Tesla Coil

The Tesla Coil

Throughout his storied yet tragic life, Nikola Tesla invented hundreds of devices and processes that changed our world, from the Tesla coil to the induction motor. Among the most famous of Nikola Tesla’s inventions, the Tesla coil forms the basis of much of his work. Tesla was highly intrigued by high-frequency electricity. He knew that…

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Goatman

The Maryland Goatman

In Beltsville, Maryland, a scientist at the Agricultural Research Center was experimenting on goats when the procedure backfired. Once the smoke cleared, the scientist had become a mutated, half-goat half-man monster. Legend says the creature roams the backroads of Beltsville with an axe, attacking cars and wrecking havoc.

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Ann-Margret sizzling in red, 1966.

Poor Ann-Margret. As one of the leading sex symbols of the 1960s, the sultry Swedish singer, dancer, and actress was often typecast as a beautiful, yet worldly seductress. The press dubbed her a ‘sex kitten’. She starred opposite Elvis in the 1963 Bye Bye Birdie and the 1964 Viva Las Vegas which helped launched her to stardom. When she…

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Jane Seymour in the early 1970s

When this photograph of the lovely Jane Seymour was taken in the early 1970s, the British-born actress was still a fresh face in Hollywood with her star on the rise. She appeared in an uncredited role as an extra in the 1969 musical, Oh! What a Lovely War as her screen debut before tackling a leading role…

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The walking dead

I’m a psychiatric nurse and early in my career, I worked at a residential mental health facility. One of our residents was an elective mute, which means that he didn’t/wouldn’t/couldn’t talk, but there were no medical reasons as to why. He had spoken earlier in his life and in fact seemed quite normal back then,…

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