<ul><li>3 mins: put your device on Do Not Disturb</li><li>12 mins: play your favorite tune</li><li>10 mins: move your body</li><li>5 mins: write down what you're grateful for</li><li>10 mins: meditate</li><li>15 mins: spend time outside</li><li>5 mins: do a good deed</li></ul>

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<ul><li>Connect with loved ones</li><li>Journal your feelings</li><li>Stay off social media</li><li>Treat yourself! </li></ul>

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Authors are used to killing their darlings and that sometimes means offing characters in creatively unconventional ways. Take, for example, Charles Dickens making a character spontaneously combust in the December 1852 installment of his serial novel Bleak House. But unusual deaths aren’t just found on the page: A number of authors have themselves died in bizarre ways—and sometimes, they seem even stranger than fiction.

Overview

While on a cruise to South America with his fourth wife, Eleanor, American novelist and short story writer Sherwood Anderson started experiencing painful stomach cramps. They disembarked in Panama and went to the hospital, where Anderson died a few days later on March 8, 1941. An autopsy revealed the culprit to be a 3-inch-long wooden toothpick in an olive that the author had swallowed while enjoying a martini. The small toothpick pierced his intestine and led to peritonitis, an infection of the inner lining of the abdomen.

1. Sherwood Anderson

Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus filled his tragedies with death, so much so that he was known as “the Father of Tragedy”—and supposedly, his own demise was suitably dramatic. According to writer Valerius Maximus, Aeschylus was hit by a falling tortoise while sitting outside Sicily’s city walls: “An eagle carrying a tortoise was above him. Deceived by the gleam of his hairless skull, it dashed the tortoise against it, as though it were a stone, in order to feed on the flesh of the broken animal.”

2. Aeschylus

Music critic and author Gustav Kobbé loved to sail, but the hobby led to his death. On July 27, 1918, Kobbé was in his boat in the Great South Bay, New York, when he realized that a low flying naval seaplane was descending on his position. He stood up to dive into the water and swim to safety—which may actually have been a fatal mistake—but was killed when the plane, in the words of The New York Times, “struck the top of the mast. It snapped off the mast and practically clove the man’s skull in two parts.”

3. Gustav Kobbé 

In 1952, Goodnight Moon (1947) author Margaret Wise Brown was in France on a publicity tour when she developed appendicitis and was taken to the hospital for emergency surgery. To show the staff that she was feeling well after the operation, she kicked her leg in the air—a move that dislodged a blood clot in her leg. The clot made its way to her brain, killing the 42-year-old children’s author.

4. Margaret Wise Brown

Tennessee Williams, gave the world the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). On February 25, 1983, the playwright was found dead in his Hotel Elysée suite in New York City; the initial doctor’s report stated that he had choked on a bottle cap that had been “swallowed or inhaled or some combination.”

5. Tennessee Williams

The cap wasn’t actually the killer, though. It was later revealed that an intolerance to Seconal—a barbiturate derivative Williams took to aid his sleep—was to blame. Dr. Annette J. Saddik, Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Literature at the City University of New York, explained in 2010 that the false cause of death was due to John Uecker, Williams’s assistant, telling “the Medical Examiner, ‘Look, people are going to think it’s suicide or AIDS or something bizarre and we don't know what happened.’ So the Medical Examiner, said, ‘OK, he choked on a bottle cap.’”

Tennessee Williams Continued 

Pietro Aretino was an Italian satirist, playwright, and poet, who is credited with inventing written pornography. There are two different stories about how his life ended in 1556, but both involve laughter. In one account, a story about his sister caused him to burst into hysterics, which in turn made him to fall backwards in his chair and hit his head. In another, a rude comment made by the Duke of Urbino in reference to a portrait of his naked wife caused Aretino’s laughter, which then led to a stroke.

6. Pietro Aretino

Another person allegedly felled by laughter was Sir Thomas Urquhart. The Scottish writer and translator died in 1660, supposedly because the news that Charles II—whom Urquhart had fought for against Oliver Cromwell in the 1651 Battle of Worcester—had retaken the throne caused him to burst into a fit of joyful, but deadly, giggles.

7. Sir Thomas Urquhart

Poe’s own death, the cause of which remains a mystery to this day, would have made a suitably creepy fictional tale (albeit one without a satisfying ending). On September 27, 1849, Poe left Virginia for Philadelphia. He was found six days later outside a tavern in Baltimore by Joseph W. Walker, who described the author as “rather the worse for wear” and “in great distress.”

8. Edgar Allan Poe

Poe was delirious and wearing someone else’s clothes but managed to mention the name of his friend Joseph E. Snodgrass, whom Walker quickly wrote to. “His face was haggard, not to say bloated, and unwashed, his hair unkempt, and his whole physique repulsive,” Snodgrass said of his poor friend. Poe was taken to hospital but could reveal nothing about what had happened to him, other than yelling out the name “Reynolds” (a person no one could identify), before dying on October 7.

Edgar Allan Poe Continued 

Dying on the toilet isn’t the most dignified way to go, and though Elizabethan poet and dramatist Sir Fulke Greville managed to avoid that fate, the toilet certainly played a part in his death. Greville’s disgruntled servant, Ralph Hayward, stabbed his master in the stomach while helping him fasten his trousers after using the toilet. Physicians filled his wounds with animal fat—but instead of healing the injury, the fat rotted over the next few weeks, and Greville died of gangrene on September 30, 1628. Maybe being quickly killed on the toilet would have been better.

9. Sir Fulke Greville

Mark Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, which is a pretty common way to go. What’s unusual is that he predicted his own death. “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it,” he declared in 1909. “It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet.” The comet’s perihelion—when it was closest to the sun—was April 20, just one day before Twain shuffled off this mortal coil.

10. Mark Twain

Legend often has it that Molière died onstage, but that’s not actually true. On February 17, 1673, the audience watching Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) at Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris almost witnessed Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the writer and actor better known as Molière, die onstage. He collapsed in a coughing fit, but the show soon went on, and he finished his performance as hypochondriac Argan. Unlike his character, Molière was actually gravely ill with tuberculosis, and just a few hours later, he died from a hemorrhage.

11. Molière

On September 16, 1920, Swedish author and poet Dan Andersson checked in to the Hotel Hellman in Stockholm, settling in Room 11. The hotel had a pest problem, and the staff had treated the rooms with hydrogen cyanide to get rid of lice, fleas, and bedbugs; unfortunately, they failed to properly clean out the rooms afterwards, leading Andersson and another guest to die of accidental cyanide poisoning

12. Dan Andersson

A scientific experiment with a frozen chicken was the beginning of the end for Francis Bacon, the English philosopher, statesman, scientist, and author. John Aubrey reported in Brief Lives, which he penned between 1669 and 1696, that Bacon went out into the cold after thinking that snow, instead of salt, could be a good way to preserve meat. He stuffed snow into the body of a hen, but “the snow so chilled him, that he immediately fell so extremely ill.” A few days later, on April 9, 1626, Bacon died of pneumonia.

13. Francis Bacon

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1. Be friends with different types of people. Don’t insulate your worldview by only socializing with those who are fundamentally the same as you.2. Read. Do you know how few people are reading anything other than a few lines of an article here and there? Few. Do you know why it matters? Because a book you read in a few days this week can change the way you think about something for decades to come.3. Question yourself, and honor your doubt. People who aren’t secure enough to do this stagnate.4. Be willing to live the way other people won’t, so you can live the way other people can’t.

5. Learn how to cook things you enjoy more than you enjoy ordering out.6. Learn how to budget your money in a way that makes you feel responsible and liberated, not restricted.7. Put away a bit of money each month, however much you can afford (and don’t worry if there are setbacks along the way). Compounded interest is no joke.8. Take on a side gig exclusively for the sake of that savings account. It will be exhausting for a while, but you’ll come out with new skills and the peace of mind that comes from having a fiscal cushion.

9. Get addicted to healthy pain. The kind that comes from clocking in hours of practice or maneuvering through the discomfort of training your mind to focus on one task until it’s complete. The more you channel your pain into something productive, the less you’ll be tempted to ruminate.10. Get comfortable admitting when you’re wrong. There is no failure in making mistakes. There is failure in making mistakes and having too much pride to fix them.

11. Clean out your space, then work on adopting an attitude of “enough.” Do you really want to spend the next 10 years accumulating things? No, you don’t. Imagine what else all of that money and time and worry could have gone toward.12. Only put things on your credit card that you will be able to remember in 3 months from now. If you look at how much is due and can’t remember what you spent it on, it was nothing worthwhile.

13. Do your soul-searching. Make lists of what you like and what you dislike; what you value and what you don’t; what you’re skilled at and what you’re not. Start cohering an idea of who you fundamentally are, but allow yourself to be open to that idea changing over time.14. Reflect on your life, and ask yourself what your single most compelling motive is. Construct your narrative about it carefully – the way you justify your past actions will become your philosophy for future ones.

15. If you commit to nothing else, commit to a daily routine that consists of actions that, over time, will lead you to where you want to be.16. Do things intentionally. Date intentionally. Work intentionally. Don’t let your life be a series of mindless, random actions that just seemed nice at the time, but are ultimately meaningless.17. Take yourself as seriously as you want the world to. Behave accordingly.

18. Scrap it all and start over as many times as you need to. There’s no shame in not getting it right, there is, however, a lot of self-loathing that comes from knowing better, but not having the courage to do better.

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One of the most tragic and traumatic experiences a person can go through is growing up with narcissistic parents. Consequences of growing up in a war zone are far-reaching and can affect a person for the rest of their lives. Given this, you might be engaging in the following seven behaviors:

Overview 

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Narcissistic parents teach their children to apologize for everything. . Female victims are especially taught to be affable and people-pleasing. It takes time to unlearn this behavior and apologize solely for actual transgressions rather than perceived burdensomeness.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ask: Did I cause this? Instead of "sorry," say "That's unfortunate." If you're not to blame, don't apologize. Let others take responsibility if the event was their fault</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Remember that many people don't apologize for their wrongdoings, so don't overextend yourself by apologizing for something you didn't do.</li></ul>

1. Apologizing More Than You Have To Even When It's Not Needed

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You were raised to obey your toxic parents at the expense of your own well-being and needs. When you refused their requests, you were abused.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Adults have healthy boundaries by saying no. It's intimidating at first. The trick is to check in with yourself about why you're afraid to say no, prepare for any potential consequences, and allow yourself to feel the discomfort while sticking to what you know is true.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ask yourself regularly, "Am I doing something to please someone else or because I want to?" It's okay to assess whether someone has invested in you and move from there. </li></ul>

2. Hesitating To Say No, Because It Might Displease Others.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">We're sensitive and intuitive, yet abusers have gaslighted us our whole lives. We underestimate our feelings and instincts and overvalue others' comfort. This can lead to harmful connections, relationships, work environments, and business agreements.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">If you want to know if the problem is you or them, ask yourself some basic questions. Does everyone make you uneasy, or does one individual set off the inner smoke alarm? Do they exhibit harmful behaviors like your parents? Would you treat someone like this? If not, would you be uncomfortable seeing them mistreat someone else?</li></ul>

3. Doubting Your Own Perceptions And Your Intuition.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">As children of narcissists, we typically value the suffering of others over our own, therefore the last question helps us detach ourselves and notice abuse because we perceive how dreadful the situation would feel to someone else. It makes us know that it's good to verify when someone is being an asshole and that it has nothing to do with you.</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You dread change because you were reared in a chaotic, unpredictable atmosphere. Hence, you constantly check for changes. You doubt your closest relationships. You micromanage your relationships because you don't know how people feel about you.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The healthier approach is to pull back and reconsider if the individuals you're urgently clinging to deserve a seat at your table. Are they worth your time? We sometimes forget how we feel about people because we're so focused on how others see us.</li></ul>

4. Checking In On Someone Else's Feelings And Not Your Own

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">We neglect to allow ourselves to detest, confront, or even recognise colossal douchebaggery. “Are they a douche?” is a fun mantra to combat people-pleasing. OK! Instead than trying to change your opinion about poisonous people, accept them. It's okay to avoid nasty individuals.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">. It's terrible for someone trained to depend on others' approval, but we can thrive without them. Some people should be removed from our life, while others can help us. Differentiating is crucial.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Narcissist children are hypersensitive to microexpressions, gestures, and voice shifts that indicate abandonment or disdain. They have to be aware of this to withstand rapid environmental shifts. They needed to know when their parents would rage or what they could "do" to avoid punishment.</li><li>Adults are intuitive about others' motives and emotions. You notice tiny changes quickly. Intuition can help navigate social encounters, but it can sometimes be overpowering. This hyperfocus can make you preoccupied with impressing the person instead of distancing. Try noting these changes. </li></ul>

5. Picking Up On Micro-signals Of Abandonment

<ul><li>You were abused as a child. Trust was used repeatedly. You must have trouble letting folks in. This proves your trauma, not your guilt.</li><li>Slowing down and trusting is often a positive thing since it shows you are mindful of emotional predators who may take advantage of your generosity. If you overshare, you may divulge personal information in seconds. Red flags may cause hypervigilance. Trust must be earned.</li><li>There are trustworthy individuals out there, but you have to be willing to see them for who they really are.</li></ul>

6. Taking Your Time To Trust.

<ul><li>Narcissists emotionally invalidate their children from birth. They are taught that their emotions are unimportant or flawed. They learn to suppress anger and hurt. Embracing their "dark side" can be scary.</li><li> They never learned how to process, channel, and heal their emotions, they may hide their genuine feelings for a lifetime, finally "snap," or become easily overwhelmed by them. I say this half-jokingly, but children of narcissists may be terrifying when their true emotions are eventually allowed to surface. Writing, meditating, or exercising to manage your emotions can change your life.</li></ul>

7. Problematic Relationship with Uncomfortable Emotions

<ul><li>Identifying and validating your feelings without acting on them might help you exercise your basic human rights and set boundaries. As the kid of a narcissist, learning to constructively stand up for yourself is crucial.</li></ul>

Despite their struggles as adults, children of narcissists have tremendous resilience and all the more reason to pave a brighter future for themselves and future generations.

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We forget to give ourselves permission to dislike someone, to address conflict, to confront issues, or even just to acknowledge…

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<ul><li>Francis Bacon, 'the trumpeter of a new age' was the first to advocate for scientific experimentation.</li><li>The two pals Bacon and Dr. Witherborne discussed ice-preserving food.</li><li>Bacon suggested an experiment after seeing the snowy hilltop. </li><li>He paid a nearby woman to kill and gut a chicken. Bacon assisted her with snow stuffing.</li><li>Bacon shivered as this took awhile. He became too unwell to return home. His friend, the Earl of Arundel, took him in nearby.</li><li>Bronchitis killed him on April 9 all in the name of science and future health.</li></ul>

A Sacrifice For Science 

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That one family has taken home all three Nobles is a remarkable feat. Marie and Pierre Curie earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. In 1935, their daughter Irène and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Although he was a mathematical genius and a great thinker, Newton nevertheless had some unusual views. He spent his final years researching alchemy and metal transmutation, or the process of changing lead into gold. Strange papers he authored about the end of the world and biblical predictions attributed to Daniel were discovered years after his death and were kept concealed out of shame by his friends.

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Human experience suggests that there is no limit to how cold it can get; while it may be extremely cold today, tomorrow may be far colder. It has been discovered, however, that there is a lower temperature limit of -273°C (-460°F)When the temperature reaches absolute zero, all molecular motion comes to a halt. One of the fundamental laws that governs our universe is this. Every scientific advancement rests on the discovery and codification of such concepts.

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<ul><li>Amber, a fossilized resin, is pricey and sought-after. In the 13th century, Prussia passed rules protecting the precious mineral. </li><li>The King of Prussia's Charlottenburg Palace's "Amber Room" panels were started in 1701.</li><li>The best craftsmen, including Danzig amber specialists, designed and built it. The panels were temporarily erected in Berlin City Palace instead of Charlottenburg.</li></ul>

1. The Amber Room originated in Prussia.

<ul><li>In 1716, Frederick, King of Prussia, delivered the Amber Room to Peter the Great, cementing a Russo-Prussian alliance that would help them fight Sweden</li></ul>

2. The Amber Room was given as a gift to Peter the Great.

<ul><li>Empress Elizabeth installed the Amber Room at Catherine Palace, where the Russian Imperial family spent summers, after years of redesigning. Italian architects redesigned and expanded the room. The Amber Room had over 6 tonnes of amber when installed.</li></ul>

3. Empress Elizabeth Installed It At Catherine Palace.

<ul><li>The amber was stunning, but the mosaics, gold, and candelabras, whose flickering light illuminated it, contributed to the ambience. The room was called the "eighth wonder of the world" by royal visitors because of its splendor.catherin</li></ul>

4. ‘Eighth wonder of the world.'

<ul><li>Curators attempted to dismantle the Amber Room as German forces advanced farther into Russia in an effort to hide it.</li><li>But, they had little time, and the amber had turned brittle, making it impossible to remove without expert help. The curators covered the amber with wallpaper to hide its value.</li><li>When they reached the Catherine Palace, the Nazis disassembled the entire room in 36 hours under expert supervision before transferring it to Königsberg in East Prussia.</li></ul>

5. It was removed in October 1941.

<ul><li>Königsberg Castle opened the Amber Room in November 1941. In August 1944, the RAF fire-bombed Königsberg, which was severely damaged by the Red Army in April 1945.</li><li>The chain of command broke down before Hitler could relocate Königsberg Castle's seized riches as the Red Army approached in January 1945.</li></ul>

6. Its last known sighting was at Königsberg Castle

<ul><li>In 1941, young curator Anatoly Kuchumov was tasked with evacuating Leningrad artifacts. He failed to remove the Amber Room, his job. The Russian Council of People's Commissars ordered him to Königsberg in March 1946 to investigate the Amber Room's fate.</li><li>He found Königsberg Castle, including the Amber Chamber, burned down. Three stone mosaics from the Amber Room were found in the castle remains, buried in ash, proving that it existed and that Königsberg had been bombed.</li></ul>

7. The Russians tried to locate the Room in 1945

<ul><li>After almost a decade of secretive searches and expeditions across East Prussia, the Russian publication Pravda went public, inviting people to write in with any tips or information on the room's whereabouts.</li><li>The article received hundreds of answers, from Königsberg veterans to rural Prussians who saw strange things at night. Kuchumov and his crew investigated Russian leads while the Stasi investigated East German leads.</li></ul>

8. The search for the Amber Room only went public in 1958

<ul><li>Many historians and journalists believe the Amber Room was destroyed between 9 and 11 April 1945, albeit a definitive answer is improbable.</li><li>Other hypotheses say that unruly Soviet soldiers unintentionally destroyed the Amber Room, Russia's greatest treasure, which was locked up in Königsberg Castle's Knights' Hall awaiting shipment.</li></ul>

9. Historians and journalists think it was probably destroyed

<ul><li>The Soviet administration miscalculated the scale and complexity of recreating the Amber Room at Tsarskoe Selo in 1979. During St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary, the rebuilt Amber Room debuted in 2003 despite budgetary and craftsman shortages.</li><li>The replica uses 350 colors of amber from the original panels and is ornately crafted by craftspeople.</li></ul>

10. The Amber Room was recreated at Tsarskoe Selo

The Amber Room was once considered the eighth wonder of the world, and today its whereabouts are considered one of the greatest mysteries of the art...

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The last time scientists paid attention to an alchemist's claim that he had successfully converted lead into gold was in 1783. One of the Fellows of London's Royal Society, James Price, was asked to demonstrate how he had realized the alchemists' goal.Sadly, Price was unable to replicate his earlier success and committed suicide by drinking prussic acid in front of three of his coworkers.

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