Top 10 Influential Astronomers

Top 10 Influential Astronomers

Since the beginning of humanity, the stars have fascinated us as a point of meditation. Friedrich Nietzsche would say that this is what separates us from our animal past: the abstract conception of greatness; our human condition is weighed down by this awareness. We are oppressed by our own capacity! At the heart of it [...]

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Top 10 Greatest English Premier League Legends

Top 10 Greatest English Premier League Legends

The English premier league was founded in 1992 when all of the top flight teams decamped from the football league. Ever since the first ball was kicked on 15th august that year the league has produced great players who have propelled it to one of the best leagues in the world. But there are certain [...]

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Top 10 Odd Things About Adolf Hitler

Top 10 Odd Things About Adolf Hitler

Who is that man over there? The one that just passed. No, don’t tell me you missed it. I’m certain it wasn’t Charlie Chaplin. But… Oh, heck! I’ll just go ahead and say it: I think I just saw Adolf Hitler. Even when you do see Hitler, at least in photographic representations, there is a [...]

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Top 10 Controversial United Colors of Benetton Ads

Top 10 Controversial United Colors of Benetton Ads

“We did not create our advertisements in order to provoke, but to make people talk, to develop citizen consciousness,” Luciano Benetton assures us. Whether or not they began in this way, many Benetton advertisement campaigns have ended with controversy. Most recently, in the Autumn of 2011, with the launch of the unHate campaign, some of [...]

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Top 10 Ways to Ruin an Interview

Top 10 Ways to Ruin an Interview

Every single person the world over will have his or her own compendium of excuses when it comes to why exactly they failed to bag the job following an interview, though suffice to say it is always somebody or something else’s fault. Not true of course as the only person ever standing in the way [...]

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Top 10 Nations with Soft Power

Top 10 Nations with Soft Power

Just over two decades ago, soft power was born. Well, the word at least. Joseph Nye published Bound to Lead in 1990, describing how America exercises hegemonic control over other nations by means of a power that is not directly violent (military, threatening, etc.). This bizarre means of control needs monitoring. Monocle magazine has been [...]

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Top 10 Affordable Cars for 2012

Top 10 Affordable Cars for 2012

When we talk about affordability, the considerations do not just limit to the MSRP; it includes the discount that you get while purchasing, the interest you pay to the bank towards a car loan, insurance, taxes, annual fuel cost maintenance, depreciation are all integral part of affordability of a new or old car. Not to [...]

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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions to Fail Immediately

Top 10 New Year's Resolutions to Fail Immediately

Deciding on the perfect resolution with which to begin the new year is as much a part of Christmas as gaining 10 pounds and arguing with the in-laws to tens of millions of people the world over. The season of joy and good will never fails to bring about some of the most wonderful dreams [...]

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Top 10 Xmas Accident and Emergency Visits

Top 10 Xmas Accident and Emergency Visits

Christmas is of course known to bring around a great many things to the people of the world, though one of the slightly less documented is the veritable compendium of ridiculous reasons poor-souls find themselves in the emergency room, resulting from festive catastrophes. Of course, few would argue that there is a better time of [...]

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Top 10 Gadgets of 2011

Top 10 Gadgets of 2011

In 2011, we have seen a lot of interesting gadgets created based on the latest technological developments, which are unique, innovative and extremely user friendly. Whether you talk about innovations like the Apple iPad 2, the Samsung Galaxy Note, Motorola Android 3.0 Tablet, or latest tablets like Blackberry Playbook, Samsung Galaxy 7.7, we’ve got lots [...]

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Top 10 Haunting Items of Clothing in Literature

Top 10 Haunting Items of Clothing in Literature

To be moved by something, to really experience it is the sensation of being haunted. It is a captivation made up of equal parts desire and disgust. It is a haunting. Something to fear and retain as dear, haunting items of clothing in literature are not new. They actually seem to be developing into a [...]

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Top 10 Mad Madams of Fiction

Top 10 Mad Madams of Fiction

So it is said that white-haired, usually bearded, men continue to have control over the arts, over what is read, watched, and seen. Where, then, does that leave the representation of womankind? As servantile home bodies, surely, without minds or passions of their own. This is often the case, although there was also interest in [...]

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Top 10 World’s Chili Peppers

Top 10 World’s Chili Peppers

Some people the world over seem to spend their time hell-bent on finding new and unusual ways of putting their tongues (and other resulting body parts!) through a certain degree of trauma, in search of the spiciest foods known to man. Of course, all spicy foods come right back down to the chilies used to [...]

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Top 10 Dishes You Must Never Eat to Lose Weight

Top 10 Dishes You Must Never Eat to Lose Weight

he best-tasting food is actually considered to be the worst in terms of calories and fat. Life is cruel, huh? In quite a few places, like restaurants, malls, or grocery stores, it may be difficult to avoid them, tempting as they are. Knowing the sad facts about their nutritional values may change your mind (or [...]

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