If you look at the modern artillery that contemporary armies use today, you wouldn't believe how far they've truly come. Large artillery has existed in some shape or size for centuries. If you looked back to the medieval times, the heavy mortar cannons of their day were huge wooden catapults and trebuch...
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Generally speaking, one man’s trash is another man’s… well, trash (that’s why they’re called “landfills” and not “land-empties”). But every now and then there’s a truly gifted artist who takes pedestrian, throw-away – even icky –items and transforms them into a fascinating conversation piece that can hold its own...
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Sometimes accolades and contests don’t reach the epic proportions or superhuman legend status as the Olympics and pro sports team competitions. Regardless of their irreverence, the wackiest world championships hold a special place in the hearts of those that participate whether the events may seem odd, disgusting...
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Celebrity quackery and pseudo-science is on the rise. This means that you can forget the notion that evidence-based science and medicine is the way for academic advancement. All you need is a camera, some dazzling white teeth (on display in a slightly manic smile i.e. the Tom Cruise) and you are free to influence...
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Think tall towers, walls of glass, picturesque courtyards and elegant throne rooms are solely the domain of fairy tales? Think again. It turns out that fiction has borrowed from reality when it comes to designing beautiful castles. So don’t go asking Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming for architectural tips; jus...
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More than a billion dollars is the combined value of the paintings in this list, an outrageous expensive amount considering how many other pieces of art from unknown artists you could buy, or how many mouths you could feed with that same amount. Somehow, these paintings reached sky high price tags only accessible...
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From Bruce Lee back in the days to Jason Stratham in the Transporter series, movies have brought us some pretty spectacular fight scenes. There are however other fight scenes, those that are devoid of acting and manage to contain no logic whatsoever. There are also those recorded in real life that really do quest...
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Author: Tim |
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Typically, monuments and statues are built to celebrate an extraordinary life or commemorate a major event. However, not all of them are about heroic deeds; some even tend towards what is commonplace strange and bizarre, meant to shock and disturb they intend to pass a message that an ordinary monument would not....
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As a child you enjoy the freedom to throw things at pretty much anyone that pisses you off but upon reaching your teens, you sadly have to learn how to use your words instead. But in certain towns across the globe, mostly in “crazy” Spain, this behavior which would get you committed or at least arrested anywhere ...
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Sometimes the best memories of a vacation is the trip to get there, either because your car broke down and you had to take a ride in the back of a pick-up truck to get to the nearest place, while others, the place you chose to stay plays a major role. The latter is certainly the case with these hotels, where an o...
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