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Films and literature are full of those wicked characters who act against the protagonist and other...

Growing up in the 1950’s-1980’s we were surrounded by household items that we just took...

We all make bad decisions. Fortunately our decisions don’t usually cause continent-wide...

Music is a factor in almost everybody's daily life, some more than others though. And while there...

Much like the men's list, here is a list of the 15 biggest female snubs of the past 15 years...

I have written several other fire-related lists for Listverse but never one on this topic. Prisons...

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, and orator, who lived from 106 BC to 43 BC...

I have always been fascinated by people that survived extreme situations. I always wondered how...

I've been a role-playing gamer for more than 30 years, and I've been to more conventions and play...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and yet they were unknown to the most of world until...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank countries according to...

A transit in astronomical terms is when one heavenly body passes in front of another such that, as...