10Monty Python Insults In Game Of Thrones Like many of us, the creators of Game of Thrones are big Monty Python fans. At the very least, we know that series creator Dan Weiss and resident linguist David Peterson are. If you spoke fluent Low Valyrian, you might have noticed an exchange that sounded familiar. Watch this video on YouTube In a scene in season four of the show, Daenerys’s army reaches the gates of Meereen....
SEE ALSO: 10 Incredible Accomplishments That Ruined Their Creator’s Lives 10 Hugh Thompson The My Lai Massacre was an era defining black-mark on American history. Faced with the realization that the American military was indiscriminately killing entire Vietnamese villages for no tactical reason, the general opinion of the war began to shift. For Major Hugh Thompson Jr., that shift came too late. On March, 16, 1968, Major Thompson was piloting his helicopter when he heard artillery fire below....
10Ryan Halligan On the night of October 7th, 2003, the lives of John and Kelly Halligan were changed forever when they discovered that their thirteen-year-old son, Ryan, had committed suicide by hanging. Traumatized by the horrific and tragic situation they’d been thrown into, the parents of Ryan searched desperately for answers as to why their son would feel so lost that he felt suicide was his only option. Ryan had been described as a lovely child who was always able to make people smile....
10 Punt Gun The punt gun was a large, heavy handgun made to shoot ducks. It could only be fired from a punt, a type of small boat. A single shot, which weighed as much as 0.5 kilograms (1 lb), could kill as many as 50 ducks at once. There is even a record of one shot that killed 90 birds simultaneously. To aim, the hunter simply shot in the direction of several ducks....
The battle started on April 15, 1989, when the death of Hu Yaobang, a party leader with democratic leanings, sparked protests across the country. Students came out with seven demands calling for greater freedoms and an end to government corruption. It started as a peaceful protest. But it soon turned violent and, in time, into a massacre that will be etched into history forever. 10 Police Officers Beat 300 Students At Xinhua Gate More than a month before the massacre began, the first hint of violence broke out at Xinhua Gate....
SEE ALSO: 10 Abandoned Amusement Parks With Horrific Histories [Disturbing] The following homes all made such an impact on those who live in the area and the loved ones of victims that there was no other option left but to tear them down to the ground. Not even demolishing them could completely erase their memories, of course. Locals still know what the sites were. 10 Fred And Rose West’s House Fred and Rose West will go down in history as one of the worst serial killer duos....
10Chemical Warfare Stick insects are weird, and as with any unfamiliar animal, you should approach them with caution. The American stick insect Anisomorpha buprestoides sprays milky, acidic chemicals from glands on the rear of its thorax. After taking aim at a potential threat, it directs the spray at the adversary’s face with accuracy and range that make it a credible danger. The stunning Peruvian stick insect, often kept as a pet in terrariums, is another species that gives off a toxic spray....
10 Warren Field Calendar Although the Warren Field calendar was actually discovered from the air in 1976, it was only unearthed by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004. Even so, it took us almost another decade to determine that it was something absolutely epic—“the beginnings of recorded time,” as an archaeological team from the University of Birmingham called it. The calendar was a series of 12 pits spread out over an arc 54 meters (180 ft) long....
10He Used To Fight People For James Joyce There’s nothing better than learning that two contemporaneous legends were best friends, as Hemingway was with the Irish writer and poet James Joyce. The two often went out drinking together in Paris, where Joyce frequently started bar fights. How these fights got started is a mystery, for James Joyce wasn’t much of a fighter. He was quite frail, with eyesight so bad that most of the time, he couldn’t even see the person he was fighting....
10 Rochester University Cloak Joseph Choi’s Rochester Cloak doesn’t render objects completely invisible, but it does have a couple of advantages over more sophisticated devices. First, it’s less expensive and more practical. The Rochester cloak uses four standard achromatic lenses with two different focal lengths, all of which can be bought at a typical optics store. Watch this video on YouTube Together, the lenses narrow a beam of light between one lens and the next before the beam widens again, filling the following lens....
Dutch architect Piet Blom is best known for designing this complex in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which he envisioned as a forest with every structure being a tree. Mr. Blom apparently had a very, very different view of forests than most people. Built in 1984, the Kijk-Cubus or cube houses are occupied by their owners and used as either homes or business. One is kept open to the public so it’s well worth a visit....
10 The Temple Of Pan Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Hippos in Northern Israel found a large bronze mask depicting the Greek god Pan. Additionally, an enormous entrance to a large stone building was found, and it’s believed to be the remains of a temple compound dedicated to Pan. The temple compound itself dates to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian (around AD 117–138) and was located just outside the city limits, similar to other locations dedicated to Pan....
Here are just ten such reports. Had the Soviet Union still have been in existence today, the following accounts would very likely still be in a sealed vault deep behind the Iron Curtain. 10 Soldiers Turned To Stone In Ukraine Without a doubt, one of the most intriguing and outlandish UFO claims from the Soviet era are the those regarding an incident that saw a number of Soviet soldiers reportedly turned to stone....
Here are ten landmarks originally hated by locals. Quite often, the reason for his enmity is the constructions in question being seen as eyesores. In some cases, they were also seen as egregiously expensive eyesores. 10 The Shard London, England The Shard, formerly called London Bridge Tower, is the tallest building in the UK, standing at an incredible 310 meters (1,016 ft) and offering 72 floors and an observation deck....
“From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli…” Sound familiar? The line about Tripoli in the U.S. Marine Corps hymn commemorates an action in 1805—the Battle of Derna—occurring during the First Barbary Coast War when the fledging American government had to take on the pirates of the Mediterranean. Tripoli, Algiers, Morocco, and Tunis were North African states on the infamous Barbary Coast, long considered a haven for pirates who preyed primarily on merchant ships....
10Ravenous 1999 Ravenous is an unusual black comedy horror film starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle. Captain John Boyd (Pearce) escapes a battle during the American-Mexican War by playing dead, hiding under his comrades’ bodies. He’s exiled to a remote fort. Ives (Carlyle) arrives, having just left a failed expedition party that resorted to cannibalism. On the surface, Ravenous comes across as a body horror movie about cannibalism. However, there is a strange twist....
The final full week of September was so packed with political action it almost felt like being back in election season. Two major economies held shocking votes, another called an unexpected election, and one vitally important region voted to become the world’s newest country. While not all stories were seeped in politics this week, it was impossible to ignore the shock waves being generated in governments across the world....
10Grant Wasn’t Always Considered A Hero Grant’s bosses nearly arrested him in 1862. On April 16, 1861, just four days after Fort Sumter was attacked, Ulysses S. Grant volunteered for the army and quickly became a general under General Henry Halleck. These two men had very different leadership styles. As a result, Halleck frequently complained that Grant was insubordinate. Grant won important battles in February 1862, but General Halleck used a communications breakdown to complain about Grant to his boss, General George McClellan in Washington....
The modern world has come to benefit from the advances in medical science, and we are, therefore, surviving long past the expiration dates of our ancestors from previous centuries. Not all medical treatments, however, are what they are chalked up to be. Here are 10 surprising medical treatments (applied and used by medically trained doctors) you hope you will never need: 10 Nose Job Let’s start off with an easily avoidable one—the simple nose job....
10 Greta Garbo When Greta Garbo came to Hollywood from Sweden in 1925, English language skills were not required for stardom. But while many big names of the silent era flamed out when “talkies” arrived, fans flocked to Anna Christie (1930) to hear if Garbo’s voice would match her image. And they were not disappointed when she sat down at a restaurant table and said, “Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side, and don’t be stingy, baby....
