavid Empire had recently crumbled and the Iranian foothills were dominated by petty warlords and chieftains fighting to control the remaining Safavids. From this anarchy emerged Nader Shah, who had a childhood everyone can relate to. Born to a shepherd, he was captured by slavers before the age of 10, then escaped and joined a band of wandering brigands, before rising to become a powerful local chieftain....

January 25, 2023 · 15 min · 3034 words · Jeffrey Harris

10 Cia Documents That Prove They Re Up To Some Pretty Lame Stuff

More than a few of these files expose dark and unethical conspiracies. But hidden among them are a few mundane files that usually get overlooked. In them, a different side of the CIA comes out. Not everything the CIA does, it turns out, is part of some ingenious evil plan. In fact, a lot of it is downright ridiculous. As it turns out, the people behind this dark, shadowy organization are just people—and they’re every bit as stupid, geeky, and vain as the rest of us....

January 25, 2023 · 10 min · 2107 words · Casey Jones

10 Common Misconceptions About Prehistory

10 Food Was Dull and Bland Historians at the University of York recently analyzed several pottery shards found along the Baltic Sea. The pottery, which was in use about 6,000 years ago, contained traces of lipid deposits, which came from fish, shellfish, and deer, and after comparing other trace residues to more than 120 different types of plants, they found that the prehistoric chefs were using garlic mustard to flavor the dishes....

January 25, 2023 · 8 min · 1496 words · Gregory Courtney

10 Cool Gadgets That Are Actually Historical

Here are 10 technologies that represent early attempts to give consumers the kind of unbridled access that we now take for granted. 10Phone-Based Services Before the advent of personal computers, the only ubiquitous devices through which a two-way flow of information could be conducted was the telephone. Therefore, much of the information available at a glance from our smartphones today was first made conveniently available through phone-based services. For example, nearly every populated area in the US at one time had a number one could call for the current time and temperature, many of which had operated since near the turn of the century, and some of which are still in use today....

January 25, 2023 · 8 min · 1665 words · Robert Nichols

10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories About Celebrity Deaths

10Brittany Murphy In late 2009, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton predicted that Brittany Murphy would be the next shocking Hollywood death. Less than a month later, his prediction came true as the actress passed away after going into cardiac arrest. The official autopsy report ruled that the actress’s death was natural, resulting from a combination of pneumonia and anemia. Just three months later, Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack, also passed away. The coroner found that he also died of a combination of pneumonia and anemia, although some believe that drug abuse or toxic mold were the real culprits....

January 25, 2023 · 13 min · 2627 words · Monica Hyde

10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories Clouding The Music Industry

SEE ALSO: 10 Bizarre Celebrity Conspiracy Theories 10White lighters Think 27 Club and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain come to mind. Other members of this fictional club include Jonathan Brandis, Amy Winehouse and Anton Yelchin. What do all these celebrities have in common? They all died under extremely tragic circumstances at the age of 27. Kurt Cobain committed suicide as did Jonathan Brandis. Janis Joplin injected herself with heroin in her hotel room, fell over and hit her head on a table....

January 25, 2023 · 8 min · 1588 words · Ted Stechlinski

10 Crazy Historic Weapons Worthy Of Wile E Coyote

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