Love ’em or hate ’em, it’s hard not to have a strong opinion of Primus and Les Claypool’s groundbreaking bass styles. Formed in 1980, the Femmes’ self-titled album brought Folk-Punk to new heights. Peaches! Ninjas! Life is good. While not as widely known as many of the groups listed here, their influence can be felt throughout the world of Heavy Metal. Way before their time. The tragic death of Lead singer/guitarist Bradley Nowell came just as Sublime started to break into mainstream radio....

Savannah Hardin’s 9 year-old life was ripped away all because she fibbed about eating a candy bar. On a Sunday afternoon in Alabama Savannah was forced to run for 3 hours by her grandmother and stepmother as a form of punishment which inevitably would have lasted longer had she not collapsed and had a seizure. She was put on life support, however her father decided it wouldn’t bring her back....

10A Volcanic Mountain Range Stretches Around The World The mid-ocean ridge system is an immense underwater range of volcanoes. It exists due to volcanic eruptions of basaltic lava that occur between the Earth’s tectonic plates. These eruptions help produce Earth’s youngest crust in the lithosphere. At 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) long, the mid-ocean ridge is the largest geological feature on Earth. It winds around the globe like a baseball seam. Compare this to the Andes mountains of South America’s western border—the longest above-water range on Earth, which spans 7,200 kilometers (4,500 mi)....

10Zosimos Of Panopolis Zosimos of Panopolis lived around AD 300, and at the time, there was a definite blending of different schools of religious, scholarly, and philosophical thought. The Romans were still cracking down on this new upstart religion called Christianity, and nobody really trusted the whole idea of magic. Zosimos’s writings were among the first to try to reconcile the differing opinions and ultimately made alchemy a more respectable science, paving the way for alchemists centuries in the future....

What is alternative medicine, anyway? It depends on who you ask, but when you boil it down, it’s just any sort of treatment you wouldn’t normally expect to undergo in your family doctor’s office. It might be an herbal supplement that’s still being studied or just an option that’s not practiced a whole lot in some parts of the world. While complementary medicine refers to something done in addition to traditional treatment, alternate medicine is done instead of the conventional method....

Well, the twentieth century certainly wasn’t short on innovation—and it should come as no surprise that we’ve made a few decent attempts at flying cars over the years. Some were genius, others hilariously misguided, but they all add an extra little pinch of flavor to the legacy of our era. Here are ten amazing examples of flying cars from over the years. The Curtiss AutoPlane is pretty much the first glimpse the world got of a flying car, outside the pages of fiction....

10 Ethan Manuell In the spring 2015, eighth grader Ethan Manuell of Rochester, Minnesota, was visiting his oncologist. Since the age of four, he had been wearing a hearing aid in his left ear. That’s how he was struck with inspiration for his entry in his school’s science fair. Manuell wanted to know how air affects the zinc batteries for hearing aids. When changing the battery in a hearing aid, a tab or a sticker over the area that connects to the hearing aid has to be removed....

10Pit Bulls Aren’t Really Mean Pit bulls have been given an unfair stereotype of being aggressive, ferocious, and dangerous. This is actually completely false—statistically, pit bulls are no more inherently aggressive than any other dog breed. The breed was initially bred for dog fighting, but as we’ve mentioned before, being friendly to humans was actually desirable for a pit bull. If one lashed out at a human, it would be culled....

However, some organisms are so harmful to humans and other animals that the world might be better off without them. Though the practice of “planned extinction” is controversial, many scientists believe that the benefits justify the purposeful eradication of some species. Here are 10 animals that scientists and public officials around the world are trying to wipe from the face of the Earth. 10 Mosquitoes If you’ve ever imagined a world without these little bloodsucking pests, you are not alone....

We will never see another dodo bird, certain subspecies of black rhino, or a quagga unless someone figures out how to apply the scientific methods that were used in the movie Jurassic Park. But what if some of these animals aren’t really gone? What if a few of them still exist? We’re not hoping for a T. rex to walk down the street, but maybe a Tasmanian tiger? With the way new species are being discovered so often, it wouldn’t surprise us to see a few of these special creatures return....

10Versailles Was Absolutely Freezing Everything about Louis XIV (also known as the Sun King) was impressive. His palace at Versailles contained over 700 rooms and would have cost a minimum of $3.2 billion if it was built today. It would also be considered absolutely uninhabitable for the very good reason that it was absolutely freezing. We don’t just mean cold in the “before central heating” sense of the word. We mean the temperature was so unbearably low even people living in a time now known as the Little Ice Age commented on it....

10Kalmia Latifolia Kalmia latifolia, more commonly known as mountain laurel, produces delicate pink and white flowers in the late spring. It’s the state flower of both Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and it grows just about everywhere in the eastern United States. It’s gorgeous, but underneath that dainty exterior beats the heart of a murderer. The two main toxins in Kalmia latifolia are andromedotoxin and arbutin, but it’s the first one that you need to worry about....

While there is, of course, no proof to be offered to back up these claims, the interpretations and how they are pieced together are fascinating in their own right and certainly worth exploring, if only to ask the question: What if our ancestors really were describing encounters with intelligent beings not of this world? 10 Jacob’s Ladder The story of Jacob’s Ladder[1] has many interpretations. It involves Jacob, who while on his way to Harran, decided to stop and sleep for the evening because the Sun had gone down....

No one had ever taken as much from life as Qin Shi Huang —and the thought of losing it terrified him. No matter how many armies he conquered, the specter of death still followed after him. He saw, ever in wait, the inescapability of his own mortality. He refused to accept it. After conquering China, the first Emperor waged a new war against death itself. 10He Had All Scholars Focus on Making an Elixir of Immortality Qin Shi Huang feared that the people would rebel against him....

10 Kings Island Mason, Ohio On June 9, 1991, death stalked the grounds of Kings Island amusement park. In one incident, a man fell into a pond. A friend, 20-year-old William Haithcoat, and a 20-year-old park employee named Darrel Robertson, attempted to rescue him. All three suffered an electric shock, fatal to both Haithcoat and Robertson. Only an hour later, 32-year-old Candy Taylor fell from a ride called the Flight Commander and died from the impact....

10 Tolkien And The Elves J.R.R. Tolkien was a master of language. On top of being one of the great writers of the English language, he was also an academic who spoke and translated Anglo-Saxon. Of course, we cannot forget all the languages that he invented for his mythical world of Middle-earth. One of his great regrets in The Lord of the Rings was the use of elves. It’s not exactly the elves as characters that Tolkien bemoaned but rather the audience’s ignorant perception of them....

SEE ALSO: 10 Crazy Attempts To Create A Real-Life Gaydar 10 Maxim Lapunov It is fairly well known that Russia does not treat gay people well, especially predominantly Islamic Chechnya but it one thing to hear general statements; hearing testimony from the victims themselves is quite another. Maxim Lapunov was one such victim of Chechnya’s attack on LGBT people. Maxim was kidnapped in the street in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya....

Their tent was found in ruins, cut from the inside. Several of the hikers were discovered barefoot and almost naked near the original campsite around a month after their disappearance. What is interesting is that a trail of footprints—some barefoot—led from the tent and then simply stopped. The rest were discovered almost three months later, buried under snow in a ravine. Just what happened to them? Why did they leave their tent, some barefoot, in the middle of the night in brutally cold temperatures, an act that would certainly guarantee their deaths?...

One thing hasn’t changed, however. Conspiracy theories about songs will always be with us. On this list are some of the latest ones swirling around the music industry. 10 DAMNKendrick Lamar In Kendrick Lamar’s case, it’s not just a single song but his entire album DAMN that spawned a host of conspiracy theories. The first theory goes that because DAMN was released on Good Friday in 2017, his next album will be released on Easter Sunday....

Eventually, the sadistic killer was arrested and executed for his crimes. However, he’ll never be forgotten, especially not by those who’ve met him. These chilling accounts, from those unfortunate enough to have crossed paths with the sociopath, give a chilling glimpse at Bundy’s true evil. 10 Sandi Holt Sandi Holt grew up in Tacoma, Washington, where she spent her days playing with her older brother and his best friend—Ted Bundy....