10 Robert Digby And Claire Dessenne In August 1914, Robert Digby and a handful of British and Irish soldiers were separated from their unit by enemy lines. Wounded and alone, the soldiers took refuge in the French village of Villeret, where Digby met and fell in love with a farmer’s daughter named Claire Dessenne. Hiding the soldiers from occupying Germans, the villagers brought the soldiers food, disguised them as locals, taught them French, and accepted the soldiers as their own....

According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, the speed of light can never change—it’s always stuck at approximately 300,000,000 meters/second, no matter who’s observing it. This in itself is incredible enough, given that nothing can move faster than light, but it’s still very theoretical. The really cool part of Special Relativity is an idea called time dilation, which states that the faster you go, the slower time passes for you relative to your surroundings....

This being Thanksgiving week, a significant chunk of this week’s news was viewed through a haze of turkey, alcohol, and/or blistering family arguments. But while America pigged out and remembered the past, the rest of the world kept right on careening toward the precipice marked “the future”. There were political earthquakes in Israel, actual earthquakes in the Balkans, and the possibility of the world’s newest nation being founded in the Pacific Ocean....

Artist: Massive Attack Video: Watch it here The duo from Bristol, England, belongs to a musical genre deemed “trip-hop”. Their popular song Angel can be heard on the remake of Flight of the Phoenix, a few trailers for Watchmen, and many other venues. The video focuses on a man walking through a parking garage, when he gradually picks up more and more pursuers until a huge mob is sprinting after him....

SEE ALSO: 10 Rude-Sounding British Places With Unbelievable Backstories 10 Bitchfield Bitchfield is an English village located in the county of Lincolnshire, on the east coast of the country. It is situated in the South Kestevan district and is referred to as a ‘shrunken’ medieval village, referring to the fact it was once likely much larger than it now is. The village was recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1086 and is listed as ‘Billesfelt’....

Q: Will an asteroid collide with Earth in the near future? As we move into 2012, astronomers have located a collection of near-Earth asteroids that may pose a future threat. 2011 AG5 is a near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object. It was discovered on January 8, 2011, by the Mt. Lemmon Observatory, which is located near Tucson, Arizona. The object has a diameter of about 140 meters (460 feet) and is noted for a potential close approach to Earth in the year 2040....

As it has expanded into a global hegemony, the US government has failed to stay true to the ideals of transparency and accountability upheld by the founding fathers. Over the years, many secrets have been kept from the American people for both noble and nefarious reasons. But where would the funding come from to covertly develop highly advanced aircraft and spacecraft? According to Michigan State University economics professor Mark Skidmore, over $21 trillion is missing from the United States Treasury....

This is a rivalry that has been ongoing since the dawn of man and while we may seem to be winning – there are two sides to the story. Rather than describing the rivalry – I have listed a few victories for nature and man – you be the judge of who is leading this battle. Victories For Man Cured diseases Enormous cities – we conquered the land Near absolute dominance over animals (we can defend or cure ourselves from even the most venomous creatures) Victories For Nature Incurable Diseases Inhospitable regions (including the oceans which we have yet to conquer despite their vast size) Extreme weather For all of our efforts to suppress nature when it suits us, she manages to find a way to fight back....

Your vulnerable, fragile, incredibly mortal kids. You definitely should not take home any of the toys on this list, however, because if they don’t outright kill you, they have a good chance of at least maiming you or causing some good old fashioned brain damage. Thankfully, most of these toys have long been pulled off the shelves, and you’d have to go out of your way to find them…but God help you if you do....

Beginning in 1939 Binz began a career as a concentration camp guard eventually rising through the ranks to become deputy chief wards at Ravensbruck and later Buchenwald. Described by the prisoners as “unyielding” Binz was well known to beat, shoot and whip the females in her charge. In one instance of particular brutality she is reported to have chopped a prisoner to death with an axe during a forced labor assignment....

While the rest of the world sees art crime as thrilling Hollywood blockbusters, it is as true as the smirk on Mona Lisa’s face. Here are ten of the most lucrative art crimes in history. 10 Panels from the Ghent Altarpiece (1934) In 1934, two panels of the 15th-century Ghent Altarpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck were stolen on the night of April 10. The thieves sliced the panel vertically in half....

10Ghost The Swedish occult rock group Ghost is without any doubt one of the most mysterious bands of all time. With lyrics like “Lucifer, we are here for your Praise,” and “Rise up from hell,” the band is the embodiment of blasphemous devil rock. But what makes the band really intriguing is that all six members remain completely anonymous. They are known as nameless ghouls with one front man wearing the outfit of an antipope....

Those which are converted to movies are so often completely unable to carry the weight of a stage musical, or to translate the melodrama into something audiences can relate to. This has led to many failures: The Producers (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2005) and RENT (2005) to name perhaps the most well-known ones. I enjoyed all three of these movies, but more due to an ingrained bias, than because they were good examples of what a musical should or could be....

10The Man In The Suitcase In January 2015, authorities were called to investigate a suspicious suitcase left on the sidewalk of a San Francisco street. A dismembered torso was found in the case. Soon after, police discovered a leg and a foot in a nearby trash can. Surveillance recordings pointed officials toward 54-year-old Mark Andrus. He was seen wheeling the suitcase along the street with several backpacks slung over his shoulder....

Eastern European food is getting more attention globally (just like Eastern European boxers, who dominate most boxing divisions from middleweight up to Heavyweight for the last 15 years, once the Iron Curtain collapsed and they finally made it in the pros), and with such delicious foods as Pierogi, I personally join the movement. In reality it’s truly uncertain the real country of origin of this dish, since its origin is specified to be the wider area of Central and Eastern Europe, but I believe that in the western world, especially in Europe and the US, the Polish version of Pierogi is the most popular one....

First, the prototype of the bystander effect. Jesus tells a story to a lawyer, who, in all other ways, is blameless and upright in God’s eyes. He obeys the Ten Commandments and loves his neighbor as himself. But he asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” With the following parable, Jesus then explains that everyone is everyone’s neighbor and that help should be offered to anyone in need of it, regardless of who or what that person is....

Or to be more accurate, there is no single document setting out how the country should be governed. The UK is one of only a handful of nations without a written constitution (the others being Israel, New Zealand and San Marino), it instead relies on a huge number of separate laws and traditions which evolved over hundreds of years. A surprising number of features central to the British political system are nothing more than convention....

10 Esther Hobart Morris Esther Hobart Morris brought modern ideas to the Wild West. After moving to Wyoming with her second husband in search of gold, Esther found a much more important calling. Within a year of arriving in Wyoming, she helped lead a movement for women’s suffrage in the state that ended up being a success. As a result, Wyoming became the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869....

Whether those truths are scientific, religious, or otherworldly remains to be fully seen. Some of the sightings that were reported in the late 1800s were highly dubious, such as the one from Findlay, Ohio, in 1888 where residents “were terrified last night by seeing strange flashes of light in the northern sky which assumed the shape of a human hand. The appearance lasted an hour. The first finger of the hand seemed to point to the sleeping city, while blood seemed to drip from all the fingers....

10 Devo ‘Whip It’ Most people remember Devo as those silly white kids who wore futuristic dog bowl hats and yellow hazmat jumpsuits while yelling, “Whip it, whip it good.” While their 1980 hit “Whip It” is an undeniable pop classic and the pre–50 Shades of Grey S&M music video still entertains, Devo gave us so much more than that. A product of 1970, Devo set out to skewer everything held sacred by American society with their angry and satirical response to the Kent State shootings....