In a disturbing — but fascinating — walk through history, Frances Larson examines humanity's strange relationship with public executions … and specifically beheadings. As she shows us, they have always drawn a crowd, first in the public square and now on YouTube. What makes them horrific and compelling in equal measure?

Frances Larson explores the dark and varied obsessions that our culture has had with decapitated heads and skulls throughout history.

Oxford anthropologist Frances Larson wrote Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found. The book, which she describes as a survey of our “traditions of decapitation,” was published in 2014, just before beheadings sadly started populating the front pages of the news once more. She previously wrote an acclaimed biography of Sir Henry Wellcome.

i'm drawing a cat, but something just feels off and i can't put my paw quite on it.. also should i make this marsey?!!!

Schoolchildren found a bottle in the park on Kosarev Street and decided to find out what would happen if it exploded. The boy threw the bottle on the ground, it exploded and flew straight into his face. Result: knocked out, emergency admission to hospital, broken jaw and facial injuries

The Public Prosecution Service has started an investigation, and the victim's mother wants to file charges against the store that used the empty bottles unattended.

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There should be a category for funny stuff.

edit: i meant funny deaths not just funny stuff in general

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For the past week none of the videos have had audio I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue or is on my end.

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