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Don’t ever say Serbia and Croatia never did anything for you. If it wasn’t for Nikola Tesla, you might not be reading this now. Your cell phone would be little more than a paperweight, and the government wouldn’t have lethal orbiting death ray satellites with which to ensure your safety. The young Serbian discovered the principle that drives almost every practical use of electricity [...]

Lately it’s been besmirched as a sigil of Satanism, but the pentagram is a versatile totem, and it’s been around since long before anyone got around to inventing Satan. The design is an equidistant five-pointed star drawn with a single continuous motion of the pen. Sometimes the design is enclosed in a circle. The symbol goes back to 4,000 B.C. at least, where it surfaced in the earliest [...]

In the olden days, primitive people laughably believed that mental illnesses and epileptic fits were caused by evil demons possessing the bodies of humans. They ridiculously treated these maladies with exorcism, a one-time process in which the demons were expelled, allowing the person to return to normal life. In these enlightened times of course, there is no “cure” for mental illness, [...]

Story of Lucifer His OriginTo find the origin of Lucifer, we turn to the Old Testament. In the Hebrew, the name Lucifer is translated from the Hebrew word “helel,” which means brightness. This designation, referring to Lucifer, is the rendering of the “morning star” or “star of the morning” or “bright star” which is presented in Isaiah. “How you [...]

Once upon a time, there was the world, and it was good. Then people got all pissed off about everything, and there was violence and sin, and that was bad. Then people decided they needed a device to stop people from doing so much violence and sin, and there was Hell, and it was good. Hell is the ultimate deterrent — an eternity of pain and suffering. You can’t come up with a much more brutal [...]

When someone says “We should all waste less food” it’s very hard to disagree. Really, there is no excuse for chucking out one third of all the food we buy is there? On the face of it, Gordon Brown should be congratulated for saying we should all waste less food.  But that is not all he said this week, and the detail deserves a bit of examination… First it is worth looking at the [...]

While most of us count the pennies this Christmas, for some money is no object. Take a look at this run down of the most extravagant, expensive and downright obscene Christmas non-essentials: 1. The $1.6m Christmas tree: If bling is your thing, then a 24 karat gold tree, encrusted with 240 jewels and weighing in at more than 21kg might do it for you. The ‘tree’ is on display in a jewellery [...]

For most of us, Christmas is a time for giving. But not everyone feels that way. For some, Christmas spirit signals a time of easy pickings and a chance to help themselves to our hard earned cash. It’s a sad fact that the Internet is not just a way to get the Christmas shopping done without fighting through the crowds – it is also home to the majority of Christmas money scams: 1. Fake charity [...]

This new discovery could mean the end for bad wine. Unpalatable plonk could soon become a thing of the past thanks to new research that has managed to fast-track the aging process necessary to turn astringent young wine into something worth drinking. This is the latest in a string of developments that promises to provide a short cut to good quality wine. However, unlike it’s predecessors, this technology [...]

1. Teletubbies If you don’t agree this is the most terrifying television show of all time – then you haven’t watched it. These horrible creatures have televisions in their stomachs, and make disturbing noises that pass for language. They are a perfect example of children’s programming gone wrong, and are guaranteed to give any parent nightmares that they may never recover from. I have [...]