World War II left between 6.9 million and 7.5 million Germans dead – around 8% of their population at the time. The allies leveled cities like Berlin and Dresden in air raids, and from 1945, occupied the country. You would expect Germany’s people to take generations to recover, but that didn’t seem to be the …
It’s been over three decades since Chernobyl experienced the most massive nuclear disaster in history. Even after billions spent cleaning up and at least four thousand dead, the area itself is a ghostly shell of itself, long reclaimed by plant and animal life. Pripyat, the town built next to the plant, was intended to be …
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One of the most significant downsides of poorly regulated economies is the cycle of booms and busts. These were more rampant in the nineteenth century than later on due to lack of legislation and a more volatile American expansion economy. Thus, minor issues could create considerable economic turmoil for the United States. One such period …
Owls are excellent flyers and great hunters. Everyone knows that their night vision is superb. If you have received a compliment “wise like an owl,” then that means the person considers you intelligent and wise. That’s because this bird represents wisdom. Not only are they known for their intelligence, but the owl is one of …
I used to sit and watch children’s cartoons with my son. Most of the time, I would feign enjoyment, except when it came to one particular show. I’m talking about SpongeBob SquarePants, of course. I confess, even now, I think I could quite happily sit and enjoy an episode or two of this marvelously original …
Marilyn Monroe has many iconic photos and looks – standing over a grate with her dress blowing up, blowing out a candle, and many others. Some photos many don’t remember except for the most hardcore fans are a series of her wearing the hell out of a fitted burlap sack. There is fascinating speculation behind …
Bali is the most western of the Lesser Sunda Islands and a province of Indonesia. From the 1980s on, it experienced a surge in international tourism to the point where it has become Indonesia’s #1 tourist destination. Curious about Bali or planning a trip? In this article, we’re going to cover some fantastic Bali facts …
The human body is a beautiful piece of bio-machinery. There isn’t a second that passes where something is not happening in the living body – even while you’re asleep and far away in dreamland. Sometimes, we tend to forget how brilliant our bodies are and how well they do things they’re designed for. We live …
Edmund Kemper is a Californian serial killer who brutally murdered ten people in Santa Cruz between 1964 and 1973. His monicker as the “co-ed killer” came from the fact that his victims were mostly college-age women hitchhikers – though he also killed his grandparents almost a decade earlier. Kemper mostly flew under the radar of …
Everybody poops. This is one of humanity’s truths, such that we tend not to think about it too much unless the person in question has a low fiber diet. Though people have been experiencing normal biological functions since before the dawn of civilization, a way to remove that waste healthily and reliably has shifted and …
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