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Betty White begs to differ.
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It was taken last month at the al-Yarmouk refugee camp, a Palestinian enclave in southern Damascus.
These people are waiting to receive food aid distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the besieged camp. People have been trapped there for eight months by an army siege.
World powers have passed a landmark Security Council resolution demanding an end to restrictions on humanitarian operations in Syria, but aid workers doubt it has the punch to make Damascus grant access and let stuck convoys deliver vital supplies. The resolution calls for the immediate lifting of sieges in specific towns and cities around the country, including Yarmouk.
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You will not be able to unsee this. Siriusly.
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You may now kidnap and strip the bride!
Spartans celebrated a single man's last night of freedom with a raucous party (although, somewhat disappointingly, they watered down the wine to avoid a wedding day hangover).
Related: Bachelor parties in French-speaking countries are still known as l'enterrement de vie de garçon (“the burial of the life as a boy”).
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Pope Innocent III introduced the period of waiting between betrothal and marriage in 1214, and engaged couples started displaying their commitment with a ring.
Archduke Maximilian of Austria was the first person to put a diamond ring on it, when he got all up in Mary of Burgundy's grille in 1477.
Related: Engagement and wedding rings go on the third finger of your left hand because ancient Egyptians believed the vein in that hand ran directly to the heart.
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Queen Victoria started the trend for white weddings when she commissioned a white lace gown for her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840. Before that, brides just wore their best dresses on their wedding days.
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The 'posting of the banns' is a Roman Catholic tradition which dates back to 1215, and was introduced so that people could speak up about potentially clandestine and incestuous marriages.
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Don’t believe everything you learned at school.
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Gladiators didn't kill each other as often as you might think. The most prized fighters were worth a lot of money as trained entertainers and many lived very long lives. A grave found at Ephesus in modern-day Turkey in 2007 found the remains of 67 men aged between 20 and 30 – many had sustained serious wounds but they had healed over time, suggesting they had been prized individuals with access to medical care.
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OK, someone called Arthur lived in England around the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. He's mentioned in the 9th century Historia Brittonum as having taken part in a big bloody battle at Mount Badon, and in the Annalaes Cambriae (written 500 years later). But the 6th century writer Gildas wrote an account of that battle that doesn't mention Arthur at all and he's absent from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which is the fullest guide to what was going on then.
All the stuff about being a king, ruling at Camelot, Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, ladies in lakes… that's all a mixture of folklore, medieval literature and poetry, most notably from Geoffrey of Monmouth, who put together a history of all the kings of England in 1136 that starts with “Albion” being founded by, er, Trojans.
None of this stopped the 2004 film King Arthur focusing on “the history and politics of the period during which Arthur ruled”.
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Did King Alfred the Great of Wessex really burn the cakes? There's no real evidence he did. The cake (or bread, as it was originally) story comes from 12th century sources written at least 200 years after Alfred.
The legend goes that, on the run from Viking hordes in Somerset, Alfred takes refuge with a peasant woman who asked him to look after some cakes while they cooked. Alf took his eye off them and they burned – which is either evidence of him caring so much about his kingdom or evidence he was an idiot, depending on whose side you were on.
But historian Charles Plummer calls the cake story “utterly inconsistent with the genuine history of (Alfred's) reign.”
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Illustrator Dusan Cezek has created these incredible animated GIFs of his favourite movies. You can see more of his work here .
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They’re super easy and they’ll never wilt.
Just glue, scissors, and four square sheets of paper. I used paper that was about four inches wide.
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I can be your hero, baby.
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A wonderfully evocative series by photographer Franck Bohbot . These were shot in a number of theatres around California this year.
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Da Mao had some fun in the snow at the Toronto Zoo earlier this week.
It's pretty much a perfect tumble, though, tbh.
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They’ll need their rest.
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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said in an exclusive interview that she’s disappointed that the 2014 Olympics are in Sochi, Russia – given the anti-gay laws.
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These helmets, man.
This is Ben Sandford of New Zealand.
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Look at this beautiful ode to Daft Punk! It's flawless.
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Did someone say brains? Because John's is THE BEST brain we've ever seen.
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Look at that air! You try throwing yourself on a fucking tray and see how it goes. Amazing.
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