L'Inconnue |Futility Closet. In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face. In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.” Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”
Reformed racist has Nazi tattoos removed in world first operation. A FORMER skinhead has erased his racist past after having 25 agonising operations to remove hate tattoos from his face and hands. Bryon Widner, 34, went through 16 months of laser surgery on intimidating images including several swastikas and a blood-soaked razor. Widner’s £20,000 treatment was organised by a black campaigner when he turned away from racism after finding love and starting a family. The dad has received death threats for exposing racists but said: “It’s a small price to pay for being human again.”
The former neo-Nazi also had the words “Blood & Honour” inked on his neck and “Thug Reich” on his stomach. Anti-racism lawyer Joseph Roy said of him: “No one was more aggressive, more confrontational, more notorious.” Widner researched countless ways of remove his tattoos but he had no health insurance and even considered trying to burn them off with acid. Dr Bruce Shack, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, began the treatment in 2009. The 20 Best Oddities. Mistaken Identity.
In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. West said no. The clerk took some measurements, went to the file, and produced this record, bearing the name William West: Amazed, the prisoner said, “That’s my picture, but I don’t know where you got it, for I know I have never been here before.” Incredibly, this was true. A different William West had been serving a life sentence at Leavenworth since 1901, and the new prisoner had the same name, face, and measurements. The case became a strong argument in favor of the new science of fingerprinting. - StumbleUpon. This is about the synchronicity number 23, and thus about the phenomena of synchronicity in general. To write about this topic objectively is impossible, as all experiences are necessarily subjective, involving as they do the element of consciousness, which cannot be instrumented.
This is perhaps a study in the affirmation that any assertion of an objective observer is inherently impossible, and yet at the same time there is a deeply imbedded pattern of coherency in all that we regard as random. Randomness itself is nothing more than a pattern of deeply imbedded complexity of order; an order so complex it is not immediately discernible or obvious. Indeed the often heard rational defense, "that was just a coincidence," is itself an acknowledgment that we have just discerned a pattern, but because there is no immediately obvious path of mechanistic causation behind it, we are consciously choosing to refuse to acknowledge the primary data.
Captain America's Red-Faced Nazi And 6 Other Blatant Historical Lies. I haven’t seen Captain America yet, but I have confusedly watched the trailer at least a dozen times. It leads me to believe the Nazi war machine was not a horde of Aryan avengers but a swarm of Storm Troopers led by some failed, red-faced experiment.
This is not true. I know because I’ve watched at least a dozen History Channel specials on the Third Reich, and never once has the narrator mentioned this. As it seems like pertinent information, I have no choice but to conclude Captain America is outright lying to me. Not fudging the facts, not exaggerating a bit, full-on, nose-growing untruths passed off without a second glance or mea culpa. I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand for this injustice. You’d think this sort of falsification would be a one off shot, but I did some research.
Forrest Gump Did Not Break Up Watergate If you’re anything like me, you were probably stunned sitting through Forrest Gump. Dr. What Lie Are You Most Upset About Learning? Good in Bed Blogs - Good in Bed - StumbleUpon. True Stores in ONE Sentence.... - Global One TV - StumbleUpon. And that's when I looked down and realized my fake nail had somehow caught fire, and no one was around to witness it but my fish. so what? The only year I refused to go to my neighbor's Easter party was the year she dropped dead during the party. Libby As I listened to a conversation between hippies on the 71 bus to Haight Street, I realized that I'm one of the "housies" that they so vehemently spoke of and wondered if I'd be happier as one of them, in grungy overalls, wearing dreads full of clay beads. bevred The day we brought our newborn daughter home from the hospital, our dog got hit by a car and died.
Chrinda Jones As the door to the Taco Bell restroom came crashing over top of me, all I could think to say to him was "I said I'd be out in a minute. " kbh101 I realized the crumbled bit of pill left over resembled a cookie, and laughed out loud at the image of the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street gobbling up Lorazepam. Red Nails Indy1jeep Just Dave Domino cetacean Phoebe Bean Fred Lineberry Madeline. Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? “Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940. 1941 (?)” It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to the middle), among other items of the online exhibit. Did you notice anything out of place?
Or perhaps, out of time? The man with what appears to be very modern sunglasses seems to be wearing a stamped T-shirt with a nice sweater, all the while holding a portable compact camera! Internet people reached to the obvious conclusion: it’s a time traveller caught on camera on 1940! Finally, we have proof! Read this on Doc Brown’s voice: “Of course, because we know nothing happened there right? Indeed! The source As noted, the image is indeed available through the official website for Canada’s museums. Given the source, we would assume the photo is authentic, and correctly dated to c.1940. So, how do we explain the man out of time? Case closed? Your Costume Jewelry Is Killing You -- The Cut. Get thee to Cartier! Michigan-based nonprofit the Ecology Center tested 99 different samples of costume jewelry sold at Claire's, H&M, Forever 21, Walmart, Hot Topic, and Target, among other stores, for lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, chlorine, mercury, and arsenic.
And more than half of the items contained high levels of hazardous chemicals. That gives a new meaning to "You look radiant! " (We know, that hurt us, too). Twenty-seven of the products had greater than 300 ppm lead, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)'s lead limit in children's products. So, scratch these suckers off your shopping list — Claire's Gold 8 Bracelet Set, Forever 21's Long Pearl Flower Necklace, Walmart's Silver Star Bracelet, and Target's Silver Charm Necklace.
The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts - StumbleUpon. Condoms now required for Los Angeles porn actors - AP State Wire News. - StumbleUpon. For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world -- large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more. [41 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A tree grows from the top of a chimney in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, on October 2 , 2011.
A bust of Confucius rests at an abandoned workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing, on December 7, 2011. Ivy grows over a street in Tomioka town, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on August 19, 2011. Titanic artifacts for sale - Amy bracelet (1) Catfish - StumbleUpon. Don Harper Mills: 1994s Most Bizarre Suicide - StumbleUpon. This story can be found in many places on the Web, usually without attribution, and claims that it is true. But the story of its origin, and how to spot it must be an UL, can be found at Deconstructing Ronald Opus At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Sciences, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story... On March 23 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a gunshot wound of the head caused by a shotgun.
Investigation to that point had revealed that the decedent had jumped from the top of a ten story building with the intent to commit suicide. Ordinarily a person who starts into motion the events with a suicide intent ultimately commits suicide even though the mechanism might be not what he intended. The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.