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Playstation 4 Launch,Things Everyone Wants to Know....

2013-11-16T05:27:00.002-08:00

In a few short weeks the Playstation 4 will be coming to stores around the world (Nov 15, America. Nov 29, Europe). While the anticipated day speedily approaches, there are still plenty of questions that need to be asked and little details that need to be understood. As someone that is considering buying the PS4, I decided to do a little research about the important tidbits and of course I’m sharing it with anyone who happens to visit this little corner of the internet.

Launch Titles

The games available at launch should take center stage, since they can make or break it. Features can only go so far after all. From what I’ve seen, I’m not impressed or overly excited at what’s going to be available, so don’t be ashamed to adopt a wait-and-see approach. There’s no rush to get the console right off the bat.

Killzone Shadowfall and Knack will be the only CD based playstation exclusives to be ready at launch. I’m not saying these two titles aren’t good, I’m just saying that it would be nice if they had a couple friends with them when they reach my doorstep. Luckily enough, there are a couple more options available. Nothing grand or eye-catching but choices nonetheless. Battlefield 4, CoD Ghosts, Madden and Fifa to name a few – or in short, games that are already available elsewhere but will have next generation versions.

Then there are the free to play games that require a download. Warframe and DC universe are perfect examples of such. They’re both good games and seem to add much needed flavor to the Playstation launch.

Still, despite the rather abysmal lineup, in the months following its release there are a number of high profile games that will undoubtedly join the console’s line up. The kind of games that make a gamer wide-eyed in excitement and thankful that they’re alive.

Playstation Plus

Now, the second issue that came to my mind is how the PS4 is departing from the free to use online model that has previously dominated the PS3. The fact the online gaming requires an active Playstation Plus subscription has been confirmed, but what really does that mean to us the gamers?

It seems straight forward enough. In order to be able to play online or participate in any multiplayer function, PLUS is required. Yet, there are exceptions to this rule. A wide selection of Free-to-play games like the previously mentioned War Frame and the MMORPG DC Universe Online are exempted from the requirement. What that generally means is that if I have to buy the game, I have to have a PS Plus account to enjoy it the fullest.

As things go, that isn’t so bad because the service has more tricks behind its sleeve. The Instant game selection, for instance, offers a range of titles every month for Plus members to download and play for no added cost. While that may not mean much at the launch (games Resogun and contrast will be available.), when the ball starts going it will mean everything in the world.

I say this because, I’ve seen what kind of digital content the service has made available for the Playstation 3. Top rated titles that have more awards than I can comfortably count. Examples include critically acclaimed uncharted 3 and the best comic book franchise of all time, Batman: Arkham City.

There are of course other benefits, but nothing quite as good as the game collection in my opinion. Cloud storage for saves, discounts and early access to name a few. All in all, great little bonuses that make our money go a little further.

The price isn’t half bad either, 50USD for 12 months. That’s less than 5 dollars a month, not bad at all still there are shorter commitments like a three month one for around 18 USD. Now, as someone who has occasionally used PS PLUS, I think that’s a steal especially for anyone who owns a PS3 or Vita as well.

What the PS 4 Can’t do

Remember the share button? Well at launch, we won’t be able to upload to our favorite site, YouTube. I know, bummer. Oddly enough, Facebook is fair game for hosting videos. Also, streaming sites like Twitch and Ustream will likewise be available to any gamer wanting to create their gaming stream.

It’s also been confirmed that some segments of a game will be restricted to streaming, sharing and recording. What parts are entirely up to the developer’s discretion. I’m not sure how I feel about this, as I love watching games as though they were movies, cutting out the good parts wouldn’t be as entertaining.

PS 3 gadgets aren’t going to work with the incoming system either. That means that the Dualshock 3 controller will just have to sit things out. It’s not alone either, the Blue-ray remotes that everyone was suckered into buying won’t be compatible as well. Heck even the PS3 Bluetooth headsets are being left out.

There is a bright side I suppose. The PS 4 box comes with a mic, one that can be plugged in directly to the new controller. Despite that, It’s hard not to feel that pretty soon, my old toys will be gathering dust in a quiet corner, but hey that’s the price of progress or so everyone seems to be telling me these days.

Another thing that needs to be mentioned is that there will be no external hard drive support. While it’s undoubtedly a hassle, it’s far from the end of the world. Still, with the console mimicking PC play more and more, I’m sure my HD will fill up faster than I can blink. I mean, we can buy games digitally now and apparently some titles will have mandatory installs, that’s not even mentioning the countless saves and patches that will come as time passes.

I think that’s about everyone needs to know about the PS4. Forewarned is forearmed, and when buying a new console every little bit of information is a godsend. What do you guys think? Is there anything else that I need to add? Or does anyone have any questions ? Please comment and let me know.

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10 Influential People Who Never Lived

2013-11-13T05:38:00.002-08:00

We have done numerous lists of people and things that have had a great influence on man and they are always popular, so today we are presenting another list of influential people – but this time, they are people who never existed. There were hundreds of people to choose from, so this has been a fun list to compile. We hope you agree with our choices, but if you don’t, feel free to use the comments to tell us who you would have put here instead.

#10.Santa Claus

What child has not been frightened into behaving thanks to the ever-present youthful fear of Santa not providing come Christmas? Almost all western children were told by their parents that Santa would leave them nothing if they misbehaved. I speak from experience when I say that it was one of the most effective methods of stopping tantrums! Funnily enough, though, the fear always dissipates on Christmas Eve as you just know that Santa will be coming – even if you did slip up a few times.

#9.Barbie

As Barbie has progressed from a pretty young woman to whom all girls could aspire, to something often verging on the likeness of a harlot, one can wonder whether it was Barbie influencing children, or children influencing Barbie. There are certainly many similarities. Barbie has depicted almost every possible female lifestyle choice and I think there can be no doubt that she has been at the start of the path many women have taken in life.

#8.Robin Hood

This could potentially lead to a debate about whether Hood existed or not, but I am of the opinion that he did not. Therefore, he is listed as my number eight on the list. I am sure we have all heard someone justifying theft because the victim is wealthy – and where did this justification come from? Not just the principles of redistribution of wealth that many of us live under in Western Society (read envy taxes) but the fact that to this day, we are all raised believing Robin Hood was a hero – when, in fact, he was a thief. Stealing is almost always wrong, and just because Robin Hood gave the proceeds of his crimes to poor people, it is not a valid justification. As for the previously mentioned taxes, there is every reason for us to believe that the majority of people accept these taxes because of their prior belief in the false morality of the Robin Hood story.

#7.Cowboys

This is one for the boys obviously! Even in remote New Zealand where I grew up, all the boys played “Cowboys and Indians”. The cowboy was a great hero with a shining gun who represented the morality of Western ideals: manliness, defense of justice, protection of women and children. No doubt many now cringe at the lack of political correctness involved in the game and stereotype, but kids aren’t politically correct (thank God) and certainly won’t be hindered because of it. The influence of the Cowboy movie genre is indisputable an immense one. Oh – and for those who say “but cowboys are real!” – yes – but this is about the concept – not about a specific person – just as we might say Santa existed as St Nicholas, the concept is bigger than any one person.

#6.The Marlboro Man

How many men reading this list who smoke, are smoking cigarettes with filters? Venturing a guess I would say all of them. Before the Marlboro Man campaign began, “real men” didn’t smoke cigarettes with filters – they were for women. The aim of the Marlboro Man campaign was primarily to get men smoking filtered marlboro cigarettes. The influence of the campaign is abundantly clear today. The campaign is considered to be one of the best in all history. According to Wikipedia, it transformed a feminine campaign, with the slogan ‘Mild as May’, into one that was masculine, in a matter of months.

#5.Rosie the Riveter

And now another for the girls! Rosie the Riveter may not be a familiar name, but her picture certainly is. Rosie the Riveter told women that they can do anything – and they did! Rosie managed to motivate an entire generation of working-age women to get out of the home and in to factories to help the war effort. This is probably one of the most influential events of the Second World War. Once the floodgates of women working were open, they would never be closed again. All women working in traditional male jobs have Rosie to thank.

#4.Daedalus and Icarus

In a short 24 hours, you can fly from one side of the planet to another. This (one of man’s greatest achievements) may never have happened if it had not been for the mythological characters Daedalus and Icarus. The story tells of Daedalus building mechanical wings for his son Icarus and ever since the tale was told, man has lusted after the ability to take the sky and fly. This eventually came true and the entire planet is a changed place as a consequence of it.

#3.The Little Engine That Could

The moral of this children’s tale is that self-belief, optimism, and hard work result in achievement – of even the most difficult tasks. The book first appeared in a slightly different version to today, in 1906. It has been regarded by many as a metaphor for the “American Dream”. The popularity of this book may also be a contributing factor to the huge number of self-help and “positive thinking” seminars and books that we see today.

#2.Big Brother

A relatively modern addition to this list, Big Brother has been a influence in so many social protests that he has to be included here. His name comes up every time a government passes a restrictive law or a law which seems to remove aspects of our eternal freedoms. Everyone recognizes his face, everyone knows what he stands for, and everyone is terrified of the potential for our own lives to be governed by our own version of the fictional character. Big Brother was, of course, created by George Orwell for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

#1.Romeo and Juliet

Not only can Romeo and Juliet be blamed for much of our ideas of the “perfect relationship” – I think it can also be blamed for a high percentage of divorces. Couples going in to marriage seek the ideal of a relationship based entirely on passion and romance, and when that romance dims (as so often is the case) they feel cheated and believe the marriage has failed. When in reality, passionate romance is not required for a healthy marriage – while respect, love, and charity is. Romeo and Juliet have much to answer for!

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5 Places Around The World You Wouldn’t Want To Live

2013-11-11T07:12:00.001-08:00

#5.Brownsville, Brooklyn USA

New York City (and Brooklyn in particular) have some sordid corners if one looks hard enough, but Brownsville stands out among the rest. Most of the housing in the neighborhood is made up of projects run by the New York City Housing Authority—huge, low-income apartment buildings where crime is prevalent. While much of New York has been subject to gentrification and tumbling crime rates, Brownsville remains quite dangerous, and possibly the most violent place in the entire city. In this neighborhood, some UPS drivers make their deliveries in the company of an armed guard. As in many rough areas, much of the crime is related to the drug trade. Luckily, the crack-cocaine epidemic of the ’80s and the ’90s is long over, and things have grown (relatively) more peaceful in the interim, with organized gangs fractured into small fragments of their former power. It can be tough to get by on the streets of Brownsville, and many are forced into making their way with their fists. It is no coincidence at all that this neighborhood was the home of a long list of championship boxers, including Riddick Bowe, Shannon Briggs, Zab Judah, and “Iron” Mike Tyson.

#4.La Perla, San Juan Puerto Rico, USA

La Perla is a settlement on the outskirts of San Juan that was once home to a slaughterhouse. Today, it is a shantytown known for the proliferation of drugs, particularly heroin imported from suppliers in South America. About 15 square blocks, the streets of La Perla are often omitted from maps of San Juan to keep tourists from traveling there. Despite the abject poverty, La Perla is quite beautiful in many ways, with multicolored homes, breathtaking views, and its own expanse of Caribbean beach. In 2011, La Perla became the site of a massive police raid, netting 114 drug arrests based on an 18-month investigation by the DEA, the Puerto Rico Justice Department, and several other agencies.

#3.Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

The dissolution of the Soviet Union made for a great deal of tension as the world’s largest country was chopped into independent republics. More than 20 years later, these hostilities remain, some more bitter than ever before. Few places have seen more violence than the Ferghana Valley, an area split in three by the nations of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The Ferghana Valley is a center of Islamic fundamentalism and home to a patchwork of ethnicities who are known to clash viciously. The economy is deeply flawed, and the government corrupt. Hundreds of thousands of refugees wander the streets, and corpses litter the sidewalks. Perhaps the most savage event in the area occurred on May 13, 2005, when the Uzbek town of Andijan became the site of a horrifying massacre as the military opened fire on a group of protesters massed in the main square, decrying the economy and the policies of Preident Islam Karimov. The government would later claim the body count at 187, but those present allege that over 1,000 were killed, including many women and children. They claim that many of the bodies were buried in secret mass graves as a way of downplaying the true scope of the carnage.

#2.Kibera, Nairobi Kenya

Nairobi is the capital of Kenya, founded by the British as a rail depot in 1899. Today, it is one of the most important cities in Africa, but it is not free from turmoil. On the outskirts of the city sits Kibera, one of the world’s worst slums. Like many such places, Kibera is forsaken by the government. Enterprising criminals tap into Nairobi’s power grid, bringing electricity to a few select places, but for the most part the area is dark. Homes are typically mud and concrete huts with dirt floors. The water is mostly polluted, causing typhoid and cholera, and toilet facilities consist of holes dug into the ground and used by hundreds. Women leaving their homes after dark are often raped.About half of Kibera’s population is unemployed, and to alleviate their crushing boredom, they often partake in cheap drugs—glue-sniffing is a big problem—or drink changaa, a powerful local brew. AIDS spreads like wildfire in Kibera, with women selling their bodies just to make enough money to eat, and orphaned children, often born with the disease, haunt the trash-choked streets.

#1.Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong China

Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City was demolished 20 years ago, but it certainly deserves mention. A former Chinese military fort, it became densely populated with squatters in the years following World War II. Inside the walls of the fort, ramshackle high-rises were built largely devoid of creature comforts like heat or running water. In 1987, a survey by the Chinese government indicated there were approximately 30,000 residents inside the tiny 6.5-acre territory—a population density of 3,250,000 people per square mile. As a means of comparison, the city with the highest population density today is Manila, with approximately 111,002 people per square mile.Greater Hong Kong largely turned a blind eye to activities within Kowloon Walled City. For years, it was governed by the Triads, Chinese mafia members. Police would only enter in large groups. There were high rates of prostitution, gambling, drug use, murders, and opium dens. Only the faintest trace of sunlight filtered down to the muddy streets, and rats proliferated in the ruin. In the early ’90s, the government finally decided to destroy this anarchic slum. An evacuation was ordered, and in March 1993, the demolition began. Today, the area is occupied by Kowloon Walled City Park, a verdant expanse of gardens and monuments.

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How Animals See The World Youtube Video

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Well Dressed Animals

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Hot-Dogs Or Legs?

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Hot-Dogs Or Legs?

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Most Popular Historical Birds

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#1.African Grey Parrot Alex

This African parrot named Alex has the ability to differentiate between objects, shapes, colors and the ability to count.

#2.London Tower Ravens

The company of ravens in the Tower of London is said to have maintained the general safety of the kingdom and a number of six are particularly kept at the Tower every time.

#3.Miracle Mike

The Wyandotte chicken Mike who lived for a period of 18 years after her head was cut off was considered as a hoax by many and to prove them wrong the owner took it to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

#4.Pale Male

The famous red- tailed hawk residing in New York’s central park Pale Male is known for establishing a dynasty of Red-tailed Hawks that dwell in urban areas.

#5.Challenger

A non-releasable bald eagle that is taken care of by the American Eagle Foundation a non-profit organization and is the first bald eagle that flies freely during the National Anthem in major sports events.

#6.G.I.Joe

A noted pigeon that got popularized for his service in the United States Army Pigeon Service when it carried the message of British forces capturing the village of Calvi Vecchia On 18 October 1943. His message reverted the attack that was scheduled on Italy by the Allies and thus saved thousands of lives of both British troops and the local Italians.

#7.Martha

The last popular living Passenger Pigeon named Martha in honor of Martha Washington who eventually died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.

#8.Gertie the Duck

A mallard duck who built a nest under a bridge on certain pilings in 1945 Gertie and her brood are commemorated in RiverSculpture.

#9.Commando

This pigeon is known to have carried ninety missions during the war time and was used for carrying crucial intelligence information with the British armed forces during the Second World War. He received the Dickin Medal which is similar to the Victoria Cross for three particularly noteworthy missions in 1942. This medal was then auctioned for £9,200.

#10.Cher Ami

Cher Ami also called dear friend was homing pigeon bred by British. He delivered 12 messages of the U.S. army during World war I. In the autumn of 1918 she was the one who helped conserve the Lost Battalion of the 77th Division in the Argonne battle.

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PUBERTY DONE RIGHT

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Hollywood Female Celebrities Without Makeup

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#1.Britney Spears

#2.Charlize Theron

#3.Christina Applegate

#4.Courtney Cox

#5.Debra Messing

#6.Drew Barrymore

#7.Emmanuelle Chriqui

#8.Gisele Bundchen

#9.Gwyneth Paltrow

#10.Heidi Klum

#11.Janice Dickinson

#12.Jennifer Garner

#13.Jennifer Love Hewitt

#14.Jessica Alba

#15.Kate Hudson

#16.Katherine Heigl

#17.LeAnn Rimes

#18.Marcia Cross

#19.Molly Sims

#20.Pamela Anderson

15 Worst Catwalk flops

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A tribal Naga Peoples food's

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A tribal Naga woman sells dog meats at a daily Super market in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat, a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people’s is eaten open in large amount.

Dog meat, a delicacy food among the tribal people of Nagaland is eaten openly in large amount. Though dog meat is eaten in large extend in Nagaland, dogs are mainly exported from neighboring Assam. Around 100 dogs are slaughter everyday for food in Nagaland

A tribal Naga man butcher dog meats at a local butcher shop to be sale in the market at Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A dog, man best friend is tie up in a gunny sack to be butcher at a local butcher shop at Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

Dog, man best friend is tie up in a gunny sack to be butcher at a local butcher shop at Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A chop dog head is seen at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A chop dog is seen at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A roasted dog is seen at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount

A chop dog head is seen at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A chop dog is seen at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A tribal naga man (unseen) chop dog at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A chop dog head is seen at a local dog butcher shop for consumption in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A tribal Naga woman with her daughter buy dog meat at a daily super market in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

A tribal Naga woman sells dog meat at a daily super market in Dimapur, Nagaland on 15/04/2010. Dog meat is a delicacy food among the tribal Naga people is eaten open in large amount.

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Dogs and dog meat for sale in a market!

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10 Shocking Documentaries

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#10.High on Crack Street 1995

#9.Aokigahara / Suicide Forest 2012

#8.The Iceman Tapes 1992

#7.Nuit et Brouillard 1955

#6.Atomic Wounds 2006

#5.Conspiracy of Silence

#4.The Killing of America 1982

#3.Interview with a Cannibal 2012

#2.Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children 2007

#1.Child of Rage 1992

10 Interesting Cases Supposed Reincarnation

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Even though reincarnation stories can never really be proven true, some of them have elements that are genuinely mind-boggling, especially when the stories come from children too young to have much knowledge of the world.

#10.Edward Austrian

Patricia Austrian’s four-year-old son Edward had a phobia of drizzly, grey days. Then he developed a problem with his throat and started to complain of severe pain. Whenever he had a sore throat, he said that his “shot was hurting.” Edward told his mother very detailed stories about his previous life in the trenches in what was apparently World War I. He told her that he had been shot in the throat and killed.At first doctors could not find a cause for his sore throat and removed his tonsils as a precautionary measure. A cyst developed in his throat and doctors did not know how to treat it. As soon as Edward was prompted to tell his parents and others more about his previous life and talk about how he was killed, the cyst disappeared. Edward’s doctors never found out why the cyst had vanished.

#9.The Dutch Clock

Bruce Whittier had reoccurring dreams of being a Jewish man hiding in a house with his family. His name had been Stefan Horowitz, a Dutch Jew who was discovered in his hiding place along with his family and taken to Auschwitz, where he died. During and after the dreams, he felt panicked and restless. He began to record his dreams, and one night he dreamed about a clock, which he was able to draw in great detail upon waking.

Whittier dreamed about the location of the clock in an antiques shop and went to look. The clock was visible in the shop window and looked exactly like the one in his dreams. Whittier asked the dealer where it had come from. It transpired that the dealer had bought the clock from among the property of a retired German major in The Netherlands. This convinced Whittier that he really had led a past life.

#8.John Raphael And The Tower Tree

Peter Hume, a bingo caller from Birmingham, England, started having a very specific dreams about life on guard duty at the Scottish border in 1646. He was a foot soldier of Cromwell’s army and his name was John Raphael. When put under hypnosis, Hume remembered more details and locations. He started to visit places he remembered with his brother and even found small items that appeared to have come from the era in which he had lived, such as horse spurs.

With the help of a village historian in Culmstock, South England, he even managed to positively identify details about a church that he had known—he was able to tell her that the church used to have a tower with a yew tree growing from it. This was not a published fact, and it startled her that Hume knew it—the church tower had been taken down in 1676. In local registers, John Raphael was discovered to have been married in the church. A civil war historian, Ronald Hutton, investigated the case and asked Hume very era-specific questions while under hypnosis. Hutton was not satisfied that Hume was totally in tune with the era of his past life, as he could not answer all his questions in a satisfactory way.

#7.Who’s Your Grandad?

Gus Taylor was 18 months old when he started to say that he was his own grandfather. Young children can be confused about their own identity and those of their family members, but this was different. His grandfather had died a year before Gus was born and the boy totally believed they were the same person. When shown some family photographs, Gus identified “Grandpa Augie” when he was four years old.

There was a family secret that nobody had ever spoken about in front of or around Gus—Augie’s sister had been murdered and dumped in the San Francisco Bay. The family were perplexed when the four-year-old child started to talk about his dead sister. According to Gus, God gave him a ticket after he died. With this ticket he was able to travel through a hole, after which he came back to life as Gus.

#6.The Case Of Imad Elawar

Five-year-old Imad Elawar from Lebanon started talking about his life in a nearby village. The first two words he spoke as a child were the names “Jamileh” and “Mahmoud,” and at the age of two he stopped stranger outside and told him they had been neighbors. The child and his parents were investigated by Dr Ian Stevenson. Imad made over 55 different claims about his previous life.

The family visited the village that the boy had been spoken of, together with Stevenson, and found the house where he claimed he had lived. Imad and his family were able to positively identify thirteen facts and memories that were confirmed as being accurate. Imad recognized his previous uncle, Mahmoud, and his mistress from a former life, Jamileh, from photographs. He was able to remember where he had kept his gun, a fact verified by others, and was able to have a chat with a stranger about their experiences during their army days. In total, 51 out of 57 of the experiences and places mentioned by Imad were verified during the visit.

#5.The Navy Fighter Pilot

At a very young age, James Leininger started to remember his life as a navy fighter pilot. Airplanes were the only toys he would play with, and after a time his plane obsession turned into a nightmare. He lost a lot of sleep and kept talking about flying planes, about the weapons, and the scary accident with his plane. James, who only watched kids’ programs on TV, showed his mother what a fighter plane drop tank was, and was able to check a plane over as a pilot would during a pre-flight check when he was justthree years old.

The child was able to tell his father that he used to take off from a boat called the Natoma and knew the name of a co-pilot, Jack Larson. The Natoma was indeed a Pacific ship and Larson was still alive. After James told his father that he had been killed in his plane at Iwo Jima, his father discovered a pilot called James M. Huston Jr. who had died there. This was especially strange, as James had started to sign his drawings “James 3.” James’ family contacted Huston’s sister, and she sent James a bust and a model airplane that had been returned to her by the navy after her brother’s death.

#4.Ruth Simmons

One of the best-known reincarnation stories is that of Ruth Simmons. In 1952, she underwent a series of hypnosis sessions during which her therapist, Morey Bernstein, regressed her back to her birth. She suddenly started to speak with a heavy Irish accent and remembered many specific details from her life as Bridey Murphy, who had lived in Belfast, Ireland in the 19th century. Not many of the things she mentioned could be verified. However, she recalled two people from whom she used to buy her food—a Mr. John Carrigan and a Mr. Farr. The town directory for 1865–66 lists the two individuals as grocers. The story is shown in a film from 1956 called The Search for Bridey Murphy.

#3.The Barra Boy

Cameron Macauley was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Since the age of two he told his mother he was from an island called Barra, off the west coast of Scotland. He talked about a white house and a beach on which planes landed. He had a black-and-white dog and his dad’s name was Shane Robertson—he was killed by a car. He drew the white house by the beach and complained of missing his other mother. As the child got more and more upset about missing Barra, his mother took him on a visit the the island, which was an hour-long flight away. The plane landed on the beach.

The family found a white house owned by the Robertsons, and the black-and-white dog was in one of their family photographs, along with a car that Cameron had remembered. However, nobody recalled Shane. Cameron knew his way around the white house and was able to point out all its peculiarities.As he grew older, Cameron slowly lost his memories, but he is still convinced that death is not the end. Like Gus Taylor, he stated that he ended up in his mother’s tummy after he fell through a hole. The story was picked up by British television, making the Barra case one of the best-documented reincarnation stories.

#2.Parmod Sharma

Parmod Sharma was born in India in 1944. When he reached the age of two, he told his mother that his wife in Moradabad could cook for him, so she did not have to. Morabad was 145 kilometers (90 mi) away from his birthplace, Bisauli. Between the ages of three and four, Parmod described a business venture called “Mohan Brothers,” where he had worked with family members, selling cookies and water. He built miniature shops and served his family mud cookies and water. He had been a well-off tradesman and complained about the financially less rosy situation of his current family. He advised his parents against eating curd, and would not touch it himself. He said that he had become very ill after eating it in his old life. Parmod hated being submerged in a bath and told his parents that he had died in a bath tub.

Parmod’s parents promised to take him to Moradabad once he had learned to read. It turned out that there was a family by the name of Mehra that had run a soda and cookie shop called “Mohan Brothers.” Manager Parmanand Mehra had died in 1943 after gorging on curd and suffering from a gastrointestinal illness and peritonitis, from which he had eventually died. Parmanand had tried medicinal baths as a cure and had been given a bath very shortly before his death.

#1.Steve Jobs

A software engineer called Tony Tseung, an employee of Apple, sent an email to a Buddhist group in Thailand, asking if they could tell him what had happened to Apple founder Steve Jobs after he died. The answer was that Jobs is now a celestial philosopher, in a glass palace that hovers over the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.

In Malaysia, a group of Jobs’ admirers performed a religious ceremony after his funeral. During the ceremony, the group each took a bite from an apple before throwing it into the sea to speed up the process of reincarnation. Phra Chaibul Dhammajayo, one of the abbots at the Dhammakaya Temple, is convinced that Jobs has already been reborn. He is now a divine presence with a specific interest in science and art. Followers have received this information through a special message that was broadcast worldwide. Apparently, more specific details will be communicated when Jobs feels the need to pass on any knowledge or messages.

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The Best Photo Album Apps For IOS

2013-11-03T02:58:00.004-08:00

If you use your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to view and store most of your photos (and why wouldn’t you, when they look so great on Apple’s retina displays?) then you may find the basic camera roll feature doesn’t give you the options you want in terms of organising and storing your images. While it’s great for flicking through pictures you’ve just taken to choose which to keep, it doesn’t offer much by way of filtering, searching or organising the pictures. So, by the time you have accumulated a hundred or so photos of all your special moments (and probably quite a few of food), you may want to upgrade to something a bit more feature rich.

Luckily, help is at hand with these great photo album apps for iOS.

Photo Manager Pro

Photo Manager Pro, which costs $2.99 on the App Store, is a really good photo management app that not only lets you easily structure and organize your images, but also offers convenient and easy ways to transfer your picture albums and libraries to other devices. This app is incredibly useful, and you’ll wonder how you managed without it once you get into the habit of managing your photo libraries using it. It also features a great slideshow feature for when you want to look at your pictures in full screen mode.

Photo-Sort

At $1.99 on the App Store, Photo-Sort is a good value, intuitive option if you want something that offers basic photo management and won’t require you to spend ages learning loads of different menu options and features. It helps you manage photos in the logical file structures you want, and exports things very simply so you know exactly what is being saved where. It can also be used to manage your video files, which makes it doubly useful.

IAlbum

If you want a truly professional experience with the best presentation of any iOS photo album app, then iAlbum is the app you need. It is considerably more expensive than the other apps on the list, with the full HD version coming in at $24.99, the regular version at $9.99, and a few other versions offering different features available at price points in between the two, though you can download a “Lite” version for $1.99 to test it out and see if you want to invest in the full version.

iAlbum is, according to its creators, designed for professional photographers, but it offers such a beautiful interface that anyone who uses the camera on their device can get a lot of enjoyment out of it, even just for organising and displaying kids photo albums. It offers a wide range of feature rich display options, and the combination of its stunning design with the retina display technology on the latest iPad and iPhone models will give you possibly the best way to look at your photographs possible! It also features great sharing features, to help you display pictures between devices and show them to friends.

With one of these great apps, you can have an easy way to organise your image and video libraries and display your pictures, whatever your budget!

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5 best bars in Montreal

2013-11-01T04:24:00.002-07:00

#1 Notre Dame des Quilles

32 rue Beaubien est, Montréal, Quebec

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Located in Montréal’s Little Italy, or Petit Patrie as the locals may refer to it, is one of the best dive bars in the city. Loosely translated to Our Lady of Bowling, Notre Dame des Quilles comes complete with everything you’d expect from a dive bar, from battered diner furniture to linoleum floors, and as the name suggests, two bowling lanes (nothing automatic here though, you will have to set your own pins). Even though the drinks are cheap and the atmosphere is dive chic, the food is surprising good.

#2 Casa del Popolo

4873 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

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If you are looking for another bar that will be light on the wallet, look no further than the cornerstone of the Montréal indie music scene, Casa del Popolo. With a comfortable and unimposing atmosphere, Casa del Popolo serves up some great drinks, and surprisingly tasty food, for a place that is billed as small music venue. It can get pretty crowded, not to mention loud, at night, so if you want to get a good spot make sure you get there early.

#3 Sparrow

5322 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

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The Sparrow is probably the closest you will get to real authentic pub food outside of the UK. For any of the foodies out there, some people have described this place as a British Gastropub. Apparently that means high-quality pub food with an Indian twist, just like in Jolly old England. I go for the drinks, which they provide a great selection of on tap and bottled beers as well as a simple cocktail list (with probably one of the best Old Fashions in the city), so I couldn’t really tell you about the food. As far as ambiance goes, the Sparrow is a cross between a pub and a lounge, with candlelit tables and shared couch spaces. I have yet to make it back in the morning, but from what others have told me they, they also do a pretty amazing brunch.

#4 Vices et Versa

6631 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec

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If you are looking for one of the best brewpubs in Montréal, then look no further than Vices et Versa. This quaint little pub has more than 20 local microbrews on tap on any given day, and they even serve some of their own delicious brews. The service is great, the beer is very reasonably priced, and their food menu isn’t half bad either. In the warmer months they also have a great terrace outside surrounded by greenery where you can enjoy one of your favourite microbrews outside in the sunshine.

#5 Foufounes Électriques

87 Saint-Catherine est, Montréal, Quebec

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No list of best bars in Montréal, (or in my opinion, a great night out) would be complete without a trip down Saint-Catherine to Montréal’s grungiest club (and no, I do not mean Club Supersexe). Spinning tracks from alternative to punk to metal, and everything that goes along with being hard-core is Montréal’s premier rock club, Foufounes Électriques. Loosley translated to Electric Ass (and in fact, ‘foufounes’ is a word you would likely use in front of a child, so it is more like Electric ‘bum-bum’), Foufounes Électriques has that grungy feel that almost makes you afraid to step inside. But don’t worry, the vibe is very chill, so grab a cheap drink (it’s even cheaper if you pay the cover to go upstairs), shoot some pool, or test out your French language pick-up skills on the local talent: “Vous avez une bell foufoune.” – Hey, you might even get points for being cute. (Caveat: There is a difference between Parisian and Quebecois French, especially when it comes to slang, so it is recommended to avoid using that particular pickup line in say, Paris.)

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Cave Temples of India

2013-10-29T07:59:00.001-07:00

Temples have been built since ages and many new ones open their doors every year. As we all know India is a land of diversity and this is very well reflected in the temples across the country. The architecture, designs and the method of building, everything varies from temple to temple and all these shrines have their own uniqueness. Let us take a tour of some of the well-renowned and gorgeous cave temples of India-

#10 Amarnath Cave temple

Amarnath cave temple is a famous Hindu temple located in Jammu and Kashmir and it is considered to be one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism. The soft and icy snow which covers the cave makes the temple more beautiful and a striking heritage site. The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and the Shiva Linga here has many unique features-during May to August the Shiva Linga gets smaller and finally diminishes and with the phases of moon, it increases and during summer festival it reaches the maximum height.

#9 Thrikkur Mahadeva Temple, Thrissur

Thrikkur Mahadeva temple is one of the few cave temples in Kerala, which is located near Manali river in Thrissur. A 6 ft natural stone lingam is preserved in this large and magnificent Shiva Temple. A waterhole on the topmost part of the rock, which never dries even during the scorching summer heat, is something astonishing. Lord Ganesh, Ayyappa, Skanda or Lord Muruga, Parvati and a Shivlinga are the other deities of this temple. Along with the divine passion and holiness you can feel here, the amazing architecture and beauty of the place are worth mentioning.

#8 Elephanta Cave Temple

Elephanta Cave Temples located at Elephanta Island in Maharashtra is the finest example of fabulous Indian architecture, with its marvelous sculptures and carvings. There are two groups of caves here- a large group of five Hindu cave temples and a smaller group of two Buddhist temples. This cave was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the year 1987 to preserve the artwork and it is currently maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India.

#7 Patal Bhuvaneshwar

''This awesome cave is believed to be as old as the earth itself.''
Patal Bhuvaneshwar is a limestone cave temple in Bhubneshwar village of Uttarakhand. It is believed that the cave has thirty three crore Gods in it, along with Lord Shiva. It is not just one cave, but a group of caves within caves and according to beliefs the Pandava brothers are said to have spent some time here during their exile.

#6 Aurangabad cave temple

The Aurangabad cave temple is situated on a hill in Aurangabad of Maharashtra and is a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India. It is a group of 12 artificial rock-cut Buddhist temples and the caves are divided into 3 separate groups based on their locations. The sculptural carvings in these temples are simply marvelous and catch the attention of everyone.

#5 Lenyandri Cave temple

Lenyadri, which literally means ''mountain cav'', is a series of 30 rock-cut Buddhist caves situated in Pune. Most of the caves are numbered and Cave 7 is a renowned Hindu temple, which has the deity of Ganesha. To reach this centuries' old Ganesha shrine, which is made out of a single stone, one has to climb 207 steps, which is quite difficult and hence people don't go there in the evenings.

#4 Pataleshwar Cave Temple

The Pataleshwar cave temple, also known as Panchaleshvara located in Pune is a rock-cut cave temple which was built during the 8th century. The entire temple is carved out of a single block of stone and it is quite similar to the rock-cut temples of Ellora. This Shiva temple also includes the deities of Sita, Rama, and Laxman. One can find a 'mandapa' (pavilion) at the centre of the temple, which is in the name of Shiva's bull, Nandi.

#3 Cave temples of Ellora

The cave temples of Ellora located in the Deccan Plateau were excavated between 600 AD and 900 AD. There are numerous Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples here and all of them are made from solid rock. The Kailas (heaven of Siva) temple in Ellora is one of the most interesting and attractive cave temples here. Ellora, also known as Ellooru, represents the epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture.

#2 Jogeshwari cave temple

The Jogeshwari caves located in Mumbai has some of the oldest temples, belonging to the Hindus and Buddhists. The cave temple and the area is named after Goddess Jogeshwari( Kuladevi to some Gujarati Brahmins)and the shrine also has the footprints and 'murti' of Jogeswari. According to Walter Spink, historian and scholar, Jogeshvari is the earliest prominent Hindu cave temple in the country and (in terms of total length) 'the largest'.

#1 Ajanta Cave Temples

The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra are 30 rock-cut cave monuments and these splendid architectural wonders portray the rich heritage of India. The paintings and sculptures in these caves are supposed to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art. The cave temples are positioned in a horse-shoe shaped cliff.

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5 Most poisonous Snakes in the world

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#5 Black Mamba

The feared Black Mamba is found throughout many parts of the African continent. They are known to be highly aggressive, and strike with deadly precision. They are also the fastest land snake in the world, capable of reaching speeds of up to 20km/h. These fearsome snakes can strike up to 12 times in a row. A single bite is capable of killing anywhere from 10-25 adults. The venom is a fast acting neurotoxin. Its bite delivers about 100–120 mg of venom, on average; however, it can deliver up to 400 mg. If the venom reaches a vein, 0.25 mg/kg is sufficient to kill a human in 50% of cases. The initial symptom of the bite is local pain in the bite area, although not as severe as snakes with hemotoxins. The victim then experiences a tingling sensation in the mouth and extremities, double vision, tunnel vision, severe confusion, fever, excessive salivation (including foaming of the mouth and nose) and pronounced ataxia (lack of muscle control). If the victim does not receive medical attention, symptoms rapidly progress to severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, pallor, shock, nephrotoxicity, cardio toxicity and paralysis. Eventually, the victim experiences convulsions, respiratory arrest, coma and then death. Without antivenin, the mortality rate is nearly 100%, among the highest of all venomous snakes. Depending on the nature of the bite, death can result at any time between 15 minutes and 3 hours.

#4 Taipan

Another entry from Australia, the venom in a Taipan is strong enough to kill up to 12,000 guinea pigs. The venom clots the victim’s blood, blocking arteries or veins. It is also highly neurotoxic. Before the advent of an antivenin, there are no known survivors of a Taipan bite, and death typically occurs within an hour. Even with successful administration of antivenin, most victims will have an extensive stay in intensive care. It has been likened to the African Black Mamba in morphology, ecology and behavior.

#3 Blue Krait

The Malayan or Blue Krait is, by far, the most deadly of this species. Found throughout South East Asia and Indonesia, 50% of bites from the deadly Blue Krait are fatal, even with the administration of antivenin. Kraits hunt and kill other snakes, even cannibalizing other Kraits. They are a nocturnal breed, and are more aggressive under the cover of darkness. However, overall they are quite timid and will often attempt to hide rather than fight. The venom is a neurotoxin, 16 times more potent than that of a Cobra. It quickly induces muscle paralysis by preventing the ability of nerve endings to properly release the chemical that sends the message to the next nerve. This is followed by a period of massive over excitation (cramps, tremors, spasms), which finally tails off to paralysis. Fortunately, bites from Kraits are rare due to their nocturnal nature. Before the development of antivenin, the fatality rate was a whopping 85%. Even if antivenin is administered in time, you are far from assured survival. Death usually occurs within 6-12 hours of a Krait bite. Even if patients make it to a hospital, permanent coma and even brain death from hypoxia may occur, given potentially long transport times to get medical care.

#2 Eastern Brown Snake

Don’t let the innocuous name of this snake fool you, 1/14,000 of an ounce of its venom is enough to kill an adult human. Coming in a variety of species, the Eastern Brown snake is the most venomous. Unfortunately, its preferred habitat is also along the major population centers of Australia. The Brown snake is fast moving, can be aggressive under certain circumstances and has been known to chase aggressors and repeatedly strike at them. Even juveniles can kill a human. The venom contains both neurotoxins and blood coagulants. Fortunately for humans, less than half of bites contain venom and they prefer not to bite if at all possible. They react only to movement, so stand very still if you ever encounter one in the wild.

#1 Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan

While I did say that I would not include multiple sub-species in this list, the incredible Inland Taipan deserves a spot of its own. It has the most toxic venom of any land snake in the world. The maximum yield recorded for one bite is 110mg, enough to kill about 100 humans, or 250,000 mice! With an LD/50 of 0.03mg/kg, it is 10 times as venomous as the Mojave Rattlesnake, and 50 times more than the common Cobra. Fortunately, the Inland Taipan is not particularly aggressive and is rarely encountered by humans in the wild. No fatalities have ever been recorded, though it could potentially kill an adult human within 45 minutes.

#+ Belcher’s Sea Snake

The most venomous snake known in the world, a few milligrams is strong enough to kill 1000 people! Less than 1/4 of bites will contain venom, and they are relatively docile. Fisherman are usually the victims of these bites, as they encounter the species when they pull nets from the ocean. Found throughout waters off South East Asia and Northern Australia.

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7 Drugs that Changed the World

2013-10-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

People have swallowed elixirs, inhaled vapors, and applied ointments in the name of healing for millennia. But only a small number of substances can be said to have fundamentally revolutionized medicine. Seven of those drugs are listed here, along with some facts that may surprise you.

#7: Paulescu’s Pancrein?

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The discovery of insulin was no doubt a major breakthrough in medicine—prior to its discovery, diabetes sufferers often died at a young age. But while Canadian scientists Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best, along with their colleagues, often are credited with the hormone’s discovery and isolation, Romanian physiologist Nicolas C. Paulescu appears to have beaten them to it. Paulescu isolated a substance called “pancrein,” presumably insulin, in 1916, but he was soon after recruited to serve in World War I. He finally published his findings in 1921, though they were overshadowed by the release of the Canadians’ report early the following year.

#6: Bayer: Take Two and Call Us in the Morning

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In 1899 Farbenfabriken vormals Friedrich Bayer & Co. (later Bayer AG) introduced aspirin, a pain-reliever that would come to rank high among the world’s most commonly used drugs. The company credits the synthesis of pure acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin’s active ingredient, to Bayer chemist Felix Hoffmann. However, decades after its introduction, former Bayer chemist Arthur Eichengrün cried foul, claiming to have invented the process of the compound’s synthesis himself, with Hoffmann merely carrying out the procedure. Bayer holds by its claim that Hoffmann was the inventor.

#5: Everybody Stay Calm

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The introduction of the tranquilizer chlorpromazine (also known as thorazine) in the 1950s represented a turning point in psychiatry, one that gave rise to the “psychopharmacological revolution.” Indeed, not only was chlorpromazine successful—by 1964 some 50 million people had taken the drug—but its development also laid the groundwork for the later generation of agents used in the treatment of anxiety and depression. Furthermore, the characterization of its effects on neurotransmitters and their receptors provided insight into how impulses are passed from one neuron to the next in the brain, leading to major advances in scientists’ understanding of mental illness and cognition.

#4: From Chemical Warfare to Cancer

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Nitrogen mustards were developed in the 1920s and ’30s as agents of chemical warfare. By the 1940s, however, it had become clear that at least one of these compounds, HN-2, also known as mechlorethamine, was better suited for use in the fight against cancer, specifically against human lymphomas, than it was in the fight between Axis and Allied powers. In 1949 mechlorethamine became the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of cancer.

#3: So Retro—That Is, Antiretroviral

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval in 1987 of zidovudine, more widely known as AZT, was a breakthrough in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. While not able to cure the disease, the drug was found to prolong the lives of AIDS patients. It also was the first of the so-called nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, a group of antiretroviral drugs that became a cornerstone of HIV/AIDS therapy. Owing to these drugs—and perhaps most significantly to increased access to these drugs in countries worldwide—the annual number of deaths from AIDS declined in the early 21st century.

#2: Population Control

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In the early 1920s, Austrian scientist Ludwig Haberlandt published a paper suggesting that hormones could be used as an effective means of contraception in animals. While it is unclear, he may have soon after tested a hormone preparation in clinical trials, despite heavy criticism from colleagues who considered contraception to be taboo. Haberlandt’s work, however, came to an abrupt end with his suicide in 1932. Two decades passed before further clinical trials of hormonal contraception were conducted in humans, and then largely at the urging of social activist Margaret Sanger. The first birth control pill was approved in 1960, in the United States.

#1: A Life-Saving Contaminant

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In 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was in the process of sterilizing bacterial culture plates that had become contaminated with mold when he noticed clear zones circling mold colonies. The mold toxin responsible for killing the bacteria turned out to be penicillin, which Australian pathologist Howard Walter Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain later successfully isolated and purified to produce what became arguably the world’s most effective live-saving antibiotic. Incidentally, Fleming seemed to thrive on contamination—his other major discovery, of the antiseptic enzyme lysozyme in 1921, was made after he had accidentally contaminated a culture plate with his own cold germs.

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5 Fascinating Facts About Marine Life

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#5 Swellsharks

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Most sharks scare away predators simply by being, well, sharks. However, they do still have predators, and the smaller the shark species, the more predators there are. The swellshark is one of the smaller breeds, only growing to about 1 meter (3 ft) long, roughly the size of a small doberman. Swellsharks are bottom feeders, preferring to ambush crabs and unsuspecting cuttlefish over the risky thrill of chasing normal fish. An adventurous day means stealing lobsters from a lobster trap. And as far as defenses go, the swellshark is a master of disguise: When it’s threatened, it sucks water into sacs that curve around its belly, swelling up to twice its normal size. But then it does something even weirder—it bends its body into a crescent, grabs its tail in its mouth, and turns itself into a big, inflated ring. The result is something that’s just . . . hard to eat. And since swellsharks normally lurk in rocky crevices, the swelling effectively wedges them into their hiding spots. So even if a fish gets a hold of them, it won’t be able to pull out anything larger than a mouthful. It’s often referred to as the most awkward shark in the world.

But then it does something even weirder—it bends its body into a crescent, grabs its tail in its mouth, and turns itself into a big, inflated ring. The result is something that’s just . . . hard to eat. And since swellsharks normally lurk in rocky crevices, the swelling effectively wedges them into their hiding spots. So even if a fish gets a hold of them, it won’t be able to pull out anything larger than a mouthful. It’s often referred to as the most awkward shark in the world.

#4 Pompeii Worms Have A Living Shield

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“The hottest animal on the planet, but the most difficult to study,” is how the Pompeii worm, or Alvinella pompejana, has been described. Not only do these worms live 2,500 meters (8,000 ft) below the ocean’s surface on volcanic vents that heat the surrounding water to 80 °C (176 °F), they also have an annoying tendency to die when brought to the surface. For a long time, Pompeii worms were believed to be the most heat-tolerant animals on the planet. They grow to about 13 centimeters (5 in) long and live in tubes attached directly to the sides of “black smokers,” smoke-belching exhaust vents on the floor of the East Pacific Rise.

However, their claim to fame has been called into question. Using pressurized capsules, researchers managed to bring a few of the worms up to a lab and found that after 10 minutes of exposure to temperatures of 50 °C (122 °F), the worms died and their tissues hardened like a boiled egg—they were cooked. But the fact remained that Pompeii worms did indeed live in these temperatures, so they took a closer look and found that a layer of bacteria normally lived around the worms. They had a living shield that absorbed part of the heat from the scalding water like a fireman’s blanket. In return, the worms were producing a mucous layer that fed the bacteria—a perfect symbiosis.

#3 Anguilla Eels Can Walk On Land

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Anguilla eels, commonly known as European eels, live in the lakes and waterways of northern Europe and the UK. They’ve been recorded at lengths of nearly 2 meters (6.5 ft), though they’re normally only about half that size or smaller. But they don’t always stay where they’re supposed to—Anguilla eels can leave the water and slither across dry land for a short amount of time. They do this for two reasons—the first is to feed, although they usually stick to insects and earthworms. The second reason is to migrate.

Anguilla eels spend about 20 years in the same lake. But they start and end their lives 6,500 kilometers (4,000 mi) across the Atlantic in the Sargasso Sea. To get from their European lakes to the Atlantic, anguillas work their way up and down waterways using an as-yet-undiscovered navigation system. If the waterway is blocked—with a dam, for example—the eels leave the water and cross fields and forests to the next stream or river. Environmentalists are actually using that unique ability to build climbable “ladders” on dams and weirs to allow the eels to complete their migrations. On a slightly more terrifying note, the larger cousins of anguillas, conger eels, can also cross dry land, and also have the tendency to attack people.

#2 The World’s Largest Migration Happens Every Day

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The Sargasso Sea is perhaps the most unique body of water in the world. It doesn’t have any borders other than a series of converging currents that hold it roughly in the same place, even though it’s right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a body of water within a body of water—the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current, and the Canary Current all hit it on different sides, with the Sargasso Sea acting as the calm center. It was called the “Sea of Lost Ships” by sailors because the air is unnaturally calm and ships could get stuck there for days or weeks.

Most importantly, the Sargasso Sea is an almost completely self-sufficient ecosystem. The sargassum, a floating seaweed that covers the surface of the sea, provides food and shelter for thousands of species, which in turn provide food for the sargassum through their waste. There are layers upon layers of marine life in the sea, from surface dwellers to deep-sea life over 5000 meters (16,000 ft) down. And at night, it’s the setting for the largest migration in the world—over 5,000 species comprising millions of sea creatures surge up from the deep to feed, then return to the bottom before dawn.

#1 Google Street View: Oceans

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Google Street View is a popular addition to Google Maps that lets you look at any location from street level. In 2007, Google sent a fleet of cars around the world to photograph literally everything. Then they took the photos and composited them into a long string that lets you “walk” any route with the click of a button. But that’s old news and hardly exciting. Street View: Oceans is sort of the same thing, except instead of looking at your ex-girlfriend’s house you can stroll directly into the Great Barrier Reef, or any one of dozens of underwater spots spread across six oceans. They’re adding more locations to the program as fast as they can, but so far they only have the reefs around the Galapagos Islands, Heron Island, Wilson Island, and Hanauma Bay, to name a few. This is part publicity stunt and part science project—while anyone can enjoy the tour, they’re also using the photos to monitor the growth (and decay) of the world’s most important coral reefs, which provide a combined home for a full 25 percent of all marine life.

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Top 5 Terrifying Places on Earth

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#5 Byberry Mental Hospital

The hospital, in its most famous kind, was set up in 1907, and called the Byberry Mental Hospital. It housed from the emotionally challenged for the criminally insane. Because of its atrocious circumstances, along with the treatment of its own patients, the hospital was shut and abandoned in 1990. It had since become a bother for the area, because it was a breeding-ground for arsonists, vandals, Satanists, and city explorers. It was demolished in 2006, despite the anxiety about spreading asbestos, (which is what kept it standing for 16 years).

The terrifying aspect of this location isn’t so much it’s hauntings or the unsavory characters that lurked after dark (although you would have been wise to be wary of both while exploring the building). The terror here comes from the facts of the how the hospital was run. Human excrement lined the hallways, which were also where many patients slept. The staff was abusive, and frequently exploited and harassed patients. One patient had a tooth pulled without Novocaine, while another killed and dismembered a female patient. Although the killer, Charles Gable, was never found, the victim’s body was found strewn across the property. Her teeth were found being played with by another patient. Even as the hospital was in the process of closing, two released patients were found dead in the Delaware River, two successive days after their release. Perhaps that gate in Stull Cemetery opens here.

#4 Leap Castle

While this Irish castle is perhaps the most popular location featured on the list, it is worth recapping the long and often gruesome history. Although it was built by the O’Bannons in the late 15th century, the castle was taken over by the ruling O’Carrolls, to whom the O’Bannons were subject. After the death of Mulrooney O’Carroll, a fierce rivalry erupted, culminating in two brothers struggling for control. One of the brothers, a priest, was brutally murdered in his own chapel, in front of the family, by the other brother. This chapel is now know as the Bloody Chapel, for obvious reasons. Many people were held prisoner and even executed at the castle.

The castle is rumored to be haunted by a vast number of spirits, including a violent, hunched beast known only as the Elemental. It is most recognizable by the accompanying smell of rotting flesh and sulphur. While renovating the castle, workers discover an oubliette, which is a dungeon accessible only through a ceiling hatch, into which prisoners are thrown, then forgotten and left to die. This particular oubliette contained three cartloads of human remains, and was filled with spikes to impale those thrown into it’s depths.

#3 Shades of Death Road

This New Jersey road winds through 7 miles of countryside, and along that stretch it gives us no definitive clues as to the origin of its eerie name (for those wondering, Shades of Death is not a nickname given by locals, but is in fact the road’s official moniker). While the explanation for this highly unusual name has been lost, many theories abound. Some say that murderous highwaymen would rob and kill those along the road. Others say the reason was because of violent retaliations by the locals against the very same highwaymen, resulting in their lynched corpses being hung up as a warning. Some attribute it to three murders that occurred in the 20’s and 30’s. The first murder saw a robber beating his victim over the head with a tire iron, the second saw a woman decapitate her husband and bury the head and body on separate sides of the road, and the third consisted of poor Bill Cummins being shot and buried in a mud pile. Some attribute it to massive amounts of fatal car crashes, while others consider it the fault of viscous wildcats from the nearby Bear Swamp. The most likely explanation, however, is that malaria-bearing mosquitos terrorized the locals year to year, and the remoteness of the area prevented good medical attention from being prominent in the area. This is supported by the fact that, in 1884, most of the swamps in the area were drained.

Gruesome history and spooky name aside, you have much to fear along this byway. South of the I-80 overpass lies an officially unnamed lake, that most will tell you is called Ghost Lake. This lake is frequently the home of specter-like vapors, and the sky is supposed to be unusually bright, no matter what time of night you are there. As per the name, ghosts of the highwaymens victims roam the area, and they are most frequent in the abandoned cabin across the lake. The dead-end road known as Lenape Lane is home to thick fogs and apparitions, you may be chased off the road by a white light. I’ll let Wikipedia detail the most disturbing aspect of the road:“One day during the 1990s, some visitors found hundreds of Polaroid photographs scattered in woods just off the road. They took some and shared them with Weird NJ, which published a few as samples. Most of the disturbing images showed a television changing channels, others showed a woman or women, blurred and somewhat difficult to identify, lying on some sort of metal object, conscious but not smiling. Local police began an investigation after the magazine ran an item with the photos, but the remainder disappeared shortly afterwards.”

#2 Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Welcome to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, home of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. This former high school was converted, in 1975, to Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge. The prison was used as a base to torture and murder prisoners. Most of the prisoners were former soldiers and government officials from the Lon Nol regime. However, the Khmer Rouge leaders paranoia soon caught up with them, and they began shipping people from their own ranks to the prison. Many prisoners were tortured and tricked into naming their family and associates, who were them also arrested, tortured and murdered.

The ghosts of the estimated 17,000 victims of Tuol Sleng continue to roam the halls, and odd happenings around the place are often attributed to them: and it isn’t hard to see why. Most were forced to confess to crimes they didn’t actually commit. Although most victims were Cambodians, many foreigners fell victim to the death machine, including Americans, French, a New Zealander, a Briton, Australians, Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis and Vietnamese. Only 12 people are thought to have survived. To close the entry on this sad history, I’ll leave you with the actual security regulations, the ten rules all prisoners had to abide by. All imperfect grammar is said in context due to poor translation.

1. You must answer accordingly to my question. Don’t turn them away.
2. Don’t try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and that, you are strictly prohibited to contest me.
3. Don’t be a fool for you are a chap who dare to thwart the revolution.
4. You must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect.
5. Don’t tell me either about your immoralities or the essence of the revolution.
6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.
7. Do nothing, sit still and wait for my orders. If there is no order, keep quiet. When I ask you to do something, you must do it right away without protesting.
8. Don’t make pretext about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your secret or traitor.
9. If you don’t follow all the above rules, you shall get many many lashes of electric wire.
10.If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either ten lashes or five shocks of electric discharge.

#1 The Mines of Paris

The seemingly infinite tunnels that run below the streets of Paris should not be confused with the Catacombs of Paris, the famous underground ossuary, although the mines are also mistakenly referred to as the catacombs. Exploring the mines is illegal, and penalties include heavy fines. The mines were used to dig out minerals from Paris’ varied sediment (the location where Paris is was submerged for millions of years), and the tunnels are what got left behind.

The mines are now unkempt, unpatrolled and unsafe. As far as legends go, ancient cults and creatures patrol the depths. Spirits dwell in the infinite shadows, and if one wanders deep enough, and survives, they may even enter Hades itself. As far as reality goes, those legends can take a back seat. The tunnels stretch for close to 600 kilometers throughout the Parisian underground, and most of them are unmapped. Saying it is easy to get lost is an understatement. It is nearly impossible not to get lost. Many parts of the catacombs are hundreds of feet below street level. Some hallways are flooded, or are so narrow you have to crawl through them. There are holes that drop hundreds of feet, and manholes that are unreachable, luring unwary urban explorers in with false promises of freedom. The infinite underground maze absorbs sound, mutes it, making it unlikely you will hear somebody yelling for help, even if they are not far away. Or, worse yet, making it unlikely somebody will hear you. Thousands of human bones litter the tunnels, due to overcrowding in many of Paris’ cemeteries. Weird paintings adorn the walls. Are they ancient? Are they new? Are they warnings? Or pleas for help? If you have claustrophobia, you will want to avoid the mines at all costs. If you don’t have claustrophobia, you probably will after a trip through the mines. Bring plenty of batteries, backup flashlights, clean water, a friend, and say a prayer before entering the mines of Paris. You will need them all.

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But re-purposing a remnant of the Cold-war arms competition, an underground nuclear bomb silo, appears like an even harder proposal. Nonetheless, two guys in Saranac, N.Y., transformed a fresh Atlas F rocket silo right into a three bedroom luxurious house and therefore are offering it available on the Website for $2.3 million

Coowner Bruce Francisco informed an Associated Media reporter stated the home wasn't only probably the most safe home you can imagine, but given prospective purchasers unparalleled privacy and serenity and peaceful Nevertheless, they are nevertheless waiting on an provide.

#4: Hitler's Paintings

Certain, he was clearly one of the very murderous despots in history, and while the personification of bad now is nearly globally reviled. But Adolf Hitler evidently also had a delicate artistic aspect. As he offered them in taverns in an attempt to aid them self and his roommates - - and decorated dozens of small watercolors - - occasionally up to three each day, a penniless child in Vienna and Munich.

Although Hitler's following attempt to beat the world necessitated placing aside his paintbrushes and easel, the master continued to foster a emotional connection to his crude depictions of new attractions, Globe War I battlefields, blossom vases and also the rooms of homes. Nazi officials were even directed by him to buy-back all of his paintings, using the aim of ultimately sustaining them for offspring in a memorial in his own acquired Austrian neighborhood of Linz

Hitler's defeat in The Second World War set the kibosh on such desire, but a lot of his own functions somehow did endure. A 2002 California Post article mentioned the presence of "a active and profitable commerce" in Hitler paintings among private enthusiasts, and now, functions for example a 1914 representation of Munich's Arch of Success -- selling price &36;69,999.99 -- can be found on the market to the Net

#3: Advertising Area on a Girl's Brow

In 2005, a 30year-old Ut girl called Kari Cruz flipped himself right into a billboard by providing marketing room on her brow, which a nearby tattoo artist hesitantly had decided to enhance The cost was &36;10,000, which Smith stated she'd utilize to deliver her boy to an exclusive school.

Cruz got 24,000 strikes on her behalf e-bay site, and allegedly obtained several company offers before taking a bet from GoldenPalace.com, whom you might remember additionally bought that inquisitive papal-hat Dorito. For that online casino, purchasing advertising rights to a man's epidermis was nothing fresh. Jon Hair, an established in GoldenPalace.com's advertising section, informed reporters the business had previously paid to get its title emblazoned on greater than one hundred hands, legs, chests and shells -- and actually another brow. Cruz, however, was the primary girl who had decided to a tat in this type of noticeable place.

#2: Shatner's Kidney stone

At the beginning of each episode of "Star Trek," William Shatner's character Captain Kirk pledged to boldly go where no man has ever gone before. In 2006, the actor achieved just that, at least in a figurative sense: He passed a kidney stone, then sold the deposit, formed from minerals in his urine, for &36;25,000. The purchaser? You guessed it: GoldenPalace.com, which upped its initial bid of &36;15,000 after Shatner turned that down. (He reportedly rationalized that since his costumes from the show have garnered more than &36;100,000 apiece from memorabilia collectors, a piece of himself should be worth at least a quarter of that.) In its customary wisecrack-laden press release, GoldenPalace.com touted the acquisition and Shatner, saying that he had passed the kidney stone "at warp speed," even though it caused him "more discomfort than a Klingon pain stick"

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A country with a price tag? Nicely, kind of. Paddy Roy Bates, a British born sailing stereo broadcaster, relocated to the stage within the late sixties and afterwards proven his own authorities, complete with a banner, a national anthem, a little military, passports, plus a national slogan, E Mare Libertas ("From the Ocean, Independence").

Sealand's creator, who conferred upon them self the Prince Roy of Sealand, dominated the synthetic island for many years, before recruiting his boy Erika as head of condition in 1999. In 2006, Sealand endured a disastrous fire that did substantial injury for the foundation. The next year, the Sealand routine declared it might entertain offers to purchase or rent the country. To date, the cost sought from the royal family -- allegedly within the ten figures, or even more -- appears to get discouraged prospective buyers

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