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Read Before Riding: Horses Have Consciousness
Horses have been domesticated for 5,000 years, but we’re still learning about how they think. Horses were domesticated more than 5,000 years ago and have been deeply connected to humans ever since. In The Horse: The Epic History Of Our Noble Companion, Wendy Williams harnesses a lifetime in the saddle to explore our...
Fun of German soldiers during World War II (24 photos)
As it is sayed, "War is war, and lunch schedule." Let's see how much fun...
Macaulay Culkin is ‘Home Alone’ again as grown-up Kevin
On its surface, “Home Alone” is an adorable holiday flick about a cute little kid who defends his family’s house by making silly booby traps. A different perspective, however, could say the film is about a neglected child whose family endangers him, nearly resulting in his death at the hands of home invaders....
The face of prostitution past: Smothered in lipstick and rouge, the working girls who were cashing in on Canada’s ‘Sin City’ in WWII
Montreal was the center for sex during Prohibition in the U.S., when Americans would travel north to fulfil their illicit needs in Canada The end of Prohibition as well as a rise in sexually transmitted disease saw police enforcing a crackdown on the prostitution industry, during which time these women were put behind bars In...
Statues of the famous: the good, the bad and the ugly
Martin Chilton looks at some of the strange and fine celebrity statue and busts tributes, including to music greats such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and John Lennon and to the giants from the world of literature, including Shakespeare and Paddington Bear. (above, statues of Amy Winehouse, HRH Queen, Psy and an ice one of...
MOST EXPENSIVE ART THIS YEAR
The main auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, all also continue to publish the official results. 2015-St, which became for many a year of crisis, political, economic upheavals and even wars for these houses has been very profitable: the wealthy continue to spend millions of dollars purchasing original paintings...
Disgruntled ‘Star Wars’ fans threaten ‘spoiler jihadi’: Why they need to just chill out
Let's everybody just calm down, mmkay? Del Rey books, gatekeeper of all the literary Star Wars fiction, has temporarily pulled the plug on its own "Star Wars Books" Facebook page. The move comes in the wake of threats from a group of disgruntled fans who have threatened to share The Force Awakens spoilers as...
Film review: Crimson Puck is a horror all right
Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance is visually ravishing. But though it’s ‘a banquet for the eyes, it’s a meagre snack in every other respect,’ writes critic Nicholas Barber. By Nicholas Barber 15 October 2015 Guillermo del Toro could have saved himself a lot of time and trouble if,...
Selena Gomez struck by song lyrics
Selena Gomez instantly identified with the lyrics in We Don’t Talk Anymore, her new duet with Charlie Puth. The singer-and-actress has collaborated with Charlie on the feel-good track, which includes lines such as “It’s such a shame we don’t talk anymore” and “We don’t laugh...
Photos Reveal Mexico’s Colorful Virgin Mary Festival
For two millennia, the Virgin Mary has been one of the world’s most venerated women. She is particularly revered in Mexico; the country's patron saint is Our Lady of Guadalupe, a form of the Virgin that is said to have appeared to an indigenous man in what is now Mexico City in 1531. That storied event is commemorated...
Amazing girl with a disability (15 photos)
This amazing girl can serve as an example to anyone who in consequence of what some grief down arms and surrendered to the troubles. They call this lady on the photo Aimee Mullins. She was still a baby when left without both legs. Аll the troubles due to the pathology of the tibia. Yet Amy did not give up, and in many areas of...
Film in 2015: was Inside Out the movie of the year?
How Pixar, Mad Max and Cate Blanchett put us back in touch with our emotions in 2015 If you wanted an encounter with life’s soul-spinning complexities in 2015, all you had to do was watch a cartoon. This has been a great year for film, but it was a vintage one for animation – as if the medium had been suddenly...
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