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If you are looking to travel and want to go back in time here are ten great historic travel destinations for the history buff on the go. From Castles to Great Walls to Pyramids here you will find 10 Historical destinations that everyone should visit. Do you have any places in mind that are both [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 1:00 am
Filed under All, Engineering, Travel · Tagged with abu simbel, Al Khazneh, angko wat, architecture, athena, baroque, blarney castle, building, castle, castles, china, coliseum, egypt, england, France, great wall of china, India, Lost City of the Incas, Louvre, machu picchu, Museum, Neuschwanstein Castle, parthenon, petra, prague castle, pyramids, rome, seven wonders, stonehenge, taj mahal, Travel
You will notice an anti-war stance with this list. John Wayne is noticeable by his absence! The films have a common mission and that is to tell the truth as the writers and directors see it. Before I receive a deluge of comments on why ‘Saving Private Ryan’ isn’t included, I think that the first [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 2:47 am
Filed under All, Movies · Tagged with All Quiet on the Western Front, apocalypse now, born on the fourth of july, das boot, donald sutherland, elliot gould, fourth of July, full metal jacket, john wayne, MASH, Oh, Paths of Glory, robert altman, saving private ryan, Schindler's List, stanley kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Thin Red Line, Tom Cruise, top 10 lists, u boat, Vietnam War, War, war movies, What a Lovely War, wolfgang petersen, world war i, world war ii
We all love a good conspiracy theory. And here you will find 10 of the best conspiracy theories from the last few decades. From the death of an American icon (Marilyn Monroe) to the fall of another American icon (Twin Towers), you may read this list and have your own doubts about these event. Prepare [...]
Posted by Katherine Watt on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 3:06 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Misc · Tagged with 9/11, aliens, Beatles, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, death, england, jfk, john kennedy, Kennedy, loch ness monster nessie, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, Microsoft, monroe marilyn, moon, moon landing, mysteries, mysterious, mysterious deaths, mystery, New York City, plesiosaur, president, princes, roswell, scientologists, scientology, secret societies, suicide, twin towers, USA, world
Would anyone really want to live forever? Well, this group didn’t get to make the choice for death’s sweet release vs life’s everlasting pain. From fiction to folklore, this list is a compilation of those given the everlasting gift of life – the top 10 immortals.
10. Shadow the Hedgehog
How is he an immortal? He is [...]
Posted by Katherine Watt on Monday, April 27, 2009 at 2:45 am
Filed under All, Bizarre · Tagged with claire bennet, Comic, dc comics, death, duncan macleod, Friday the 13th, healing, Heroes, hidan, highlander, immortal, immortals, Jason Voorhees, leonard jones, live forever, merlin, naruto, never die, Q, ra's al ghul, shadow the hedgehog, Star Trek, top 10 lists, Wolverine, x-men
One thing we can all agree on here. Nobody likes mosquitoes. But our hatred for these pesky insects is also intertwined with an ironic interest to know more about them. Here are some mosquito facts you may not know and a few facts that may help you from becoming of victim of their love bites.
1. [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 5:35 am
Filed under All, Animals · Tagged with Animal, Animals, blood meal, female mosquito, Malaria, mosquito, mosquito facts, mosquito repellent, mosquitoes, pesky insects, swarms
There have truly been many great rulers in history. Some managed to conquer the world, some managed to end violence and put their countries into periods of peace and stability, and some changed not only their nations, but the world. Here are history’s greatest rulers:
10. Hitler
Yes, that’s right. The creator of the Nazi party, the [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 4:47 am
Filed under All, History, People, Politics · Tagged with abraham lincoln, alexander the great, Caesar, caeser, Charlemagne, genghis khan, Hitler, Joseph ii, king of ithaca, leaders, Lincoln, Napoleon, nazi party, Odyseeus, People, Politics, president, queen elizabeth I, rulers, War
Okay, I admit, I am a bit of a nerd. I don’t do pocket protectors, tape on glasses or plaid pants, so I am a cool nerd, but a nerd none the less. One of the ways that this nerdiness manifests itself is in my unabashed admiration of the LOTR trilogy. If you don’t see [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Monday, April 20, 2009 at 5:46 am
Filed under All, Movies · Tagged with aragorn, arwen, denathor, Elves, eowyn, Frodo, Hobbits, horror, legolas, lord of the rings, LOTR, Merry, movie, movie scenes, Movies, nazgul, Pippin, Return of the King, Samwise, tolkien, two towers, violence
FACT: You use most of your body when you are sitting at a computer typing on a keyboard – not just your eyes and fingers. Your muscles allow you to sit in an upright position and all of your organs are working (sometimes, even your brain).
Sadly, despite this amazing fact, surfing the Internet does not [...]
Posted by Tanya Bennett on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 5:13 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Internet · Tagged with addiction, back pain, Bizarre, computer, computers, death, deep vein thrombosis, depression, digg, dvt, eyestrian, facebook, facebook depression, forum, Games, headaches, heroin, illness, Internet, internet addiction, internet rage, medical, munchausen syndrome, net addiction, pain catastrophization, Sex, sickness, teenagers, The Net, upper limb disorders, web, world wide web
Perhaps no single actor best symbolizes the American Western than John Wayne. According to the Internet Movie Database, the man who was born as Marion Morrison in 1907 starred in more than 140 movies during his lifetime, and in 2007, he was voted as the third most popular actor in a Harris Poll survey. Clearly, [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 6:20 am
Filed under All, Movies, People · Tagged with Actor, best films, big jake, comancheros, films, hondo, jake cutter, john wayne, john wayne movies, marion morrison, maureen o hara, mclintock, michael curtiz, movie, Movies, red river, rio bravo, stagecoach, stuart whitman, texas rangers, The comancheros, the searchers, the shootist, true grit, western films, western movies, westerns
10. Soon-Yi Previn
The scandal that erupted when Woody Allen took nude photos of actress Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, tarnished his reputation. Although Woody Allen was not Soon-Yi’s adopted father (her father was composer/ conductor Andre Previn), many people believed his relationship with the then-teenage girl was inappropriate and morally suspect. Woody Allen was [...]
Posted by Heather Matthews on Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7:00 am
Filed under All, People · Tagged with adopted, adopted celebrities, adoption, Apple, apple computers, Beatles, blondiesoon-yi previn, celebrities, christina crawford, debbie harry, edgar allen poe, faith hill, joan crawford, John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, mia farrow, nelson mandela, People, playboy bunny, Richard Burton, steve jobs, woody allen