One of the weirder looking animals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampreys

FWIW, I believe there are color photographs as far back as the 1870s. I love seeing old color photos though.

Also, this last photo could have been taken this morning and I'd have no reason to believe it were any older. lol.

what a great thread. ill contribute a decent article on the KGB killing a dissident:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shah_Massoud

This guy tried to warn the US before 9/11 and was assassinated by some Morocoons on forged passports who called to have a pool side interview with him. They blew up a bomb in a hollowed out camera.

This was 9/9/01.

this one is a link to almost all sexual fetishes. Some people are really messed up in the head.

Another good time waster is to click here. It is pulls a random article from wikipedia. then within 7 clicks (one click taking you to a new wiki page) get to the kevin bacon page.

Not enough biology ITT.

Seahorse reproduction is a pretty involved process where the male actually gives birth. Here is Jim Gaffigan's take.

The Coolidge effect says that if you just banged a chick then you'll be tired and need a break before having another go with her but if her friend walked in the room naked you'd be ready instantly.

Hmmm, that sounds a lot like the guys who tried to get a 'poolside interview' with W on 9/11.

Ohhh yeahhhhhhh!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bojinka

Pretty crazy article about some planned attacks by some high level Al Qaeda and would have hit multiple airliners/airports all over the world. Def read the whole article, these were not amateurs this was a extremely carefully planned multi-phase operation which seemed very close to happening.

"Airline bombing plot

The next plan would have involved at least five terrorists, including Yousef, Khan, Shah and two more unknown operatives. Starting on January 21, 1995 and ending on January 22, 1995, they would set the bombs on 11 United States-bound airliners that had stopovers all around East Asia and Southeast Asia. All of the flights had two legs. The bombs would be planted inside life jackets under seats on the first leg, when each bomber would disembark. He would then board one or two more flights and repeat. After all of the bombers planted bombs on all of the flights, each man would then catch flights to Lahore, Pakistan. The men never needed U.S. visas, as they only would have been on the planes for their first legs in Asia.

United States airlines had been chosen instead of Asian airlines so as to maximize the shock toward Americans. The flights targeted were listed under operatives with codenames: "Zyed", "Majbos", "Markoa", "Mirqas" and "Obaid". Obaid, who was really Abdul Hakim Murad, was to hit United flight 80, and then he was to go back to Singapore under another United flight which he would bomb.[5][7][9]

Zyed, probably Ramzi Yousef, was to hit Northwest Flight 30, a United Flight going from Taipei to Honolulu, and a United Flight going from Bangkok to Taipei to San Francisco[5][10]

The bombs would have been timed before the operatives stepped off the planes. The aircraft would have blown up over the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea almost simultaneously. If this plan worked, several thousand would have perished, and air travel would have been shut down worldwide for days, if not weeks. The U.S. government estimated the prospective death toll to be about 4,000 if the plot had been executed."

"Phase II, CIA plane crash plot

Abdul Hakim Murad confessed details of Phase II in his interrogation by the Manila police after his capture.

There were alternate plans to hijack a 12th commercial airliner and use that instead of the small aircraft, probably due to the Manila cell's growing frustration with explosives. Testing explosives in a house or apartment is dangerous, and it can easily give away a terrorist plot. Khalid Sheik Mohammed probably made the alternate plan.

A report from the Philippines to the United States on January 20, 1995 stated, "What the subject has in his mind is that he will board any American commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger. Then he will hijack said aircraft, control its cockpit and dive it at the CIA headquarters."

Another plot the men were cooking up would have involved hijacking of more airplanes. The Sears Tower (Chicago, Illinois), The Pentagon (Arlington County, Virginia), the United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), the White House (Washington, DC), the Transamerica Pyramid (San Francisco, California), and the World Trade Center (New York, New York) would be the likely targets. This plot eventually would be the base plot for the September 11, 2001 attacks, only hitting the World Trade Center (which was destroyed) and The Pentagon (which suffered partial damage).

In his confession with Filipino investigators, Abdul Hakim Murad said that the Manila cell could not recruit enough people to implement other hijackings prior to the foiling of Oplan Bojinka."

and this was in 1995. ****in crazy...

Brilliant.

from earlier linked article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...dore_Roosevelt

"Theodore Roosevelt

October 13, 1912: Three and a half years after he left office, Roosevelt was running for President as a member of the Progressive party established in 1912 by Roosevelt and other political free thinkers, after he split from the Republican Party which he had served as a member of during his Presidency. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, John F. Schrank, a saloon-keeper from New York, shot Roosevelt once with a .38 caliber revolver. A 50-page speech folded over twice in Roosevelt's breast pocket and a metal glasses case slowed the bullet. Amidst the commotion, Roosevelt yelled out, "Quiet! I've been shot." Roosevelt insisted on giving his speech with the bullet still lodged inside him. During his speech Roosevelt stated, "It takes more than one bullet to bring down a Bull Moose"

...wow lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Army

I read a while ago that Scorcese was planning a Teddy Roosevelt bio-pic.

No mention of it now on Scorcese's IMDb page.

Love the thread, here's my contribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

how much more anxiety producing things could be going on?

first you're at 47,000 feet. so, that's pretty high if something goes wrong.

then you hear

now i'm starting to **** bricks.

then

that just caused my blood pressure to skyrocket to 300

then

i want to find a happy place

then you go to

ok, now we're officially at Level One Million panic mode

then you realize that

i would have had a heart attack well before then i'm sure

Shoichi Yokoi-Lived in a cave in the jungle for 28 years after WWII, not believing the war was really over and not wanting to surrender.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi

If you're a fan of Press Your Luck

No Whammies!

This one is EPIC!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Pei_Pu

Cliffs: Chinese male opera singer convinced a French embassy employee he was a woman. Chinese dude was a spy. They would have "sex". Convinced french dude she was pregnant and later gave birth to his "son". Their relationship lasted 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_C...hs_controversy

The photos are very easy to find online and extremely gruesome. Some of the worst I've ever seen. Don't steal your dad's Porsche I guess.

i didn't click on the guy getting hit by a train, so i guess i won't go look for that picture

while searching for that picture on GIS, I believe that I came across a page that was selling mugs with the picture. Not 100% sure because the page looked bust at first and I closed the browser quick. Can't find it now.

One of the most lol internet moments ever though.

I love these 9/11, assassination attempts on Bush, etc. ones. I can't imagine what would have happened if they managed to hit all these targets. On top of those people getting to Bush. 2012 in 2001.