So you want a tattoo but you don’t know what tattoo to get. You’re in the same boat with many people who have thought about it for years, but never quite get one done. As you consider your myriad choices, start with the top ten and see if something h…
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10 Notable Buildings People Hated
October 21st, 2010
Jamie Frater All buildings were once new. And all building designs were once new. But some designs, and the buildings that resulted from them, were so shocking to the public that it took grit to get them built, and time for them to be accepted. Here are ten such…
10 Fascinating and Unexpected Origins of Words
October 11th, 2010
jfrater Language is a fascinating thing. The words we use today are drawn from and have evolved for today’s usage from a wide variety of sources. One source is someone’s name. An eponym is a word that has its origin in a person’s name. This list contains…
Top 10 Countries That Censor The Internet
October 2nd, 2010
jfrater The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has registered that in several countries in Asia and the Middle East, information is submitted to censorship by their governments. In some cases the dictatorships or totalitarian regimes restrict the access to…
8 Vampire Myths Explained
September 30th, 2010
jfrater Vampires have haunted literature, art, and folklore since the dawn of mankind. Stories of vampirism can be traced as far back as biblical times with Lilith the first rumored vampire. The term vampire did not become an everyday superstition and fear unt…
Top 10 Unusual or Unique Flags
September 26th, 2010
jfrater Flags have been since before we began recording history to symbolize movements, peoples, and even individuals. Every country in the world has a flag – some weird, some beautiful, and some incredibly boring (Libya’s flag for instance – plain green and …
10 Words That Can’t Be Translated To English
September 23rd, 2010
jfrater We all love words – that is why we are here reading listverse. This list looks at some special words that are not from English and furthermore are untranslatable in English. These are words which have, for the most part, not become loan words, but de…
7 Ways To Indulge In the Seven Deadly Sins
September 14th, 2010
jfrater Disclaimer: This list is just for fun and not of a religious nature. We all indulge in guilty pleasures from time to time, and we all find ways to not feel guilty about them. Here is a list of ways to heavily indulge in the 7 guiltiest of pleasures: …
10 Great Scam Baiting Operations
September 11th, 2010
jfrater If you’ve checked your email anytime in the last twenty years, you’ve likely been subjected to appeals from mysterious foreign nationals promising you money for nothing. Or, more accurately, a whole lot of money for only a little of yours — wire…
Top 10 Alternative Albums You Should Own
September 6th, 2010
jfrater Music is such a huge industry that many well deserving artists seem to be wrongly pushed aside and hidden from the general masses. The following are a selection of some artists that I believe everyone should give a quick listen to. Music is very person…


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