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Earth is full of a wide variety of creatures. Living organisms need to hear, think, see, and adapt with precision in order to evolve, flourish, and survive on this planet. The animal kingdom is built around primates, mammals, rodents, cetaceans, marsupials, birds, reptiles, and mollusks, to name a few. As humans, we pride ourselves on [...]
Posted by Bryan Johnson on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:18 am
Filed under All, Animals · Tagged with african grey parrot, Animal, Animals, border collie, bottlenose dolphins, chimpanzee, chimps, crow, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, giant octopus, intelligence, intelligent, jumping spider, monkey, north pacific giant octopus, octopus, parrot, portia labiata jumping spider, rat, rats, raven, rhesus macaque monkey, smart, smart animals, whales
They may not always like the amount of press coverage given to their hair but certain celebrities have an iconic image. Even if they change the image, the original one tends to follow them around. The following people are all talented in their own way. But back to the hair.
10. Mick Hucknall
The lead singer of [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 6:37 am
Filed under All, Fashion, People · Tagged with Amy Winehouse, bad hair, bad hair day hairdo, beehive, big hair, Billie Holiday, brian may, celebrity, conan o brien, diana ross, hair, hair fashions, hair style, hair styles, hairdo, hairdos, hairstyle, hairstylist, hats, Jennifer Aniston, mick hucknall, mike tyson, Muhammad Ali, People, pompadour
We all know of the traditional holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, Easter and St. Patrick’s Day, but did you know there is a special holiday or observance for just about any day or month of the year? Some of these holidays are really funny or just plain bizarre. Decide for yourself.
10. International Talk like a [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 6:00 am
Filed under All, Holidays, Humor · Tagged with Blame Someone Else Day, Christmas, exhilirating experience, funny, Get a Different Name Day, Go for Broke Day, Have a Bad Day Day, Holidays, Humor, International Moment of Frustration Scream Day, International Panic Day, International Talk like a Pirate Day, IRS, National Inane Answering Message Day, National Sarcastics Month, National Whiners Day, observance, sarcasm, september 19th, talk like a pirate, Thanksgiving, tradition, traditional holidays, wacky holiday
In a world of bland, corporate buildings, thank goodness for those architects and designers who express their individuality. They brighten up our world. From works of art to the downright wacky, here is a list, some of which I have been fortunate to see in the flesh.
10. Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao, Spain
No list is possible [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Monday, March 23, 2009 at 7:35 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Engineering, Travel · Tagged with architecture, Basket Building, Bilbao, Bizarre, building, Crooked House, Dancing House, design, Guggenheim, Museum, museums, Mushroom Tree House, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, robot, Robot Building, Sagrada Familia, Salvador Dali, Spain, top 10 list, tower, Turning the Place Over
Congratulations to our Bryan Johnson, 1st place winner in our Top 10 List Writing Contest.
Let me paint a picture for you. It is the biggest game of the year and it’s your team against theirs. Which team will be more prepared, better coached, and mentally ready for the challenge ahead? Whose team worked harder in the [...]
Posted by Bryan Johnson on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 3:50 am
Filed under All, Sports · Tagged with ALCS, Argentina, baltimore orioles, basketball, buffalo sabres, championship, chargers broncos, Charlie Leibrandt, Controversial, controversy, dallas stars, england, figure skating, Games, gold medal, home run, kansas city royals, Lakers, los angeles lakers, new york yankees, officials, ohio state, Olympic, olympic winter games, olympics, park si hun, referee, refs, rivalry, roy jones, Russia, sacramento kings, San Diego, seoul, soccer, Sports, st louis cardinals, stanley cup, summer olympics, top 10 list, USA, video, world cup, world series, world series game, Yankee, youtube
Congratulations to our Steve Straub, 2nd place winner in our Top 10 List Writing Contest.
Not long after the television was invented, commercials were invented; soon to be followed by their bigger brother, the infomercial. Since then, our favorite television shows have transformed into a morphine drip of short intervals of satisfaction, followed by a seemingly [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:51 am
Filed under Advertising, All, Humor, Television · Tagged with abs, ads, advertisement, advertisements, bowflex, clapper, george foreman, george foreman grill, jack lalanne, juicer, lists, money, nair, persuasive, persuasive ads, persuasive advertisements, persuasive tv ads, power juicer, proactive, q-ray, qray, shamwow, slendertone, Television, television advertisements, the clapper, the gazelle, top 10, top ten, tv, tv ads, vince offer
Congratulations to our Kathy Wood, 3rd place winner in our Top 10 List Writing Contest.
No matter what clique you identify with, from the jocks to the Goths, everybody is a little geeky on the inside. To help us embrace our inner geek here is a list of the top 10 coolest movies for Geeks.
10: The [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 3:50 am
Filed under All, Humor, Movies · Tagged with alcohol, cloak & dagger, computers, criminal, die hard, geek, geek movies, geeks, Hackers, Internet, Life, movie, Movies, nerd, revenge of the nerds, steal, Swordfish, teenagers, The computer wore tennis shoes, The Last Starfighter, The Net, video, war games, weird science
Okay, this list is totally self-promotional but it is supporting a good cause. I am trying to gauge interest in a forum on the site. IN order to do so you have to create a forum, which I have. Next you have to invite people to the forum and this is my invitation to all [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Filed under All, TopTenz News · Tagged with Add new tag, digg, forum, forums, stumbleupon, top 10 list, top ten, TopTenz, TopTenz.net
Every year thousands of people are reported missing. While most are found within hours, some disappear without a trace, never to be seen again. Here are some of the more famous and bizarre cases in history.
10. Louis Le Prince
Regarded by many as the true father of movies, Louis Le Prince was a French inventor who [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, March 13, 2009 at 2:53 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, History, People · Tagged with ambrose bierce, amelia earhart, bermuda triangle, Bizarre, body, croatan, db cooper, death, disappearance, flight 19, ghost ship, jimmy hoffa, joseph force crater, lost colony, louis le prince, Mafia, mary celeste, mysteries, mysterious, mystery, percy fawcett, roanoke island, strange, survive, unexplained, unsolved
People have sung protest songs throughout human history. Wherever people are oppressed or united in a common struggle, someone will voice strong feelings in song. The 1960s came to be known as the decade for protest with the twin causes of the Vietnam War and the lack of civil rights for African Americans. Some of [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 5:52 am
Filed under All, Music, Politics · Tagged with A Change Is Gonna Come, America, anti war protesters, blowin in the wind, bob dylan, call to freedom, causes of the vietnam war, Democrat, freewheelin bob dylan, Give Peace a Chance, God, inspiration, Joe McDonald, John Lennon, lyrics, Mick Softley, Peace, pete seeger, peter paul and mary, Phil Ochs, protest song, protest songs, religion, rock band, Sam Cooke, song, Songs, The War Drags On, turn turn turn, universal soldier, Vietnam War, War, Yoko Ono