“After Mr. Briney cleaned and oiled his 20-gauge shotgun, the power of which he was well aware, defendants took it to the old house where they secured it to an iron bed with the barrel pointed at the bedroom door. It wasrigged with wirefrom the doorknob to the gun’s trigger so ...
The elephant bird, genus nameAepyornis, was the largest bird that ever lived, a 10-foot, 1,000-pound behemoth ratite (flightless, long-legged bird) that stomped across the island of Madagascar. Learn more about this bird with these 10 interesting facts. 01 of 10 It Was Not the Size and...
Most people pass buildings going about their every day business without really noticing they are there. In some ways, buildings in cities are almost invisible, similar to the proverbial person who could not see the wood due to all the trees in the way. Sometimes an architectural feature will ...
3. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818 For a book that's all about science and inventions, Frankenstein is surprisingly old. In fact, the author wrote it all the way back in 1818, over 200 hundred years ago, when she was just 19! The idea came to her in a dream during a storm ...
I then had to go to school looking like some stitched-together Frankenstein’s monster for about a month while that healed. The scars are barely visible now, but my self-image is still damaged and I still get very nervous around dogs. I can generally get along with dogs if I have to,...