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10 Historical First Images Captured Of Space 10 A quasar that eats the equivalent of a star every single day Imagine the power required to destroy and consume our Sun. Now imagine a celestial body doing that every single day. An entity like that exists, and it’s called J2157. J2157 is the fastest-growing black hole ever discovered. And it’s unimaginably massive: 34 billion-times the mass of the Sun. It’s also the brightest quasar yet discovered, a ravenous star-destroyer devouring the equivalent of one star per day....

10 Queen Of England Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is often wrongly credited as being just the Queen of England. This is a deep understatement as she is Queen of 16 countries. To account for them all we should say she’s the Queen of The United Kingdom, so Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom – bearing in mind that she has official unique titles in each country she reigns over – for example in New Zealand her official title is: “Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith....

10Alice Bailey Born in 1880 in Manchester, England, Alice Bailey worked as an evangelist in Ireland and India. She eventually married and settled down in the United States to study theology. She was ordained in the Episcopal Church and worked as a Bible teacher until her marriage broke down due to her husband’s abuse. She ended up working in a sardine cannery to survive. In 1915, she was introduced to Theosophy and tried to integrate its esoteric teachings with the strict Christianity of her childhood....

A show I did not really enjoy during its run on the BBC, but have now come to somewhat respect. The show follows Eddy and Patsy who are rude, vulgar and immature. Eddy also has a daughter, Saffron, who appears to be the most mature out of the three. One moment that I found hilarious was when Eddy and Patsy were driving to the supermarket, and cut off a woman....

Unlike the majority of items on this list, synaesthesia is not entirely negative. Synaesthesia is a neurologically phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway, in other words, numbers can be perceived as having color, or words (such as the days of the week) can be perceived as having personalities. Many people with synesthesia use their experiences to aid in their creative process, and many non-synesthetes have attempted to create works of art that may capture what it is like to experience synesthesia....

10 Books That Have Been Lost To History 10 Remembering Valeska Suratt One shining example of an entire career gone missing is the story of Valeska Suratt (1882-1962), an early twentieth-century actress who rose from a risque career in vaudeville to embrace a successful career on Broadway. She was known for her glamour and style, and she went on to star in eleven silent flicks by Fox studios from 1915 through 1917, recreating herself in vampish roles along the lines of the great Theda Bara....

Inhabited for over 7,000 years, Malta has been settled by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, the Muslim Emirate of Sicily, and Crusaders under the Holy Roman Empire. The history of mysterious Malta is the history of the entire Mediterranean—and beyond. 10 Cippi Of Melqart In 1694, the Knights of St. John discovered two ornamental pillars known as the Cippi of Melqart in the village of Marsaxlokk. The pillars contained engravings that allowed linguists to unlock the ancient and mysterious Phoenician language....

From surviving ancient manuscripts it is clear that there has always been a belief that new lands could rise up from the ocean, while old ones could sink into the sea, destroying former civilizations in the process. The most famous of all the lost lands is that of Atlantis, described in great detail by Plato almost 2,500 years ago. During the past century as we developed the technology to fly and with the advent of sonar and better diving equipment, numerous underwater anomalies have been discovered....

10 Grand Mosque Seizure On November 20, 1979, several hundred militants with plans to overthrow the Saudi government walked into the holiest place in Islam—the Grand Mosque of Mecca—and seized it. They blocked all entrances and exits and took about 100,000 hostages. Lasting almost two weeks, the hostage situation influenced the formation of Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda and would forever change Islam. The 300–600 attackers were all Sunni Muslims from Egypt, Jordan, Somalia, Canada, and the United States....

10 Juliet PoyntzDisappeared June 3, 1937 Juliet Poyntz was a well-educated, ambitious feminist born on November 25, 1886. While in college, she acquired a number of radical ideas and became an avowed socialist. Throughout her life, she served in various organizations, including the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the United States of America. Many of the details of her life are shrouded in mystery, but it is believed that she traveled to the USSR, where she worked with the Soviet OGPU—the secret police agency that would evolve into the NKVD, and later, the KGB....

All fanbases have their chaotic moments, but when it gets taken too far, that’s when things can go wrong fast. So let’s get into it! 10Petty Moves From Colorado It’s normal to experience some chanting and drinking, maybe a heated discussion between opposing fans. But that’s about it, right? Wrong. Some fans become so “passionate” about their sport and their team that they turn to violence and abusive language. More often than not, this is aimed directly at the opposing fans because, of course, it must be their fault....

This week’s list is a collection of international affairs. There is the Canadian iceberg heist, the German Smurf party, and the French lightsaber duel. We find glow-in-the-dark spider fossils in Korea and striped horses in England. The Japanese get naked to uphold a 500-year-old tradition while an Australian woman dresses up as a gorilla to catch a flasher. 10 Smurf-tastic Thousands assembled in the German village of Lauchringen to set the new world record for the largest gathering of Smurfs....

Otherwise, read on for a dose of unique, quirky weirdness. This week, we learn a few new things about planets, about animals, and about a few quirky individuals. 10 The Smell Of Uranus This week, a team of researchers from the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii confirmed what the rest of us suspected for a long time—Uranus is one of the smelliest objects in the solar system. There, we got the obligatory joke out of the way....

Okay, okay, boxing fights never look like this. In terms of realism, all the Rocky films are idiotic. But face it, you’d rather watch something like this than a real boxing match in which the fighters land a few punches per round and someone wins on points. This is by far the most violent of all the Rocky fights, and it will make you laugh out loud at how much abuse and brain damage Rocky is taking....

10Louis Zamperini Zamperini, a runner who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, went on to serve in World War II. He went missing during the war after his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean and was assigned an “official death date” by the War Department, which included a letter of condolence sent by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The reality was that Zamperini survived 47 days at sea while floating on a raft, only to be captured and taken prisoner by the Japanese....

The most famous of these units were the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Combat Regiment, which fought with distinction and remarkable heroism in Europe. They were two of the most decorated units in the war. 10Shizuya Hayashi’s Insane Charge Shizuya Hayashi was drafted into the army in March 1941. He was nicknamed “Cesar” because the sergeant couldn’t pronounce his name. The day after his 26th birthday, November 29, 1943, Hayashi found himself on patrol in mountainous country near Cerasuolo, Italy....

Sadly, some people receive a different type of parental guidance. Here’s a list of parents who not only failed to model good behavior but either aided or enlisted their kids to commit horrific acts. Talk about family bonding… 10 Rebecca Sears March 25, 2009, started as a typical day for Laverne Parsons. She took her son to school and returned to her home in Augusta, Georgia. Unfortunately, she was unaware that an intruder was lying in wait....

Unfortunately, not everyone gets to experience a dignified death. And for some people from history, their demise was very undignified indeed. This, of course, makes these deaths no less tragic for the victims and their families, but it does make it difficult to keep a straight face at the funeral. Here are a few examples. 10 Thomas Midgley Jr. Thomas Midgley Jr. was a chemical engineer who made a number of valuable scientific discoveries....

Some people seem to have superhuman capabilities. They do things that nobody else can do, often because they acquired these abilities at some point in life without working for them. The common trait in their super abilities is the brainpower these people have. The supernatural has gone over matter in the life of these super, paranormal incredible human beings. These are the ten people with abilities science can’t wrap its head around....

During the early 1980s, Long haunted the beaches and hot streets of Florida as a serial rapist. Long then graduated to murder, killing at least ten women between March and November 1984. Despite being tried and convicted back in the 1980s, Long’s story is still not over, as the Classified Ad Rapist sits at the center of a capital punishment controversy. 10 Rough Upbringing Although most closely associated with the Sunshine State, Bobby Joe Long was born in the small town of Kenova, West Virginia, on October 14, 1953....